American comedy and drama films ain the modern Georgian theatre

Two interesting plays were created on the stages of Kutaisi and Tbilisi theatre in 2015. It should be noted, that both plays present the theatrical adaptation of American films. One is a light, entertaining, comedy genre, the second one is reflecting the dramatic intense life of human. Billy Wilder’s “Some like It Hot “(1959) is recognized as the best comedy of all time. This film has always had the audience and even today it causes
the great interest and admire. Perhaps it was the main motive of director Giorgi Sikharulidze, when he aimed to stage “Some like It Hot” In Kutaisi’s Drama Theatre named after Lado Meskhishvili. The audience demands from theatre not only reflection of the painful problems existing in society and talk about it from the stage but the creation of comedy entertaining so called relieving plays. Making the stage performance of
well-known film classics is fearless decision but director reached his goal and created entertaining, light play of having comedic nature by moving accents in the staging and sharing the roles correctly. Sidney Polak made a film according to novel “They shoot horses, do not they?” by McCoy Horace. Avtandil Varsimashvili staged a play by his dramatization in “Liberty Theatre”. Polak’s film arises the feeling of sacrifice, inhumanity
and brutality in viewer. People of tired with unemployment, lack of money, desperate and having loss of faith are doing everything to earn money for existence. Others are making a new kind of cynical entertaining such as the dance-marathon for gaining more income. Several pairs are standing in the ring, they have to dance without rest until everyone fall and then one of them will become the winner. The main say remains unchanged in the Georgian variant of Avtandil Varsimashvili. Director added the elements of Georgian reality in the play, changed the names of characters and place of action, he made the nature of heroes and modern situation.