Triptych

New Stage, Small Hall

Act 1. “Count N.” (after “Count Nulin”). A sentimental poetic joke.
Act 2. “Oh, Donna Anna!” (after “The Stone Guest”). A small ironic tragedy.
Act 3. “Devil, I’m bored…” (a scene from “Faust”). An eclectic burlesque combining the narrative poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and poems by Alexander Pushkin. Translation of Goethe’s “Faust” by Boris Pasternak and Joseph Brodsky.

In this stage composition based on Alexander Pushkin’s work, Pyotr Fomenko combined three titles that at first sight look completely incompatible. One of them is the burlesque poem Count Nulin, the other — one of the Little Tragedies, The Stone Guest, and the third one is a scene from Faust. Staged in the unusual space, which unites the Small Hall and the lobby, the three acts of Triptych are three separate productions, distinguished by genre and style. And at the same time this Pushkin production of the Workshop is a complete work of theater, bound by Pushkin’s words and tied with threads of thoughts and ideas. It speaks about the “game of love and chance,” about death as payment for love, about temptations offered by fate and fighting that fate, about denial and doubt as compared with gullibility and tenderness…

• Awards
• Winner of the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Small Scale Production” category, 2011
• Pyotr Fomenko was nominated for the Golden Mask Prize in the “Drama/Best Director” category, 2011