Synopsis:

The Georgian audience is particularly attracted by the performances based on the versions of Nodar Dumbadze’s stories. 

“HELLADOS” is one of the remarkable stories by the great author, telling about the feelings of the Greek and Georgian boys, love of friends and homeland, and their tragic fate. 

The director Petre Chargeishvili offers the audience a performance staged according to this very story.   

Dedicated to the memory of Lasha Kukhianidze

Partners of the Batumi Ilia Chavchavadze Professional State Drama Theatre and the performance “HELLADOS” are the Academician B. Naneishvili National Center of Mental Health and Batumi Medical Center 

A Polish playwright Katarzyna Knichalska has created the play “Classical Coproduction” based on the conversations and improvisations of the two groups of actors from the two theaters - The Modjeska Theatre in Legnica and Batumi State Drama Theatre. The rehearsals gave rise to the topics on which the six parts/scenes of the performance are based. Each scene is an independent unit representing the intercrossing points of Georgia and Poland from different angles. It might be similar historical past, a person connecting these two countries, common traumas, not to mention similar national complexes. Despite the serious line of the topics presented in the performance, even the painful ones, we still advise you to treat them lightly – after all, it is only a bunch of theatrical impressions gathered upon meeting two completely different acting companies.     

The meta-theatrical form and solution of the performance allow to look at the unpleasant national problems with self-criticism and humor. The theatrical performance does not tell us about Georgian-Polish friendship; neither does it discover a universal truth about these countries. On the contrary, it gives us a chance to see our own selves from the perspective of the other strange country about which – frankly speaking - we, Georgian and Polish viewers, know nothing at all. 

Creation and implementation of the performance is financed by Lower Silesia Self-governance and Ajara A.R. Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport 

“The Big Stage” of the Batumi Ilia Chavchavadze State Drama Theatre is looking forward to a pleasant novelty. A famous Polish director Jan Novara is staging a play by an outstanding American playwright. Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie” has been performed in many countries throughout the world with various interpretations. 

One cannot help being touched and impressed by a human drama retold in the play. A history of one family – mother with her son and daughter. Their illusions on life are as subtle as glass. However, life is severe. There is no profit in life for a salesman who writes his verses on the shoe-box covers. All the three members of the family have their own dreams; they indeed remind us of characters locked up in a glass flask. The worldwide acclaimed play tells us how the dreams are destroyed in the “glass menagerie”.  

Aleksandre Lortkipanidze’s “The Island” metaphorically retells about worldwide universal problems, cruel world created by humans, destined to self-destruction. 

Stage-director Keti Dolidze offers the Batumi audience an acclaimed play by Lasha Tabukashvili – “Somewhere Over the Rainbow…” 

The action of this diversely interesting story takes place in 2010. Naturally, it is reflected in the atmosphere of the play. Before the audience the pages from the recent history of Georgia are unfolded that were written, in most cases, with the bloody hands of the impudent gunmen… 

Avksenti Tsagareli’s “Khanuma” particularly attracts viewers with colourful characters and masterfully performed methods of comic genre. 

The play has been staged at a number of theatres worldwide in diverse interpretations. The stage-director Andro Enukidze offers an original and ingenious rendition of “Khanuma” that adds unexpected and interesting function to “kniaz” Vano Pantiashvili.

What vision will appear before the “knyaz”, duped by Khanuma? 

The audience can see the answer on the stage of the Batumi Drama Theatre.