Two performers are on a stage in front of an audience. One, dressed in a gray suit and a red scarf, is controlling a marionette. The marionette is sitting on a set of tiered, pale-yellow blocks. The second performer, dressed in a striped shirt, wide gray pants, and a large black fuzzy hat, bows to the puppet. A backdrop of a Russian palace is behind the performers. There are dark-blue curtains on the side of the stage.