“Buratino” is based on the book The Golden Key (1936) by Aleksey Tolstoy. According to Tolstoy, he had read the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi as a child but, having lost the book, started re-imagining it many years later in an attempt to come up with bedside stories for his own children. The resulting story turned out to be so original, that he decided to publish it, and Buratino quickly became popular among children in the former Soviet Union, and remains so to this day. This performance is presented in Russian with English synopsis. Admission is free.  For more information, visit www.puppettheateronwheels.com.