The Lunacharsky Penza Drama Theater will participate in the 31st international festival Lipetsk Theatre Parties.

      It will introduce to public its chamber play The Hero of Our Time staged by Andrey Shlyapin after the famous novel by Mikhail Lermontov.

      The Hero of Our Time is the only performance in the theater's repertoire that premiered abroad. Its first viewers were the dwellers of Budapest.

      Other festival participants are the Moscow Theater in the Southwest, Yelets Srama Theater "Benefis", Michurinsk Drama Theater, the Perm Theater of the Young Spectator, the Taganrog Chekhov Drama Theater, the Tambov State Drama Theater, and the festival host, the L.N. Tolstoy Lipetsk State Academic Drama Theater, as well as Theatre du Tiroir from France.

      The festival program includes stage productions after the famous works of literature by Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Ostrovsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov.

      The festival starts in the city of Lipetsk on Friday, October 16.