Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater: A Theatrical Novel

A mystification in two parts, text redacted by the theatre, running time: 2 h 50 m, prime April 10, 2012
Ticket price range 500—10000 rub.

Author — Mikhail Bulgakov
Producing Director — Pyotr Fomenko, Kirill Pirogov
Director’s Assistant — Nikita Tyunin
Stage Design — Vladimir Maximov
Costume Design — Maria Danilova
Lighting Design — Vladislav Frolov, Alexei Sharaburin
Selection of Сostumes — Valeria Kurochkina
Make-up artists — Anna Meleshko, Larisa Gerasimchuk
Graphic Designer — Alyona Besser
Stage Managers — Yulia Kamysheva, Tatyana Seredina
Text Adaptation — Tatyana Albrekht
Editor — Yelena Kasatkina
Videography — Yekaterina Burlakova
Musical Score — Pyotr Fomenko, Kirill Pirogov
Fortepiano — Nikolai Orlovsky
Sound Direction — Grigory Litvinov
Light — Yury Lebedev, Yevgeny Novikov
Sound — Kirill Pustovoit, Sergei Zverev
Make up — Svetlana Guguchkina, Marina Mikhalochkina, Viktoria Starikova
Property man — Alexander Khovansky
Props — Alla Sedakova, Sofia Telegina, Anastasia Vorontsova
Wardrobe assistants — Alina Galimova, Yulia Ivanova, Maria Motovilova, Maria Tabakova, Irina Frolova
Stage-hands — Vitaly Metlin, Pavel Ivashkin, Evgeny Makhonin, Denis Shalaev, Andrei Bodnar, Sergei Petryaev, Mikhail Agureev, Stanislav Verzunov, Sergei Veselov, Konstantin Legostaev, Vladimir Moiseev, Evgeny Perov, Dmitry Yakovlev
Riggers — Viktor Grib, Igor Volkov

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This was the last directorial job by Pyotr Fomenko. Mikhail Bulgakov wrote his novel «A Dead Man’s Memoir» about love. It was the love for theater, mixed in with tenderness and hatred. There is a large dose of self-irony in the theater’s rendition of the sad story of writer Maksudov’s misfortunes in the complex backstage world. The world of theater has its own logic and its own truth, and everything happens in accordance with some other laws. This mysteriousness first charms the uninitiated, but very soon brings them to despair. But despite all the hardships, Maksudov is convinced that this is his world.

How else can one call it but a confession of love for the theater? This is the love, which is impervious to even the bitterest knowledge of this pleasure’s seamy underside. The Fomenko Theater’s performance is also a confession of love for the theater, equal in its measure to Bulgakov’s. This play is both very funny and desperate. The nature of this desperation lies in the feelings of love and hate, and in the fact that backstage every one is just a regular person, with all sorts of vices, while on stage they are great actors.: Marina Timasheva, Radio Freedom

Nobody is better at reading the prose than Pyotr Fomenko, who is capable of turning it into theater with seeming ease. Very few people possess the same freedom in laughter as Pyotr Fomenko. Which is why the final sentence of the play sounds so sharp and hangs above the audience with such a long echo: “… there is no such theater, never have been and never will be.”: Marina Tokareva, Novaya Gazeta

Characters and Cast

Sergey Maksudov Kirill Pirogov
The Literary Circle:
Likospastov,
a young writer Vladimir Toptsov
Yegor Lesopenov,
an old writerTagir RakhimovDmitry Rudkov
First Former WifeNatalia Kurdyubova
Second Former WifeVera Strokova
Journalist from “The Whistle”Dmitry Rudkov
GuitaristYury Butorin
The Essay Writer BaklazhanovIgor VoinarovskyMikhail Krylov
Ismael BondarevskyDmitry ZakharovIgor Voinarovsky
Brother-in-law from TimbuctuSergei Yakubenko
NurseLilia YegorovaYulia Kamysheva
Ilya RudolfiOleg Niryan
Grisha AivazovskyTomas Mockus
ActorDmitry Rudkov
At the Independent Theater:
Ivan Vasilyevich,
one of the theater’s two directorsMaxim Litovchenko
Augusta Menajraki ,
secretary of Ivan VasilyevichMadlen Dzhabrailova
Polyxena Toropetskaya,
secretary of Aristarkh PlatonovichGalina Tyunina
Gavriil,
the theater’s manager of material assetsOleg Niryan
Mikhail Panin,
literary directorDmitry Rudkov
Anton Knyazhevich ,
new play supervisorNikolai OrlovskyMikhail Krylov
Filipp Tulumbasov,
the theater’s head administratorDmitry ZakharovMikhail Krylov
“The Founding Members”:
Nastasya Koldybaeva,
Ivan Vasilyevich’s auntLyudmila MaksakovaNatalia Kurdyubova
Margarita TavricheskayaVera Strokova
Hippolyte PavlovichAnatoly GoryachevRustem Yuskaev
Valentin KonradovichTagir RakhimovVitaly Metlin
Gerasim GornostaevOleg Lyubimov
Fyodor VladimirovichSergei Yakubenko
“The Middle Generation”
Lyudmila Pryakhina Galina Kashkovskaya
Pyotr Bombardov Nikita Tyunin
YelaginIgor Voinarovsky
The Youth:
VeshnyakovaVera Strokova
The Directors:
Ksavery IlchinOleg Niryan
Yevlampia PetrovnaNatalia Kurdyubova
Foma StrizhYury Butorin
Theater Employees:
DoctorTomas MockusDmitry Rudkov
Demyan Klyukvin ,
man with an insigniaStepan Pyankov
Bakvalin,
another man with an insigniaTomas Mockus
Visitors:
Man from IrkutskSergei Petryaev
Excursion Leader from YaltaIgor Voinarovsky
Just PetukhovNikolai OrlovskyMikhail Krylov
Man with pretensions of luxuryOleg Niryan
Woman who lost her bagVera Strokova
Woman who knew Ivan Vasilyevich 28 yearsLilia Yegorova
Woman who lost her ticketYulia Kamysheva
Scandalous WomanNatalia Kurdyubova
MissieVera Strokova
Amalia,
a German nurseNatalia Kurdyubova
Alyosha,
a seven year-old
At Sivtsev Vrazhek:
JanitorStepan Pyankov
NurseLilia YegorovaYulia Kamysheva