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THE SUNSTROKE
16+
Main Stage, Small Stage
1h. 30m.
Without intermission

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06th March
Wednesday
19:30
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09th March
Saturday
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IRINA KERUCHENKO
Director, Author of the Performance

MARIA UTROBINA
Scenic Designer

NATALIA PANOVA
Composer

MAXIM CHIKHALOV
Sound Director

DMITRY KOMLIK
Lighting Designer

ALEXEI LYASKIN
Sound Technician

EKATERINA SCHERBATYUK
Assistant Director

SOFIA MATVEEVA, LYUDMILA FILIPPOVA
Assistant Directors

STEPAN BALAKSHIN
The Lieutenant

JULIA MARCHENKO
The Beautiful Stranger

After staging several shows in Moscow theatres, director Irina Keruchenko created The Dream of a Funny Man in Saint Petersburg. The performance is based on a science fiction story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The performance was nominated for Saint Petersburg Ultimate GOLDEN SOFFIT Professional Theatre Prize in several categories. The young Alexandrinsky Theatre actor, Ivan Efremov, was the winner in the Best Debut category.

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.

A chance meeting of the Lieutenant (Stepan Balashin) and the beautiful Stranger (Julia Marchenko) evolves from a fleeting passion into a full-out struggle of the character with the primary essence of love and its eternal laws. There is no curbing or controlling this elemental force, nor is there a living without it, as a passing summer encounter leads to a new conscience and the awareness of your own life as well as of ‘every grain of sand or drop of water and the shadow of a seagull’s wing on the disk of the Sun’.

The soundtrack of the performance includes fragments of Rachmaninoff pieces and a Russian folk song Golden Bee. The music was recorded with the participation of Anton Popov (the violin) and Givi Sarkisyan (the trumpet).

The show premiered on April 10, 2014

Media about the

The emotion tension of the show accelerates, culminating into open passion. It would have been easy to overdramatize, but the team managed to paint the story with watercolour lightness and even graphic clarity.


Marina Kvasnitskaya. The Cosmos of Love

Rossiyskaya gazeta, July 2014

The original Sunstroke story is very short and only takes a few minutes to read. To remake it into a full-time theatre performance is a serious professional challenge. Prose does not produce an easy play: a fact that seemed to lend a greater motivation to the director and the two actors. The result is extremely theatrical, very detailed and scrupulous and at the same time incredibly lively, inventive, graceful and ingenious.


Maria Kingisepp. Like in a Dream

INFOSCOP, May 2014

16+

THE SUNSTROKE

Main Stage,
Small Stage

1h. 30m.,
Without intermission

Coming soon

06th March

Wednesday

19:30

09th March

Saturday

19:30

  • IRINA KERUCHENKO

    Director, Author of the Performance

  • MARIA UTROBINA

    Scenic Designer

  • NATALIA PANOVA

    Composer

  • MAXIM CHIKHALOV

    Sound Director

  • DMITRY KOMLIK

    Lighting Designer

  • ALEXEI LYASKIN

    Sound Technician

  • EKATERINA SCHERBATYUK

    Assistant Director

  • SOFIA MATVEEVA, LYUDMILA FILIPPOVA

    Assistant Directors

  • STEPAN BALAKSHIN

    The Lieutenant

  • JULIA MARCHENKO

    The Beautiful Stranger

After staging several shows in Moscow theatres, director Irina Keruchenko created The Dream of a Funny Man in Saint Petersburg. The performance is based on a science fiction story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The performance was nominated for Saint Petersburg Ultimate GOLDEN SOFFIT Professional Theatre Prize in several categories. The young Alexandrinsky Theatre actor, Ivan Efremov, was the winner in the Best Debut category.

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.

A chance meeting of the Lieutenant (Stepan Balashin) and the beautiful Stranger (Julia Marchenko) evolves from a fleeting passion into a full-out struggle of the character with the primary essence of love and its eternal laws. There is no curbing or controlling this elemental force, nor is there a living without it, as a passing summer encounter leads to a new conscience and the awareness of your own life as well as of ‘every grain of sand or drop of water and the shadow of a seagull’s wing on the disk of the Sun’.

The soundtrack of the performance includes fragments of Rachmaninoff pieces and a Russian folk song Golden Bee. The music was recorded with the participation of Anton Popov (the violin) and Givi Sarkisyan (the trumpet).

The show premiered on April 10, 2014


Read more

Media about the

The emotion tension of the show accelerates, culminating into open passion. It would have been easy to overdramatize, but the team managed to paint the story with watercolour lightness and even graphic clarity.


Marina Kvasnitskaya. The Cosmos of Love

Rossiyskaya gazeta, July 2014

“

The original Sunstroke story is very short and only takes a few minutes to read. To remake it into a full-time theatre performance is a serious professional challenge. Prose does not produce an easy play: a fact that seemed to lend a greater motivation to the director and the two actors. The result is extremely theatrical, very detailed and scrupulous and at the same time incredibly lively, inventive, graceful and ingenious.


Maria Kingisepp. Like in a Dream

INFOSCOP, May 2014

“
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