- Author — Sergei Plotov
- Production Director, Production Choreographer — Oleg Glushkov
- Production Designer — Vadim Volya
- Costume Designer — Olga-Maria Tumakova
- Light artist — Ivan Vinogradov
- Composers — Sergei Bogolubskiy, Darya Stavrovich
- Assistant Director — Olga Lopach
- Sound engineers — Andrey Borisov, Vyacheslav Kalika
- Teacher — Marina Raku
- Vocal teacher — Anna Shaverdian
- Teacher of Choreography — Natalia Terekhova
You can reserve a buffet table for this performance
Upcoming Performances
October, 20, 19:00
October, 21, 19:00
November, 16, 19:00
November, 17, 19:00
- The Fomenko Workshop’s new production, The Last Will of Charles Adams, or The House of Seven Hanged Men, is precisely this kind of experiment. […] Sergei Plotov has turned this elaborate game of theatrical solitaire into a witty, aphoristic play, layering a seemingly simple story with philosophical ideas. […] Composers Sergei Bogolyubsky and Daria Stavrovich envelop this charming devilry in wonderfully melodic and harmonious music. […] The Fomenko actors display dramatic acting of the highest order.
- Victoria Peshkova, Kultura
- Quite unexpectedly, Oleg Glushkov’s new production, The Last Will of Charles Adams, or The House of Seven Hanged Men, became a genuine breakthrough for the Fomenko Workshop. […] The stories of Romeo and Juliet and Snow White blend seamlessly with British Gothic and the classic English detective story; the music combines elements of rock opera with French and British musicals, while the visual world, rendered in every shade of grey, evokes vintage comic books. And everything is infused with rich humour and a multitude of elegantly woven quotations and allusions.
- Elena Konovalova, Ekran i Stsena
- The production never forgets to be an almost perfect piece of musical theatre. The songs are memorable, the dialogue repeatedly makes you laugh, and everything happening on stage is technically accomplished to such a degree that at times one can imagine Adams competing with large-scale Broadway musicals. […] The Last Will of Charles Adams, or The House of Seven Hanged Men is undoubtedly one of the most important theatrical events of the season […] and, given the sheer range of the production, it has every chance of becoming an enduring hit at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop.
- Dmitry Barchenkov, Posta Magazine
- The production’s exploration of death, life after death, and the coexistence of the living and the dead within the same space turns out not to be frightening at all. There is Anglo-Saxon black humour here, as well as the Latin American tradition of turning death and the spirits of one’s ancestors into a carnival. […] The Last Will of Charles Adams seems almost ideal material for the Fomenko Workshop: the sheer spirit of play gives the actors room for self-expression and allows the production to build layer upon layer of meaning.
- Daria Borisova, Na Zapade Moskvy
- Stanislavsky’s famous maxim that there are no small parts, only small actors, applies perfectly to this production. Established stars of the Fomenko Workshop each take on several roles, and everyone performs with passion and exhilaration. It is precisely this polyphony of equally meticulous performances, both “large” and “small,” that creates the wonderful theatrical tapestry called The Last Will of Charles Adams.
- Daria Borisova, Na Zapade Moskvy
- It is a pleasure to write about a good production that, from the very first day of its premiere, one can wholeheartedly recommend to friends who are tired of negativity and complain that there is nothing left to see in the theatre — that theatre is dead. Theatre is very much alive. […] The Fomenko Workshop’s new production, The Last Will of Charles Adams, is a brilliantly passed test of strength — a test that has become a joyful celebration for everyone involved in making theatre and for the audience alike. It has been a long time since we saw such extraordinary imagination brought to the stage with such verve that the entire auditorium responds with delighted astonishment.
- Larisa Kanevskaya, Mnenie
Characters and Cast
- Cast for
- all
- October 20
- October 21
- Charles Adams Olga BodrovaVladislav Tashbulatov Sofia Lukinykh Sofia TeleginaMaria Bolshova
- ActorNikolai OrlovskyAnatoly GoryachevNikolai OrlovskyDmitry RudkovAlexei KolubkovVeniamin KrasnyanskyOlga Bodrova Yury ButorinAmbartsum KabanyanRoza ShmuklerYelena VoronchikhinaAnatoly AntsiferovIgor VoinarovskyVladislav TashbulatovAleksander MorovovVladislav TashbulatovPavel YakovlevVladislav TashbulatovAlexander MichkovDmitry ZakharovYury ButorinPavel YakovlevVladislav TashbulatovAlexander MichkovAleksander MorovovVladislav TashbulatovAmbartsum KabanyanAlexei KolubkovVeniamin KrasnyanskyAnatoly AntsiferovDmitry ZakharovKirill KorneichukAndrei MihhalyovAndrei MihhalyovMaria BolshovaVera StrokovaDarya Konyzheva
- Louise AdamsDarya KonyzhevaVera Strokova
- FrantišekNikolai OrlovskyVladislav Tashbulatov
- AdelaidaPolina Airapetova
- Butler EbenezerVeniamin KrasnyanskyKirill Korneichuk
- MusicianEva BrennerSvetlana ZhemchuzhinaDmitry KarevYevgeny AltudinEvgeniy Rogozinsky Yelena SlobodchikovaValentina BorisovaIrina SelivanovskayaAnton Sergeev Konstantin GrachevAleksander Malugov Stepan VladimirovTatyana MaslennikovaTatyana AnokhinaAlexei Sokolov Evgeniy KozharovAnna ManakovaAleksander GorokhLouisa MintsaevaVyacheslav AkhmetzyanovMikhail Volokh
Video
- Allow me, on behalf of the table... that is, the theater... to wish all of us to meet more often in the coming year! To be sad, to be happy, to sing, to dance – together. Happy New Year!277.46 Мб, 00:02:23
- «The Will of Charles Adams, or the House of the Seven Hung» is the winner of The «Star of the theatergoer» award in the category Best performance of a large form. Fragment of the XIII audience award Ceremony—2020, December 7, 2020109.68 Мб, 00:02:31
- Opening of the 27th theatrical season in «The city news» program, TVC, September 17, 201947.52 Мб, 00:02:44
- «The Will of Charles Adams, or the House of the Seven Hung», premiere in the release of the «Euronews Portal», July 19, 2019130.45 Мб, 00:02:25
- «The Will of Charles Adams, or the House of the Seven Hung», premiere in the News of culture, TV Culture, June 25, 201942.26 Мб, 00:03:02
Performances
- About love (5 pounds of love, 22 misfortunes, 33 stories)

