From June 23 to June 30, 2018 in the village of Shekvetili (Georgia) the International Festival of the Acting and Stage Speech Summer School is taking place, involving GITIS students from the Faculty of Acting (V. Andreev’s workshop) and Faculty of Producing (Y. Orlov’s and A. Fokin’s workshop). Our delegation include stage speech teacher M.Pereleshin and GITIS principal G. Zaslavsky. Participants of the festival also include: the Russian group of the Faculty of Acting graduate course of the Shota Rustaveli Georgian State University of Theater and Cinema (workshop of A. Varsimashvili), students of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature of Harvard University (USA).
The program includes acting and stage speech classes, work on the staging of a play devoted to the life and work of V.Mayakovsky, that will be presented at the Summer School, and also reading the poetry of Mayakovsky and other poets of the Silver Age (O. Mandelstam, M. Tsvetaeva, and others).
On June 24, the opening of the festival took place, where each delegation showed their “calling cards” which demonstrated the national features of the participating countries. Participants performed songs together, learnt dance movements. The guys from the Russian team performed the song “Oh, Lyuli”, danced Russian folk dances, showed the sketch, and at the end of the evening presented gifts to all participants. Harvard students performed the song “Mamma mia” of the legendary band ABBA and the national Georgian song “Tbiliso”. Representatives of Georgia taught to dance lezginka, and performed a potpourri of songs in the Georgian language. Every day the participants organize thematic evenings devoted to the work of one of the most outstanding poets of the 20th century — Vladimir Mayakovsky.
