Gyumri Drama Theatre to premiere a new play about the April War
Gyumri Drama Theatre named after Vardan Ajemyan is preparing new play devoted to the April Four-Day War in 2016.The trailer of the performance will be released on May 8. As Panorama.am learnt from the Theatre, based on the novel by Anahit Aghasaryan, the play, entitled "Wedding in the Rear" is directed by Lyudvig Harutyunyan, music is written by People's Artist of Armenia Hayko. The play features Susanna Baghdasaryan, Anahit Harutyunyan, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, Tigran Gaboyan and other well-known actors.
The play reproduces a story of an Armenia family symbolizing the Armenian people with its past, present, and future. The family is about to mark a wedding ceremony of the son, as the April war in Nagorno Karabakh starts, crushing the hopes for a new beginning, a new family and generation. People get together and go to the frontline to fight for their future and the right to life.
"Victories and defeats were recorded during the Four-Day war, yet it came once again to demonstrate that the only formula of the perseverance of the Armenian people is in its unity," the Theatre reported.