CREATIVE TEAM

 

Composer Ivan Kushnir

Choreographer Irina Ga

Set Design / Costumes Galya Solodovnikova

Lighting Designer Sergey Vasiliev

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CAST

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Vasiliy Butkevich

Ilya Barabanov

Marina Vasilieva / Yana Gladkikh

Petr Skvortsov

Vasiliy Mikhaylov

Gladston Makhib

Igor Titov

Yuriy Mezhevich

Aleksey Lyubimov

Dmitriy Brusnikin / Nikolay Chindyaykin / Aleksey Rozin / Andrey Fomin

Maxim Didenko stages the novel by Viktor Pelevin, the most enigmatic classic of Russian literature.
A production in three parts about life between poles: reality and illusion, Europe and Asia, the political and the existential, past and present.

The characters pass from merely living to being, leave behind the carnival of social and political questions, and land in a metaphysical space where the only compass is one’s own sense of self.

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Part 1
Garden of the Divergent Petkas

Part 2
The Black Bagel

Part 3
The Conditional River of Absolute Love

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Looking at the horses’ muzzles and the faces of men,
at the boundless living stream raised
by my will and racing nowhere across the crimson
sunset steppe, I often think:
where am I in this stream?
Genghis Khan

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“What we ended up with is a psychotherapeutic total meta-play in a peculiar genre—‘a special flight of free thought’—addressed to all the inhabitants of the Earth. It’s interesting.” Maxim Didenko, director