ArmenPress
Oct 19 2004
YEREVAN DRAMA THEATER TO START SEASON WITH MACBETH
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS: One of the most popular Yerevan
theaters has spent around $12,500 to open its new season with
Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Drama Theater will open the season on
October 23.
The play involves 28 actors. The theater's art director Armen
Khandikian told a news conference today work on the play took 75
days. He said $1,200 came from the culture ministry. Apart from
Macbeth the theater performs also five other plays by Shakespeare.
Khandikian said they choose Shakespeare since "the world in the 21-st
century has not become a safer place to live, there is more
dishonesty and more blood in it now.".
Oct 19 2004
YEREVAN DRAMA THEATER TO START SEASON WITH MACBETH
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS: One of the most popular Yerevan
theaters has spent around $12,500 to open its new season with
Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Drama Theater will open the season on
October 23.
The play involves 28 actors. The theater's art director Armen
Khandikian told a news conference today work on the play took 75
days. He said $1,200 came from the culture ministry. Apart from
Macbeth the theater performs also five other plays by Shakespeare.
Khandikian said they choose Shakespeare since "the world in the 21-st
century has not become a safer place to live, there is more
dishonesty and more blood in it now.".