Performance "Without Right to Return" - a special kind of political protest

PanARMENIAN.Net - The premiere performance of the play by Belgian actress and writer Corline Safaryan was staged on April 23, in H. Paronyan State Theatre of Musical Comedy. The play dedicated to the Armenian Genocide became a special kind of political protest, stage director Hakob Ghazanchyan, Head of Armenian Theater Union, said.



According to Mr. Ghazanchyan, April was chosen as the time for performance premiere on purpose, play draws on the idea of Armenian Genocide.



The performance was organized within "The Pan-Armenian Theatrical Project" framework, elaborated in 2008 in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Armenian Theater Union. The project aims to unite professional Armenian actors from different parts of the world.



USSR People's Artist Armen Djigarkhanyan who stars the performance stressed, "Although I decided not to play on stage any more, I agreed to the role in the play 'Without Right to Return'. It was the Genocide issue that made me act in a performance staged in three languages (Armenian, Russian and Turkish). And this is a proof that it's not the words but the acting that matters in theater.



The heroes of the play are two young people, Armenian and Turkish by nationality, who meet in a train and start a conversation about the Armenian Genocide.