Manna
Director: Karapet Balyan
Stage Designer: Anahit Ghalumyan
Cast:
Berj Djelladian,
Moses Sarkis
Zhanna Hovakimyan
Mariana Yeghiazaryan
MAkar Galstyan
The performance applies a theatrical technique that develops the performance based on the true stories from interviews and some stories go without much change and are re-told to the audience through the actors, mainly Syrian-Armenians involved.
The performance narrates a story of two brothers who have been separated from their family members and came to Armenia in the search of better life without a war. The youngest brother is eager to leave Armenia and search "the manna from the Heaven" in one of European countries, while the elder one is determined to stay in Armenia and set roots in his second homeland, Armenia. In spite of the efforts of the elder brother, the youngest one decides to leave him and go to one of European countries in the search of “the manna”.