Gerald Papasian, Nora Armani to star in "Taparnigos Ladies' Dentist"April 27, 2011 - 10:09 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Actors Gerald Papasian and Nora Armani will play the leading roles in the burlesque Armenian hit, "Taparnigos Ladies' Dentist", adapted by Papasian from the Armenian Classic the "Eastern Dentist" by Hakob Paronian. This acclaimed 19th century comedy has been produced countless times for the stage, cinema and television. Papasian's French adaptation was played in major Parisian theaters, but this time it will be performed in Armenian with French subtitles. This production by the Tekeyan Cultural Association of Montreal will run from May 13 to 15. This is a reunion for Armani and Papasian, who performed their award-winning show "Sojourn at Ararat" to great critical acclaim at Montreal's Centaur Theatre in 1988, a play they recently reprised at Joe's Pub and at the Public Theater in New York City. The duo, no longer a couple off the stage, also animated a successful Armenian comedy evening in Montreal in 1999, a show still recalled by many to this day, broadwayworld reports. A founding member of the Irina Brook Company, Papasian recently performed in the play "Waiting for the Dream" in Montreal at Usine C. In April and also in Montreal, he presented Armenian music masterpieces with the French vocal quatuor Arevatsaghik. He has helped revive several works by Armenian composer Tigran Tchoukhadjian, including the operetta Kariné in Paris and Marseille this fall. The President of Armenia recently awarded him the Movses Khorenatsi medal, the country's highest cultural and artistic honor. An award-winning actress and playwright, Nora Armani's new one-woman show "Lend me an ID" was selected at the recent Diwan Forum for the Arts at the City University of New York, and she recently played one of the leads in the feature film "Snowed in LA". She is currently developing another feature film project, and filming a documentary about Egypt in the wake of the recent revolution. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. U.S. reacts to Russia’s criticism of upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting Matthew Miller has weighed in on Russia’s criticism of an upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting. Lavrov sees ‘collapse’ of Russia’s ties with Armenia Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has underscored heightened tensions between Russia and Armenia. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine |