Translated by A.V. and P.G. Gansen
The stage version by K.M. Ginkas

Director: Kama Ginkas 

Stage design: Sergey Barkhin 

Costumes: Elena Orlova

Light designer: Gleb filshtisnky 

Video: Olga Kaptur

Associate Director: Oleg Eryomin

Assistant Director: Elena Borunova

Cast:

Jørgen Tesman, post-graduate student at the Chair of History of Culture	Igor VOLKOV
Fru Hedda Tesman, his wife	Maria LUGOVAYA
Freken Miss Juliane Tesman, aunt of Jørgen	Tamara KOLESNIKOVA
Fru Thea Elvsted	Yulia MARCHENKO
Assessor Brack	Semyon SYTNIK
Ejlert Levborg	Alexander LUSHIN
Berte, servant to the Tesmans	Olga KALMYKOVA Elena LIPETS

Despite the fact that many plays of the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen were performed on the Alexandrinsky Stage starting as of the 1880s, “Hedda Gabler” had never been produced here. Vsevolod Meyerhold had been looking for a key to this complicated play about an extravagant and belligerent idealist a while before he began to work at the Imperial Theaters: he had produced a performance for V.F. Komissarzhevskaya which caused a lot of disputes. While it proved to be far too complicated for modern directors as well, surprisingly, it has never stopped to attract their attention.

For Kama Ginkas, direction of “Hedda Gabler” is a double return. It is a return to the St. Petersburg stage, to his own youth, his sources, his public which knows him well and loves, and a return to his once implemented plot (he had already produced “Hedda” at the Mossovet Theater with famous ex-Petersburgers Sergey Yursky and Natalya Tenyakova). However, this return to his theatric youth coincided with director’s attempt to comprehend the psychological paradox of the modern youth generation living in a pragmatic epoch but quite stubborn with their idealistic dreams through the drama of Ibsen’s heroine.

Kama Ginkas is directing his performance in cooperation with his co-author of many years stage designer Sergey Barkhin; the latter proposed a stylish graphic design of the space for the play.

The first night will take place on October 8, 2011.

The performance is going with one intermission

The performance was produced with financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Northwest Bank of Sberbank of Russia