ORCHAD

23 April, 19.00 on the stage of the Novgorod Philharmonic

Puppet Theater of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk

«Orchard» based on the play by A. Chekhov «The Cherry Orchard»

Stage director — Alexander Yanushkevich

Artist — Tatyana Nersisyan

Composer — Alexander Litvinovsky

Choreographer — Alexander Kozin

Lighting designer — Dmitry Babkin

Sound-designer — Dmitry Gavrilov

Cast: Lyubov Biryukova, Irina Budnikova, Marina Zburzhinskaya, Artem Olkonen, Dmitry Budnikov, Vladislav Timonin, Natalya Vasilyeva, Tatyana Matskevich, Oleg Romanov, Ekaterina Shvetsova, Rodion Mikhno, Anton Vereshchagin, Maria Artibyakina, Svetlana Romanova

The genre definition of Alexander Yanushkevich’s performance is a comedy. It was a comedy that Chekhov himself considered the play “The Cherry Orchard” . In this performance, Chekhov’s textbook heroes are elevated to the absolute and become living puppets. There are no ladies in luxurious white dresses, no cherry blossoms. In the «Orchad» no one hears anyone, each character sings about his own, like a capercaillie. Everything plays in the puppet theater: objects, objects, shadows, masks. The most important know-how of this performance is the soft moving masks of the characters, created by the artist Tatiana Nersisyan. These masks become a «second skin» and, together with the costume, set the character’s character.