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Credo Theatre’s ‘The Overcoat’ Opens High Fest in Yerevan

20:51 ¢ 02.10.09

The 7th Annual High Fest International Performing Arts Festival began
in Yerevan yesterday with the opening of `The Overcoat,’ Bulgarian
Credo Theatre’s interpretation of Gogol’s novel.

Prior to the performance, High Fest President Artur Ghukasyan
presented the festival program in a few words.

The festival program highlights 33 theatrical companies from 22
countries. According to Ghukasyan, the leading performances this year
is Bulgaria’s Credo Theatre and France’s Philippe Genty’s `Zigmund
Follies’ puppet show.

In his speech Ghukasyan said Credo Theatre is rather a chamber theatre
and the actors are excited because they will act on a big stage- at
the Yerevan Stanislavski Russian Drama Theatre.

`The Overcoat’ has been presented in over 150 international festivals
in Bulgaria and abroad in 9 different languages including English,
French, German, Japanese, Serbian, and Greek. In Yerevan, the
performance was in Russian.

HighFest runs until October 8, 2009. For further details, visit their
website at