YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenian theater is one of the rare structures, where almost nothing has changed in the respect or organization and management over the past 15 years. Ruben Babayan, the Art Director of Yerevan Hovhannes Tumanian Puppet Theater, said in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent. The theater's art director is convinced that the old methods of management need to be reformed, and the most efficient and optimal ways of reforms should be found. According to R. Babayan, theatrical life needs new birth and development, as that is the natural process: "companies of actors should be born, develop and be able to die a natural death." And new theatrical ideas, as he considers, result in creation of new companies of actors. "If we take a look at the theater history of the world, we will see that it has always been this way. For instance, Stanislavski and Vakhtangov in their time brought new ideas and created new companies of actors. Our problem is how to do to promote those companies' creation, their living a normal life, and to do so as the companies of actors, which have died long ago, really die. And to die means that the theater organism has stopped breathing, the same people can continue creating in another place, with another arrangement, but the arrangement should be changed and not be kept only because they are renowned names or they must not be moved," the producer said. According to R. Babayan, unless an actor thinks about today, about tomorrow, if he remembers only the past, when he no longer wishes to generate a new idea, that problem should be solved. "There are actors, who are purely staff employees. What to do with them if they are "dead" long ago, but have not reached the pension age? In the very issue the structure of our today's theater hampers problem's solution," R. Babayan considers. The issue of existence of a free stage is one of the methods of supporting newly created companies of actors and young producers. It will give a possibility to introduce themselves for all those who have something to say in the theater. "Nine out of ten new performances may be unsuccessful, but the success of one will completely justify the failure of the nine. The state's task is to create possibilities of working and creating for them," R. Babayan is convinced.

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