The State Drama Theater of South Ossetia is preparing a performance based on the play by Alan Ostaev "The Last Witness". The long-awaited premiere will take place in early August and will be timed to coincide with the next anniversary of the war in August 2008, - the artistic director of the theater, director Tamerlan Dzudtsov told the IA “Res.”
“More than 40 artists of the South Ossetian troupe are involved in the performance, students of the acting department of South Ossetian State University will also be involved in the mass scenes. There has never been such a large-scale performance on the stage of the State Drama Theater,” the artistic director noted.
One of the main roles in the play will be performed by the representative of the senior pleiad of artists, the People's Artist of the RSO Evelina Gugkaeva. Also, the main roles will be performed by People's Artists-Soslan Bibilov, Dmitry Parastaev, Vasily Tekhov, Honored Artists-Artur Gagloev, Soslan Dzhioev, as well as Eduard Gagloev, Grigory Mamiev, etc.
The day before, a group of technical specialists from Russia arrived at the State Drama Theater: lighting designers, decoration specialists, etc.
“All the technical possibilities of our stage, the possibilities of special effects will be used to the maximum. Viewers will be able to watch the effects of rain, fire, snow, etc. Everything that the script suggests,” said the artistic director.
The decoration - scenery and design of the performance - is prepared according to the sketches of the Honored Artist of South Ossetia Madina Sanakoeva.
The music specially for the performance was written by the wel-known South Ossetian composer Murat Pliev.
At the same time, the director intends to involve the artists of the Digor Theater of North Ossetia in the joint work. The Digor dialect of the Ossetian language will also be heard from the stage for the first time.
"It was to Digoria that some of the refugees fled from the fire-ravaged South Ossetia in the 20s of the last century," said Dzudtsov.
The artistic director said that the theatrical season would close next week and immediately after returning from vacation, the active phase of the rehearsals of the production "The Last Witness" would begin.
It should be reminded that the play was planned to be performed last year - the year of the centenary of the genocide of the Ossetian people, but for obvious objective reasons the idea was not implemented.
In the future, it is planned to present the performance to the audience in Vladikavkaz, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
