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 Tomorrow, September 11, 2009, the Alexandrinsky Theater will open its 254th season and the IV International Alexandrinsky Theater Festival with the first night of A. Chekhov’s play “Uncle Vanya.” The theater will continue working on modern interpretation of Russian classics. Prominent Romanian director and pedagogue Andrei Serban proposed his version of A. Chekhov’s play; currently, Serban lives in the U.S. and cooperates with leading drama and music theaters of Europe and America. This performance at the Alexandrinsky Theater is the first experience of Andrei Serban’s working with Russian actors. He tries to conceive the tragicomical collisions of Chekhov’s play through the prism of the esthetic and philosophical conflict of two types of theaters and two ways of stage existence. On the one hand, this assumes naturalistic specificity of reproducing of the life in all details of earthly existence; and on the other hand, this is a bright theater world imagined by the characters, a reality only appearing to them. Actors Sergey Parshin, Igor Volkov, Yulia Marchenko, Yanina Lakoba, Semyon Sytnik, Svetlana Smirnova, Maria Kuznetsova, Dmitry Lysenkov, and Pavel Yurinov are engaged in the performance. Performances of the Katona Iozhef Theater of Budapest will continue the Festival’s program with M. Gorky’s “Barbarians” (September 16 and 17) and A. Chekhov’s “Ivanov” (September 18 and 19), both directed by Tamas Aser. Last season, “Ivanov” was honored with the Russian National Theater Award “Golden Mask” as the best foreign performance shown in Russia in 2008. On September 24, at 3 PM, Greek director Theodoros Tersopoulos will lead a master class on “The voice and the body in the Ancient Greek Theater” on the Smaller Stage of the theater. On September 25 and 26, he will introduce “Eremos,” a one-man show of Paoplo Musio. On September 27, his performance “Oedipus Rex,” which had opened the First International Alexandrinsky Theater Festival in 2006, will be presented under the frames of the IV Festival. This year, several performances of the Golden Mask Festival are included in the program of the Alexandrinsky Festival: A. Ostrovsky’s “Fortunless Young Girl” presented by the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater (October 2); the Moscow Satirikon Theater will show “King Lear” directed by Yury Butosov (October 8). The Festival will be concluded by another Alexandrinsky premiere – Andrey Moguchy’s performance “Izotov” directed after a play of modern Russian play writer Michael Durnenkov (October 23, 24 and 25).
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