"Golden Mask" festival: opening new horizons
The annual national theatre festival “The Golden Mask”, whose task is to sum up the results of the theatre season and to award the best works and the best theatre workers,
will open in Moscow on February 28th for the 17th time in succession. This year the number of submissions is unprecedented - nearly 100 - which means that the panel members will have to work hard to make their choice.
By the well-established tradition, the winner of “the best foreign performance shown in Russia in 2010” became known the day before the “Golden Mask” festival opened. The production by the Graz-based Theatre (Austria), “The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other”, directed by Hungary’s Viktor Bodo, has become the laureate. “His production, which is presented as an incredible ride, is rich with profound ideas. As compared with the other works, which the Austrian theatre has presented in recent years, Bodo’s latest creation has produced the strongest impression on me”, a well-known theatre critic in Moscow, Marina Davydova, said in an interview with the Voice of Russia.
In recent years the “Golden Mask” festival has invited many foreign guests, including festival directors, producers, and critics. It would be good to mention here the “Russian Case” project, which is aimed at providing as much information as possible about modern Russian theatre to experts from all parts of the world, Marina Davydova said.
The “Golden Mask” laureates will be named on April 15th - that is, on the festival’s final day.