Theater of Nations successfully presented "Freken Julie" at New York Festival

NEW YORK. Artists of the capital’s theaters are now gaining strength before the opening of the new theater season. Among them is the staff of the Theater of Nations. However, the main stars of this metropolitan theater will have to go on stage in New York during the week, where an international festival takes place at the Lincoln Center.

This prestigious festival takes place in New York for the twentieth time. Over the years before the anniversary festival, American art lovers managed to get acquainted with the work of the theater. Vakhtangov, Maly and Bolshoi theaters, the famous "Marinka". This year, festival organizers invited the Theater of Nations to New York.

When selecting a performance to participate in the festival, the Center’s leadership watched several productions from the repertoire of the Theater of Nations. We stopped at the play “Freken Julie”, staged in 2011 by the director Thomas Ostermeyer. For the first time, American theater-goers saw this performance on July 27th.

The Theater of Nations was represented by Chulpan Khamatova, Yevgeny Mironov and Julia Persild, who play the main roles of the play "Freken Julie". Festival Director Nigel Redden noted the work of the artists and the director, calling the performance outstanding.

Speaking to reporters, Redden said that he knew Chulpan Khamatova’s acting reputation, and he saw Yevgeny Mironov in New York as Godunov, performed by the actor in the play staged by Declan Donnellan, a British director. Then the work of Yevgeny Mironov was noted by an enthusiastic article in the New York Times.

American viewers consider the appearance of such articles to be an extremely important event, and are not in a hurry for the first show of the play, waiting for feedback on it in the press. Interestingly, at the play of the Theater of Nations, the hall was almost completely filled.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru