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HAPPINESS
6+

Andrei Moguchy, Konstantin Filippov.

The play interprets and builds on the plots of Maurice Maeterlinck.

Main Stage
2h. 40m.
With intermission

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ANDREI MOGUCHY
Director, Author of the Performance

ALEXANDER SHISHKIN
Scenic Designer

ALEXANDRE MANOTSKOV
Composer

ANNA VISHNYAKOVA
Music Director, Conductor

IGOR FOMIN, ALEXANDER KULESHOV
Lighting Designers

ALEXANDRA AGRINSKAYA, TATIANA VOLGINA, BORIS KAZAKOV, KIRILL MALOVICHKO, MARIYA SIDOROVA
Animation Artists

OLEG MIKHAILOV, KONSTANTIN SCHEPANOVSKY
Video Artists

SVETLANA KALINOVSKAYA
Scenic Designer

NIKOLAI GUSEV
Stunt Director

GALINA GUSEVA
Stunts

POLINA NEVEDOMSKAYA, EKATERINA SCHERBATYUK
Assistant Director

TATIANA TIMOFEEVA, ELENA BORUNOVA, SOFIA MATVEEVA
Assistant Directors

YANINA LAKOBA / VASILISA ALEXEEVA
Mitil’

ANDREI MATYUKOV
Til’til’

ALEXANDER LUSHIN
The Father

ELENA ZIMINA
The Mother

VADIM NIKITIN
The Grandfather

TIKHON ZHIZNEVSKY / ALEXEI FROLOV
The unborn Brother of Mitil’ and Til’til’

VITALY KOVALENKO / SERGEI SIDORENKO
Tobik

STEPAN BALAKSHIN
Bobik

ELENA GLADKOVA
Great-great-great-grandmother Roza Frantsevna

GALINA KARELINA
Great-great-great-great-grandmother Maria Ivanovna

VASILISA ALEXEEVA / OXANA OBUKHOVICH
Frosya the Cat, servant to the Queen of the Night

VIKTORIA VOROBYOVA / JULIA MARCHENKO
Froken Light, the overhead Neighbour

VIKTORIA VOROBYOVA / JULIA MARCHENKO
the Queen of the Night, her Sister

SEMYON SYTNIK
Time, their Father

SVETLANA SMIRNOVA
The Grandmother of Light

MARIA KUZNETSOVA
Great-grandmother Masha

TAMARA KOLESNIKOVA
Great-great-grandmother Stasya

IRINA LEPESHENKOVA
Great-great-grandmother Vilya, her Sister

JULIA SOKOLOVA
The first Grandfather Frost

ELENA LIPETS
The second Grandfather Frost

DMITRY BELOV
The ambulance Doctor

NIKITA BARSUKOV, NIKOLAI BELIN, DMITRY BELOV, TIKHON ZHIZNEVSKY, ANDREI MARUSIN, ALEXANDER MITSKEVICH, ALEXANDER SHINKAREV, ALEXEI FROLOV
male nurses, intensive care ward doctors, unborn babies, bird-headed servants of the Night

SERGEI AMOSOV, EVGENY KAPITONOV, IOSIF KOSHELEVICH, VLADIMIR LISETSKY, IGOR MOSYUK,VIKTOR SEMYONOVSKY, KONSTANTIN SOYA, VALERY STEPANOV
The Souls of Forgotten Things

DMITRY ZOTIN, EVGENIA KADOCHNIKOVA, IGOR MAMAI, ANTON POPOV, VLADIMIR SHASHKOV
The Souls of the Musical Instruments

Director Andrei Moguchy teamed up with Kostantin Filippov to create a modern fairy-tale based on the works of the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck.

The famous Maeterlinck theme of children descending into the kingdom of the Night in search for the Blue Bird has now acquired modern overtones. This is an attempt to use the theatre to involve the children’s audience into the conversation about the foundations of the Universe, the good and evil, the true and false kinds of happiness. The world of the show is seen with the child’s eye – this is the world of a child’s dreams, fantasies, fears and hopes. The scenic designer, Alexander Shishkin, created the props and costumes in the style of childlike drawings, where every character seems to have been drawn by a child. The action takes place on New Year’s Eve in a cute plasticine family which consists of a brother and sister, Til’til’ and Mitil’, a father, a grandfather, two green dogs, one red cat, and of course, a mother who’s expecting another baby. However, the holiday idyll is broken by a bird which flies into their window. The mother suddenly feels bad and is taken to hospital. Their neighbor, Froken Light, agrees to look after the children. To save their mother and her unborn baby, Til’til’ and Mitil’ have to embark on a perilous journey into the realm of the dead to retrieve the Blue Bird from the Queen of the Night.

