KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

The Faculty of Culture of Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU) hosted the premiere of the performance "Hello, It's Us!"

Professor Aida Hovhannisyan, the director of the performance, once again impressed the audience with her directorial talent and unique performance which criticizes the negative phenomena in modern reality and reveals through students the negative aspects of their daily lives.

The performance began with a train full of 2nd-year students of the Chair of Directing, Faculty of Culture, heading to the world of imagination, stopping at various stations and saying what they had to say in a chain of events.

The students brilliantly presented the distasteful phenomena and inexcusable mistakes and wrongs that occur in the lives of today's youth, proving that they were not mistaken in choosing their future profession.
The students stood out with their excellent acting skills, putting love and soul into each episode.

"Hello, It's Us!" tries to reveal the numerous errors in the behavior of young people that have become a norm of everyday life, factors that affect human relations and ethics making people develop a bad taste and adding incomprehensible and unacceptable manifestations to their behaviour.

The story tells about young Armenians in Russian prisons and living indecently in Russia, about young Armenian girls who trust their future and destiny to fortune tellers and with gums in their mouths want to attack young men in incomprehensible ways, about clashes between male and female mafia groups, about the intolerable, about those who try to imitate Don Corleone, and about the life one should not lead. In "The Last Station," the students presented themselves as modern-day Arlecchinos.

They showed that can't escape reality, but if you really want to, you can fix it. This was one of the messages of the performance.

The performance, satirizing the negative phenomena of reality, was accompanied by musical and humorous elements, making the problem of perception more vivid.

Dean of the Faculty Gevorg Tadevosyan, psychologist Zina Torosyan, public figure Mamikon Khurshudyan, Head of the Media and Public Relations Center at ASPU Diana Markosyan, and lecturer Armen Khachatryan welcomed the students’ participation in the performance.

Zina Torosyan emphasized the importance of students' talent and the great power and potential they had demonstrated. It is important that the young people came to understand what mistakes they are making and what they should not do. Zina Torosyan described Professor Aida Hovhannisyan as a talented educator, an art lover, and a person who shares her soul with her students.

Addressing the students Dean Gevorg Tadevosyan said they are happy to have a lecturer like Aida Artyomovna.

"Art is truly eternal. I am happy to see the young generation on stage. Stay true to your individual style and be able to find glory on stage," Mamikon Khurshudyan said and emphasized that Aida Hovhannisyan has a unique handwriting and skills of a director.

"I am one of the lucky people to have been taught by Aida Artyomovna," Diana Markosyan said and added that the students had demonstrated an indescribable and talented play; it is obvious that their future is guaranteed.
Armen Khachatryan in turn said that the success of the performance lies in Aida Hovhannisyan’s idea to keep pace with the times and give students the opportunity to experience student life, which is a rare phenomenon in our country.

"You are always young," Khachatryan said and congratulated the attendees on Women's Month which spans from March 8 to April 7. Let us add that the performance was dedicated to the same occasion.
"I do think that today's art specialists (we have a lot in our university as well) have one supreme task - to shape taste. Today, we showed episodes in which we made fun of the concept of ‘taste,’" Professor Aida Hovhannisyan said.

Let us add that the students led by Aida Hovhannisyan will leave for Rostov-on-Don soon where they will stage the performance "Hello, It's Us!" and a play dedicated to the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.