The Conditions
of the VIII International Theatre Festival of Modern Dramaturgy
named after Alexander Vampilov (September 10 – 17, 2011)

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1. The Concept

The International theatre festival of modern dramaturgy named after Alexander Vampilov is comparatively young. The festival is named after Alexander Vampilov, the famous Russian play writer that had died when he was 35 years old in 1972. Despite the fact that he was young, the depth of his works can be compared with such great Russian writers like Tolstoy, Chekhov, or Dostoevsky.

The term “modern dramaturgy” could excite many young authors and stage managers to forget about the past with laugh and replace the suffering reality with slang, violence, deconstruction, artifacts, pop-versions of classic, etc. Therefore, we ask theatres, who would like to be a participant of the festival, to remember its responsibility to audience and true theatre traditions.

We don’t require the participants of the festival to suffer, judge, divine, or weep about our world, but to see contemporary, modern life throughout theatre. We want our participants not to pronounce the feelings, but try to feel truly; not to quibble, but to indue these words with value and sense.

We are waiting in Irkutsk theaters who share such understanding of contemporary and responsible culture.

2. Our Mission

The mission of International Theatre Festival of modern dramaturgy named after Alexander Vampilov is to develop and propagandize achievements of the modern theatre; to unite and strengthen cultural contacts between theatres and its agents; to create the atmosphere of theatre feast; to change ideas between contemporary theatres; to make theatre a very important social institute for people’s upbringing.

The purpose of the festival as well as a theatre is to resist evil and violence, to gift audience with living creative process, energy, and hope for better.

3. The Founders

The founders of the International theatre festival of modern dramaturgy named after Alexander Vampilov are the Government of the Irkutskaya Oblast,

• The Ministry of culture and archives of Irkutskaya Oblast;
• Irkutsk Academic Drama theatre named after N.P. Ohlopkov;
• Theatre Agents Union (TAU) Irkutsk department.

4. The Place and Time

The International theatre festival of modern dramaturgy named after Alexander Vampilov takes place once in two years in the Irkutsk city. The VIII festival will start in the September 10 and will end in the September 17 2011.

5. The Leading, Working and Executive apparatus of the Festival

The organizational Committee of the festival is affirmed by the order of Ministry of culture and archives of Irkutskaya Oblast. The organizational Committee include representatives from festival organizers, directorate, creative and social unions, general and official sponsors.

The organizational Committee of the festival:

• develops the program and posters of the festival;
• affirms the plans of preparation and fulfillment of the festival;
• affirms the membership of direction of the festival;
• forms the membership of expert counsel and its chair.

The members of the expert counsel will be authoritative theatre critics, philologists, writers from Irkutsk, Moscow and others Russian cities.

The expert counsel:

• realizes professional evaluation and selection of plays to be performed at the festival;
• reviews the video of the plays that will perform at the festival;
• makes a run-through of plays at their stationary stages and till 31 March 2011 forms a list of plays that are recommended to be performed at the festival.

The Direction of the festival:

• develops the budget of the festival;
• develops a calendar plan (timetable) of the festival’s preparation and fulfillment;
• organizes the work of the expert committee;
• develops the program of the festival;
• collects the participation requests from theatres;
• concludes treaties with participants of the festivals;
• organizes transportation of a scenic equipment, properties, and costumes of the participants;
• develops the brand, advertisement, prints and souvenirs of the festival;
• provide necessary stage facilities for festival participants;
• organizes master classes, discussions, and press conferences;
• organizes theatre clubs;
• meets and provides accommodation for the festivals’ participants;
• provides the participants with necessary transport and food; organizes opening and closing ceremony of the festival.

6. The Program of the Festival

The program of the festival will consist of the best plays of classical or contemporary dramaturgy produced by professional theatres in last years and that match the concept of the festival. The main stage (the biggest) will be more likely given to plays based on works of the following authors: Valentin Rasputin, Alexander Vampilov, F. Abramov, V. Belova, B. Mozhaev, A. Volodina. The chamber stage will be given to another plays that match the concept of the festival.

Moreover, the program of the festival will include reading of new pieces, informational and practical seminars, panel discussions, club meetings, and amateur theatrical shows.

7. The Formation of the Festival Program

The selection of plays that would be presented at the festival will be made by members of the expert counsel that consist of authoritative theatre critics, philologists, writers from Irkutsk, Moscow and others Russian cities.

The playbills of the festival will include from 12 to 15 plays. The Organizational Committee of the festival could add only one more play to this list. A theatre that wants to participate in the festival should fill out and send only one form (see it below). This form can be send either via mail, fax, or electronically till January 31, 2011. The contacts of the festival:

Irkutsk Academic Drama theatre named after N.P. Ohlopkov

The Organizational Committee of the festival
Russian Federation, Irkutsk city, 14 Karl-Marx Street
Post code: 664003
Olga Nikolaevna Danilina
Tel.: +7395-2203-112
Fax: +7395-2200-487
E-mail: teatr@irk.ru, teatrpress@irk.ru

The participants of the festival should send a DVD disk with a play that would be presented at the festival or the preview of the play can be made by the Expert Counsel at your theatre in specified data. The DVD disks, plays’ advertising materials, and photos will not be returned to theatres. The final decision about theatres’ participation in the festival will be made till April 30, 2011.

8. The Financial Support of the Festival

The festival is financed by the federal budget (Ministry of culture of Russian Federation), the budget of Irkutskaya Oblast, sponsors’ funds, volunteers’ donations, and partly by participants of the festival.

The Founders of the festival defrays expenses in the following parts:

• the transportation of the participants (partly);
• accommodation of the participants and guests of the festival;
• critics’ fees;
• transportation costs in Irkutskaya Oblast;
• cultural program and rent of necessary area and facilities.

The theatres-participants of the festival will defray the following expenses:

- Daily allowances for its troupes;
- The transportation of decoration and other stage props (partly).

The festival doesn’t pay any fees to participants for demonstration of plays.

9. The Festival’s Honors

All participants of the festival will receive the honorable award of the festival and souvenirs. The additional prizes could be added only by the festival’s sponsors and founders.