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MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN
16+

Directed by Theodoros Terzopoulos, based on Bertolt Brecht’s play of the same name 

Translation: Solomon Apt 
Composer: Paul Dessau

Main Stage
2 h.
Without intermission
Theodoros Terzopoulos
Director, Set and Light Design
ANASTASIYA NEFYODOVA
Costumes
PANAYIOTIS VELIANITIS
Sound design

IVAN BLAGODYOR
Musical Director
Savvas Strumpos
Director in Assistance
VALENTIN ZAKHAROV
Assistant Director for Choreography

ANTON OKONESHNIKOV
Assistant Director
SOFIYA MATVEEVA, TATIYANA SHEINA
Assistant to the Director
KSENYA ZHELUDOVA, DARIA MALININA
Executive Producers

Nikolai MARTON
Narrator
DMITRY BUTEEV
Death
ELENA NEMZER
Mother Courage
VASILISA ALEXEEVA
Kattrin (Catherine), her mute daughter
VAN SUPRUN
Eilif, her elder son
NIKOLAI BELIN
Schweizerkas (Swiss Cheese), her younger son
SEMYON SYTNIK / DMITRIY GIREV
Recruitment Officer

VALENTIN ZAKHAROV
Feldwebel
IGOR VOLKOV
The Cook
ALEKSANDRA BOLSHAKOVA
Yvette
SERGEI PARSHIN / SERGEY KUZNETSOV
Chaplain
VITALIY SAZONOV
Commissary, Colonel, Man with the Bandage
ELENA LIPETS
Peasant Woman
MARINA ROSLOVA
Another Peasant Woman

VALERY STEPANOV
Peasant
TIMUR AKSHENTSEV, VLADIMIR MALIKOV, SERGEI SIDORENKO, VITALIY SAZONOV, VALERY STEPANOV, MAKSIM YAKOVLEV
Soldiers Choir
INNA ANDREEVA, ALEXANDR MORIN, ANDREI OGORODNIKOV, ALEXANDR SHERBAKOV
Musicians

Theodoros Terzopoulos is a world-famous Greek-born theatre director, one of the leading European masters and an inventor of a unique acting method. His staging of Bertolt Brecht’s great play at Alexandrinsky Theatre’s Main Stage is the third appearance at our Theatre: the first was a premiere of Sophokles’ “Oedipus Rex” in 2006, which opened International Alexandrinsky Theatre Festival; second – a repertoire staging of ‘Endgame’ by Samuel Beckett’s play of the same name.

Theodoros Terzopoulos is among most profound global experts in Ancient Greece theatre. However, his turn to Bertolt Brecht is n coincidence: for five in early seventies he was an intern at Berliner Ensemble Theatre, found by Brecht himself. Among his teachers was Heiner Müller, a greatest German dramatist and director after Brecht and the follower of the latter’s practices. Terzopoulos staged numerous Brecht’s plays in the end of the decade: ‘Der Brotladen’ in Thessalonike theatre laboratory, ‘In Red and Brown’ in Thessalonike Theatre, both in 1977.  Terzopoulos was also a director of ‘Get acquainted with Brecht’ (1976), ‘Maria Farantouri sings Brecht’ (1979), ‘Ekkehard Schal and Maria Farantouri sing Brecht’ (Dimitria Thessalonike and Berliner Ensemble Theatre, 1980). It is also not director’s first staging of Brecht’s Second World War eve play – the first was at Northern Greece State Theatre in 1983.

Thirty years later Terzopoulos turns to the story again and his new vision is one hundred percent up-to-date. ‘An inconceivable and invariable trait of human nature is total failure to learn from catastrophes’, said Terzopoulos before the beginning of the first rehearsal.


Performance premiered on February 24, 2017

16+

MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN

Directed by Theodoros Terzopoulos, based on Bertolt Brecht’s play of the same name 

Translation: Solomon Apt 
Composer: Paul Dessau

Main Stage

2 h.,
Without intermission

  • Theodoros Terzopoulos

    Director, Set and Light Design

  • ANASTASIYA NEFYODOVA

    Costumes

  • PANAYIOTIS VELIANITIS

    Sound design

  • IVAN BLAGODYOR

    Musical Director

  • Savvas Strumpos

    Director in Assistance

  • VALENTIN ZAKHAROV

    Assistant Director for Choreography

  • ANTON OKONESHNIKOV

    Assistant Director

  • SOFIYA MATVEEVA, TATIYANA SHEINA

    Assistant to the Director

  • KSENYA ZHELUDOVA, DARIA MALININA

    Executive Producers

  • Nikolai MARTON

    Narrator

  • DMITRY BUTEEV

    Death

  • ELENA NEMZER

    Mother Courage

  • VASILISA ALEXEEVA

    Kattrin (Catherine), her mute daughter

  • VAN SUPRUN

    Eilif, her elder son

  • NIKOLAI BELIN

    Schweizerkas (Swiss Cheese), her younger son

  • SEMYON SYTNIK / DMITRIY GIREV

    Recruitment Officer

  • VALENTIN ZAKHAROV

    Feldwebel

  • IGOR VOLKOV

    The Cook

  • ALEKSANDRA BOLSHAKOVA

    Yvette

  • SERGEI PARSHIN / SERGEY KUZNETSOV

    Chaplain

  • VITALIY SAZONOV

    Commissary, Colonel, Man with the Bandage

  • ELENA LIPETS

    Peasant Woman

  • MARINA ROSLOVA

    Another Peasant Woman

  • VALERY STEPANOV

    Peasant

  • TIMUR AKSHENTSEV, VLADIMIR MALIKOV, SERGEI SIDORENKO, VITALIY SAZONOV, VALERY STEPANOV, MAKSIM YAKOVLEV

    Soldiers Choir

  • INNA ANDREEVA, ALEXANDR MORIN, ANDREI OGORODNIKOV, ALEXANDR SHERBAKOV

    Musicians


Theodoros Terzopoulos is a world-famous Greek-born theatre director, one of the leading European masters and an inventor of a unique acting method. His staging of Bertolt Brecht’s great play at Alexandrinsky Theatre’s Main Stage is the third appearance at our Theatre: the first was a premiere of Sophokles’ “Oedipus Rex” in 2006, which opened International Alexandrinsky Theatre Festival; second – a repertoire staging of ‘Endgame’ by Samuel Beckett’s play of the same name.

Theodoros Terzopoulos is among most profound global experts in Ancient Greece theatre. However, his turn to Bertolt Brecht is n coincidence: for five in early seventies he was an intern at Berliner Ensemble Theatre, found by Brecht himself. Among his teachers was Heiner Müller, a greatest German dramatist and director after Brecht and the follower of the latter’s practices. Terzopoulos staged numerous Brecht’s plays in the end of the decade: ‘Der Brotladen’ in Thessalonike theatre laboratory, ‘In Red and Brown’ in Thessalonike Theatre, both in 1977.  Terzopoulos was also a director of ‘Get acquainted with Brecht’ (1976), ‘Maria Farantouri sings Brecht’ (1979), ‘Ekkehard Schal and Maria Farantouri sing Brecht’ (Dimitria Thessalonike and Berliner Ensemble Theatre, 1980). It is also not director’s first staging of Brecht’s Second World War eve play – the first was at Northern Greece State Theatre in 1983.

Thirty years later Terzopoulos turns to the story again and his new vision is one hundred percent up-to-date. ‘An inconceivable and invariable trait of human nature is total failure to learn from catastrophes’, said Terzopoulos before the beginning of the first rehearsal.


Performance premiered on February 24, 2017

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