Nearly all the Alexandrinsky Theatre company is engaged in the performance along with the musicians. The show is recommended for schoolchildren over 6. However, it may be of equal interest to grown-ups, as it touches upon those questions that are important at any age.

The show premiered on March 26, 2011

The performance was created with the financial help of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the North-Western bank of Sberbank of Russia.

Media about the

Cutting edge technologies, an assortment of visual effects, lots of good humour and the successes and discoveries of acting make Happiness an important step towards upgrading and revolutionizing children’s theatre. We could venture to say that Moguchy has applied Avant-garde to the needs of the modern children and modern theatre. But the most important thing is, of course, not the scheme but the current idea that runs through all the mosaics of this controversial performance – the idea of love…


Elena Gorfunkel. Of Clairvoyant Dreams, Child-Bearing and Teleportation

Imperia Dramy, April 2011

Of course, this is a triumph of theatrical design. The huge bunraku dolls (take Sergey Parshin’s naïve Father standing on stools for legs).
The characters are equally fascinating: the businesslike Mitil’ (Yanina Lakoba), a very lifelike tomboy (note her enumerating her personal treasures to exchange them for her Mother from the Queen of the Night!), the noble Til’til’ who shows the tendency to faint at every trial (Pavel Yurinov), the two green clockwork dogs (Vitaly Kovalenko and Stepan Balakshin).


Nikolay Pesochinsky. Maeterlinck in 3D

Peterburgsky Teatralny Zhurnal, March 2011

However, all those high tech innovations do not suppress the human message, so tender and open-hearted, and at the same time coloured with good humour. You realise that this quest for happiness that teaches the young kids the simple truths, affirms them for you, too. And how we live our lives is far more important than the fact that they all shall end someday.


Olga Galakhova. The Golden Mask brings magnificent Happiness from Saint Petersburg

RIA Novosti, April 2012

The world of paradox and surrealism, created by the director together with Alexander Shishkin, draws the spectator in by the fascinating combination of naivety and artfulness, the simple and the complicated, the happy and the sad. Among the child-drawing style stage decorations, a magnificently theatrical tale unfolds that tells of self-sacrifice and the value of life, of family and attachment, loneliness and the infant fear of death.


Roman Dolzhansky. People and Puppets of Saint Petersburg.

Kommersant-Weekend, March 2012

6+

HAPPINESS

Andrei Moguchy, Konstantin Filippov.

The play interprets and builds on the plots of Maurice Maeterlinck.

Main Stage

2h. 40m.,
With intermission

Coming soon

24th March

Sunday

13:00

24th March

Sunday

17:00

  • ANDREI MOGUCHY

    Director, Author of the Performance

  • ALEXANDER SHISHKIN

    Scenic Designer

  • ALEXANDRE MANOTSKOV

    Composer

  • ANNA VISHNYAKOVA

    Music Director, Conductor

  • IGOR FOMIN, ALEXANDER KULESHOV

    Lighting Designers

  • ALEXANDRA AGRINSKAYA, TATIANA VOLGINA, BORIS KAZAKOV, KIRILL MALOVICHKO, MARIYA SIDOROVA

    Animation Artists

  • OLEG MIKHAILOV, KONSTANTIN SCHEPANOVSKY

    Video Artists

  • SVETLANA KALINOVSKAYA

    Scenic Designer

  • NIKOLAI GUSEV

    Stunt Director

  • GALINA GUSEVA

    Stunts

  • POLINA NEVEDOMSKAYA, EKATERINA SCHERBATYUK

    Assistant Director

  • TATIANA TIMOFEEVA, ELENA BORUNOVA, SOFIA MATVEEVA

    Assistant Directors

  • YANINA LAKOBA / VASILISA ALEXEEVA

    Mitil’

  • ANDREI MATYUKOV

    Til’til’

  • ALEXANDER LUSHIN

    The Father

  • ELENA ZIMINA

    The Mother

  • VADIM NIKITIN

    The Grandfather

  • TIKHON ZHIZNEVSKY / ALEXEI FROLOV

    The unborn Brother of Mitil’ and Til’til’

  • VITALY KOVALENKO / SERGEI SIDORENKO

    Tobik

  • STEPAN BALAKSHIN

    Bobik

  • ELENA GLADKOVA

    Great-great-great-grandmother Roza Frantsevna

  • GALINA KARELINA

    Great-great-great-great-grandmother Maria Ivanovna

  • VASILISA ALEXEEVA / OXANA OBUKHOVICH

    Frosya the Cat, servant to the Queen of the Night

  • VIKTORIA VOROBYOVA / JULIA MARCHENKO

    Froken Light, the overhead Neighbour

  • VIKTORIA VOROBYOVA / JULIA MARCHENKO

    the Queen of the Night, her Sister

  • SEMYON SYTNIK

    Time, their Father

  • SVETLANA SMIRNOVA

    The Grandmother of Light

  • MARIA KUZNETSOVA

    Great-grandmother Masha

  • TAMARA KOLESNIKOVA

    Great-great-grandmother Stasya

  • IRINA LEPESHENKOVA

    Great-great-grandmother Vilya, her Sister

  • JULIA SOKOLOVA

    The first Grandfather Frost

  • ELENA LIPETS

    The second Grandfather Frost

  • DMITRY BELOV

    The ambulance Doctor

  • NIKITA BARSUKOV, NIKOLAI BELIN, DMITRY BELOV, TIKHON ZHIZNEVSKY, ANDREI MARUSIN, ALEXANDER MITSKEVICH, ALEXANDER SHINKAREV, ALEXEI FROLOV

