Severstal supported the holding of the 14th season of the Golden Mask Theater Festival from 18 to 28 October in Latvia. This year the geography of the festival will cover not only Riga, Ventspils, Liepaja, but also, for the first time, Rezekne. Vafishe presented five performances, especially noted by the jury of the Russian national theater award “Golden Mask” and members of the expert council “Golden Mask in Latvia.”
The most anticipated 2018/2019 season has already become two performances: “Seryozha” (inspired by the novel Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina"), the debut of the famous director Dmitry Krymov at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, and "GLORY" is the first work of one of the main newsmakers of the Russian stage, Konstantin Bogomolov, at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, "a play about good people," as the director himself defined its genre.
the audience and from the other three productions. The Mkhatov production of Konstantin Bogomolov's "Husbands and Wives" based on Woody Allen is a stage version of the famous film in the genre of comedy drama. The production of the Moscow Drama Theater named after A. S. Pushkin "S_school" is a recognizable, funny and frightening story about the fateful role of a vocational school student in the life of a teacher of philosophy.
"Promise at DawnE" autobiographical novel by Romain Gary about a passionate, forgiving and, at times, destructive motherly love. For stage professionals and students of specialized universities, "Golden Mask in Latvia" will also offer a program of master classes and creative meetings with Russian colleagues. Traditional charitable projects of the festival will also be implemented, such as planting trees in the park near the Latvian Opera and others.
“This year the Russian national theater award“ Golden Mask ”celebrates its 25th anniversary. The company "Severstal" has been cooperating with the "Golden Mask" for 14 years already, and this project began with the theater festival of the same name in Latvia. During this time, 122 shows were shown in Riga, Liepaja and Ventspils, almost all of them were sold out. Now we have several areas of cooperation with the festival: this is support for showing the best performances of the year in Moscow and the Awards Ceremony, which was recognized as the "Theater Oscar" in Russia, and, of course, showing the best performances in the regions where Severstal is present - in several cities of Latvia, as well as in Russia - in Cherepovets, Petrozavodsk and Kostomuksha, ”said Natalya Poppel, head of the corporate social responsibility and brand of Severstal.
