Dramatic adaptation by V. Levanov

The performance includes fragments of M.M. Morozov, B.L. Pasternak, M.L. Lozinsky, and N.A. Polevoy’s translations

Author: W. Shakespeare
Director: Valery Fokin
Scenography: Alexander BOROVSKY
Music: Alexander BAKSHI
Costumes: Oksana YARMOLNIK
Light Director: Damir ISMAGILOV
Music Director of the performance: Ivan BLAGODER
Plastics: Igor KACHAYEV
Assistant Director: Oleg EREMIN
Director’s Aid: Ludmila FILIPPOVA

The tragic story of Prince Hamlet has a unique capacity to become actual again in various historical periods; it expresses the quintessence of people’s social and deeply personal concepts and feelings. The play, created by W. Shakespeare more than four centuries ago, has acquired numerous interpretations and dramatic adaptations trying to adjust it and put into the context of each particular epoch. Transformations and variability of the text and various interpretational approaches to translations of the original Shakespeare’s text, changes and developments of particular motives of the classic intrigue only emphasize the eternal and universal meaning of this masterpiece.

The new stage version of the story of Hamlet created by Director Valery Fokin uses both poetic and prosaic translations of the famous Shakespeare’s tragedy. Dramatist Vadim Levanov created a special dramatic adaptation revealing accents of the present actualized perception of various collisions of this story. Detection of the acute internal emotions of a person doomed to live in a deceitful and hypocritical atmosphere, where the immoral and ambitious aggressiveness of egoistic interests is hiding itself behind the glossy façade of the life, is in the center of this performance. Hamlet’s tragedy is the tragedy of a person daring to rebel against lies and crimes, but absorbed by banality, soullessness and betrayal.

Cast and crew

Claudius, King of Denmark	Andrei SHIMKO
Hamlet, the son of the Old King and Nephew of the Incumbent King	Dmintry LYSENKOV
Queen of Denmark Gertrude, Hamlet’s Mother	Marina IGNATOVA (Actress of the Tovstonogov BDT)
Polonius, the Senior Courtier of the King	Victor SMIRNOV
Ophelia, Polonius’s Daughter	Yanina LAKOBA
Laertes, Polonius’s Son	Paul YURINOV
Rosencrantz, a Courtier	Tikhon ZHIZNEVSKY
Guildenstern, a Courtier	Vladimir KOLGANOV
Horatio, a Friend of Hamlet’s	Andrei MATYUKOV
Actors	Svetlana SHEICHENKO Vladimir LISETSKY Maria ZIMINA Stephan BALAKSHIN Sergey YELIKOV
1st Gravedigger	Igor VOLKOV
2nd Gravedigger	Rudolf KULD Aleksey ZUBKOVSKY
Courtiers, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers	Galina VERETELNIKOVA, Marina GAVRILOVA, Olga GILVANOVA, Elena GLADKOVA, Elena ZIMINA, Olga KALMYKOVA, Tatyana KNYAZEVA, Tamara KOLESNIKOVA, Irina LEPESHENKOVA, Lyudmila LYUBIMOVA, Marina ROSLOVA, Alexander ANISIMOV, Artyom KARASEV, Eugine KAPITONOV, Joseph KOSHLEVICH, Vladislav RYNDIN, Victor SEMENOVSKY
Musicians	Inna ANDREYEVA, Igor ZALIVALOV, Dmitry ZOTIN, Alexander KAN, Konstantin KOLESNIKOV, Igor MAMAI, Guivi SARKISYAN, Svyatoslav CHERESHNICHENKO, Alexander SHCHERBAKOV, Ilya YURSHEVICH

Duration of the performance is 1 hour and 50 minutes.

The performance goes without intermission.

The first night is on April 16, 2010