The International Festival of Performances for Children «Gavrosh» was created in 2006, and the Teatrium on Serpukhovka is it’s main organizer.

The Festival is held with the assistance of the Administration of Moscow, the Moscow’s Department of Culture, the Ministry of Culture of the RF and charity organizations, with the participation by embassies and Institutes of Culture of different countries which are located in Moscow.

The contents of the festival differ from other children’s festivals as every year it deals with the theatre of one country. It allows that country to represent its culture, traditions and experience to the fullest extent.

Tereza Durova, the Festival’s Art-Director, said: «We should love children and give them an opportunity to see the best and the most interesting of what adults in all the theatres of the world can do for them».

From the history of the Festival. The Festival «Gavrosh» represented:

• 2007 – French Theatre;
• 2008 – Italian Theatre;
• 2009 – Swedish Theatre;
• 2010 – French Theatre.

An experience of European theatre for children attracts great interest not only from the audience, but from professionals as well. The special program is an important part of the festival. It includes master classes, dramatic readings, exhibition projects.

The Festival organizers put a special emphasis on special projects for physically challenged children. This is a fundamental position of the festival’s ideology, as the theatre is accessible for all. The «Tyst Theatre» («Theatre of Silence», Sweden) presented its experience of working with the hearing-impaired children, and the XZART Junior Theatre (France) – for children with Down’s syndrome.

The leading theatres of Moscow are the Festivals stages:

• The Teatrium on Serpukhovka is the main stage: big hall (1000 seats), small hall (150 seats)
• Mossovet Theatre
• The Theatre Center «Na Strastnom»

Information from the Festival statistics:

• The first festival in 2007 was visited by 6000  people;
• 2008 – 10000 people visited it;
• 2009, 2010 – 11400 people.

Art Directors of the Festival:

• Tereza Durova – People’s Artist of Russia, Art Director of the Teatrium on Serpukhovka;
• Marina Rajkina – Editor of the Culture Section of the «Moskovskiy Komsomolets» newspaper

About «Gavrosh-2011»