The New York Times recently called Dmitry Krymov “one of the world’s finest theatermakers.” For this new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, the world-renowned Russian director collaborates with the Wilma’s acclaimed HotHouse Acting Company to reimagine one of theater’s enduring masterworks. What is it like to lose your home? The Cherry Orchard centers around a Russian family grappling with the potential foreclosure of their estate, and a community in transition as the old makes way for the new. Volleyballs and sunflower seeds fly, while a giant mechanical train station flipboard tells the future … plus more surprises await in Krymov’s inventive re-interpretation. One family is in danger of losing their home, their comfort, and their power. What comes next … and who will profit?
The New York Times recently called Dmitry Krymov “one of the world’s finest theatermakers.” For this new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, the world-renowned Russian director collaborates with the Wilma’s acclaimed HotHouse Acting Company to reimagine one of theater’s enduring masterworks. What is it like to lose your home? The Cherry Orchard centers around a Russian family grappling with the potential foreclosure of their estate, and a community in transition as the old makes way for the new. Volleyballs and sunflower seeds fly, while a giant mechanical train station flipboard tells the future … plus more surprises await in Krymov’s inventive re-interpretation. One family is in danger of losing their home, their comfort, and their power. What comes next … and who will profit?
Based on the play Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin, Dmitry Krymov’s Boris is a metaphor about the fate of Russia, its rulers and eternal values, subverting its ideas behind the cover of Pushkin’s text to show a direct line of the current governance of Russia with its imperial past, as well as all the myths on which Russian identity now rests. A flying raven, a poet, a folk choir, saints and sinners, living and dead - all come to life in the twilight of the Provision Warehouses of the Moscow Museum in this new interpretation of a classic work by one of the world’s most renowned stage directors.
Nessa mistura de animação e ópera, acompanhamos o século 20 na Rússia e o reinado de terror de Josef Stalin por meio de fragmentos inspirados no clássico O Nariz, escrito por Nikolai Gógol em 1836. Com trilha da obra homônima da década de 1920 do compositor Dmitri Shostakovitch, a narrativa combina cenários históricos, biografias de importantes personagens da época e obras-primas de artistas, compositores e escritores russos de vanguarda que viveram durante esse período de totalitarismo.
The feature debut of the famous theater director Dmitry Krymov. The plot is reminiscent of a fairy tale, when the husband goes to sea, and the wife ties a thread to his button in parting to know where her beloved is.
The feature debut of the famous theater director Dmitry Krymov. The plot is reminiscent of a fairy tale, when the husband goes to sea, and the wife ties a thread to his button in parting to know where her beloved is.
