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The international theater festival starts on Friday, March 6, in Finland, REGNUM reports. It is the fifth time that Jyväskylä has been hosting it. Russian-language children's and youth theaters are taking part in the forum. The organizer of the forum is the Art Master theater and cultural center.
The hosts of the festival will open the program with the staging of #IloveIhate play, which is dedicated to the difficulties of adulthood. According to director Kira Mirutenko, the play consists of dialogues on social networks, quotes from books and excerpts from the plays of young playwrights.
The festival program includes the works of three Russian groups: About the Fisherman and the Fish staged by the Montfleury Circus Theater from St.Petersburg, Rescue Work on the Shore of an Imaginary Sea by a theater from Tolyatti, and When the Snow Falls by a theater from Yekaterinburg. The latter is based on the stories of Dina Rubina. The Estonian Tuuleveski theater will introduce the audience to the Tales of the Old Mill play. Guests of the festival will be the Cambridge Russian Academy and the Atmosphere studio from Helsinki.
The main objective of the forum is to provide Russian-language theaters from different countries with a platform for establishing new contacts and strengthening creative ties. The festival also helps children from Russian-speaking families to preserve their language and culture.
Russkiy Mir
