Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater: One Absolutely Happy Village

A performance created on the basis of Boris Vakhtin’s novel, running time: 2 h, prime June 20, 2000
Ticket price range 5000—30000 rub.

Author — Boris Vakhtin
Director — Pyotr Fomenko
Stage Design — Vladimir Maximov
Costume Design — Maria Danilova
Costume Design Assistant — Sergei Bartoshevich
Designer — Irina Bachurina
Teacher — Vera Kamyshnikova

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

January, 24, 19:00

February, 14, 19:00

February, 22, 19:00

March, 11, 19:00

This is one of Pyotr Fomenko’s universally acknowledged masterpieces, based on the prose of his friend, writer Boris Vakhtin, who wrote about World War II. Aspiring to create the kindred atmosphere, the production’s creators stage the play as a series of studies and vignettes, absolutely symbolic and open to spectators’ interpretation. “As for the absolutely happy village, it’s not a novel or a poem, it’s just a song… And the war rushed into this song…”

Awards
Winner of the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Small Scale Production” category, 2001
Pyotr Fomenko was nominated for the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Best Director” category, 2001
Polina Agureeva was nominated for the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Best Actress” category, 2001
Sergei Taramaev was nominated for the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Best Actor” category, 2001
Winner of the International Stanislavsky Prize of 2000 in the “Best Production of the Season” category
Polina Agureeva won the Kumir (Idol) Prize of 2001 in the “Prospect of the Year” category for her role of Polina

In the course of production, the actors and their characters gradually move from the animation of things, mechanisms, animals, and the river, to the animation of humans, animation of life. They go from an honest play to an honest life. From the earthly, horizontal life to the soulful, vertical life. The life is soulful, not spiritual. Spirituality is the business of ideologists and ethicists. But here, we learn without any commandments and rules that people go away to war in order to come back. That our dead ones are never far gone, they are close to us, and love doesn’t die when they do. It’s just that if we have to go on living, we have to, we are obliged to love those who are alive. Love is the only justification of our life.: Olga Fuks, Evening Moscow