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SCHWEIK. THE COMEBACK
18+

a performance by Valery Fokin,
based on Jaroslav Hasek’s novel The fateful adventures of the good soldier Schweik during the World War

Dramatist - Tatiana Rakhmanova

Main Stage
2 h.
Without intermission
VALERY FOKIN
Director, Author of the Performance
SEMYON PASTUKH
Set Design
OKSANA YARMOLNIK
Costumes

ALEXANDER BAKSHI
Music
DAMIR ISMAGILOV
Light design
IVAN BLAGODYER
Musical Director, Assistant Director for Music
IGOR KACHAEV
Plastic Art

ASYA MUKINA
Video Effects
MAKSIM CHIKHALOV
Sound Design
Е
Assistants to the Director
ANTONINA DZOTSENIDZE
Executive Producer

STEPAN BALAKSHIN
Schweik
IGOR VOLKOV
Chief Doctor
PETER SEMAK
General
ANDREI MATYUKOV
Lukash
VALERY STEPANOV
Dub
NIKOLAY BELIN
Bigler
TIMUR AKSHENTSEV 
Young terrorist
NIKITA BARSUKOV
Baloun
IGOR MOSYUK
Vodichka

JANINA LAKOBA / VASILISA ALEKSEEVA
Grenade Mother
VICTOR SHURALYOV
Divine
ELENA NEMZER
Kati I
OLGA BELINSKAYA
Kati II
ANNA BLINOVA
Kati III

Prochazka
IVAN ZHUKOV
Palivets
SERGEY ELIKOV
Undertaker
DMITRY GIREV
Kakon'

VLADIMIR MALIKOV
German
VITALY SAZONOV
Kovarzhik
LUBOV STARK 
Female Singer
YEFIM RODNEV
Assassin
IVAN SUPRUN 
Refugee
DARIA KLIMENKO, ANASTASIA LUKEVICH
Two sisters and social activists
IGOR USHAKOV 
Policeman I
VLADIMIR MINAKHIN
Policeman II
MAXIM YAKOVLEV 
Soldier
IGOR MAMAY, ANTON POPOV, DMITRY SIZOV
Musicians

A fragment of Boris Pasternak’s poem ‘Hamlet’ is used in the performance.
Fragments of the following music are used in the performance:
J. Haydn (An Anthem of Austria-Hungary), R. Wagner (Introduction to an opera ‘Lohengrin’), Dmitri Shostakovich (Allegrettofrom Symphony #8), S. Chernetsky (Kadets’ welcome march)
Fragments of the following songs are used in the performance:
‘You nightingales let the soldiers rest in peace’ (V. Solovyov-Sedoi, A. Fatjanov), ‘So went the squad along the shore’ (M. Blanter, M. Golodny), ‘Katyusha’ (M. Blanter, M. Isakovsky), Ukrainian folk song ‘Unharness your horses, comrades’, ‘Tanti Auguri’ (Raffaella Carra).

Videos of cruelty and violence are shown in the performance


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.

Written in early twenties, the novel introduced Schweik– a little man trying to outlast the turbulence of global war – to the world, a character who has eventually become one of the most popular ‘commonman heroes’. Valery Fokin’s performance attempts to reconsider a story from bygone age trough a prism of a question ‘Who is Schweik of the twenty-first century?’. An answer is: an unwilling warfare contemporary, fighting in a war of everybody with everyone, still trying to survive and stay sane among surrounding absurd. Nowadays this grotesque and naive simpleton becomes a true hero of our time.

Albeit funny, Schweik. The Comeback is a story that points out basic issues for all of us: war and peace, state andcitizen, personal responsibilityfor what is happening on the globe.


Events programme to the premiere of Schweik. The Comeback

January 23: A lecture by Dmitry Bykov ‘Schweik and his metamorphosis. The ultimate hero of Austria-Hungary’;

January 24: a Discussion with linguist Maksim Krongauz and dramatist Yuri Klavdiev on the usage of profanity in culture;

January 25: an exhibition ‘Josef Lada’s Schweik’ opens at the New Stage lobby, presenting famous illustrations to Jaroslav Hasek’s novel ‘The fateful adventures of the good soldier Schweik during the World War’;

January 27: a Talk ‘Why is Schweik back?’ with dramatist Tatiana Rakhmanova, the author of ‘Schweik. The Comeback’.