- Cyrano de Bergerac

- From mooing to sounding

- The Demon

- The Old Man and the Sea

- The village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants


- 4 days in frame 25

- A Midsummer Night's Dream

- A Ridiculous Man

- A Theatrical Novel

- Absolutely Incredible Event (Marriage in 2 acts)

- Alice Through the Looking Glass

- Arcadia

- Bright Souls, or How to Write a Story

- Dangerous ties

- Doctor Zhivago

- Egyptian nights

- Family Happiness

- Five Evenings

- Happy Days

- He Was a Titular Counsellor

- King Lear

- Kingdom of the curves

- Knight. Mozart. Feast.

- Last Meetings

- Mayakovsky. Listen!

- Molly Sweeney

- Mother Courage

- Mozart Don Juan. Dress rehearsal.

- My Brel

- New Year's adventure of Masha and Vitya

- One Absolutely Happy Village

- Riverside country

- Ruslan and Lyudmila

- Ryzhy

- Seryozha is very stupid

- Summer Wasps Bite Us Even in November

- Sweeping water movements

- Tales of the Forest of Arden

- The Cherry Orchard

- The Comedy on Tragedy

- The Divine Comedy. Variations

- The Egyptian Stamp

- The Gift

- The Madwoman of Chaillot

- The Main Thing

- The School for Wives

- The Seagull

- The Will of Charles Adams, or the House of the Seven Hung

- Triptych

- Visiting Baron Munchhausen

- War and Peace. The Beginning of the Novel

- Without a Dowry

- Wolves and sheep

- …Souls








































