Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater: Ryzhy

A musical journey from Yekaterinburg to Moscow and back, non-stop, running time: 1 h 35 m, prime March 19, 2010
Ticket price range 3000—30000 rub.

Author of the Route: — Boris Ryzhy
Director — Yury Butorin
Designer — Vladimir Maximov
Costumes — Valeria Kurochkina
Lighting Design — Vladislav Frolov
Composer — Sergei Nikitin
Dance Сoach — Ramune Khodorkaite
Stage Manager — Tatyana Seredina
Singing Coach — Tatyana Burel
Music Coach — Marina Raku
Editor — Galina Shmatova
Light — Anna Inozemtseva
Sound — Dmitry Belobrov, Irina Dvoinikova
Properties — Alla Sedakova, Yana Bereznitskaya

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

December, 4, 19:00

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January, 5, 19:00

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Ryzhy is a theatrical trip through space and time. The time is the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s. “Those fabulous years”, when “we lived poorly but so well.”

The creators got rid of the customary structure “stage-and-auditorium,” instead setting a small amphitheater for the audience up on the revolving platform. “Beware, the train is taking off!” — and the public begins its journey from “stop” to “stop,” from one location to another. At each of the musical journey’s stations, you can find the signs of the real city of Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk). The creators had tried to translate Boris Ryzhy’s poetic inflections to the language of theater with utmost caution.

Watching Ryzhy, you see real human stories plunged into the history of the city and the world, mixed in and made into a single whole… The way it’s all done — sung, read, played, and danced — is a separate story. This is, perhaps, the only theater where actors can do such things with absolute professionalism, often attaining virtuosity. And at the same time they don’t look like they are working, it’s as if they simply exist in their natural environment.: Irina Alpatova, Culture

Characters and Cast

Train ConductressVera Strokova
"Ryzhy" at the train stationAlexander MichkovIvan Vakulenko
"Ryzhy" near the dormitoryYury Butorin
NeighborMaria Andreeva
Cops
IvanovYury Butorin
SinitsinNikolai OrlovskyAlexei Sokolov
ZharovAlexander Michkov
Leikin,
local policeman, 42 years oldIvan Vakulenko
"Ryzhy" in the ParkDmitry Rudkov
WatchmanNikolai OrlovskyAlexei Sokolov
Apprentice MechanicAlexander MichkovStepan Vladimirov
Busters
Yevgeny LysovVasily Firsov
Mukha (fly)Dmitry Rudkov
Cherep (skull)Igor Voinarovsky
"Ryzhy" on the roofIvan VakulenkoAlexander MichkovYury Butorin
“Irina” Maria Andreeva
AngelVera StrokovaRoza Shmukler
Funeral services ,
(8-343-3-34-56)Igor Voinarovsky
His WifeVera StrokovaRoza Shmukler
"Ryzhy" in an industrial areaYury Butorin
"Ryzhy" in a dreamDmitry Rudkov
"Ryzhy" from a nuthouseVasily Firsov
"Ryzhy" in flightYury ButorinAlexander Michkov

Plus: Pioneers, Park Statues, Hallucinations, People in Line, Old Woman Merchants, Patients at an Addiction Hospital, Citizens of Sverdlovsk.

Production Supervisor — Yevgeny Kamenkovich