Press-release. From the 7th to 11th of December Saratov Kiselev Youth Theater presents the creative laboratory "The Forth Height. Contemporary Dramaturgy."

The Theatre Union of the Russian Federation with support of the Ministry of Culture of Saratov Region, the State Institute of Culture, Saratov Academic Kiselev Youth Theater presents the creative laboratory "The Forth Height. Contemporary Dramaturgy." that will take place from the 7th to 11th of December, 2009 in Kiselev Youth Theater.

The work of the creative laboratories on the subject of the contemporary dramaturgy is a lasting good tradition in Saratov Kiselev Youth Theater. For the fifth time the creative laboratory "The Fourth Height" will be researching the newest Russian and foreign dramaturgy for the young spectators. Actual drama is always a driving-force of theater, the source of its vivification. Contemporary plays of the XXI century are inspired with new life now. One needs to have some kind of taste, some kind of hearing, some kind of feeling to understand now how theater is going to look like tomorrow. The theater of new plays is not only a quest for new answers it's a quest for new questions. The distance between the performance and the modern reality is very short. And people in the audience have a chance to see in the contemporary theater a mirror of their lives.

The plays of Russian and foreign dramatists will be presented in the form of reading-performance during the work of the laboratory: Natalia Moshina "The Rikotu Island" (Ufa), "Near the ark at 8" Ulrich Hub (Germany), Alexander Molchanov "The Murderer", Elena Isaeva "About my mother and myself" (Moscow). All performances are created by the following directors: Andrey Korionov (St. Petersburg), Sigrid Strom Reibo / Rambo (Norway), Mikhail Zaetz (Tyumen) and Maria Romanova (St. Petersburg) in cooperation with Kiselev Theater actors.

And again our goals are presenting the latest tendencies in drama and its language to the audience on the on hand and on the other hand meeting new directors and authors in hope of future cooperation.

Among all the undeniable advantages of the laboratory is the fact that its program is highly responsible to its young spectators and all drama materials are well-chosen. After the shows the discussions of the performances will take place, some kind of "dialogues with the audience", where authors together with spectators are analyzing the experimental theater.

The executive producer of the project is a member of the expert committee of the national theater prize and festival "The Golden Mask", the director of the All-Russian Festival "The Real Theater", the assistant director on the creative issues and international affairs of the Ekaterinburg TUZ, a playwright, screenwriter, leading Russian theater critic Oleg Loevsky. Alexander Vislov, a theater critic, leading editor of the "Literaturnaya Gazeta" (Moscow), Vasilii Kuznetzov a theatricologist from Goethe Institute (Moscow) and Saratov philologists, and theater critics also will take part in the project.


The creative laboratory "The Fourth Height" events:

Small stage of the new TUZ building (74 Chapaeva st.)
the 10th of December, Thursday - "Be at the Ark by Eight" Ulrich Hub
Director Sigrid Strom Reibo / Rambo (Norway)
Starts at 14.00

The Chamber stage (83 Volskaya st.)
the 10th of December, Thursday - Natalia Moshina "The Rikotu Island" (Ufa),
Director: Andrey Korionov (St. Petersburg)
Starts at 18.00
Small stage of the new TUZ building (74 Chapaeva st.)
the 11th of December, Friday - Alexander Molchanov "The Murderer"
Director Mikhail Zaetz (Tyumen)
Starts at 14.00

The Chamber stage (83 Volskaya st.)
the 11th of December, Friday - Elena Isaeva "About my mother and myself"
Director: Maria Romanova (St. Petersburg)
Starts at 18.00