MOSCOW, 23 October - RIA Novosti. The sixth children's theater festival "Marshak" will be held online for the first time from 23 to 31 October, the press service of the project told RIA Novosti.
Spectators will be able to watch eight performances of theaters from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk for free. The performances will be available on the website and in social networks within 24 hours after the show.
"This year the festival has retained a rich program, despite the difficulties, but we are glad that thanks to the change in format, the festival performances will be" played "in all cities of Russia at once. As before, we have chosen the best performances for children, of high quality, those that speak to performances in the Young Adult genre, which will be of interest to both young spectators and adults,”noted the curator of the festival program, theater producer Varvara Korovina.
The first will start the festival on October 23 at 16:00 with the performance "Cinderella" of the Voronezh Theater for Young Spectators.
The Theater of Music and Poetry of Elena Kamburova will present "The Sun on a String", the Moscow Shadow Theater will show the play "Vanya Danish", a touching parable about the prodigal son who escaped from home to the sea to meet adventures, the Rostov Academic Youth Theater will present the classic "Cinderella", and the Teatrium on Serpukhovka "- the musical performance" The Magic Mill Sampo "based on the Karelian-Finnish epic" Kalevala ".
The world's only circus of hooligans from St. Petersburg, "Uppsala Circus", will show an inclusive performance "Pirosmani's Dreams" based on the paintings of the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani. In creating the performance, theater and circus professionals, musicians, sound engineers, video artists and, of course, artists: children and adolescents from disadvantaged families, correctional schools, children with Down syndrome, circus graduates - artists of a professional troupe, have united on an equal footing.
Traditionally, the program also consists of an educational part, including meetings with theater educators and directors. This year, a master class by Andrey Afonin, head of the Circle II theater studio, on working on inclusive performances, as well as a lecture by journalist Natalya Luchkina “How to speak on complex topics in the theater?” Is planned.
The MARSHAK children's festival was established in 2015, and over the six years of its existence, it has become one of the largest in the country.