YEREVAN, JULY 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The Fantastic Youth and Children's International Theatrical Festival held on June 19-22 in the city of Rudolstadt, Germany, started with the tale-performance "Ofelia Shadows Theater" of Armenian Aestheticism National Center's Small Theater. As performance producer Vahan Badalian said at the July 3 press conference, 9 out of 40 presented performances had been selected for the festival, including the Armenian one. Besides Armenia, companies of actors from Poland, Russia, Croatia also took part in the festival. For the purpose of smoothing over the language problem the Armenian performance's dialogues were in Armenian and narrative parts in German. According to V. Badalian, they intend to play the performance in the same way in English, French, and Russian. "German press has repeatedly touched upon our performance mentioning that the Armenian company of actors played brilliantly in the festival," V. Badalian said. Though there were no prizes in the festival, the advantage of the Armenian performance was noticed by both the participants and the spectators, as a result of which the Small Theater's actors were also invited to Ireland and Macedonia. "Childrens' theaters' performances are often perceived not seriously in society as an individual great event. However, we can state that though the actors are aged 10-15, they play their parts very professionally and with great devotion receiving a warm welcome by society," he added.

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