“Viva, Comedy!” Gathered in St. Petersburg theaters from Russia, Armenia and the Czech Republic – REGNUM

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St. Petersburg, September 6, 2015, 21:30 – REGNUM The first International Theatre Festival. NP Akimova “Viva, Comedy!” Opened in St. Petersburg. As the correspondent of IA REGNUM , a ceremony began in the city center on the pedestrian Malaya Sadovaya Street, and continued at the Theatre Comedy. Akimov, who with the support of the St. Petersburg Committee for Culture was the organizer of the event

According to the director of the theater Elena Yastrebova, “the idea of ​​the festival is closely associated with the revival of the name of the great director, artist and educator Nicholas Akimova.” In an interview with IA REGNUM , it noted that the festival is conceived not as another festival of theatrical art, “it is seen as a forum in which will take serious professional conversation about comedy as a theater genre at the scientific-practical conference” Under the guise of comedy, “and, of course, the audience will be presented bright performances with different interpretations of well-known and new stories.”

He opened the festival performance of “A plague on both your houses” Moscow Dramatic Theatre headed by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Within a week, his works show the dramatic theaters from Archangel, Perm, Yaroslavl; Yerevan State Chamber Theatre brought the play “Governmental Concert”, and the National Theatre of Brno – “Marriage of Figaro” – all in the festival involves 11 theaters, including the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Drama Theater Theatre. Lensoveta atakde Student Theatre RSPU. Herzen. The exhibition “N. P. Akimov GA Tovstonogov. Theatrical legend Petersburg “will present the author’s notes and the development of new productions of both filmmakers, documentary materials about their work in Leningrad in Soviet times.

Recall that the name is associated Akimova flourishing Leningrad theater comedy. He accepted the offer to lead the House in 1935, although he had put only one show – “Hamlet” in the Moscow theater. Vakhtangov (1933). Gradually, “Akimov” theater scene gathered stars of Soviet cinema and Junger Elena Alexander Beniaminov, Sergey Filippov, Vladimir Uskov. In collaboration with Eugene Schwartz, Mikhail Lozinsky, Mikhail Zoshchenko puts Akimov “dog in the manger”, “School for Scandal”, “shadow”, “dangerous turn” and other colorful performances that have become classics over the years. But in 1949 Ivan was seven years removed from the leadership he established the creative team. After his return in 1956, the theater was restored comedy “Shadow” and forbidden during the Great Patriotic War “Dragon” delivered “Twelfth Night” by Shakespeare, “Motley stories” by Chekhov and Byron’s “Don Juan”. In 1967 the theater was awarded the title of “academic”, and in 1968 Nikolai Akimov died. In the history of Russian theater associated with the name Akimova emphasized irony in the perception of life, brightness stage images and the director invented costumes, despite the political situation neangazhirovannostyu in the selection of plays and treatment of subjects.

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