FIRST FESTIVAL OF YOUTH PERFORMANCES STARTS IN YEREVAN
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 22 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 22, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On June 22, Festival
of Youth Performances will start at Yerevan Theater of Young Spectator
with a performance "The Feast of Beasts" staged by young producer
David Haroutiunian on the basis of the novel of the same name by
French Armenian writer Vahe Kacha.
Young producers and actors from almost all Armenian theaters, as well
as from Artsakh Vahram Papazian Theater and Tbilisi Petros Adamian
Theater will present 22 works of different genres at the festival.
At the press conference held before the festival, young creators
spoke about the importance and the further developments of the coming
festival. They said that the festival is first of all important in the
cognitive and educational respect, it also has a creative importance,
as for the majority of the participants this festival is just an
opportunity to indroduce themselves to the society.
According to the young creators, even they often do not know about the
occupation of one another. "This is a unique opportunity to get to know
first ourselves, and then to associate and to get to know one another."
Some of them expected that in the future the festival will become
international and will create an opportunity for new contacts and
new cooperation.