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The Stanislavsky Season starts on Wednesday, October 30, in Moscow, TASS reports. The theater festival is preceded by an international award ceremony, which also bears the name of the great theater reformer. The award has been presented for almost a quarter of a century, and the festival itself will be the fourteenth in a row. The festival is supported by the Moscow government.
The program will be opened by the performance of guests from the Northern capital. Grigory Kozlov’s studio will present Duck Hunt based on the play by Alexander Vampilov. The performance will be played on the stage of the Taganka Theater.
Vilnius Meno Fortas Theater will bring the Book of Job to Moscow. The performance was staged based on the Old Testament by the famous director from Lithuania Eimuntas Nyakroshus. According to the organizers, they decided to dedicate a show to the memory of the director, who passed away a year ago.
A theater from the Italian city of Cesena Societas Raffaello Sanzio will present to the public of Moscow Swan song D744. The production is based on the works of Franz Schubert. The creators of the play are director from Italy Romeo Castelllucci, opera soloist from Sweden Kerstin Avemo, actress from France Valerie Dreville and pianist from Belgium Alain Franco. At first, the production seems like a normal performance, but a sudden random error changes the situation and shows the audience the true nature of what is happening.
The festival program includes the works of Moscow performance groups. The Russian Academic Youth Theater will present the production of Aleksey Borodin Problem, the Theater of Nations - Mu-Mu by Dmitry Krymov, and the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov - Running by Sergey Zhenovach.
Note that, according to tradition, the Stanislavsky Prize has neither a short nor a long list of applicants. The names of the winners are called right away. In addition, the list of experts on the jury is updated annually. Each laureate receives a sign depicting Chekhov’s seagull and Stanislavsky’s facsimile, as well as a monetary reward. Over the course of its existence, awards have been presented to it by more than one and a half hundred theater figures from Russia and abroad.
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