THE FOURTH ARMMONO FESTIVAL WITHOUT A JURY AND WITH NO COMPETITION
By Hovannes Yeranian

Yerkir.am
September 01, 2006

The forth International Shakespeare Festival ArmMono will be launched
in Yerevan on September 12. This festival of mono performances has been
organized on Shakespeare themes for the second year. The Ministry of
Culture and Youth Affaires, the Union of Theater Actors of Armenia and
the Armenian National Center of the International Theater Institute
(UNESCO) do their best to make the festival a celebration of theater.

This is why there is no competition and no jury during the festival.

Directors of similar festivals from around the world will visit
Armenia which, the organizers believe, gives the Armenian actors an
opportunity to enter the international arena. Actors from Georgia,
Iran, Poland, Turkmenistan, Lithuania, England and Slovenia will
perform at the festival.

Hovhannes Hovhannissian, Levon Ivanian, Narineh Petrossian, Hasmik
Ter-Karapetian and Armen Santrossian from Armenia will also perform
at the festival.

The most interesting performance of the festival is the "… Lawful
Prison" international project. Actors from ten countries will perform
Shakespeare’s Hamlet in their languages. Two of the ten actors will
be Armenian. Mariam Ghazanchian will play Ofelia and Vardan Petrossian
will play Hamlet.

Director of ArmMono Festival Hakob Ghazanchian is the author and
director of this performance. The famous Polish director and theorist
Andzey Zurovski will be managing the festival. The famous Georgian
director Robert Sturua will be the guest of the festival.

The organizers of the festival believe the Shakespeare Festival
will be a good signal for the revival of Armenian theater rich in
Shakespeare traditions.