The festival lineup includes productions by leading Russian theaters, from the Maly Theater and Gogol Theater to the Vakhtangov Theater, as well as troupes from Vologda, Novosibirsk, Ulan Ude and other cities. Foreign participants from Austria, South Korea, Germany and Belarus will also bring their works, and all performances will be held on the stages of the Irkutsk Drama Theater named after N. P. Okhlopkov. The expert council selected the productions from nearly 50 applications, including from Uruguay, Egypt, Romania, Poland, Italy and Lithuania.
The festival lineup includes productions by the State Academic Maly Theatre of Russia, the Moscow Drama Theater named after N. V. Gogol, the State Academic Theater named after E. Vakhtangov, and the creative center “Natalia Kogut Theater” (Moscow). Theaters from Vologda, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Novosibirsk, Kansk, and Ulan-Ude will also present their productions. Foreign troupes will come from Vienna (Austria), Seoul (South Korea), Berlin (Germany), and Vitebsk (Belarus). All performances will take place on the stages of the Irkutsk Academic Drama Theater named after N. P. Okhlopkov. The theater company will also take part in the festival.The deputy governor noted that the expert council of the Vampilov festival began selecting productions in February of this year. The council members reviewed about 50 applications. They came from countries such as Uruguay, Egypt, Romania, Poland, Italy, and Lithuania.
The founders of the festival are the Government of the Irkutsk Region and the Irkutsk Academic Drama Theater named after N. P. Okhlopkov, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Based on materials from the press service of the Government of the Irkutsk Region