The All Russian Festival of Contemporary Drama named after Alexander Vampilov will take place this year from September 8 to 15 and has already received hundreds of applications from leading theaters in Russia. A new contest for the best contemporary play is of special interest. Only 10 of 400 works by young playwrights will be selected, and actors will read them to the public on a chamber stage. The organizers also expect striking productions from different cities across the country and even participation by theaters from Ukraine and Japan.

The All-Russian Festival of Contemporary Drama named after Alexander Vampilov has already become one of the most popular in Russia and has attracted attention abroad. Hundreds of applications have already come to the festival’s organizing committee from the country’s best theaters.
This year the festival will take place from September 8 to 15.
A new project is being prepared - a competition for the best contemporary play, in which playwrights aged 18 to 40 took part. The selection committee will have to choose only 10 out of the four hundred plays submitted. Actors will read them to the audience during the festival days on the chamber stage.
About 80 theaters from all over Russia have already applied to take part in the festival.
Theaters from Ukraine and even Japan have expressed a desire to participate in it. Theater companies from Moscow, Ulan-Ude, Omsk, and Kamchatka will come. According to the organizers, the production "Brothers and Sisters" by the Maly Drama Theater "Europe" of St. Petersburg is expected to be an event. It is called a masterpiece of world theatrical art.
- Solomin very much wanted to come, the Moscow Art Theater staged "The Elder Son" - they would also like to come, we also talked with Tabakov. There are interesting productions, and our favorite Sergei Artsibashev, who came to our festival twice, has interesting works, - says Anatoly Streltsov, director of the N.P. Okhlopkov Irkutsk Drama Academic Theater.
Foreign theaters also wish to take part in the Vampilov Festival.
Theaters from Ukraine and even Japan have expressed a desire to participate in it. Theater companies from Moscow, Ulan-Ude, Omsk, and Kamchatka will come. According to the organizers, the production "Brothers and Sisters" by the Maly Drama Theater "Europe" of St. Petersburg is expected to be an event. It is called a masterpiece of world theatrical art.
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