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GEORGIAN THEATER LEGEND STURUA APPOINTED GUEST DIRECTOR AT MOSCOW THEATER
Vladimir Viatkin
RIA Novosti
17:48 14/10/2011
The world renowned Georgian stage director, Robert Sturua, who was
dismissed from the Tbilisi National Theater in August, was appointed
a main guest director at Moscow's Et Cetera Theater, art director
Alexander Kalyagin said on Friday.
Sturua, an outspoken critic of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili,
was dismissed from the Tbilisi National Theater for his "xenophobic"
comments about the president.
"Saakashvili doesn't know what Georgian people need because he is
Armenian. I do not want Georgia to be governed by a representative
of a different ethnicity," Sturua said in an interview with a local
news agency in May.
The director, who received several invitations from Russian and
international theaters after his dismissal, accepted proposals from
a British theater and Moscow's Et Cetera.
"I've got three plays in mind, two of them are modern Georgian and
Russian performances and a classic one," Sturua said, adding that he
had accepted the invitation since he had already staged three plays
in Moscow and was honored to return to his "family."
Sturua, 73, has gained international fame for his original
interpretation of plays by Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare and
Georgian classics.
His Hamlet, staged in 1992 at London's Riverside Studios, has long
been a theatrical legend.
Vladimir Viatkin
RIA Novosti
17:48 14/10/2011
The world renowned Georgian stage director, Robert Sturua, who was
dismissed from the Tbilisi National Theater in August, was appointed
a main guest director at Moscow's Et Cetera Theater, art director
Alexander Kalyagin said on Friday.
Sturua, an outspoken critic of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili,
was dismissed from the Tbilisi National Theater for his "xenophobic"
comments about the president.
"Saakashvili doesn't know what Georgian people need because he is
Armenian. I do not want Georgia to be governed by a representative
of a different ethnicity," Sturua said in an interview with a local
news agency in May.
The director, who received several invitations from Russian and
international theaters after his dismissal, accepted proposals from
a British theater and Moscow's Et Cetera.
"I've got three plays in mind, two of them are modern Georgian and
Russian performances and a classic one," Sturua said, adding that he
had accepted the invitation since he had already staged three plays
in Moscow and was honored to return to his "family."
Sturua, 73, has gained international fame for his original
interpretation of plays by Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare and
Georgian classics.
His Hamlet, staged in 1992 at London's Riverside Studios, has long
been a theatrical legend.