CREATIVE TEAM

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Director Maxim Didenko
Playwright Mikhail Durnenkov
Composer Anna Drubich
Choreographer Vladimir Varnava
Production designer Ksenia Peretrukhina
Set design Nikolai Khamov
Costume designer Tatyana Dolmatovskaya
Sound design / Lighting design Yuri Galkin
Video Design / Video Content Creation / Editing Oleg Mikhailov
Producers Alexandrina Markvo, Ekaterina Kashintseva, Masha Mashkova
Stage Manager / Line Producer Ilya Kuznetsov

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CAST​

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Marusya Masha Mashkova
Dovlatov Maxim Sukhanov
Child Nikola Ashurkov
Female roles Varvara Shmykova
Male roles Nikita Kukushkin

Director Maxim Didenko

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TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT

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Technical Director Ilia Reizman
Technical Support (Premiere) Tudor Carapascal
Set Construction Vitalie Mindrescu, Vladimir Ciotu, Angel
Wardrobe Supervisor Victoria Morari

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special Thanks to the Director of Teatrul “Fără Nume” — Nicu Ţărnă

Special Thanks for rehearsal organization to KEDEM JACOBS JCC Cultural Center and personally to Aliona Grossu, Riva Koksharova, Natalia Shpalter

CREDITS — SHOOTING PROCESS

Director Maxim Didenko
First Assistant Director Anastasia Weber

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Director of Photography / Digital Imaging Technician Oleg Mikhailov

Production Sound Mixer Danilo Michich
Producer Alexandra Markvo
Executive Producer Ekaterina Kashintseva
Line Producer Ilia Kuznetsov

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Light Designer Iurii Galkin

Production Designer Ksenia Peretrukhina
Property Master (On Set) Ilia Kuznetsov

Costume Designer Tatiana Dolmatovskaya
Costume Assistant (On Set) Alexandra Kharina
Key Makeup Artist Margo Mrtsevich

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What makes a person leave home? Politics, history, circumstances — or simply a “bad mood”?

The performance The Foreigner, inspired by Sergey Dovlatov’s novella, seeks answers to these questions and brings them into today’s reality.

But it isn’t only Marusya Tatarovich’s story; it is also the story of the actress who plays her, Masha Mashkova—her attempts to break into Hollywood, her life in Los Angeles, her memories of family and of growing up.

The Foreigner is a conversational performance with no fourth wall: ironic, honest, funny, and therapeutic.

It treats emigration as an ancient human experience: the effort to find one’s place, and to keep one’s sense of humor, when everything around has suddenly turned foreign.

The point holds: sooner or later, each of us becomes a “foreigner”—in a new country, in a new profession, or simply in our own life.
The evening runs on two tracks at once, theatre onstage and cinema on screen. The film isn’t an illustration; it is a full partner in the performance, and it gives the story its depth.

The Foreigner features performances by Maxim Sukhanov, Varya Shmykova, Nikita Kukushkin, and Nikola Ashurkov.