Rezo Gabriadze, a playwrite and an artist was born in 1936 in Georgia. He graduated from the Philological Faculty on the State University of Tbilisi. Besides being a playrwrite, Gabriadze is also a film director with a total of 35 films produced including Take it Easy, Mimino, Kindzaza, Ecentrics ... Gabriadze founded the Provincial Studio Theatre and toured with it Paris, Berlin, Madrid, the U.S. and participated at many festivals: in Edinburgh and Avignon, then Moscow. Gabriadze founded and built the puppet theatre in early sixties. Together with a famous theatre cafe it became one of the landmarks in tourist guides of Tbilisi eversince. The theatre was ruined during the civil war, but upon Gabriadze's arrival from the exile, he builded it from scratch, expanded and renovated. Since the play The Battle of Stalingradwas staged in 1994, it toured the whole of Europe, becoming a hit on the last year' s World Stage Festival in Toronto and in the Lincoln Centre Festival in New York.