By a real storm of applause yesterday ended the Festival of Russian Art in Marseille by play of Kazan Academic Russian Drama Theater named after V. I. Kachalov "Uncle's Dream" based on the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky.
Written by the genius of Russian literature almost a vaudeville story with a tragic ending, Kachalovtsers played at the theater, "Turski", having won the French public from the very first sentences, from time to time causing the applause of the audience. The play was attended by many spectators, two days earlier already having seen Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
"A gift to Marseille’s public" named the participation of Kachalovsky’s theater festival its initiator and permanent head Richard Martin. Proof of this was the invitation to the Kachalov theatre for the next Festival of Russian Art in Marseille with the play "Golden Elephant". The signed agreement has become a point of kachalovtsers’s visit to France.
March 19 a troupe returns to Kazan and will continue to work on the home stage, the press service of the theater informs.