Hand Theatre is a puppet and drama formation established by Ivomir Ignatov- Keny in Paris, France in 1990.The theatre got its name on its first performance in 1990 on the international puppet festival “Festival Mondial de la marionette a Charleville Mezieres”. Mr. Freek Neruing- chief manager of Tepto Theatre, Gent, Belgium and Mr. Marianne Hicter director of The Puppet-Informational Centre Babylon- Brussels, Paris, France were amazed by Ivomir Ignatov’s authors performance with bare hands called EGO so they gave the name of the theatre and called it Hand Theatre.

                 A mission of Hand Chamber Theatre is to popularize styles in which the team of actors will perform. These styles are: pantomime, puppet theatre for children and adults, drama theatre, comedy with situations in its essence, stand-up comedy, clowns’ shows and street theatre. The purpose of our repertoire is most of all comedy .We believe that using jokes we speak in each languages and our messages reach further and stay longer in people’s minds. Through innovatory and original methods we would be happy to increase the interest to the theatrical art. We undertake to popularize outfield kinds of theatre like Japanese traditional puppet theatre Bunracu, Javanerin puppet theatre, Indian and Chinese shade theatre for Bulgarian audience, too.

                Schools for children, teenagers and adults will be created in addition to the theatre where they will study comedy, drama, puppet theatre, orthoepy, heuristic for beginners. The purpose of these schools is to rouse interest for theatrical art and to turn it into love and inner necessity.

                The team of Hand Theatre undertakes monthly to perform beneficial gratuitous shows for needy groups from our town.

                The theatre will perform in various places – stages, clubs, kinder – gardens, schools, streets etc. The diversity of the styles used by our team makes our performances suitable to many occasions. Our team has participated in festivals, charity performances, corporative parties, official theatrical and puppet performances, promotions, exhibitions, literary presentations etc in more than thirty countries all over the world.

                 This year to our theatre has been given the opportunity to establish its own hall for rehearsals and performances in Plovdiv. The premises is ninety square meters and it is situated in a building on Ruski 18 avenue next to Drujba School.