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Taganrog Chekhov Drama Theater participated in theater festival in Nikolaev, Ukraine

October 17, 2012: The Taganrog Chekhov Drama Theater returned from the city of Nikolaev, Ukraine, where the company participated in the 6th Theater Festival "Homo Ludens"("Playing Man") of the International Black Sea Club.

The following theater companies participated in the festival in Nikolaev: Folk Stilt Theater "Carnivals of the World" (Yevpatoria, Crimea, Ukraine), Municipal Theater "Satiricus Ion Luca Caragiale" (Chişinău, Moldova), Kharkiv Theater (Kharkiv, Ukraine), "Theater On Nezhinskaya" (Odessa, Ukraine), Chernivtsi Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater named after Olga Kobylyanskaya (Chernivtsi, Ukraine), Transnistrian State Theater of Drama and Comedy named after Nadezhda Aronetskaya (Tiraspol, Transnistria), Theater "By the Bridge" (Perm, Russia), Tula State Puppet Theater (Tula, Russia), The State Puppet Theater (Naberezhnie Chelny, Tatarstan, Russia), Minsk Regional Puppet Theater "Batleyka" (Minsk, Belarus), The Modern Theater School (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

Meeting at Festival Homo Ludens, 2012 in Nikolaev, Ukraine


Taganrog Chekhov Drama Theater had already participated in the festival HOMO LUDENS several times before, and is well known to Ukrainian audience. This time, the Taganrog theater company gave the performance of "The Canaries - it's in Spain, mom!" (play written by Nadezhda Ptushkina), which was highly praised by Ukrainian and Russian theater critics and mass media. Directors of Taganrog and Nikolaev theaters, Mr. Sergey Gert and Mr. Nikolay Kravchenko agreed to further continue cooperation, and in 2013 artists from Nikolaev theater will be on stage of Taganrog Chekhov Drama Theater within the framework of the festival "In the Homeland of Anton Chekhov".