A new version of the detective play "Eight Loving Women" will premiere at the Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theatre in Vitebsk on June 28, the theatre informed BELTA.
A new version of the detective play "Eight Loving Women" will premiere at the Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theatre in Vitebsk on June 28, the theatre informed BELTA.
Spectators are invited to observe life in an estate cut off from the outside world. "Eight women are preparing to celebrate Christmas – the wife, sister, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, two daughters, and two maids. The relationships between them are very complicated: envy, jealousy, old grievances – everything is mixed up. But which of these loving women killed the poor father and, most importantly, why? Spectators will seek answers to these and other questions together with the actors," the theatre explained.
The production is being worked on by the artistic and staging group of the Belarusian Republican Youth Theatre. The director is the artistic director Vladimir Savitsky, the set designer is Larisa Ruleva, and the musical arrangement is by Pavel Zakharenko.
The classic detective story will be performed by Vitebsk actors. The main roles are played by Honoured Artists of Belarus Galina Bukatina, Tatyana Likhacheva, Tamara Skvortsova, and actors Anna Dubchenko, Svetlana Zhukovskaya, Anastasia Revchenko, Svetlana Sukhodolova, and Irina Tishkevich. Choreography is by Diana Yurchenko, and the play was translated into Belarusian by Petr Laman.
The work by the renowned French playwright Robert Thomas, "Eight Loving Women," is very popular. Created in 1961, it has been adapted for the screen twice, with the first film version featuring stars such as Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, and Fanny Ardant. The director was the famous François Ozon. This play was previously staged at the Kolas Theatre in 1977 under the title "Eight Women in Love."