From Shakespeare to Ostrovsky: what premieres are staged in Moscow theaters

On Thursday, October 1,

opens the season with the premiere of the Collected Works.

The production was based on a new play by the writer Yevgeny Grishkovets (the theater turned to his work for the first time).

In the center of the plot is a 60-year-old widow and her children.

The woman moves out of her apartment and the family gets together to decide what to do with the huge library.

The author of the production is Viktor Ryzhakov, starring Alyona Babenko, Nikita Efremov, Marina Neyolova and Svetlana Ivanova.

In September, the theater also presented a play by director Ivan Komarov "Girl Nadia, what do you want?"

based on the film story of the same name by Gennady Shpalikov about the activist Nadya Smolina.

According to the director, in the production he tried to answer the question of whether such a hero can exist in the 21st century, ready to fight for his idea to the last.

The roles in the performance were performed by Marina Lebedeva, Polina Pakhomova, Yanina Romanova and Evgeny Pavlov.

Moscow Drama Theater named after M.N.

Ermolova

 will show Sergei Okunev's Rap Me, based on the play by Irina Vaskovskaya.

In the center of the plot are modern infantile young people who do not set themselves any global goals, but only have fun and from time to time try to overcome simple everyday problems.

In an interview with TASS, the director stressed that "the intonation of the play here is not sarcastic, and not arrogant, but rather empathic."

The main characters were played by Maria Tukhar, Alexander Mizyov and Daniil Mogutov.

Other autumn premieres of the theater include Dachniki by Yevgeny Marcelli based on the play by Maxim Gorky with Oleg Filipchik, Stasya Miloslavskaya and Daria Melnikova, as well as Dmitry Akrish's production One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, based on the novel by Ken Kesey.

McMurphy was played by Nikita Tatarenkov in the play, and Svetlana Golovina played the nurse Miss Gnussen (Mildred Ratched).

• The play "Rap Me"

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The Maly Theater

presented the play “Big Three” by director Andrei Zhitinkin based on the play of the same name by Lucas Svensson.

The production tells about the events of 1945, when Joseph Stalin (Vasily Bochkarev), Winston Cherill (Valery Afanasyev) and Franklin Roosevelt (Vladimir Nosik) met in Yalta to discuss further steps in the fight against Nazi Germany and agree on the balance of power after the end of the war ...

The Moscow Academic Theater named after Vladimir Mayakovsky

invites viewers to the premiere of the comedy about new ideals and eternal values ​​"The Savage", written by Alexander Ostrovsky together with Nikolai Solovyov.

The play was staged by Yuri Ioffe.

The main character was played by Evgeny Paramonov.

Also involved in the production are Nadezhda Butyrtseva, Lyudmila Ivanilova, Zoya Kaidanovskaya, Natalya Korennaya, Anastasia Dyachuk.

The Mossovet Theater

opened the season with a number of premieres.

Among them - the historical performance "Richard III" based on the play by Shakespeare, interpreted by Nina Chusova.

The director explored the changes that happen to a person when he becomes obsessed with power.

According to the creators of the play, "Richard III" is "a parable-reflection on this thirst, the most powerful of all human passions, in one way or another inherent in every person."

People's Artist of Russia Alexander Domogarov played the main role.

Also this season, the theater invites viewers to such premieres as "A Hero of Our Time" by Yuri Eremin, the sitcom "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Viktor Shamirov based on the play by Oscar Wilde and the detective story "Song of the Elephant" by Mark Vdovin.

• The play "The Broken Jug"

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The Moscow

hosted the premiere of the musical Don Juan.

Untold Story ".

The play presents an alternative view of the world famous ladies 'man: according to the plot, the ladies' man gets tired of his fame and chooses a hermitic lifestyle.

Director Artyom Kagramanyan assures that viewers will not see a hero familiar to them from other works, but a completely different person.

“This is, rather, a story not about the conqueror Don Juan, but about what a person does with fame, how it changes him,” the director said in an interview with TASS.

The roles in the production were performed by Ivan Ozhogin, Alika Smekhova, Oskar Kuchera and other artists.

In

October,

will host the premiere of the play Under One Roof, based on the play of the same name by Lyudmila Razumovskaya.

In the center of the plot are three women living together.

They represent different generations, but all the heroines need the same thing: to find love and find female happiness.

The play was staged by Roman Samgin.

Cast - Tatiana Kravchenko, Olesya Zheleznyak, Varvara Lapteva and Stepan Kosygin.

In October, the

will show for the first time the play "Gorbachev" about the relationship between the first and only president of the USSR (Yevgeny Mironov) and his wife Raisa (Chulpan Khamatova).

The production was staged by the Latvian director Alvis Hermanis.

In his work, he did not seek to bring politics to the fore.

Instead, Hermanis focused on Gorbachev's character and tried to understand what personal qualities of the politician "led to the fact that he became that grain of sand that stopped the huge mechanism."

Earlier on the stage of the theater, premieres of three more performances took place - "The Reluctant Doctor" by Oleg Dolin based on the play by Moliere, "The Broken Jug" by Timofei Kulyabin and "Passion for Thomas", which was based on the story of Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants."

Director - Evgeny Marcelli.

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• © Kirill Kallinikov

According to the order of the Moscow Department of Culture dated August 3, theater visits are allowed subject to a number of requirements aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus infection.

Thus, the entrance to theater buildings is possible only after measuring the temperature.

Visitors with temperatures above 37 ° C and ARVI symptoms will not be able to enter the territory.

In all areas of the theater, guests must maintain a social distance of one and a half meters and wear respirators or disposable masks.

The seating in the halls is also based on social distance.

In this case, guests who came together can be accommodated in adjacent chairs.

Visitors are also advised to abandon the use of cash in favor of contactless payment for tickets.