The FINANCIAL — The newly-renovated Kote Marjanishvili museum in Kvareli hosted an award ceremony where the best stage director of the year Levan Tsuladze was revealed. Charity centre Tsiskari under the sponsorship of Bank Republic organized an award ceremony for the independent theatre prize Duruji. The event at the Marjanishvili house-museum was supported by the developer company Redix.
On the same day, the Kvareli branch of Bank Republic was opened (Rustaveli str. 13). The Bank’s senior level management, current customers and honoured guests hosted the official reception.
Tsiskari has assigned GEL 20,000 as the grand prize for the best stage director. The prize is considered for the best directing work and is granted once a year in June. 14 stage directors were nominated for the award: 1.Gocha Kapanadze 2. Levan Tsuladze 3. Nanuka Khuskivadze 4. Giorgi Tavadze (Sokhumi theatre) 5.Avto Varsimashvili 6. Giorgi Tavadze (Batumi) 7. Nugzar Lortkiphanidze (Tskhinvali) 8. Amiran Shalikashvili 9. Lali Kekelidze 10. Roin Surmanidze (Khulo) 11. Giorgi Sikharulidze (Kutaisi) 12. Nana Kvaskhvadze 13. Kote Mirianashvili 13. Zura Getsadze
A 7 member jury assessed the nominees for the performances staged during the 2008-9 theatre season.
“The “Duruji Award” aims to motivate and promote the art of theatre. The main prize – a solid monetary award is a great incentive for the participants and what’s more a great joy for the spectators. We do believe that this award will be an additional incentive for contest participants to be committed to success,” declared Lasha Papashvili, Director General of the company Redix.
At the beginning of the 1920s, the management of Rustaveli theatre was taken over by a newly-returned, already famous and great director Kote Marjanishvili, whose name is associated with the renovation-renewal of the professional Georgian theatre.
In a very short period of time Kote Marjanishvili, an experienced master, was surrounded by a team of talanted stage directors: Aleksandre Akhmeteli, Dodo Antadze and Kukuri Pataridze, and actors: Akaki Khorava, Akaki Vasadze, Veriko Anjafaridze, Ushangi Chkheidze, Elene Donauri, etc.
In 1923-24, Aleksandre Akhmeteli established a creative corporation of young artists to develop the newly-created and restored Georgian professional theatre.
It was June 29, 1924, Akaki Khorava was standing on the stage and reading a manifest from the performance “Playing with Interests” (by Kh. Benvente, stage director K. Marjanishvili), he had to say the word Password when suddenly Al. Akhmeteli shouted from the middle of the partition “Password” and all of the corporation members scattered throughout the hall shouted in reply “Duruji”. The corporation members read the second half of the manifest together but now from the stage where they all went up. At the end of the performance, they performed Lileo.
From then on the creative corporate union was called Duruji. Most of its members were famous artists: K. Marjanishvili, Al. Akhmeteli, Viacheslav Jikia, Davit Chkheidze, Kukuri Pataridze, Akaki Vasadze, Veriko Anjafaridze, Ushangi Chkheidze, Dodo Antadze, Shalva Gambashidze, Akaki Khorava, Platon Korisheli, Dimitri Mzhavia, Giorgi Davitashvili, Vaso Pataraia, Aleksandre Gvelesiani, Buzhuzha Shavishvili and Elene Donauri.
The corporation adopted the slogan of Dumas’ Three Musketeers, “One for all, and all for one!”.
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