Theatre - My Heart Is in the Mountains

“…I will play a song for you that will make your heart tremble with sorrow and joy.” While living in the United States, among Armenian immigrant communities, the future writer Saroyan collected simple and real stories about people torn from their homeland—lively yet unable to fully adapt to life in a foreign land. These stories, which later became novels and short stories and brought fame to the Armenian-American writer, served as the foundation for the performance “My Heart Is in the Mountains.” Saroyan’s vivid characters and moving plots, his bittersweet irony and boundless zest for life, his unique gentle humor, and his belief that everything is conquerable are woven into this staging by the Stas Namin Theater. Naturally, the creators also sought to convey to the audience the ancient nation’s carefully preserved traditions and immortal spirit—a spirit that is eternal and passed down from generation to generation with infinite kindness and compassion. The performance features excerpts from Stas Namin’s symphony Centuria S-Quark, poems by Osip Mandelstam and Nami Mikoyan, as well as video projections of the paintings Ararat and Charents’ Bow (Martiros Saryan, 1958) and Story(Stas Namin, 2015). Creative Team: Authors of the staging: Stas Namin, Yulia Grigorieva, Vera Zudina Stage Director: Stas Namin Directors: Sergey Krasnoperets, Vera Zudina Composer: Stas Namin Musical Director and Arranger: Alexander Slizunov Stage Designer: Irina Balashevich Computer Graphics: Denis Kudryavtsev Choreographer: Ekaterina GoryachevaConsultant for Musical Material Selection: Armine Sargsyan Lighting Designer: Alexander Peykov Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes Organizer: Paronyan