Performance of Belarusian theaters during М@rt.kontakt festival praised
MOGILEV, 28 March (BelTA) – Belarusian theaters presented a powerful and spectacular program during the international youth theater forum М@rt.kontakt in Mogilev. The opinion was shared by a majority of theater critics as they summed up results of the forum during a press conference on 27 March, BelTA has learned.
The experts noted that the forum featured a versatile and vivid Belarusian program —six out of 22 performances by five Belarusian theater collectives. “In Mogilev we saw the festival’s view of the future of the Belarusian theater, the infinity of the theater’s capabilities, the new wave that will shape the aesthetic taste of our spectators,” noted Lyudmila Gromyko, a theater critic and a senior lecturer at the Belarusian State University.
All the critics without an exception remarked that the festival in Mogilev did deliver theater art. The forum develops rapidly. Its popularity among critics, participants, and regular spectators rises. This year’s program was captivating and matched the youth theme and concept of the forum. At the same time the “festival bouquet” had a lot of content and art. It is important that young artists were not left to their own devices. Instead they were guided by maestros. They learned what they could in addition to demonstrating their best traits.
“In my opinion, the theater program presented a truly stellar program,” said the theater and music critic Nadezhda Buntsevich. “Every performance had some kind of zest. The Belarusian theater art was represented by a stunningly diverse program. The Sinyaya-Sinyaya performance staged by the Mogilev Oblast Puppet Theater using a short story by Vladimir Korotkevich as an inspiration was a surprise. It showed to all participants of the forum from ten countries that something is happening in Belarusian theater art, too.”
The list of critically acclaimed performances included two scenic versions of Dostoyevsky’s Karamazov Brothers performance staged by the little theater Theaomai (Vilnius, Lithuania) and the little theater Small Drama Theater from Saint Petersburg, Russia. They competed, argued with each other and complemented each other. Many critics appreciated the Sinyaya-Sinyaya (exceedingly blue) performance by the Mogilev Oblast Puppet Theater, the Sasha, Vynesi Musor (Sasha, take out the trash) performance by the Belarusian State Youth Theater, and the London performance by the Mogilev Oblast Drama and Comedy Theater named after V.I. Dunin-Martsinkevich (Bobruisk).