    male nurses, intensive care ward doctors, unborn babies, bird-headed servants of the Night

  • SERGEI AMOSOV, EVGENY KAPITONOV, IOSIF KOSHELEVICH, VLADIMIR LISETSKY, IGOR MOSYUK,VIKTOR SEMYONOVSKY, KONSTANTIN SOYA, VALERY STEPANOV

    The Souls of Forgotten Things

  • DMITRY ZOTIN, EVGENIA KADOCHNIKOVA, IGOR MAMAI, ANTON POPOV, VLADIMIR SHASHKOV

    The Souls of the Musical Instruments

Director Andrei Moguchy teamed up with Kostantin Filippov to create a modern fairy-tale based on the works of the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck.

The famous Maeterlinck theme of children descending into the kingdom of the Night in search for the Blue Bird has now acquired modern overtones. This is an attempt to use the theatre to involve the children’s audience into the conversation about the foundations of the Universe, the good and evil, the true and false kinds of happiness. The world of the show is seen with the child’s eye – this is the world of a child’s dreams, fantasies, fears and hopes. The scenic designer, Alexander Shishkin, created the props and costumes in the style of childlike drawings, where every character seems to have been drawn by a child. The action takes place on New Year’s Eve in a cute plasticine family which consists of a brother and sister, Til’til’ and Mitil’, a father, a grandfather, two green dogs, one red cat, and of course, a mother who’s expecting another baby. However, the holiday idyll is broken by a bird which flies into their window. The mother suddenly feels bad and is taken to hospital. Their neighbor, Froken Light, agrees to look after the children. To save their mother and her unborn baby, Til’til’ and Mitil’ have to embark on a perilous journey into the realm of the dead to retrieve the Blue Bird from the Queen of the Night.

Nearly all the Alexandrinsky Theatre company is engaged in the performance along with the musicians. The show is recommended for schoolchildren over 6. However, it may be of equal interest to grown-ups, as it touches upon those questions that are important at any age.

The show premiered on March 26, 2011

The performance was created with the financial help of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the North-Western bank of Sberbank of Russia.


Read more

Media about the

Cutting edge technologies, an assortment of visual effects, lots of good humour and the successes and discoveries of acting make Happiness an important step towards upgrading and revolutionizing children’s theatre. We could venture to say that Moguchy has applied Avant-garde to the needs of the modern children and modern theatre. But the most important thing is, of course, not the scheme but the current idea that runs through all the mosaics of this controversial performance – the idea of love…


Elena Gorfunkel. Of Clairvoyant Dreams, Child-Bearing and Teleportation

Imperia Dramy, April 2011

“

Of course, this is a triumph of theatrical design. The huge bunraku dolls (take Sergey Parshin’s naïve Father standing on stools for legs).
The characters are equally fascinating: the businesslike Mitil’ (Yanina Lakoba), a very lifelike tomboy (note her enumerating her personal treasures to exchange them for her Mother from the Queen of the Night!), the noble Til’til’ who shows the tendency to faint at every trial (Pavel Yurinov), the two green clockwork dogs (Vitaly Kovalenko and Stepan Balakshin).


Nikolay Pesochinsky. Maeterlinck in 3D

Peterburgsky Teatralny Zhurnal, March 2011

“

However, all those high tech innovations do not suppress the human message, so tender and open-hearted, and at the same time coloured with good humour. You realise that this quest for happiness that teaches the young kids the simple truths, affirms them for you, too. And how we live our lives is far more important than the fact that they all shall end someday.


Olga Galakhova. The Golden Mask brings magnificent Happiness from Saint Petersburg

RIA Novosti, April 2012

“

The world of paradox and surrealism, created by the director together with Alexander Shishkin, draws the spectator in by the fascinating combination of naivety and artfulness, the simple and the complicated, the happy and the sad. Among the child-drawing style stage decorations, a magnificently theatrical tale unfolds that tells of self-sacrifice and the value of life, of family and attachment, loneliness and the infant fear of death.


Roman Dolzhansky. People and Puppets of Saint Petersburg.

Kommersant-Weekend, March 2012

“
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