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I’ve always been interested in life in theatre. Backstage, clothes and props are pretty mysterious to many people. Today, a day after the Day of Theatre, I finally got the chance to get backstage during a performance at the Mher Mkrtchyan Theatre.
The cast was playing The Little Prince, a performance for children. There was the usual rush of getting on stage and out, but generally things were pretty organized as the actors have been performing this play for a long time.
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The State of Emergency continues, and right on Freedom Square Astral Club continues its parties. It seemed strange to me in the beginning, but the organizer of the Rock on Thursday parties Narek Bakhtamyan told me things for him continued just the same as before.
Also, this week a new pub The Beatles Blackbird opened, and I post some photos from the opening night.
The new Beatles pub opened a couple of days ago, and the Bambir band played at its opening. The pub is on Pushkin street in the centre of Yerevan and for me personally is a place I was waiting for, especially that the bloggers’ favorite place, the Shamrock pub, was closed these days for some reason.
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Among all events connected with the forthcoming presidential election in February, the most interesting for me has been the play of the Theatre for Changes group on 9 November. This interactive theatre performance called Pre-election Breakfast caused quite a number of people present to be active and give solutions to problems discussed in the play.
Another performance by the same group, the Honorable Beggars of Our Times, took place several months ago, was more comical.
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The hope of the people gathered on Freedom Square on 26 October to cheer for Levon Ter-Petrosyan came true as he announced that he will run for presidency again in 2008. The joint rally of oppositional leaders Aram Sargsyan, Stepan Demirchyan and first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan gathered around 10,000 people, enough to cover the whole square. A simultaneous concert half and hour away from the Freedom Square was a contrast to this event.
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On my travel to Gyumri last week I got to visit some Gyumri premises together with the Bambir band. And those were the Gyumri Drama Theatre and the Shant Radio. The theatre looked quite empty on the day we were there, but usually there are rehearsals going on and the plays, although still performed in an old style of playing, do go on.
Then it was Shant Radio were the band was invited to speak during a rock show called Underground.
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As Julie told me, who is one of the organizers of yesterday’s Music Fair, this fair is popular with some countries in Europe, so this time they decided to organize it here in Yerevan. Things went on in the centre, almost all of the concerts were on Abovyan street.
Any musicians were invited to play, professional or amateur, but the way I saw it, the amateurs decided not to test their luck. Who knows, maybe later, after all this was the first fair of this kind.
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Walking around the city I used to often notice a red bus with pictures of young people dressed really cutely. I thought to follow it and last week I went with it to Gyumri.
The British Bus is a project by the British Embassy. The group of young actors that take part in this project are exactly the kind that should be doing this. They call themselves Theatre for Change, and really their performances bring something new and open eyes. The plays of this group have the objective “to promote ideas of civic responsibility and good governance in young Armenians”, as I read on the blog of the British Bus .
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