16.15 – Prologue of the festival. Traditionally, a column of motorcyclists and cars from the Ice Palace will bring directors, theater managers and jury members to the Palace of Children's Creativity.

17.00 – Grand opening of the festival. Spectators will be able to see all the theater participants, directors and jury.

19.00 – A. Green “Scarlet Sails”, musical comedy.
Nikolaev City Youth People's Theater "S.T.U.K." and dChildren's and youth dance theater "Rhythms of the Planet" , Ukraine.

The theater is at the Parallel Worlds festival for the fourth time. It will show a musical based on the famous story of the same name by A. Green.

April 25, Tuesday

13.00 – "There were people" drama based on the story “Sotnikov” by V. Bykov.
Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

The Backstage Theater is the winner of the Grand Prix of the Parallel Worlds festival. He will show a play about what happens to a person in inhuman conditions.

16.00 – J. Amadou “The Story of One Love”, a parable about love.
Children's and youth musical theater "Surprise", Minsk, Belarus.

The play is about a fictional world where various animals live, between which love arises. Production for family viewing.

18.30 – E. Albee “Me, You, She”, tragicomedy.
"Theater 11" Bremen, Germany.

“Theater 11” is a traditional participant of the festival. He was repeatedly a prize-winner of the Parallel Worlds festival.

The play is about the nature of female courage, about the fact that each courage has its own reasons for offense and its own reasons for forgiveness. The production is intended for an adult audience.

April 26, Wednesday

11.00 – "Not the weaker sex", an ironic performance based on Teffi's stories.
People's Youth Theater "Avos!" Bendery, unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic.

This is the first time this theater has come to the festival. He will show a play about men who for a long time considered women the weaker sex. But one day the women decided to win for themselves a “place in the sun”... The production will be of interest to lovers of literature from the early 20th century.

14.00 – A. Makaenok, V. Frolova, E. Semenova “Tower of Babel”, drama.
Youth studio of the OSU Satire Theater, Orel, Russia.

The performance is based on three plays written at different times by different authors, but about the same thing - about the difficulties of adolescence. The performance is worth watching for adults who want to learn to better understand their children.

16.30 – E.E. Schmitt"Little Marital Crimes", detective melodrama.
Theater "April" Khimki, Russia.

“April” is a participant in all-Russian and international festivals.

The play tells the story of a couple who, after 15 years of family life, grew apart from each other. One day, the husband “loses” his memory in order to improve the relationship, and his wife decides to remake her husband for herself. The story will be interesting to an adult audience.

19.00 – A.P. Chekhov"Weirdos" tragicomedy.
Theater "Mirror" Kaliningrad, Russia.

The Mirror Theater has existed for more than 30 years. He is the winner of a silver and gold medal at the Russian Youth Delphic Games. Will show n stop based on the play "Uncle Vanya".

April 27, Thursday

11.00 – W. Golding"Lord of the Flies", drama.
Theater studio "Balagury" Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

“Balagury” is a multiple winner and laureate of city and international festivals.

The play is about children who find themselves on a desert island. Their only goal is to survive. A complex performance about how quickly the human form is lost in extreme situations.

13.30 –V. Krasnogorov “Dog”, drama.
People's Youth Theater-Studio "Masks" Neteshyn, Ukraine.

There are three characters in the play: a man, a woman and a dog. A lonely man finds a puppy and becomes attached to it. However, due to his work, he cannot keep the dog and he must make a choice: leave his job or get rid of the animal.
Theater "Masks" with this performance took first place at the international festival "Likhtar".

16.30 – N.V. Gogol "Terrible Revenge", dramatic performance.
HSE Theater, Moscow, Russia.

The theater troupe is students and graduates of the National Research University Higher School of Economics and other Moscow universities. The theater specializes in Russian classics.

The production based on Gogol's story will be of interest to those who love the classics.

19.00 – A. Baturina “Frontovichka”, dramatic story.
Baranovichi, Belarus.

A play about love, loyalty and betrayal. “Frontline Girl” is the story of a woman for whom demobilization became the beginning of “combat” operations, but already in the rear.

April 28, Friday

11.00 – "Simone)", a modern story for children and teenagers based on the book by W. Stark “Freaks and Bores.”
Theater studio "Bambi" Yekaterinburg, Russia.

The Bambi Theater Studio is a multiple winner and winner of various festivals and competitions. “Simon(a)” is a play about a girl who is accidentally mistaken for a boy and she decides to accept this mistake and tries to get used to the new image. The production is aimed at a young audience.

15.30 – W. Shakespeare"Much Noise on a Midsummer Night" comedy.
People's Theater-Studio “New Stage”, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia.

