Epress.am News from Armenia
“A student has to be active, has to be crazy — our students today aren’t crazy,” said actor Vardan Petrosyan, speaking at a press conference today about his performances for student audiences.
According to him, his performances aim to raise Armenian students’ public knowledge.
Petrosyan has already held performances and had meetings with the students of higher educational institutions in Vanadzor, Gyumri and Yerevan. The actor particularly noted his meeting with Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory students, which he said was “very productive.”
The well-known actor has no particular desire to perform at the Yerevan Theatre Institute, since after meeting with the students there a few times he realized that many of the theatre students were going to see him, the actor, “from up close.”
“My performances with the theatre students are my worst performances. I and they cannot create that intimacy so that an honest dialogue takes place,” he said.
He also welcomed the youth striving to protect Teghut forest.
Asked by Epress.am whether he is aware only of much-publicized environmental issues and whether he was familiar with political initiatives by youth, Petrosyan said that he’s not very much involved in political affairs since he considers his strength to be on the stage, as an actor, and he simply cannot be fully informed of all public initiatives.
“My word arises from the stage. If I go to rallies and make speeches, call out, maybe about ten people will say, oh, what great things Vardan is saying, but at the same time I will lose a whole army of my spectators,” he said frankly.