RUBEN BABAYAN: CREATION OF FREE STAGE WILL PROMOTE NEW COMPANIES OF ACTORS AND YOUNG PRODUCERS BECOMING FULLY-FLEDGED
Noyan Tapan
Nov 27 2007
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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
