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PRAISE IN PARIS: `MELS' AND DURYAN FIND SUCCESS IN REPEAT PERFORMANCE
By Gayane Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter

Yerevan native playwright Narek Duryan's play `Thank You, God' is enjoying a repeat performance in Paris, at the De Jazet Theater.

The actor takes on many personalities

The play was so successful during a month-long run in June, that the board of directors of the 700-seat theater in Bastille Square invited Duryan back, where he is again the featured attraction this month.

`Stepping into this theater is a big success, for this theater is among the ten most important and authoritative theaters in Paris,' says actor and director Duryan, son of the popular conductor Ohan Duryan. `If we take into account that 480 performances are played in Paris every day, 30 percent of which have a life of only a day, than one can imagine how difficult it is to attract attention.'

The character created and embodied by Duryan carries elements of self- biography, of a