ALEXANDRINSKY THEATRE’S PERFORMANCE TO OPEN MITEM THEATRE FESTIVAL IN BUDAPEST
Today the performance by Alexandrinsky Theatre's Artistic Director Valery Fokin ‘Schweik. The Comeback’ opens the Fifth Madách International Theatre Meeting (MITEM, Budapest). The performance will be shown twice, on April 10 and 11, on the stage of the National Theatre (Nemzeti Színház).
It is not the first time when Alexandrinsky Theatre participates in MITEM: Valery Fokin’s ‘ZERO Liturgy’, based on one of the most popular works by F.M. Dostoyevsky ‘The Gambler’, was shown in 2014. Nikolai Roshchin’s ‘The Raven’, based on a fiaba (fairy-tale) by Carlo Gozzi, was shown in 2016. In 2017 time had come for Budapest audience to see ‘Crime and punishment’ — the performance, based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, was shown at the National Theatre. It was initially a part of symbolic intercultural exchange between Hungary’s and Russia’s leading national theatre companies: while Hungarian National Theatre’s Artistic Director Attila Vidnyansky staged Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and punishment’ at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, the latter’s Artistic Director Valery Fokin produced his ‘Crocodile’, based on a satirical short story again by Dostoyevsky, at Hungarian National Theatre.