Y. Kolas Theatre opens its 85th season with Ronald Harwood's comedy "The Quartet"

September 23, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Yanka Kupala Theatre opens its 85th season on September 26 with Ronald Harwood's comedy "Quartet". This was announced today at a press conference dedicated to the opening of the new theater season by the artistic director of the Yanka Kupala National Academic Drama Theatre, Rid Talipov, according to a BELTA correspondent. The touching comedy tells the story of four opera singers. Once stars, many years later they meet again in a home for stage veterans. Each of them ended up here for different reasons, but fate brought them together again to make them stars once more. The cast includes leading actors of the theater: People's Artist of Belarus Svetlana Okruzhna, Honored Artists Tamara Skvortsova and Grigory Shatko, as well as Viktor Dashkevich. The production director is Rid Talipov. Several more premieres await Melpomene's fans by the end of the year. On October 6, the audience will be presented with "A Very Simple Story" by Maria Lado, directed by Yuri Lizengevich, and on November 5, the revived "Lad'dzia rospachu" by Vladimir Korotkevich. Rid Talipov expressed confidence that the upcoming season will be fruitful for the Vitebsk theater. "The entire theater troupe will be involved in realizing their creative potential. Moreover, to enhance the professional skills of the actors, leading teachers from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (Moscow) and the Union of Theatre Workers of Russia are planned to be invited for master classes," the artistic director of the theater noted. -0-