First-night of 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' performance to take place in Yerevan on February 28February 26, 2009 - 19:04 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The first night of the play «The Caucasian Chalk Circle» will be staged at Gabriel Sundukyan State National Academic Theatre on February 28. The play is based on the similar play by German dramatist and prose writer Bertold Brecht. The staging is directed by Tigran Gasparyan.'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' was written by Bertold Brecht within 2 months in 1945 and reedited in 1953-1954. The plot is based on an old Eastern drama 'The Chalk Circle' and a well-known biblical parable about King Solomon. Outside Germany 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' is one of Brecht's most frequently staged plays. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “Great success”: Pashinyan pleased with new border protocol Pashinyan has described the signing by Armenia and Azerbaijan of a protocol on delimitation in Tavush as “a great success”. Armenia, Azerbaijan sign protocol on demarcation coordinates Armenia’s government took on May 15 another step towards handing over four border areas to Azerbaijan. U.S. warns Georgia not to side with Moscow against the west Georgia has been warned by the U.S. not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow. |