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MINSK, 2 September (BelTA) – The 4^th edition of the international theater festival TEART will take place in Minsk on 27 September-22 October, BelTA learnt from the organizers of the forum.

The forum will include 21 plays in two programs: international and a new additional program Belarus Open.

The international block will traditionally comprise the world renowned plays with the focus on the experiment and innovation. The international program will open on 3 October with the ballet The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky from the repertoire of Sergei Dyagilev’s legendary Russian Seasons staged by Russian People’s Artist Andris Liepa. The Belarusian audience will see the work of prominent designer and decorator Leon Bakst, Sketch for the Firebird Sketch, from the Belgazprombank corporate collection, made by the artist in 1922 for the original staging of the play.

The program will also include the provocative Stavangera (Pulp People) of the Liepaja Theater staged by one of the brightest and hardcore modern Russian producers Konstantin Bogomolov and Alvis Hermanis’ masterpiece Oblomov after Ivan Goncharov’s classic novel (New Riga Theater).

A new production of Anton Chekhov’s Chaika will be brought by the Vilnius Theater and Lithuanian producer Oskaras Korsunovas. An original reading of the Russian and Soviet classics will be offered by two Russian theaters. The Moscow Pushkin Drama Theater will show a silent play Mother Earth after the same-name novel of Chingiz Aitmatov. Oleg Tabakov Theater will tell the story about Happy Moscow after Andrei Platonov’s novel.

The Belarus Open program from 27 September to 2 October will feature Belarusian experimental theater projects with a bold look at ordinary things. Among them is A Sad Hockey Player by Pavel Pryazhko (Center of Visual and Performing Arts), If There Is No Tomorrow by Dmitry Bogoslavsky (National Theater of the Belarusian Dramaturgy), Andrei Ivanov’s and Viktor Krasovsky’s play reading (Belarusian Dramaturgy Center). The dance theater Karakuli will present one of its premieres together with SKVO’s dance company.

TEART will be wrapped up with a premiere Father in the Kupala Theater after Belarusian playwright Dmitry Bogoslavsky’s play The Quiet Rustle of Retreating Footsteps. The play marks the 80^th birthdays of outstanding actors of the Drama Theater Gennady Ovsyannikov and Gennady Garbuk.

Apart from the plays, the program of the forum will also comprise master-classes, meetings and roundtables.

The forum is organized by the Center of Visual and Performer Arts Center Art Corporation and OAO Belgazprombank with the assistance of the Culture Ministry of the Republic of Belarus. The general partner of the forum is OAO Gazprom Transgaz Belarus.