October 3, 2009 - 18:39 AMT
HIGH FEST Festival opened with "The Overcoat" by the Bulgarian "Credo" theater.
HIGH FEST theater festival started October 1 in Yerevan. The festival was opened with the Gogol's play "The Overcoat" staged by the Bulgarian "Credo" theater. 
Theater "Credo", established in 1992 in Sofia (Bulgaria) performed "The Overcoat" in different countries around the world for the last 18 years. The play was performed in 9 languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian. 

"We are very close to the style of Gogol, it's absurd," the director of the "Credo" theater Nina Dimitrova said. 

HIGH FEST Festival will be held from October 1 to 8 in Yerevan under the auspices of the President of Armenia and with support of the ministry of culture. 
33 theaters from 22 countries, including Britain, Canada, Iceland, France, Kazakhstan, Slovenia, Poland, Iran will take part in the festival. 50 plays at 16 Yerevan theaters will be staged during the festival during 8 days.