Moscow Province Theatre actors to speak in Tatar in Kazan

 The characters of Diamond Cuts Diamond show will, as in the Ostrovsky’s play, speak in Tatar. Moscow Province Theatre and show’s director Sergei Bezrukov said it at a news conference at Tatar-inform on Monday.

Other attendees at the meeting with reporters were actor Dmitry Dyuzhev, actress Irina Bezrukova, and Diamond Cuts Diamond’s cast.

The theatre is on tour to Kazan between 24 and 28 February. It was the theatre’s first tour, Sergei Bezrukov said. Earlier, the theatre went to Saint-Petersburg with Diamond Cuts Diamond.

“We decided to show you several lines of our theatre’s development. First, it will be classics, Ostrovsky-based Diamond Cuts Diamond; contemporary drama, First Second Coming by Alexei Slapovsky; philosophical fantasy The Beautiful Far Away by Danila Privalov; as well as a musical Three Brave Piglets. Classics are the foundation, they need to be in a theatre’s repertoire at all times, both Russian and world ones,” Sergei Bezrukov shared.

The First Second Coming was a show designed for a reflective audience who know the Gospel and are able to think about global philosophical problems and the soul, he noted. “The philosophy of The First Second Coming is to find God in one’s soul. The piece is written with great humour. It is a story that binds people, it is not about religions but about people, good and evil. It is important that our shows are not purely entertaining but serious as well, ones making people think,” theatre’s artistic director is convinced.

Actor Dmitry Dyuzhev said he played Savva Vasilkov in Diamond Cuts Diamond and his part included lines in Tatar as they appear in the original written by Ostrovsky.