Puppets of three Kings-Magi from the performance Ukrainian vertep

In 1992, the premiere of the play Ukrainian vertep took place at the Kyiv City Puppet Theater (now - the Kyiv Municipal Academic Puppet Theater). The director was Sergey Efremov, the artist - Iryna Uvarova. The text of the oldest vertep of Sokyrynci was taken as a basis. The music was also authentic - carols and church singing. The initiator of the play was actor Volodymyr Zavalnyuk, who played in the vertep.The artist I. Uvarova in the book "Vertep: The Mystery of Christmas" writes about the ritual, sacred content of the play. Iryna Uvarova followed ancient traditions in making puppets. By design, her puppets are rod-shaped, like in the traditional vertep, but do not move along the slots in the floor of the chest, but have round stands.