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Italian public will get another chance to attend Russian theater performances, TASS reports. Two recognized troupes – Vakhtangov Theater and Alexandrinsky Theater to perform in Milan in the frames of Russian Seasons.
Russian actors will perform at the stage of Piccolo Teatro di Milano, the very first 'teatro stabile' in Italy that didn't tour the country, instead staying put in city and working with a fixed group of actors. Now about three decades it's called the European Theater.
Artistic directors Valery Fokin and Rimas Tuminas will give lectures and will participate in round table dedicated to the history of cultural relations between our countries.
Names of these directors are well known to Italian audience. Fokin worked in Naples where he's staged Troades tragedy by Euripides. Tuminas works have participated several times in Italian theater festivals.
Italian audience will see Eugine Onegin play by Vakhtangov Theater, This production has already travelled the world with big success.
Alexandrinsky Theater bring to Italy three productions. Your Gogol. The Last Monologue directed by Valery Fokin, Twelve staged by young director Anton Okoneshnikov, and By the Other Side of the Theater Curtain by Andrey Zholdak. The latter is called a radical variation of Three Sisters play of Chekhov.
According to Valery Fokin the goal was to demonstrate Russian classics in contemporary version. Therefore, Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov and Blok works will be presented in new light.
Russkiy Mir
