Background
VOSKANYAN, Arus was born on May 10, 1889 in Constantinople.
VOSKANYAN, Arus was born on May 10, 1889 in Constantinople.
1908 stage debut in Constantinople. 1910 moved to Transcacasia and joined Arm company in Baku. From 1917 acted in Tiflis.
1921 joined 1st Arm State Theater, Yerevan and became one of its leading actresses. During World War 2 also gave dramatic readings at factories and hospitals. Roles: Ophelia (1912).
Desdemona (1913); Susdan in Shirvanzadc’s “Namus” (1913). Sona in Shirvanzade’s “The Evil Spirit” (1914). Antigone in Sophocles’ “Antigone” (1922).
Margarite in Shirvanzade’s “Foreign Honor’s Sake” (1923). Catherine in “The Taming of the Shrew” (1923). Rima in Lunacharskiy’s Yad (Poison) (1926).
Panova in Trenyov’s “Lyubov’ Yarovaya” (1927). Anu sh in Paronyan’s “Uncle Bagdasar” (1927). Kseniya in Razlom (Break-Up) (1928).
Nastya in Gorky's Na due (The Lower Depths) (1932). Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's “Macbeth” (1933). Susanna in “The Marriage of Figaro” (1933).
Manya in Shkvarkin’s Chuzhoy rebyonok (Another’s Child) (1934). Katerina in Ostrovskiy’s Groza (The Storm) (1935). Rshel’ in Gorky's “Vassa Zhcleznova” (1937).
Kruchinina in Ostrovskiy’s Bez viny vinovatyye (Guilty Without Guilt) (1939). The Empress in Demirchan’s “Native Land” (1940). Zeynab in Subatov:s “Treason” (1941).
Mariya Nikolayevna in Simonov’s Russkiye lyudi (Russian People) (1942), et cetera