The knot around the “Goi” theater continues to tighten

The knot around the “Goi” theater continues to tighten. although the case is still in court, the government submitted a new application to the theater, demanding to sign the contract on the inclusion of “Goi” in the Mother Theater.

“Goy” will still be administrative in the summer went to courtdemanding to invalidate the government’s decision, according to which the theater was to be dissolved and merged with the Academic Theater named after Sundukyan.

The case has now been transferred from the administrative court to the civil court. The lawyer of the theater, Karo Asatryan, does not consider this haste of the government to be at least legitimate.

“Actions are being carried out, which, in fact, should not be carried out with simple logic, because the process is the domain of the court,” Asatryan noted.

Today, an open discussion was organized on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the theater. Art director Artur Sahakyan once again insisted that he sees a tendency in the desire of the state to close the theater. There are a lot of political and critical topics in the program. Orule’s “Anasnaferman”, “Garegin Ndjeh. a real myth” historical research.

“The problem is already the court, the court has taken over the task of the investigation, and, in my deep conviction, the thing is for them to come, accept the property of the theater and immediately enter into repairs, as is done in the Mher Mkrtchyan Theater, as, they say, is done in the Chamber Music in the theater, where there was no rehearsal of the youth symphony orchestra for an hour,” said Sahakyan.

Among those invited to the discussion, neither Deputy Minister Daniel Danielyan nor the director of the Mother Theater Vardan Mkrtchyan did not appear. Sahakyan was puzzled: for a long time, the government’s decision has been presented as a step aimed at creating better conditions for “Goi”, but for months they do not even want to talk to the theater troupe, let alone watch a single performance.

“Now the side that is going to welcome us with open arms and thinks about improving our living conditions, improving creativity so diligently, is absent from the conversation,” said Artur Sahakyan.

The ministry explained earlier that the intention to liquidate the theater has a good purpose. they reasoned that the union would solve financial and management problems. However, acting director of the theater Sargis Arzumanyan presented statistics today, claiming that the demands presented by the ministry have been fulfilled, there is no room for criticism. 89 of the 82 performances planned for the year have already been played. The year is not over yet, but the number of viewers and income is very close to what was requested.

“The income for the year should be 11 million 326 thousand 500, it is still 10 million 517 thousand 200, we still have December, there should have been only two new performances, premieres, but this year we have 5 premieres. This is when we played for free for a month dedicated to our 35th anniversary,” Arzumanyan presented.

The deputy minister was busy, so he did not participate in the discussion. This much was conveyed to Azatutyun from the ministry, adding that the government’s decision of May 11, 2023 is in force and will be implemented in accordance with the established order.

Describing the state’s attitude towards the theater as indifference, Goyu claims that the theater-audience connection will not suffer from it. December is full of performances, including the premiere.