DRAMA ART BESTS TO BE ANNOUNCED TODAY

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The 11th edition of the international theater festival ‘Saint Muse’ will announce the high prize winners on Monday. Before the 'Saint Muse' prize announcements, a red carpet ceremony will be held at the city main square (the Genghis Khan square) at 7 pm. In past ten year’s time, the festival had been held in a form of a contest announcing and awarding the best plays staged in Mongolia during one year’s period since its last edition. In the last decade, the festival awarded the bests among some 400 drama performances and play-staging of national drama theaters. Last year, the festival advanced to become an international event, with a participation of judges from Russia, Canada, Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo. A red carpet ceremony was included in the edition of 2006 for the first time, and the nomination of monoplay was introduced in 2013. This year, along with Mongolia-staged plays, plays from Egypt, Serbia, Russia’s Tuva and China’s Inner Mongolia are competing for the Saint Muse. The judging panel includes famous actor and producer Elizabeth Hess from the International Theater Institute. The bests will be announced in four categories of drama, children’s play, musical and mono-play among eighty nominees, including ‘Don Quixote’ of the State Drama Theater (drama), ‘the Chairs’ of Blackbox Theater (drama), ‘Romeo and Juliette’ of the Classic Musical Production (musical), ‘Adventures of School Boy Norov’ of the State Drama Theater (children’s), ‘Wolf and Seven Little Kids’ of 'Little Fir Tree' Theater (children’s), ‘4.48 Psychosis’ of the Blackbox Theater (monoplay), ‘Human Voice’ from Russia’s Tuva (monoplay) and ‘Waiting’ from Serbia (monoplay).