- Author — William Shakespeare
- Director — Ivan Popovski
- Designer —
- Editor — Tatyana Albrekht
- Stage manager — Yulia Kamysheva
Upcoming Performances
October, 16, 19:00
November, 24, 19:00
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.
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
- Cast for
- all
- October 16
- Duke Theseus’s court
- Theseus Karen Badalov
- Hippolyta Galina Tyunina
- Egeus,
father to HermiaOleg NiryanStepan Pyankov
- Philostrate,
master of the Revels to TheseusAmbartsum Kabanyan
- Lovers
- HermiaVera Strokova
- HelenaSerafima Ogaryova
- Lysander Alexander Michkov
- Demetrius Yury Butorin
- The Fairies
- Titania,
Queen of the FairiesGalina Tyunina
- Oberon,
King of the FairiesKaren Badalov
- Robin Goodfellow Ambartsum Kabanyan
- Titania’s courtAlexander MichkovYury ButorinSerafima OgaryovaNikita TyuninOleg Niryan
- Titania’s courtVera Strokova
- ActorValentina Borisova
- Other FairiesLouisa MintsaevaEva Brenner Tatyana MaslennikovaYelena Barskova
- In the ForestVitaly MetlinAlexei OrlovMikhail AgureevAndrei BodnarIgor VolkovPavel GnedenkoVladimir Gorba Alexei ZhurkinPavel KarpushkinDanila KuzminVyacheslav LevchenkoKonstantin LegostaevSergei MaltevEvgeny MakhoninSergei PetryaevNikolai Tkach
- Craftsmen
- Botto,
a weaver Igor Yatsko - Quince,
a carpenterRustem YuskaevIvan Popovski
- Flute,
a bellows-menderKirill PirogovVladislav Tashbulatov
- Snout,
a tinkerNikita Tyunin
- Snug,
a joinerOleg NiryanIvan PopovskiVladislav Tashbulatov
- Starveling,
a tailorStepan Pyankov
- Formerly in the cast:
- HermiaSerafima Ogaryova
- Botto,
a weaverAndrei Kazakov
- Helena Irina Gorbachyova
- Titania’s courtIrina Gorbachyova
- FairiesAnastasia BurmistrovaAnastasia BaevaPolina 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
Photo gallery
Video
- "A Midsummer Night's Dream", touring on the stage of the Musical Theater of Karelia as part of the Golden Mask Festival. TV Russia 1, December 9, 202032.07 Мб, 00:03:25
- The master of the course of the program "Artist of Drama Theater and Cinema" Karen Badalov talks about the training of actors in the Moscow State Pedagogical University and the modern theater audience, February 14, 202345.58 Мб, 00:07:19
- «A Midsummer Night's Dream», the story about the tour in Ufa on the portal "UTV. Ufa and Bashkiria News", November 19, 202156.73 Мб, 00:03:42
- Serafima Ogaryova and Yury Butorin talk about the production directed by Ivan Popovsky and the tour in Ufa in the program "Good morning, Ufa!". Bashkortostan 24 TV Channel, November 19, 2021124.13 Мб, 00:19:32
- Ivan Popovski talks about the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on the air of the program "Good Morning, Ufa!". Bashkortostan 24 TV Channel, November 17, 202182.72 Мб, 00:14:31
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- Kirill Pirogov, interview for the «Star guest program», TV channel Ether, Kazan, October 1, 202040.31 Мб, 00:05:10
- Galina Tyunina, interview for the TV channel «TNV Tatarstan», Kazan, September 28, 2020238.22 Мб, 00:04:10
- Kirill Pirogov in the «Morning» program on the YouTube channel of the media holding «Guberniya», Khabarovsk, September 9, 2019220.95 Мб, 00:08:06
- Serafima Ogaryova, Vera Strokova, Yury Butorin, Ambartsum Kabanyan and Alexander Michkov are in the Radio 2 Studio. «Golden Mask» festival in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, September 9, 2019414.22 Мб, 00:44:57
- Ambartsum Kabanyan - interview for OTS, «A Midsummer Night's Dream», tour in Novosibirsk, May 21, 201990.48 Мб, 00:09:41
- Kapustnik, part 1. Performances from sixty-sixth to twenty-ninth, January 13, 20190.00 Мб, 01:09:45
- «A Midsummer Night's Dream», teaser of the performance, new cast from December 2018160.19 Мб, 00:01:51
- «A Midsummer Night's Dream» on tour in Yekaterinburg, Vesti-Ural, Russia 1, 25th of September 20188.82 Мб, 00:00:33
- Galina Tyunina gives an interview for Glavteatr, 13th of December 201793.98 Мб, 00:18:23
- «A Midsummer Night's Dream», tour in Estonia and Latvia in the framework of the festival «Golden mask in the Baltic countries», «Latvian time», PBK, 14th of October 201771.43 Мб, 00:01:14
- Irina Gorbachyova. «Waiting… for what?», TV Culture, 4th of December 2016695.09 Мб, 00:14:13
- Kirill Pirogov is a guest of «Morning news», PBK, 12th of October 2017360.41 Мб, 00:11:21
- Galina Tyunina is a guest of «Morning news», PBK, 12th of October 2017537.97 Мб, 00:14:12
- «A Midsummer Night's Dream», tour in Estonia and Latvia in the framework of the festival «Golden mask in the Baltic countries», «Latvian time», PBK, 12th of October 201771.77 Мб, 00:02:03
- New year's greetings, 31th of December 2016446.00 Мб, 00:03:52
- «A Midsummer Night's Dream», tour to Saint Petersburg. NTV, 30th of November 201649.18 Мб, 00:01:38
- «A Midsummer Night's Dream» is in the program of the festival «the Stanislavsky Season», «Moscow 24», 27th of October 201665.28 Мб, 00:01:46
Performances
- Knight. Mozart. Feast.
- My Brel
- The Gift
- 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
- Last Meetings
- Light Breathing
- Molly Sweeney
- Mother Courage
- Mozart Don Juan. Dress rehearsal.
- 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 Comedy on Tragedy
- The Egyptian Stamp
- 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
- Visiting Baron Munchhausen
- War and Peace. The Beginning of the Novel
- Without a Dowry
- …Souls
