Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater: Heartbreak House

Running time: 3 h 20 m, prime June 13, 2005
Last performed July 24, 2021

Author — George Bernard Shaw
Director — Yevgeny Kamenkovich
Speech Coach — Vera Kamyshnikova
Stage Design — Vladimir Maximov
Costume Design — Svetlana Kalinina
Lighting Design — Vladislav Frolov
Translation — Sergei Bobrov, M. Bogoslovskaya

The house, built like an ancient ship, and full, as one of its residents says, of “all kinds of surprises,” is sailing in solitude through the hills of Upper Sussex. In less than half-an-hour, it is filled with guests (invited or not), and we are taken on a trip through the sea of relationships, full of underwater reefs and currents, surprising discoveries and pirate attacks.

The Heartbreak House production turned out to be beautiful, smart, well-played, and even fun. The latter quality, by the way, is quite difficult to achieve in staging Bernard Show’s plays.: Oleg Zintsov, Vedomosti

Characters and Cast

Miss Ellie Dunn,
a young woman of 19Maria AndreevaNatalia Martynova
Nurse GuinnessMonica SantoroYevgenia DmitrievaGalina Kashkovskaya
Captain Shotover,
an old sailor, over 80 Karen Badalov
Lady Ariadne Utterword,
Captain Shotover’s youngest daughter, wife of Hastings Utterword, Governor in the British coloniesPolina Kutepova
Mrs. Hesione Hushabye,
Captain Shotover’s eldest daughter, wife of Hector Hushabye Natalia Kurdyubova
Mazzini Dunn ,
father of Ellie Dunn, manager of Boss Mangan’s company Tomas Mockus
Hector Hushabye ,
husband of Hesione Hushabye Ilya Lyubimov
Boss Mangan,
”A Napoleon of Industry,” engaged to Ellie Dunn Maxim Litovchenko
Randall Utterword,
brother of Hastings Utterword, who is Lady Utterword’s husbandAnatoly Goryachev
BurglarIvan VerkhovykhVladimir Svirsky

Formerly in the cast:
Nurse GuinnessAnn-Dominique Cretta
BurglarAnatoly Goryachev
Randall Utterword,
brother of Hastings Utterword, who is Lady Utterword’s husband Pavel Barshak