TEXT

ERMOLOVA THEATRE
MOSCOW, RUSSIA

Duration 2 hours

Director Maxim Didenko

Premiere took place in 2018

Author Dmitry Glukhovsky

Set and costumes by Galya Solodovnikova

Composer Alexander Karpov

Video Oleg Mikhailov, Ilya Starilov

Choreographer Ira Ga

Lighting designer Sergey Vasiliev

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CAST
Kristina Asmus

Alexey Kanichev

Alexander Kudin

Ilya Malanin

Olga Matushkina

Daria Melnikova

Elena Silina

Artem Tkachenko

Egor Kharlamov

Artem Tsukanov

Joint project of the Moscow Drama Theater named after M.N. Ermolova and producer Leonid Roberman

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“Text” is the first stage adaptation of the novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of the best-sellers “Metro 2033” and “Metro 2034.”

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A few days in the life of a philology student who comes back to Moscow after prison. While he was inside, technology rewrote the way people relate to one another: the phone has become a second self.

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Fate hands the protagonist the phone of his enemy, a drug-squad lieutenant who sent him to jail on false charges seven years earlier.

The protagonist starts the life of another person using his phone…

Onstage, the device is a character alongside the actors. And everything that happens during the show is filmed by a camera mounted on a drone.