‘Schweik. The Comeback’is a new production by Alexandrinsky Theatre's Artistic Director Valery Fokin, based on a play by Tatiana Rakhmanova. The play, in turn, is inspired by Jaroslav Hasek’s world-popular satirical novel ‘The fateful adventures of the good soldier Schweik during the World War’.

Revolutionary show based on the play by Vsevolod Vishnevsky
Author of the performance — Viktor Ryzhakov. Play writer — Asya Voloshina. 

An Anxious Box Keeper’s Sketch-Book - one-man performance directed by the Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation Igor Volkov is the second piece of the Monologues at the Tsar’s Lobby cycle opened by the Monologues performance (currently named Faces and Roles) directed by the Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation Nikolai Marton and based on pieces of the classic repertoire.

Chuk and Gek is the second performance directed by Patlasov at the New Stage. The first one is Noise based on a documentary play by Ekaterina Bondarenko.

The new performance by Patlasov is based on the Chuk and Gek novel by Arkady Gaidar, the writer’s diaries, and documented memories of those who have been prosecuted for political reasons and survived through Stalin’s camps. Those memories were documented by Andrei Sovlachkov and Alina Shklyarskaya, the playwrights of the project.

The performance is based on the novel of F.M. Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment - the first work on the Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre of one of the most prominent stage directors of the contemporary Eastern Europe, the artistic director of the Hungarian National Theatre, Attila Vidnyansky. 

Nowadays only a few pieces are staged without Nikolai Marton who also cooperates with Saint-Petersburg State Capella – he participates In unique music-and-drama pieces. However, Nikolai Marton has not yet played many roles any artist dreams about playing.

One part of the Fairy Tale’s Birthday performance belongs to the action, i.e. quest genre, which is very popular now, and the other one – to the multimedia reading genre combining academic acting, classic Russian folk tales, the best pieces of Russian and world culture, as well as multimedia technologies.

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

Jean Bellorini is a French director and an Artistic Director of the Centre Dramatique National and Le Theatre Gerard Philipe de Saint-Denis. Among his productions are ‘The Karamazovs’ by F. Dostoevsky’s novel for Avignon Festival and F. Cavalli’s opera ‘Erismena’ for the festival in Aix-en-Provence. For his first production in Russia Bellorini chose a play ‘Krum’ by Hanoch Levin, a comedy ‘with two weddings and two funerals’ about a man in his forties who returns to his native country and his mother after years of wanderings — like a prodigal son. He is back to his little town, his friends and ex-girlfriend. His life is an infinite slumber. Krum puts his hope into ‘a moment to come’, a moment he finally becomes ready to start a life at full strength…

The performance was the winner of the GOLDEN MASK Russian National Theatre Award in the Best Artist’s Work (Semyon Pastukh, Scenic Design) and Best Supporting Actor (Nikolai Marton as the Stranger) categories.

This large-scale project created by the Alexandrinsky Theatre Artistic Director, Valery Fokin, was the opening event at the 8th International Theatre Festival, which was also the year of Mikhail Lermontov’s 200th anniversary.

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.

My Being an Actor is a one-man performance by the Honoured Artist of Russia Vladimir Lisetsky. It continues the Monologues at the Tsar’s Lobby cycle.

A FUTURIST OPERA IN FIVE SEASONS

This performance is set as a time-travel to the future after the collapse of the sun, to the obscure world with no light but only darkness around. This is a journey to the times of last men alive, who speak no language but a set of sounds and have no memory of their past. This is a plunge for thirty spectators into subjective reality with an assistance of unique musical and sound effects within an unusual set design.

Distant future, the year AD 4015, Earth calendar. As a result of a reincarnation experiment, three sisters – Masha, Irina and Olga, deceased in 1900, find a new life in the new world.

This performance for Alexandrinsky theatre’s Small Stage, based on a play by Peter Weiss, is directed by Andrei Kalinin, who also acts as scenic designer. The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Company of Inmates of the Asylum under the Direction of Monsieur de Sade is the first Kalinin’s staging at Alexandrinsky Theatre. Composer Ivan Volkov is in charge of musical score. The public knows both him and Kalinin as members of Alexandrinsky Theatre’s Chief Director Nikolai Roshchin creative team.

This performance based on The Endgame play by Samuel Beckett, a classic author of the 20th century, is directed by the world-famous director Theodoros Terzopoulos, the founder and the head of Attis Theatre (Athens).

The Alexandrinsky Theatre presents a show for children aged 7 to 12 and their parents.

Valery Fokin, who is rightly considered one of the best contemporary authorities on Nikolay Gogol’s works, turns to The Inspector General for the third time. This Alexandrinsky Theatre project, however, is special. This is the stage where Gogol’s comedy first premiered on April 19, 1836, with Nikolay Gogol himself taking an active part in the staging of his play.

This is not Nikolai Roshchin’s first attempt to stage a play by Gozzi. Back in 2011 he staged The Raven at the A.R.T.O. theatre, turning down the festive design characteristic of commedia dell’arte purposefully. In 2001 Nikolai Roshchin put on the play The Stag King (Russian Academic Youth Theatre, Moscow, 2001) which was recognized as one of the best Gozzi’s performances on the Russian stage. This rendering brought the director the Smoktunovsky Award and the Moscow Critics’ Association Award.

The Sunstroke is Irina Keruchenko’s second work in the Alexandrinsky Theatre. In her new work, the director follows Bunin’s idea that love is the essence of earthly happiness and the short moment of ultimate concentration of a man’s life force that burns him up. She continues to explore the philosophy of the feeling.

...The performance is about creativity, it is about creating the relationships we want. We may call the Sun the Moon, yet it will still be the Sun. In other words, the what is more important than the how. The play teaches us that the true dreams of our heart may come true. That’s it. After all, like any other work of art, theatre is a dream…

Valery Fokin’s performance based upon the play by Leo Tolstoy called The Live Corpse continues the series of the director’s current research into the tragic relationship of a man and the soulless reality that drives the character to escaping from the real world.

Saint-Petersburg, i.e. Petrograd, is the main character of the performance. Director Anton Okoneshnikov, Scenic Designer Elena Zhukova, and Video Designer Maria Varakhalina have created the stage solution and visual environment for the performance. The audience find themselves amidst the happenings, and the situation develops around them.

Today. 2016 - ... is Valery Fokin’s first performance on the New Stage, so one of his goals was to make its unique high tech potential serve his artistic goals.

Willing to live is a one-man performance by the Honoured Artist of Russia, Sergey Parshin.

Xenia. The Story of Love - performance by Valery Fokin continues Alexandrinsky Theatre’s Saint-Petersburg cycle of performances based on literary images, facts and legends of the world’s most malicious city.

The earthly story of Saint Xenia has inspired the Theatre to create a performance in which a different period of the history of our city would interlace facing the need for spiritual truth and redemption.

The new performance is Valery Fokin’s new rendition of the 2011 performance, which used to be given on the seventh tier of The Alexandrinsky Theatre Historical Stage.

This performance is based on one of the most popular works by F.M. Dostoyevsky – the Gambler.

Dostoyevsky is one of the authors that Valery Fokin’s artistic career is inextracibly connected to.