11th Hayfest international theater festival to open on Oct 1

The 11th Hayfest international theater festival will take place October 1 to 12.
 
Festival Coordinator Shohakat Galstyan told Tert.am that the best plays have been selected. 1927’s Edinburgh Showcase production will inaugurate the festival.

The organizers showed an even stricter approach in electing foreign companies.

“We are trying to encourage them because our companies are like hibernating bears, waiting for the world to come to them,” Galstyan said.

“I can say that rather serious work is done throughout the year. The art director and program executives visit all the prestigious festivals and sign contracts. For example the contract for Miranda was signed four years ago,” Galstyan said.

This year the Hayfest festival has changed its audience policy. Festival organizers have decided in favor of free admission to all the plays, which will allow more viewers to see the plays. On the opening day invitation cards will be distributed, but admission will be free the following day.

“Next year we want to present a program of best Armenian plays. This year we are presenting a program of best foreign plays. For many years we have implemented a program of best Iranian plays,” Galstyan said.

More than 1,500 companies from 50 countries have performed plays in Armenia during the Hayfest festival for the past ten years.