The performance Ruslan and Lyudmila is based on the poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin and is primarily addressed to children over 12 years old and their parents.
Ruslan and Lyudmila is the first work on the Main Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater by the young director Anton Okoneshnikov, well known in the field of creative search and experimentation in theater, including theater for children. Ruslan and Lyudmila is already the second performance staged by the director on Pushkin's fairy tale story on the big stage, after The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Theatre of Young Audience TYA named by A.A. Bryantsev ).
At the Alexandrinsky Theatre Anton Okoneshnikov - curator of the program Another Stage, produced in this project performances Drama on the highway, Shakespeare. Sonnets and others. He has staged productions in the spaces of the New Stage (Tommy, Pusky Byatye, Twelve, No sun), on the Small Stage (The Game in the Box) and in the Tsar's Foyer (Vertinsky. Russian Pierrot).
Director Anton Okoneshnikov conceived the play Ruslan and Lyudmila as a fascinating and bright multimedia adventure for school-age children and their parents.
So, Lyudmila, the daughter of Prince Vladimir, is kidnapped from her wedding bed by an unknown force. Ruslan and his three rivals go in search of her...
Alexandrinsky Theater expresses its gratitude to Smartlight Company
and personally to Igor Domashkevich for his help in creating the video project of the performance.
Premiere - May 20, 2023
Media about the performance
The performance turned out to be bright, dynamic, beautiful, very fairy-tale and very modern. Fairy-tale costumes of heroes are decorated with Pushkin's handwriting, stage machinery works in front of the eyes of the audience, revealing all the tricks. When there are moments in the story that "there is no power to retell", the cameramen come out to help the actors, and the reality painted by the imagination of the storytellers appears on the screens.
Maria Chernova. Smoke of the Fatherland
Screen and Stage, 15.06.2023
The course of the production, the stage movements and the performance of the actors refer us to the traditions of opera, the only thing is that there is no singing. The scenery is large and impressive: a huge steampunk-style chariot, a suprematic talking head, a wooden moving horse and even a yellow convertible. The back of the stage is draped with a screen displaying fantastic landscapes (...)
Natalia Yakovleva. Ruslan and Lyudmila. Superheroes come from folktales
OKOLO, 23.05.2023