Performance premiered January 26, 2018


18+

SCHWEIK. THE COMEBACK

a performance by Valery Fokin,
based on Jaroslav Hasek’s novel The fateful adventures of the good soldier Schweik during the World War

Dramatist - Tatiana Rakhmanova

Main Stage

2 h.,
Without intermission

  • VALERY FOKIN

    Director, Author of the Performance

  • SEMYON PASTUKH

    Set Design

  • OKSANA YARMOLNIK

    Costumes

  • ALEXANDER BAKSHI

    Music

  • DAMIR ISMAGILOV

    Light design

  • IVAN BLAGODYER

    Musical Director, Assistant Director for Music

  • IGOR KACHAEV

    Plastic Art

  • ASYA MUKINA

    Video Effects

  • MAKSIM CHIKHALOV

    Sound Design

  • E

    Assistants to the Director

  • ANTONINA DZOTSENIDZE

    Executive Producer

  • STEPAN BALAKSHIN

    Schweik

  • IGOR VOLKOV

    Chief Doctor

  • PETER SEMAK

    General

  • ANDREI MATYUKOV

    Lukash

  • VALERY STEPANOV

    Dub

  • NIKOLAY BELIN

    Bigler

  • TIMUR AKSHENTSEV 

    Young terrorist

  • NIKITA BARSUKOV

    Baloun

  • IGOR MOSYUK

    Vodichka

  • JANINA LAKOBA / VASILISA ALEKSEEVA

    Grenade Mother

  • VICTOR SHURALYOV

    Divine

  • ELENA NEMZER

    Kati I

  • OLGA BELINSKAYA

    Kati II

  • ANNA BLINOVA

    Kati III


  • Prochazka

  • IVAN ZHUKOV

    Palivets

  • SERGEY ELIKOV

    Undertaker

  • DMITRY GIREV

    Kakon'

  • VLADIMIR MALIKOV 

    German

  • VITALY SAZONOV

    Kovarzhik

  • LUBOV STARK 

    Female singer

  • YEFIM RODNEV

    Assassin

  • IVAN SUPRUN 

    Refugee

  • DARIA KLIMENKO, ANASTASIA LUKEVICH

    Two sisters and social activists

  • IGOR USHAKOV 

    Policeman I

  • VLADIMIR MINAKHIN

    Policeman II

  • MAXIM YAKOVLEV 

    Soldier

  • IGOR MAMAY, ANTON POPOV, DMITRY SIZOV

    Musicians

A fragment of Boris Pasternak’s poem ‘Hamlet’ is used in the performance.
Fragments of the following music are used in the performance:
J. Haydn (An Anthem of Austria-Hungary), R. Wagner (Introduction to an opera ‘Lohengrin’), Dmitri Shostakovich (Allegrettofrom Symphony #8), S. Chernetsky (Kadets’ welcome march)
Fragments of the following songs are used in the performance:
‘You nightingales let the soldiers rest in peace’ (V. Solovyov-Sedoi, A. Fatjanov), ‘So went the squad along the shore’ (M. Blanter, M. Golodny), ‘Katyusha’ (M. Blanter, M. Isakovsky), Ukrainian folk song ‘Unharness your horses, comrades’, ‘Tanti Auguri’ (Raffaella Carra).

Videos of cruelty and violence are shown in the performance


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.

Written in early twenties, the novel introduced Schweik– a little man trying to outlast the turbulence of global war – to the world, a character who has eventually become one of the most popular ‘commonman heroes’. Valery Fokin’s performance attempts to reconsider a story from bygone age trough a prism of a question ‘Who is Schweik of the twenty-first century?’. An answer is: an unwilling warfare contemporary, fighting in a war of everybody with everyone, still trying to survive and stay sane among surrounding absurd. Nowadays this grotesque and naive simpleton becomes a true hero of our time.

Albeit funny, Schweik. The Comeback is a story that points out basic issues for all of us: war and peace, state andcitizen, personal responsibilityfor what is happening on the globe.


Events programme to the premiere of Schweik. The Comeback

January 23: A lecture by Dmitry Bykov ‘Schweik and his metamorphosis. The ultimate hero of Austria-Hungary’;

January 24: a Discussion with linguist Maksim Krongauz and dramatist Yuri Klavdiev on the usage of profanity in culture;

January 25: an exhibition ‘Josef Lada’s Schweik’ opens at the New Stage lobby, presenting famous illustrations to Jaroslav Hasek’s novel ‘The fateful adventures of the good soldier Schweik during the World War’;

January 27: a Talk ‘Why is Schweik back?’ with dramatist Tatiana Rakhmanova, the author of ‘Schweik. The Comeback’.


Performance premiered January 26, 2018


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