National Academic Theater closes its 102nd season

On the closing day of the season, the playbill of the theater features "Pavlinka", the oldest stage production in Belarus. This performance has been attracting full houses for almost 78 years without intermissions. The play by outstanding Belarusian bard, the country’s first people’s poet Yanka Kupala, was originally staged in the theater during the Great Patriotic War, when the company was evacuated to Tomsk. Since then, "scenes from the life of the nobility" have remained unchanged both in directing style and stage production. For the renewed company of the Yanka Kupala Theater, this year will be remembered for four premieres at once, two on the main stage and the same number on the chamber stage. Now the troupe is also preparing a new production for the next season.