Penza, 12 May 2014. PenzaNews. Honored Artist of Russia Galina Repnaya, performing the mother of the family Arina Petrovna in the play of Penza Drama Theater named after A. Lunacharsky “The Golovlyov Family” was nominated for “Actress of Russia” at the VIII festival named after N. Rybakov, which opened in Tambov.

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“This work of the actress in September 2013 has been marked as Best Actress at the V All-Russian festival “Oldest theaters of Russia” in Kaluga. The performance itself in October of the same year at the IX All-Russian Theater Festival “Actors of Russia — Mikhail Shchepkin” in Belgorod was awarded a diploma in the nomination “For the search of the way in classics interpretation” the head of literary and drama department of Penza Drama Theater Vitaly Sokolov told news agency “PenzaNews.”

He said that on Monday, May 12, performance “The Golovlyov Family” will be shown at the Tambov State Order “Badge of Honor” of drama theater.

“The competition program of the festival, which will be on until May 18, also includes theater groups from Smolensk, Nizhny Novgorod, Vologda, Novosibirsk and Tambov,” the agency interlocutor said.

Vitaly Sokolov added that the names of the winners will be announced on Monday, May 19.