A Drama in Four Acts with an intermission, running time: 3 h 20 m, prime January 5, 2008
Ticket price range 1000—30000 rub.
Ticket price range 1000—30000 rub.
- Author — Alexander Ostrovsky
- Producing Director — Pyotr Fomenko
- Director — Valius Tertelis
- Stage Design — Vladimir Maximov
- Costume Design — Maria Danilova
- Lighting Design — Vladislav Frolov
- Musical Direction — Marina Raku
ВНИМАНИЕ! Во время действия спектакля, выполняя поставленные режиссёром творческие задачи и ремарки автора, артисты курят на сцене. Просим учесть эту информацию, планируя посещение данного спектакля.
Upcoming Performances
December, 15, 19:00
January, 9, 19:00
February, 10, 19:00
March, 5, 19:00
Pyotr Fomenko’s stage production of the well-known play by the great 19th century Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky does away with all the rules of its usual comprehension. The colours are subdued, and the stage sets are minimalistic. There are no melodramatics here, no boisterous merchants, and no languid songs. Still, there are songs, but they are bitter, terrifying, desperate. And the Gypsies, as written by Ostrovsky, remind one of the flock of Macbethian witches.
- Awards
- Nominated for the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Best Large Scale Production” category, 2009
- Pyotr Fomenko was nominated for the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Best Director” category, 2009
- Polina Agureeva won the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Best Actress” category, 2009
- Yevgeny Tsyganov was nominated for the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Best Actor” category, 2009
- Without a Dowry seems like a watershed moment for the Fomenko Workshop Theater. (Ostrovsky himself considered it a turning point). Pyotr Fomenko has directed a very severe and bitter production about human ruthlessness and false, surrogate, perverted values, be that morality, reputation or an honest merchant’s word. He speaks about the world, where the person’s “price” is equal to his financial, not spiritual spending. Working as if with a polishing stone, Fomenko clears away all the romantic gold-plating of this play.
- Olga Fuks, Evening Moscow
Characters and Cast
- Cast for
- all
- December 15
- Kharita Ignatyevna Ogudalova ,
middle-aged widow; dressed elegantly, but boldly and too young for her yearsNatalia Kurdyubova - Larisa Dmitrievna,
her daughter, a young woman dressed well but modestlyPolina Agureeva - Mokii Parmenych Knurov,
a major man of modern business, elderly, with a huge fortuneAlexei Kolubkov - Vasily Danilych Vozhevatov,
very young man, a representative of a wealthy commercial enterprise; dressed like a EuropeanTomas Mockus - Yulii Kapitonych Karandyshev,
young clerk, not wealthyYevgeny Tsyganov - Sergei Sergeich Paratov,
a glamorous nobleman from a shipping family, over 30Ilya Lyubimov - RobinsonVladimir Toptsov
- Yevfrosinia Potapovna,
Karandyshev’s auntGalina Kashkovskaya - Gavrilo,
barkeeper and owner of the cafe on the boulevardSergei Yakubenko - Ivan,
Waiter in cafeFyodor MalyshevTomas Mockus - Ilya the GypsyYury TitovArtyom Tsukanov
- Old Gypsy WomenPolina AirapetovaYelena VoronchikhinaNatalia MartynovaYekaterina SmirnovaDarya Konyzheva
- Musical accompanimentAnton Sergeev
- Formerly in the cast:
- Vasily Danilych Vozhevatov,
very young man, a representative of a wealthy commercial enterprise; dressed like a EuropeanAndrei ShchennikovPavel Barshak - Ilya the GypsyBoris GorbachyovFyodor Malyshev
- Old Gypsy WomenManana MenabdeAnn-Dominique CrettaLyudmila DolgorukovaAnna RodionovaIrina GorbachyovaMonica SantoroEva BrennerTatyana MaslennikovaLouisa MintsaevaMarina RakuMaria BolshovaSerafima Ogaryova
Video
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Performances
- Absolutely Incredible Event (Marriage in 2 acts)
- Bright Souls, or How to Write a Story
- Pugachov
- The Divine Comedy. Variations
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- A Ridiculous Man
- A Theatrical Novel
- Alice Through the Looking Glass
- Come in, come in
- Dangerous ties
- Doctor Zhivago
- Egyptian nights
- Family Happiness
- Faryatyev's Fantasies
- Five Evenings
- Happy Days
- He Was a Titular Counsellor
- King Lear
- Kingdom of the curves
- Knight. Mozart. Feast.
- Last Meetings
- Light Breathing
- Molly Sweeney
- Mother Courage
- Mozart Don Juan. Dress rehearsal.
- My Brel
- New Year's adventure of Masha and Vitya
- One Absolutely Happy Village
- 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 Egyptian Stamp
- The Gift
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
- The Main Thing
- The Master and Margarita
- The School for Wives
- The Seagull
- The Will of Charles Adams, or the House of the Seven Hung
- Triptych
- Twenty third
- Visiting Baron Munchhausen
- War and Peace. The Beginning of the Novel
- Without a Dowry
- Wolves and sheep
- …Souls