Artists of the Vitebsk Yakub Kolas Theatre will delight Minsk residents with new productions

September 12, Minsk /Tatsiana Pastushenka - BELTA/. Artists of the Yanka Kupala National Academic Drama Theatre (Vitebsk) will delight Minsk residents with new productions for the second time. The Vitebsk theater's tour will take place from September 17 to 26 on the stage of the M. Gorky Theatre. Svetlana Dashkevich, head of the literary and dramatic department of the Kolas Theater, informed a BELTA correspondent about this. "For us, every meeting with the capital's audience is welcome and long-awaited. We want the audience to also anticipate our arrival and come to the performances with pleasure," she said. The tour will open with Rida Talipov's production of "Vassa" based on Maxim Gorky's play, staged for the jubilee of People's Artist of Belarus Svetlana Okruzhna. Svetlana Dashkevich defined the genre of the production as a "family story." "The main thing the director focused on is how to preserve a family when various cataclysms occur in it," says Svetlana Dashkevich. "How does this story resonate with the problems of a modern family? The director discusses this together with the contemporary audience." "Each of us contemplates the peace of the soul, which is killed by daily hustle and bustle. It's time to think about eternity and what is most valuable for a modern person," noted Svetlana Dashkevich. This theme is developed in the confessional play "The Cross of Euphrosyne," staged by Mikhail Krasnobayev based on Irina Maslenitsyna's play. Another work by the Vitebsk theater, the play "The Last Witnesses" by Svetlana Alexievich, is dedicated to childhood scarred by war. The plot is as follows: children from a pre-war class meet 65 years after the end of the war. The class teacher suggests they write an essay on the topic: "How I Spent My Childhood?" These are not biographies, but the most vivid episodes from the lives of children whose fate was touched by the Great Patriotic War. "The Last Witnesses" was staged by the author of the adaptation, director Vladimir Savitsky. Mikhail Krasnobayev offers the capital's audience the classic comedy "Chasing Two Hares" by Ukrainian playwright Mikhail Starytsky. "This play has already been watched by audiences in Poland and Russia, and it is always a success everywhere," said Svetlana Dashkevich. "It is a celebration of acting skills, there is not a single minor role here." The touring repertoire includes "Windbags," where artists of the younger and middle generations of the Kolas Theater present "an anti-crisis program from Vladislav Golubok." The director of the play "Hello, Albert!", Honored Artist of Belarus Vitaly Barkovsky, invites the audience on a journey into the realm of the unknown. The play, based on Yuri Sokhar's script, is staged for the 130th anniversary of the birth of the great 20th-century physicist and lyricist Albert Einstein. In addition, theatergoers in the capital will be able to see the comedy "Psychoanalyst for a Psychoanalyst" by contemporary Belarusian playwright Diana Baryko. For the little viewers, the Kolas Theater has prepared the fairy tale "We Can't Do Without a Friend" by Sergey Kozlov. In 2007, the Kolas Theater artists met with the capital's audience on the stage of the Kupala Theater. These were reporting performances by the theater's artistic director, Honored Artist of Belarus Vitaly Barkovsky, in connection with the 60th anniversary of the birth of the renowned director. -0-