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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

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VALERY FOKIN
Director, Author of the Performance
SEMYON PASTUKH
Set Design
OKSANA YARMOLNIK
Costumes

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

ASYA MUKINA
Video Effects
MAKSIM CHIKHALOV
Sound Design
SOFIA MARTUSHEVA, EKATERINA ASTRAKHANTSEVA
Assistants to the Director
ANTONINA DZOTSENIDZE
Executive Producer

STEPAN BALAKSHIN
Schweik
IGOR VOLKOV
Chief Doctor
PYOTR SEMAK
General
ANDREI MATYUKOV
Lukash
VALERY STEPANOV
Dub
NIKOLAI BELIN
Bigler
TIMUR AKSHENTSEV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)
Young terrorist
NIKITA BARSUKOV
Baloun
IGOR MOSYUK
Vodichka

YANINA LAKOBA
Grenade Mother
VIKTOR SHURALEV
Divine
ELENA NEMZER
Kati I
OLGA BELINSKAYA/ SOFIA SHUSTROVA
Kati II
ANNA BLINOVA/ NADEZHDA ALEKSEEVA (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)
Kati III
ALEXANDER MITSKEVICH
Prochazka
ANDREI MARUSIN
Palivets
SERGEI SIDORENKO
Matsuna
SERGEI ELIKOV
Undertaker
ALEKSEI VASILCHENKO
Kakon'

VLADIMIR MALIKOV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)
German
ROMAN GUSEV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Atrs student)
Kovarzhik
LUBOV STARK (a Russian State Institute of Perfroming Arts student)
Female Singer
EFIM RODNEV
Assassin
IVAN SUPRUN (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)
Refugee
DARIA KLIMENKO, EKATERINA SHUMAKOVA (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)
Two sisters and social activists
ALEKSEI DVOEGLAZOV (a Russian State Institute of Perfrorming Arts student)
Policeman I
SERGEI DENISOV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)
Policeman II
MAKSIM YAKOVLEV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)
Soldier
FILIPP BAYANDIN, IGOR MAMAY, ANTON POPOV
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

Coming soon

14th March

Sunday

19:00

  • VALERY FOKIN

    Director, Author of the Performance

  • SEMYON PASTUKH

    Set Design

  • OKSANA YARMOLNIK

    Costumes

  • ALEKSANDER BAKSHI

    Music

  • DAMIR ISMAGILOV

    Light design

  • IVAN BLAGODYOR

    Musical Director, Assistant Director for Music

  • IGOR KACHAEV

    Plastic Art

  • ASYA MUKINA

    Video Effects

  • MAKSIM CHIKHALOV

    Sound Design

  • SOFIA MARTUSHEVA, EKATERINA ASTRAKHANTSEVA

    Assistants to the Director

  • ANTONINA DZOTSENIDZE

    Executive Producer

  • STEPAN BALAKSHIN

    Schweik

  • IGOR VOLKOV

    Chief Doctor

  • PYOTR SEMAK

    General

  • ANDREI MATYUKOV

    Lukash

  • VALERY STEPANOV

    Dub

  • NIKOLAI BELIN

    Bigler

  • TIMUR AKSHENTSEV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)

    Young terrorist

  • NIKITA BARSUKOV

    Baloun

  • IGOR MOSYUK

    Vodichka

  • YANINA LAKOBA

    Grenade Mother

  • VIKTOR SHURALEV

    Divine

  • ELENA NEMZER

    Kati I

  • OLGA BELINSKAYA/ SOFIA SHUSTROVA

    Kati II

  • ANNA BLINOVA/ NADEZHDA ALEKSEEVA (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)

    Kati III

  • ALEKSANDER MITSKEVICH

    Prochazka

  • ANDREI MARUSIN

    Palivets

  • SERGEI SIDORENKO

    Matsuna

  • SERGEI ELIKOV

    Undertaker

  • ALEKSEI VASILCHENKO

    Kakon'

  • VLADIMIR MALIKOV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)

    German

  • ROMAN GUSEV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)

    Kovarzhik

  • LUBOV STARK (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)

    Female singer

  • EFIM RODNEV

    Assassin

  • IVAN SUPRUN (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)

    Refugee

  • DARIA KLIMENKO, EKATERINA SHUMAKOVA (Russian State Institute of Performing Arts students)

    Two sisters and social activists

  • ALEKSEI DVOEGLAZOV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)

    Policeman I

  • SERGEI DENISOV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)

    Policeman II

  • MAKSIM YAKOVLEV (a Russian State Institute of Performing Arts student)

    Soldier

  • FILIPP BAYANDIN, IGOR MAMAY, ANTON POPOV

    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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