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Zolotoy Vityaz festival joins theatres of Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Moscow

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Zolotoy Vityaz festival joins theatres of Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Moscow


21.11.2017

Russian Ministry of CultureZolotoy Vityaz (The Golden Knight) Theatre Festival has started in Moscow. It marks 15th anniversary this year, according to the website of Russian Ministry of Culture.

About one hundred applications were sent for the festival and twenty-one performances were finally chosen for Moscow audience. The jury will judge works by Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Belarusian and other theatres. The bill contains stagings based on books by Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Valentin Rasputin, Mikhail Bulgakov and Ivan Bunin.

The festival jury consists of theatre critic Kapitolin Kokshenev, actor Vladimir Gostyukhin, Theatre Life magazine’s editor-in-chief Oleg Pivovarov, Malgorzata Potocka, Serbian playwright Jovan Markovic, art director of Lugansk Ukrainian Regional Academic Drama Theatre Mikhail Golubovich and director deputy of Bulgarian cultural institute Buryana Angelakieva.

Traditionally, there will be a ceremony of awarding with medal of Mordvinov. It is handed out for great personal contribution into development of theatre art. This year this medal will be provided to Artistic Director of the State Academic Vakhtangov Theatre Rimas Tuminas.

Dramaturgical Laboratory with participation of famous theatre figures and theatre critics will take place at the forum.
It is worth reminding that Zolotoy Vityaz is one of the largest international theatre festivals existing in Russia.

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