Background
VARTANYAN, Ruzana was born on May 27, 1896.
VARTANYAN, Ruzana was born on May 27, 1896.
Worked as secondary-school teacher. 1927 stage debut; helped run Russian and Arm amateur dramatic groups in Northern Caucasus. From 1927 with Arm 1st State Theater, Yerevan’ (now Sundukyan Theater).
From 1944 taught at Yerevan’ Theatrical Institute. Roles: Polina in Ostrovskiy’s Dokhodnoye mesto (A Lucrative Post) (1929). Rosina in “The Marriage of Figaro” (1933).
Shurka in Yegor Bulychyov i drugiye (Yegor Bulychyov and Company) (1933). Lida in “Platon Krechet” (1935). Susan and Margarit in Shirvanzade’s “Namus’’ (1936) and “Foreign Honor” (1939).
Eriknaz in Proshyan’s “Foreign Bread” (1937). Areg in Bulakyan’s “At Dawn” (1937). Donna Anna in Pushkin’s Kamennyy gost’ (The Stone Guest) (1937).
Luise in “Kabale und Liebe” (1938). Desdemona in “Othello” (1940). Ophelia in “Hamlet” (1942).
Larisa in Ostrovskiy’s Bespridannitsa (Girl Without a Dowry) (1946). Ganna Likhta in Virta’s Zagovor obrechyonnykh (Conspiracy of the Doomed) (1949). Ranevskaya in Chekhov's Vishnyovyy sad (The Cherry Orchard) (1951).
Arusyak in Boryan’s "Under One Roof” (1957).