Yerevan International Shakespeare Theater Festival to Host Massoud Tayebi’s Ophelia

The show “Ophelia” went on stage twice at Iran Artists Forum, and Shahrazad Theater Complex.

 

University professor and director Masoud Tayebi said: He wrote and directed the play "Ophelia" as a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet based on Yan Kott's view of Shakespeare's works and based on Emma Jung's issue of anger in women.

 

The play tells the story of Ophelia's madness in mourning the loss of Hamlet. Mise en scène Academy of Dramatic Arts produces this show starring Rojin Panahi, and Somia Tayebi is the producer and director of public relations and international communications .

Yerevan International Shakespeare Theater Festival was founded in 2004 by director Hakob Ghazanchyan and Shakespeare scholar Andrzej Żurowski. For the first three years, only festivals of monodrama performances were held and the mono performances with a Shakespearean subject were invited to Yerevan.

 

Yerevan Shakespeare International Theatre Festival hosted productions from various countries such as USA, Macedonia, Italy Russia, Poland, Georgia with more than 100 participants and guests.

 

 

The festival organizers offered masterclasses for professionals, students and everyone interested in the theatre, as well as talks and opportunities to meet the artists.

 

Festival director Karo Balyan highlights the importance of the festival in the Armenian cultural life connecting it with the long lasting Shakespearean traditions of the country – which of course include this festival – originally presented as a festival of monodrama with a first edition in 2004.

 

 

 

With a new impetus since 2016, the staff of the festival seeks to engage more and more people with each edition, and to make the  Yerevan Shakespeare International Theatre Festival, Armenia’s annual celebration of Shakespeare’s art.