The performance is the winner of the Russian National Theater Award Golden Mask following the results of the season 2020/2021 in the nomination Drama/Small Form Performance.
The play is the winner of St. Petersburg's highest theater award Golden Sofit in the nominations Best Small Form Performance, Best Actor - Ivan Trus for his performance as Kislyakov).
Comrade Kislyakov - the fourth work of Andrei Kalinin in the Alexandrinsky Theater. In the repertoire of the theater were his performances "The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, presented by the troupe of a mental hospital under the direction of Mr. de Sade" based on the play by Peter Weiss at the Alexandrinsky Small Stage and "Children in Power" based on the play by French poet, playwright Roger Vitrak "Victor, or Children in Power", a joint production with the theater's chief director Nikolai Roshchin at the New Stage. Now his play "How blue it is, the End of the Alley..." based on the play by Rezo Gabriadze is being staged at the New Stage.
Andrei Kalinin opens for the theater the forgotten Soviet prose of the 1930s, his performance is the first stage treatment of the book by Panteleimon Romanov, whose peak of writer's popularity was in the 1920s.
Comrade Kislyakov - gloomy satire, here the agonizing reflections of the protagonist about his situation, his journey from Ippolit Grigorievich to Comrade Kislyakov through compromise and agreement unfold against the background of convex, detailed description of the epoch, Moscow of the late 1920s, rapidly changing, noisy, with a new way of life, communal life, kitchen and family squabbles and disputes about the place and purpose of the intelligentsia, about whether an individual can go against the masses.
Two plot and meaning-forming lines - the metamorphosis of the intellectual Kislyakov, adapting to the new time and its challenges, and the love triangle within which Ippolit Kislyakov, his old friend Arkady Neznamov and his friend's young wife, the actress Tamara - converge at the final point and are resolved by catastrophe.
The director in the play abandons the somewhat melodramatic ending of the novel by rewriting it.
The premiere is November 25, 2020, and January 27, 2021
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Comrade Kislyakov, the hero of Ivan Coward does not become immediately. At first he appears as Ippolit Grigorievich, an engineer-traveler, and then a museum worker, a patient subservient falsely gentle but tenacious wife (Vasilisa Alekseeva), complete with an unbearable Fox Terrier Jerry (Nikita Barsukov) and wordless aunt (Sergei Elikov). Ippolit Grigorievich wears lacquered shoes, thinks about high things and hates Bolsheviks - "baboons" in kirzovye boots. Actually, these boots, which Ippolit Grigorievich will one day put on (painfully doubting, and then resolutely, throwing away doubts), will mark the metamorphosis that has happened to him "(mimicry into the working class" is a word from the twenties). Indeed, he has changed his shoes.
Olga Fuchs. Re-shoeed and mimicry into the working class
The joy of recognition is all the stronger the more clearly the time distance is emphasized. In one of the chamber black offices of the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, the very real 1920s Napman end is "painted" with sparing but precise strokes: costumes, everyday objects from a kumacha banner to a fouled communal push, a musical sequence...
Olga Komok. Museum Drama: "Comrade Kislyakov" on the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater
