Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater: The Madwoman of Chaillot

Revived stage production by P. Fomenko, running time: 3 h, prime March 17, 2013
Ticket price range 500—10000 rub.

Author — Jean Giraudoux
Director — Pyotr Fomenko
Director of Reconstruction — Kirill Pirogov
Assistant Director — Nikolai Druchek
Stage Design — Vladimir Maximov
Reconstruction Design — Konstantin Lebedev
Lighting Design — Vladislav Frolov
Costume Design — Maria Danilova
Choreographer — Valentina Gurevich
Text Adaptation — Tatyana Albrekht
Stage Manager — Yulia Kamysheva

Upcoming Performances

March, 19, 19:00

The “tragicomic cheap comedy” and “catastrophe in debut” — as the stage production’s genre was defined by Petr Fomenko — is a story of the four Madwomen who save their lovely Paris from the certain United Bank of Mines and Carriers of Paris, whose founders, the swindler “bankers,” are ready to dig up the whole city for a drop of oil. “The good men — women also — reach good ends…” — while the gutter oligarchs find their end in the Paris “mines,” in the very heart of the city sewers.

Fomenko took the story of how the underclass, headed by the mad old woman, lured the local bourgeois to the sewers… and left them there for good, to save if not the whole France, then at least their own neighbourhood, and transformed this prop play, entangled in its own sagacity, into a very delicate stage production, full of bitterness and artistry, which is a sheer pleasure to watch. […] Absurdity, humour, tenderness and melancholy combined with sharpness of depiction — this is what Petr Fomenko’s The Madwoman of Chaillot is. This is a creation of the stage director, who spent his whole life creating illusions without believing in them for a single moment.: Marina Zaoyonts, Itogi

Characters and Cast

Founders of the United Bank of Mines and Carriers of Paris
Emile Duranchon ,
President
Nikita Tyunin
Jean-Hyppolite,
Baron
Yevgeny Tsyganov
George Chopin,
stockbroker
Oleg NiryanDmitry Zakharov
Incognito,
Investigator
Yury Butorin
Madwomen
Aurelia,
The Madwoman from Chaillot
Galina Tyunina
Constance,
A madwoman from Passy
Natalia Kurdyubova
Gabrielle,
A madwoman from Saint Souplice
Madlen Dzhabrailova
Josephine,
A madwoman from ConcordGalina Kashkovskaya
Parisian citizens
Irma,
kitchen-maid
Roza Shmukler
Pierre,
A Drowned Man
Ivan Vakulenko
A Ragpicker
Anatoly GoryachevDmitry Zakharov
A Deaf Mute
Tomas Mockus
Marcel,
A Waiter
Oleg Lyubimov
Street Musicians
Dmitry ZakharovNikolai Orlovsky
Fyodor Malyshev
Ivan Vakulenko
Tatyana MaslennikovaYevgeny Altudin
Уличные музыкантыAlexander Michkov
A Shoe Lace Peddler
Dmitry Zakharov
Street Juggler
Fyodor MalyshevAlexander Michkov
CrankDmitry Zakharov
Police Sergeant
Sergei Yakubenko
Cybil,
A Flower Girl
Serafima Ogaryova
Life-Saver from Alma Bridge
Tagir RakhimovDmitry Zakharov
A Sewer Worker
Tagir RakhimovDmitry Zakharov
Delivery Boy,
in café “Francise”
Formerly in the cast:
Irma,
A Kitchen Maid
Irina Pegova
Josephine,
A madwoman from Concord
Irina Gorbachyova
Delivery Boy,
in café “Francise”Yegor Tikhon
Street MusiciansYulia AmericovaAnna Kobzareva