13th International Chekhov Theater festival starts in Moscow tomorrow May, 24. According to the event long-time director Victor Shadrin this year biannual festival celebrates 25 years.
During all these years theater lovers saw more than 500 plays from more than 50 countries. Today Chekhov festival is considered to be one of the most important ones in the world.
The photo exhibition devoted to the story of the festival on the beautiful Chistoprudnyi bulvar in Moscow coincides with the festival opening.
This year more than 200 stagings by Argentinian, Brazilian, British, German, Canadian, Russian theaters will be introduced to the spectators.
This year Chekhov festival will reach regions, in particular, Voronezh and Ekaterinburg.
Mozart's Magic Flute performed by Komische Oper Berlin on the New Stage of Bolshoi Theatre will open the festival. Among highlights are Victor Hugo's play Lucrezia Borgia by Comédie-Française and Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author by another French group, Le Théâtre de Villefranche.
Another future sold-out is The Battlefield based on ancient Indian epos The Mahabharata by famous British director Peter Bruck.
Russkiy Mir
