Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater: The Egyptian Stamp

A Novella. In the Trials and Mistakes project., running time: 1 h 10 m, prime May 28, 2013
Ticket price range 1000—5000 rub.

Author — Osip Mandelshtam
Author of the Idea — Pyotr Fomenko
Seized the Idea — Dmitry Rudkov
Designer — Alexandra Dashevskaya
Lighting Design — Vladislav Frolov
Text Adaptation — Dmitry Rudkov, Maria Kozyar
Stage Manager — Olga Lopach
Sound Design — Sergei Zverev, Denis Zabiyaka

PLEASE NOTE: In accordance with the director’s artistic vision and the playwright’s stage directions, actors smoke on stage during the performance. Please take this into consideration when planning your visit.

Trials and Errors is an experimental programme at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre, where actors and directors explore new ideas, texts, and theatrical forms. The most successful productions become part of the theatre’s repertoire.

Upcoming Performances

November, 9, 20:00

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With poems by Osip Mandelstam, fragments from his article “Theatre and Word,” “Stabat Mater” by Pergolesi, “Nightingale” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the song “Chizhyk-Pyzhik.”

This is an experimental stage production based on the play by the great early 20th century Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, which has been only partially preserved.

“Mandelstam’s story is unusual.. There is no setup and no resolution.” (M. Zinger, Izvestia, September 27, 1928)

“When I think, I use the left out links […] These links explain the motives.” (O. Mandelstam)

The Egyptian Stamp is a production that fails to satisfy any criteria. It doesn’t fit with the “season’s contemporary trends.” A certain arrogance of detachment from trends and popular topics is tangible in the air. “What hour?” he was asked here, and he answered with a curious “eternity.”: Olga Yegoshina, Novye Izvestia

Pictures, Intonations, Musical Setting, Characters and Cast

Cast for
all
November 9

Parnok
Fyodor Malyshev
Mervis,
a tailor
Ambartsum Kabanyan
Emma,
a Polish maid
Yekaterina SmirnovaPolina Airapetova
Father Bruni,
a priest who dreams of conducting an Orthodox liturgy in Rome
Dmitry Zakharov
Krzhizhanovsky,
Capitan of the Cavalry
Dmitry Rudkov
Unsuspecting Lady,
owner of the laundry
Roza Shmukler
Horse-Cab DriverDmitry Zakharov
Characters from Parnok’s dream:
ParnokFyodor Malyshev
Angiolina Bosio,
Italian singer
Roza Shmukler