The comedy "Much Ado on a Midsummer Night" is a stage version of two plays by Shakespeare: "Much Ado About Nothing" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The actors took the brightest moments from the plays.

The theater has twice won the Grand Prix of the Parallel Worlds festival.

18.00 – I. Vyrypaev “Valentine’s Day”,melodrama.
Theater-studio SPLASH, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Theater SPLASH – winner of many Grand Prix Ukrainian and international festivals. He will come to the Baranovichi festival for the first time.

The play “Valentine’s Day” is a continuation of the play “Valentin and Valentina”, popular in the 70s, by M. Roshchin. The play is about the tragedy of two women, united by one common misfortune, forced to live in the same apartment with this love and hatred. The production is intended for adults.

20.00 – Prologue of the theater night. Theater actors will arrange a “Park of Living Sculptures” for the audience. Everyone will be able to take pictures with sculptures and theater actors, and listen to music. After the prologue, everyone will be able to watch the play “Coup: Dialogues with Yesenin” for free.

20.30 – A. Guzeev “Coup: Dialogues with Yesenin”, drama.
Theater studio “Another Possibility”, Sovetsk, Russia.

The theater is the winner of the first youth Delphic games in Saratov, a multiple winner of regional, all-Russian and foreign festivals. The repertoire includes original scripts.

The performance is a historical version of events that could have happened, but did not happen. On stage, the legendary personalities of Yesenin’s era passionately debate with the Russian poet. The performance will be of interest to lovers of 20th century poetry.

April 29, Saturday

12.00 – A.S. Griboyedov"Woe from Wit", comedy.
Youth Theater "CIRCLE-2", Krasnoznamensk, Russia.

The theater comes to our festival for the fifth time. He is a multiple laureate of all-Russian and international festivals.

The theater will present a shortened version of the comedy "Woe from Wit". In the center of the plot is the young nobleman Alexander Andreevich Chatsky, who returned to the house of the influential Moscow official Pavel Afanasyevich Famusov, in which Chatsky grew up and was brought up and where he left his beloved, Sophia, Famusov’s daughter.

14.30 – R. Oreshnik"Flying love".
National Children's Theater "Sorvantsy" Kharkov, Ukraine.

At last year’s festival, the theater received first place for the play “Poetic Flight.” The play “Flying Love” will be of interest to young people.

18.30 – K. Mitani “Academy of Laughter”, ironic tragicomedy.
People's Theater-Studio "Backstage" St. Petersburg, Pushkin, Russia.

Play about how the playwright of a theater troupe tries to get permission to stage a new comedy. This is a non-competitive performance. It will be of interest to connoisseurs of subtle humor.

April 30, Sunday

11.00 – S. Rubbe “KarpushaForever » , non-competition performance.
Exemplary theater-studio "Parallel", Baranovichi, Belarus.

The play is about the relationships of teenagers with relatives and peers, about their perception of the world around them, interaction with it and the first awareness of themselves as individuals.

13.00 – Big theater skit “Ah, the festival is a wonderful world!”

16.00 – Ceremonial closing of the “Parallel Worlds” festival.

All performances take place at the Palace of Children's Creativity at the address: st. Sovetskaya, 136.

On April 19, the VI International festival-seminar of youth and youth theaters “Parallel Worlds” opens in Baranovichi. Spectators are treated to six days of non-stop theatrical performances by eighteen theaters from six countries - Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Lithuania and Estonia. Kultprosvet learned details about the upcoming festival from the chief director of the Parallel Theater Larisa Sartakova.

As Larisa said, the level of the festival has improved. 57 applications were submitted from seven countries, but many of those wishing to participate had to be turned down for several reasons: some performances had already been presented in the festival program of previous years, while others did not have enough experience, and the level of the performance would not allow them to compete with other theaters. This year, both the number of participating countries (there were five at the last festival) and the age of the teams have increased.

Larisa Sartakova called the presence in the competition of not only amateur groups, but also professional theater schools, a feature of the current “Parallel Worlds”. This had a positive effect on the program of the upcoming festival, which will delight you with the variety of genres and forms: “The range of genres at the festival is wide: from musical comedy to tragic mass. The playbill contains a musical and plastic performance and a historical drama, a parable and a farce, a comedy and a tragedy. If earlier drama prevailed, this time there will be a lot of comedy performances. For the first time, a one-man show was included in the playbill of our festival, and a total of five applications for one-man shows were submitted - this is an interesting trend. Another trend this year is that many participating theaters are working not with plays, but with prose and poetry.”

Performance “The Jokes of Doctor Chekhov”, Theater “April” (Khimki, Russia)

The Parallel Worlds program will not be limited to performances. Each festival day will end with round tables - discussions of productions with the participation of jury members and directors of all theaters.

