Abstract
The Anton Chekhov International Theatre Festival celebrated its 30th anniversary. The festival was first held in the fall of 1992, and soon became one of world theatre culture’s greatest events. Its audience could see performances by legendary foreign theatres in the country’s main cities. Over the years of the festival’s existence, the spectators have seen over 600 performances from 54 countries. Viewers in Russia had the opportunity to witness the elite of the world stage engaged in the best performances created from recent decades in theatres of Europe, Asia, Africa, and both Americas. And it has been most significant to see that Russian theatre exists within the context of the processes happening in the world’s performing arts. From the first steps of its history, the Chekhov Festival has been organizing the tours of Russian theatre groups around the world. A few years after the Chekhov Festival started, international co-productions, created by Russian and foreign theatres, became a usual venue. Among them there were Oresteia by Peter Stein, Boris Godunov, Twelfth Night and The Tempestby Declan Donnellan. The Chekhov International Festival has an incredibly rich past, with an equally bountiful future awaiting. The basis of modern theatre is in its universality and capacity to unify people, which is the highest goal of theatre art.
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