Hoktermerian Heghapokhoutyune yev Hayastane (yev yes)
Friday, December 15, 2017 8 pm
On the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the October Revolution, as a theatre artist, as an ‘old student’ of politics and a citizen of the world, I (Aramazd Stepanian) felt it important to acknowledge and reflect upon this major historical and political event. [They say those who do not learn from history repeat it]. Obviously an examination of the subject of the revolution and the USSR—the state that was created as the result— cannot and will not be conducted with one (mainly) theatrical evening. Instead, a presentation will be made limited to Armenia only, and that based on my earliest and deepest impressions of the cultural symbols that represented Soviet Armenia. Short plays, poems, prose and songs that over the years— rightly or wrongly— have helped define Soviet Armenia to an Armenian of the diaspora.
Authors: Valad Valadian, Gousan Havasi, Kahren Mikaelian, Vakhtang Ananian, Shoushanik Kourghinian, Andranik Tsaroukian, etc.
