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The Puppet Theater Should Stay "Alive": an Interview with Dinara YuldashevaThe Uzbek National Puppet Theatre is entering a new chapter. Following the first phase of its reconstruction, the foyer, stage, and audience spaces have been refreshed, certain historic architectural elements of the building have been restored, and with all of this has come a renewed question: what should a puppet theatre be today? In conversation with HD magazine, the theatre's director and principal stage director Dinara Yuldasheva reflects on audiences across generations, productions for children, adolescents, and adults, working with the contemporary child, the national school of puppetry, the craft of the puppet actor, and why it is not enough simply to manipulate a puppet — one must breathe life into it.Diana Ibatullina#HD View#People & Communities