October 19, 2009 - 20:53 AMT
Seed of Pomegranate child-youth theater festival to start in Yerevan
The second stage of the ninth child-youth theater festival "Nran Hatik" (Seed of Pomegranate) will start in Armenia October 24 and will last until November 1. As the chairman of the festival Hasmik Ter-Karapetyan informed, this year's festival will be devoted to 140th anniversary of the great Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanyan.

The festival opening ceremony will be held in the house-museum of Hovhannes Tumanyan, then the festival be continued in the "Metro" theater, where the troupe named after Avetik Isahakyan will present the play "Staging Tumanyan": all tales of Hovhannes Tumanyan in one performance. 23 child- youth theatre troupes, including 12 debutants will take part in the "Seed of Pomegranate" festival.