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.
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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Upcoming Performances
October, 30, 19:00
November, 15, 19:00
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
- Cast for
- all
- October 30
- 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
Compositions by Gounod, Beethoven, Rubinstein, Rimsky-Korsakov and Sats are heard in the course of the performance.
- Formerly in the cast:
- GuitaristIvan Vakulenko
- Foma Strizh Ivan Vakulenko
- Alyosha,
a seven year-oldYegor Tikhon - First Former WifeIrina Gorbachyova
- Margarita Tavricheskaya Irina Gorbachyova
- Yevlampia PetrovnaIrina Gorbachyova
- Scandalous WomanIrina Gorbachyova
- Amalia,
a German nurseIrina Gorbachyova - Woman who lost her ticketTatyana Seredina
- Used to play:
- Alyosha,
a seven year-old
Video
- Kirill Pirogov visiting Daria Zlatopolskaya in "White Studio". Russia-Culture, May 7, 20241317.69 Мб, 00:44:20
- Kirill Pirogov. "Theatrical Novel", reading experience with Pyotr Fomenko. Glavteater, November 18, 2022393.33 Мб, 00:46:22
- The genius of the theater. Students of Pyotr Fomenko — about the Master. The release of the program "Tonight" on Channel One on June 3, 2023976.36 Мб, 01:25:05
- Inna Natanovna Solovyova's conversation with the artists of the Workshop about «The Theatrical Novel» February 19, 2012. First published on May 15, 2021, on the 130th anniversary of Mikhail Bulgakov1534.76 Мб, 02:54:30
- «Pyotr Fomenko. Let's start with who loves whom». TVC, January 5, 2020381.60 Мб, 01:04:11
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Performances
- Absolutely Incredible Event (Marriage in 2 acts)
- New Year's adventure of Masha and Vitya
- Pugachov
- The Divine Comedy. Variations
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- A Ridiculous Man
- A Theatrical Novel
- Alice Through the Looking Glass
- Come in, come in
- Dangerous ties
- Doctor Zhivago
- Egyptian nights
- Family Happiness
- Faryatyev's Fantasies
- Five Evenings
- Happy Days
- He Was a Titular Counsellor
- King Lear
- Kingdom of the curves
- Knight. Mozart. Feast.
- Last Meetings
- Light Breathing
- Molly Sweeney
- Mother Courage
- Mozart Don Juan. Dress rehearsal.
- My Brel
- One Absolutely Happy Village
- Ruslan and Lyudmila
- Ryzhy
- Seryozha is very stupid
- Summer Wasps Bite Us Even in November
- Sweeping water movements
- Tales of the Forest of Arden
- The Cherry Orchard
- The Comedy on Tragedy
- The Egyptian Stamp
- The Gift
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
- The Main Thing
- The Master and Margarita
- The School for Wives
- The Seagull
- The Will of Charles Adams, or the House of the Seven Hung
- Triptych
- Twenty third
- Visiting Baron Munchhausen
- War and Peace. The Beginning of the Novel
- Without a Dowry
- Wolves and sheep
- …Souls