Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Running time: 3 h 20 m, prime June 18, 2015
Ticket price range 500—15000 rub.

Author — William Shakespeare
Director — Ivan Popovski
Designer —
Editor — Tatyana Albrekht
Stage manager — Yulia Kamysheva

Subtitles are available in

Translation — Osia Soroka. In a special redaction by the theatre

Everything is a game here — theatrical game, a game of love, sometimes naive, and sometimes complicated. Sometimes, this game is rather sharp, even dangerous — better watch it from the sidelines, without interfering. Sometimes, the game is simple like a child’s play — and you join in, willingly or not. But all the games that this production plays with the audience are very reckless. In the chaos of the game, the line between reality and dreams fades. The lovers mix each other up, and end up in a lively tangle, which breathes jealosy, youth, fear, and love.

Awards
Winner of the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Large Scale Production” category, 2016
Ivan Popovski was nominated for the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Best Director” category, 2016
Irina Gorbacheva was nominated for the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Best Actress” category, 2016
Winner of the KudaGo Prize in the “Best Stage Production” category, 2016

«A Midsummer Night’s Dream» is definitely an outstanding and, possibly, a milestone performance that will impart the Workshop in particular and the theater system as a whole with hope for the hidden resource of theatrics.: Pavel Rudnev, Teatrall.Ru

Did you really think that Fomenko Workshop is something from the past? Take heart, because it’s a part of the very present! These are the sought-for “contemporary actors in contemporary theater,” for which the critics have been searching in vain. Here he is, a well-trained acrobat with a happy body and stage director’s mind, with a good voice and a skill to read the verses in such a way that the audience hears every word and every comma. The sense of humour, inherent in each of the actor’s performance, is a nice bonus.: Olga Yegoshina, Novye Izvestia

«A Midsummer Night’s Dream» at Fomenko Workshop is a shot of true spectator happiness, a vaccination from the blues.: Svetlana Berdichevskaya, Screen and Stage

Characters and Cast

Duke Theseus’s court
Theseus
Karen Badalov
Hippolyta
Galina Tyunina
Egeus,
father to Hermia
Oleg Niryan
Philostrate,
master of the Revels to Theseus
Ambartsum Kabanyan
Lovers
HermiaVera Strokova
HelenaSerafima Ogaryova
Lysander
Alexander Michkov
Demetrius
Yury Butorin
The Fairies
Titania,
Queen of the Fairies
Galina Tyunina
Oberon,
King of the Fairies
Karen Badalov
Robin Goodfellow
Ambartsum Kabanyan
Titania’s courtAlexander MichkovYury ButorinSerafima OgaryovaNikita TyuninOleg Niryan
Titania’s courtVera Strokova
Craftsmen
Botto,
a weaver
Andrei Kazakov
Quince,
a carpenter
Rustem Yuskaev
Flute,
a bellows-mender
Kirill Pirogov
Snout,
a tinker
Nikita Tyunin
Snug,
a joiner
Oleg Niryan
Starveling,
a tailor
Stepan Pyankov
ActorValentina Borisova
Other FairiesLouisa MintsaevaTatyana MaslennikovaAnastasia BurmistrovaEva BrennerAnastasia BaevaYelena Barskova
In the ForestVitaly MetlinAlexei OrlovMikhail AgureevAndrei BodnarIgor VolkovPavel GnedenkoVladimir Gorba Alexei ZhurkinPavel KarpushkinDanila KuzminVyacheslav LevchenkoKonstantin LegostaevSergei MaltevEvgeny MakhoninSergei PetryaevNikolai Tkach
Formerly in the cast:
Hermia
Serafima Ogaryova
Helena
Irina Gorbachyova
Titania’s courtIrina Gorbachyova
FairyPolina Kanashenok
In the ForestStanislav VerzunovPavel IvashkinVitally KonstandogloAlexander RyabtsevGerman Sushchevsky

Music employed in the performance: Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Giovanni Battista Fasolo, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Arseny Jovanovich, Yuly Kim, Sergei Nikitin, Marina Raku and others. The theatre thanks Alan Maratra, Alexandra Dashevskaya, Valentina Ostankovich, Philipp Vinogradov, Yekaterina Burlakova, Alyona Besser, Vyacheslav Akhmetzyanov, Alexander Marchenko, Irina Stachinskaya, Tatiana Deshko. Special thanks to Alexei Bartoshevich