Description of the attraction
Mozyr Drama Theater. Ivan Melezh was founded on the basis of the Mozyr folk theater in 1990. It was a difficult time when old theatrical traditions were criticized and revised and new creative collectives were born. So it happened with the Mozyr folk theater. Young creative artists, together with graduates of city theater studios, created a new experimental theater "Verasen" (the name is translated into Russian as "September") under the direction of Mikhail Kolos.
The young creative team of the theater wanted to stage their own national contemporary drama. Plays by G. Marchuk, Y. Kulik, A. Delendik, I. Sidoruk, F. Bulyakov, Y. Kupala, V. Volsky were staged on the stage of the theater. During the years of the newfound Belarusian independence, all theaters strove to stage plays by their national playwrights. Gradually, the theater staff began to mature and, in addition to national drama, performances appeared on the stage based on classical works in a very interesting interpretation, which was proposed by the young collective of the experimental theater.
In 1994 it was decided to name the theater after the Belarusian writer Ivan Melezh. The theater, which had outgrown the time of amateur experiments and focused on high-quality classical drama, began to call itself dramatic.
With the arrival of the new artistic director Roman Tsyrkin in the theater, more humorous performances appeared in the theater. The viewer, tired of the difficult realities of reality, wants to come to the theater to relax and laugh. That is why theatrical performances in the genre of "sitcoms" have gained such popularity lately. Such wonderful performances as "Masculine, Singular" by Jean-Jacques Bricker and Maurice Lasegue, "The Contract" by F. Weber were staged on the theatrical stage.
A good tradition of the Mozyr Drama Theater has become charitable outdoor performances, which are organized for residents of the regions most affected by the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Charity performances are organized every week.