The judges will include professional directors, theater teachers, actors of Belarusian theaters, and art critics. The chairman of the jury will be the director of the Brest Academic Drama Theater, playwright Timofey Ilyevsky.

The festival program also included two master classes. A class on stage movement will be taught by Associate Professor of the Cologne Theater Academy Gregor Weber, and a master class “Features of theatrical choreography” will be taught by the choreographer of the Parallel Theater, winner of many diplomas from international festivals, Olga Skomorokh. “It is in the training of these disciplines in amateur theater that the greatest gaps are observed,” comments Larisa Sartakova.

The winners of the festival will go home not only with traditional diplomas, but also with prizes. However, the management of “Parallel Worlds” maintains the intrigue: we will only find out what exactly the best theatergoers will be awarded at the closing of the festival. But it is already known that these will be things necessary for theatrical life.

All performances of the upcoming event will be held on the stage of the Palace of Children's Creativity in the city of Baranovichi (Sovetskaya St., 136). You can buy a ticket for any performance at the affordable price of 50,000 rubles.

mini-guide to the festival from Larisa Sartakova

The St. Petersburg Igrische Theater continues to amaze, trying itself in completely different genres from clowning to farce. The New Stage Theater, which has twice won the Grand Prix of the festival, will come to us for the sixth time this year - with the play “What else remains for us” based on G. Gorin’s play “Funeral Prayer”. Last year's Grand Prix winner, the Backstage Theater from St. Petersburg, will show a detective story based on Agatha Christie's book “10 Little Indians.” “For the first time, performances will be performed at the festival in German and Lithuanian. In German - production of the Cologne Theater Academy “The Agony of Troy”, created on the basis of ancient Greek chronicles. In Lithuanian - “Margarita”, a kind of continuation of Goethe’s “Faust”. Watching these performances can be a very interesting viewing experience.

Pay attention to Theater 11 (Bremen, Germany) and Theater Krug-2 (Krasnoznamensk, Russia). These groups already have their fans on Belarusian soil.

Performance “What else remains for us...”, People’s Theater-Studio “NEW STAGE” (Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia)

Theater “S.T.U.K.” from Nikolaev (Ukraine) will surprise you with a musical comedy in the jazz style “It’s not just girls in jazz.”

I would advise you to have time to watch as many performances as possible in order to see how amateur theater lives today and how differently it approaches understanding life through stage execution.”

Performance “Poetic Flight”, People’s Children’s Theater “Sorvantsy” (Kharkov, Ukraine)

24.04.2016 - 14:00

News of Belarus. For a whole week, the city of Baranovichi turned from a youth capital into a theater capital. The VI Youth Festival “Parallel Worlds” brought together groups from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia and Germany. The correspondent of the “24 Hours” News program on STV knows what surprises the debutants and regulars of the international forum this year.

A few minutes before the performance, the dressing room is as atmospheric as it is on stage. Although the theater actors from Pereslavl-Zalessky have not been nervous for a long time. Over the 6 years of the festival, the Belarusian stage has already become native to them.

Anatoly Kuznetsov, actor of the theater-studio “New Stage” (Russia):
A very cool venue specifically for showing a performance. So that people can evaluate it and then give us some constructive criticism. The performance is a living organism, it must develop all the time. To have a motive to move on.

But Irina Miller and her troupe from Cologne came to Belarus for the first time. Young German actors will present a play about the meaninglessness of war. And at the same time they will prove in practice: the language of theater is universal and understandable even without words.

Irina Miller, acting teacher at the Theater Academy of Cologne (Germany):
People here won't understand the language. And I always tell my students: if the performance is good, then everyone will understand, even if the language is not clear, and if the performance is bad, then knowing the language will not save you.

57 applications for participation and only a third of them in the final program - not a single performance ended up here by chance. The festival in Baranovichi brought together all the cream of youth theatrical art from 6 countries.

Artem Svistun, managing director of the Nikolaev Academic Art Russian Drama Theater:
The palette of the festival is very diverse and diverse. Drama, comedy, and experimental forms of work are presented.

Larisa Sartakova, organizer of the Parallel Worlds festival:
The main idea of ​​the festival, of course, is to unite theaters. Why did we call it “Parallel Worlds” because theaters often run parallel and do not intersect. And each theater is its own big world. Therefore, communication, interaction, new friends, new cultural connections.

At the festival, actors and directors were also presented with a training theater laboratory.

“Our main task is to return live communication.” An unusual interactive performance will be held in Minsk



Should a secret always be revealed? The Belarusian State Youth Theater tried to answer this question. On its small stage on March 20 the premiere of the interactive play “Skeletons” will take place.