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BREST, 26 August (BelTA) – The program of the 18^th International Theater Festival Belaya Vezha which is to take place in Brest from 7 to 14 September will be divided into three main parts, BelTA learnt from Deputy Director General of the Brest Academic Drama Theater Larisa Novitskaya.

“This year we have decided to show the audience the best plays of the Belarusian and Polish theaters. With this idea in mind, we focused on inviting theater companies from Belarus and Poland. Interesting interpretations of the world dramaturgy will make the third compulsory part of the forum,” Larisa Novitskaya noted.

The forum will open with a play Who Laughs Last by the Theater-Studio of Screen Actor. The play has won a special award of the President of Belarus. Among the best Belarusian plays of the recent years, the winners of the National Theater Award, which will take part in the forum will be Queen of Spades (Grodno Oblast Puppet Theater) and Classmates (Mogilev Oblast Drama Theater). Tickets for the shows have already been sold out.

The Polish part of the program is prepared in close cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw and the Polish Institute in Minsk. The program of the forum will include five works of different genre: from Salto Mortale to Portraits of the Polish Kings of the Modrzewski National Theater of Krakow which will demonstrate the whole range of the latest multimedia thechnologies in theater.

Among the favorites of the festival are the plays “Hamlet. Point G” by the Moscow Theatre of the Moon, “Lady Macbeth” by the state youth theater of Lithuania, the solo performance “The Oldest Profession" by Robert Akopyan from Yerevan, and the docudrama "Antibodies" by the Baltic House from St. Petersburg. Taking part in the festival will be 23 theater groups from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Greece, Egypt, Israel, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Japan.

This year, the organizing committee decided to give up on the jury, reserving the right to name the best show of the festival. The best male and female characters will be chosen by theatrical critics. There will be also awards from the media and audience.

The Annual International Theater Festival in Brest was first held in 1996. Since then the festival has welcomed theater groups from more than 50 countries. The organizers of the forum are the Brest Oblast Executive Committee and the State Academic Drama Theater.