What types of plays do you like?

I like comedies most of all. I like to see people when they’re happy. In general, I like everything that can entertain. I think that when you don’t laugh at all – you don’t live!

Fetisov Eugene

Do young people in your country go to the theater in their free time?

I can’t say for everyone but to my mind young people don’t go to the theatre in their free time. They usually prefer going to the cinema and clubs to it.

Mamochkina Natalie

Are you a theatre-goer?

I can’t say that I’m a theatre-goer. But it doesn’t mean that I don’t like theatre at all. Sometimes when I have free time I can go to the theatre but only in that case when an interesting play is performed there and my favourite actors take part in it.

Muraeva Olga

How often do you go to the theatre? (a year, a month)

I go to the theatre once a year, because I’m not a theatre-goer and I think our Bryansk theatre is short on good plays.

Shashkina Sveta

Does theatre play any role in your life?

By all means, theatre has a beneficial effect on me. It develops my outlook, enriches my knowledge and it is simply a good way to spend an evening. I think theatre makes our life a little bit brighter.

Kovaleva Helen

What can make theatre as popular as movies?

I believe, the only thing that can popularize dramatic art is our passion for acting alive, our passion for pondering over our feelings and life problems, which theatre actors can make us do playing this or that character just before your eyes. It's a great experience to feel vividness and energy of actors who act for a limited audience. Theatre will be inferior to movies (in terms of its popularity) as long as we are not accustomed to experience the greatest feeling of being involved into the storm of emotions shared by the public in the auditorium.

Alexander Vinokurov

Why do people consider theatre a tedious thing?

I think, that happens because what people see at the theatre doesn’t always measure up to the expectations of those who come simply to entertain. They may consider theatre performances to be tedious and not so captivating as movies but, frankly speaking, I don’t share this opinion because theatre is really a great art that arouses our mind and soul.

Tanya Khokhlova