Home puppet theater

In this article, we will talk about home puppet theater not in terms of entertaining our own offspring, but about a promising business idea.

If you are a creative person and think creatively, then this idea should come to your taste. Especially since today entertainment industry goes with the population with a bang, the people are ready to invest in something to have fun at the glory.

Now it is fashionable to arrange fun celebrations by inviting animators to your house. Spider-Man, Thumbelina, Chip and Dale can entertain the little birthday boy and his guests. But two or three years of such "entertainment" - and the child will want something new. And yes, age is getting closer. a different perception of interesting leisure than games, contests and dances.

Although one does not interfere with the other, of course. So, a puppet theater at home as a business idea is this. At the appointed “X” hour, a mini-troupe arrives at the birthday man’s house (this may be another celebration), which will show the kids and their parents a performance, say, a fairy tale.

From businessmen - the availability of all the necessary equipment and talent, from the owners - the provision of an impromptu theater hall (chairs, sofas, poufs) and discipline (be sure to have an educational conversation with the audience even before the start of the performance!).

Equipment for puppet theater at home

For this, slats, pieces of thick cardboard, and even sewer pipes that dock with each other, which are sold in hardware stores, are suitable.

You should choose your "curtain" option considering the following factors:

• how fast will it expand
• in what style it will look (to be combined with various fairy tales)
• how durable and comfortable it will be in work (so that it does not fold in half at the most crucial moment).
• ease of transportation (so that the elevator enters the trunk of the car).

So, the folding screen and the curtain are ready for it - great! The next item will be the "heroes" of all representations - dolls. This is for a real puppet theater they are sewn to order, masters, puppeteers.

Of course, you can also order, although at first, while there are no first profits, you can also use purchased dolls. On the Internet and in local stores, you will find a hero for absolutely any fairy tale.

You will also need to stock up other inventory for performances: toy furniture, clothes for heroes, some items for the performance (a magic wand, for example).

The last thing on the "equipment" list is musical accompaniment your action. Whether it will be only music or a “reading” pre-recorded at home with the voices of dolls is up to you. A music center with speakers or a laptop that will be behind the scenes - here are ideas for you on how to make a home puppet theater.

actors

Undoubtedly, if you want to successfully develop such a business idea, then the presence of at least the slightest acting ability in you or your assistants can be considered an important point. If you hire people from the outside, then most of the profits will go to the side.

If you still decide to show such performances yourself for money, then perhaps your household can help you. for example, teenagers do a great job with the role, if before that they rehearse a lot and do not forget to promise them their own salary.

Fairy tales for home puppet theater

On the Internet and books in your home library, you can easily find a lot of scripts for puppet theater at home. You need to choose from them to your taste, adapt to your conditions, assign roles and start rehearsing!

Here is an excellent resource that contains the most popular and adapted scenarios of fairy tales for performances: http://www.olesya-emelyanova.ru/

Experience has shown that two people can play four characters at the same time. Another one can turn music on and off or play some sounds (knocking, ringing, etc.). And even be a storyteller and a kind of entertainer, speaking in front of the auditorium.

Price

How to determine how much to charge for a performance? find out prices for the services of one animator in our city, sum by the number of your people. so you can calculate the approximate cost of the "ticket".

Grow your business, create groups on social networks, advertise yourself to relatives and friends, speak for free, for the sake of promotion. Go with performances as volunteers to children's hospitals and orphanages, give the kids joy! And the practice will be good, and "word of mouth" can work - thousands of people will learn about you.

And one more thing: only a truly enthusiastic person can succeed. It’s not worth starting this business just for the sake of money - it’s better to get a point on the market then.

Finally, let us recall, as theater-goers say: the viewer will feel everything. The strictest judge is a person (whether it be an adult or a child) who has come to you for pleasure.