Baltic House theatre performance

Story by Evgeny Grishkovets

Director Andrey Moguchy

Alexandrinsky theatre performance

Based on the novel “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich” (“The Squabble”) and the other works by N.V.Gogol
Director – Andrey Moguchy

Text adoptation – Denis Shirko
Art director – Alexandr Shishkin

Composer – Alexander Manotskov
Director Assistant – Oleg Eryomin
Animal trainers – Alexadr Ivakhnov, Alexey Savinov, Irina Spiridonova, Valentina Ukhova

Stage managers – Lana Ivanova, Tatyana Timofeyeva

Special effects – “Forsage” company

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< ![endif]–>Ivan Ivanovich Pererepenko – Nikolay Marton

Ivan Nikiphorovich Dovgochkhun   - Victor Smirnov

Peasant woman “in general” -  Svetlana Smirnova

Gosling – Alexey Ingelevich

Governor of a town – Igor Volkov

Judge, Demean Demeanovich – Pavel Yurinov

Secretary, Taras Tikhonovich – Vladislav Ryndin

Another Ivan Ivanovich   - Victor Semenovsky

Anton Prokophievich Pupopuz – Joseph Koshelevich

Running time - 1 h.45 min.

The performance has not intermission

Premiere date – April 10, 2007

From February 2010 Andrey Moguchy is giving a master-classes at  Theatre Academy of Helsinki http://www.teak.fi/eng/. As a result of this 8 students from actors faculty will perform the play with working tittle “Gusev” by Konstantin Filpov. The play based on stories by A.P.Chekhov, but it’s action is carried to the  modern Finland.

The premiere will be performed  in Helsinki on 15th and 16th of April .

Illustrarion by A. Shishkin

Video of rehearsal

Artist, art-director

Alexander Shishkin’s website

Saint-Petersburg multigenre composer, writes for different staffs, variated from solo to the symphonic orchestras. The author of chamber and symphonic, instrumental and vocal compositions, cantatas, oratorios, music for chorus, vocal ensembles, operas, musical performances.

Maxim  Isaev – playwrite, cofounder of the Russian  Engineering theatre AKHE

Theatrical critic and the  program director of  “Big Festival of  a Cartoon Films “.

Historian of the theatre, playwright and musician. Russian composers union member member.

The article by Katazhina Osinskaya (on Russian) at OpenSpace.ru

“Priut komedianta” theatre

Director - Andrey Moguchy

Art Director – Emil’ Kapelush

Light artist -Denis Solntsev

Video art by Alexandr Malyshev
Sound design – Andrey Sizintsev
Punk band “Benzene deads” takes part in performance

Everything, that happens in Andrey Moguchy’s performance is the play, that partly or completely breaks traditional representations about theatre.  The name “It’s not Hamlet” symbolizes a protest against today roughly growing consumer bourgeois theatre, with it’s  bored headings and receptions and «serial stars».

“Priut Komedianta” (Comedian shelter) theatre

Director – Andrey Moguchy

The Highest Saint-Petersburg Theatre Award “Zolotoy  Sofit” (Golden Spotlight) and the special jury prize on National Theatre Award  ‘Zolotaya Maska” (Golden Mask)

Alexandrinsky theatre

Author – Mikhail Durnenkov
Director – Andrey Moguchy

Scenography, costumes, videographics by Alexander Shishkin

Video artist – Alexander Malyshev
Property artist – Svetlana Kalinovskaya
Light – Alexander Kuleshov
Director assistants – Oleg Eremin, Tatyana Timofeyeva
Tricks consultants – Alexander Adamchuk, Ilya Larionov
Dutch consultants – Aya Prince, Gerard van der Wardt
Project coordinator – Antonina Dzotsenidze

Music – Oleg Karavaychuk

Visual associations based on the novel  by Sasha Sokolov.

Performance by Formalny theatre

Director – Andrey Moguchy

Fringe First of the  Edinburgh  Fringe and Grand prix of BITEF

The Major Characters:

The boy – Nymphea

Mama and Papa

Sheyla Solomonovna Trahtenberg, communal block neighbour (also the witch Tinbergen)

Veta Arkadievna, biology teacher (female)

Pawel Petrovich Norvegov (Saul), Geography teacher (male, barefoot)

Perillo, Special School Director

Rosa Vetrova, the tiny schoolgirl (who loves Saul Petrovich)

(boy’s voice made by 10 year old Ewan MacDonald, Edinburgh, Scotland)

Come, enter a 1950’s Soviet communal apartment block wherein resides a nameless family and a nameless boy – an autistic child [played by two actors] suffering from split personality. And yet there is such a great beauty in his soul that he can will himself into becoming Nymphea, a water lily floating on the ponds of life.

As the screens of his memory draw open, look through the boy’s eyes and enter into his deepest, darkest childhood recollection. Dwell for some moments in the family apartment, meet Papa, a Soviet judge so obsessed with his profession that Mama seeks a lover’s affection after visiting Grandma’s grave. Meet the hilarious old Jewish neighbour, Sheyla Solomonovna Trahtenberg also known to the boy as the witch Tinbergen who reappears later in black dress, boots and white cane as the kommisar schoolmistress

Now enter the classrooms of the cruel Special school system. Here you will meet the harsh disciplinarian principal Perillo, a former World War 11 Red Army veteran who refers to the children only as numbers. Meet Veta Arkadievna, the beautiful biology teacher and supreme object of Nymphea’s affections, and then encounter the tiny little schoolgirl Rosa Vetrova is she alive or dead? Also meet Saul Petrovich, the eccentric barefoot geography teacher who is both mentor and a figure of hope to the schoolchildren until his dismissal. Somehow, he will die, be resurrected, and then enter Nymphea and little Rosa’s daydreams – talking to them across the biblical river Lethe.

Do not let the Russian language distract you as you float into and through Formalny-Baltic’s hugely impressionistic production. This is all a deeply interpretive and atmospheric dream √ way beyond languages – and charged with the most compelling poetic imagery, tenderness, pathos, joy and hope.

Between Dog & Wolf

Illustrations to the novel by Saha Sokolov

Formalny theatre

Director Andrey Moguchy

Between Dog & Wolf is the second play, after School for Fools, in the planned scenic trilogy staged by the Formal theatre and based on Sasha Sokolov’s works.

The unavailing efforts to translate Sokolov’s novel adequately from Russian to any other language encouraged the play’s authors to make a translation to the language of theater, the language of poetic images.

This play is not intended to relate the plotline of the novel. Rather these are certain sketches or scenic illustrations to the literary text. Don’t try to unravel immediately the meanings and fragments of the conflicts coded into scenes of the play; after all, a sentient, emotional perception of the play’s imagery set out by associative, musical, or poetic logic, is much more important.

The state of elusiveness, inexplicability, a sense of fragility of worldly existence, waiting for Life Everlasting, in a word, an ‘in-between’ state so inherent to the Russian human being is likely to be that principal ‘argument’ allowing us to have patience and to hope.

Between dog and wolf, between Hope and Darkness, between Misery and Affluence, between Past and Future, between Earth and Heaven, there lead their unperturbed existence the stars, as is believed by the inhabitants of the vicinities of the Itil River (the ancient name of the Volga) which is also called in the novel the Wolf’s River. The ugly and the beggary, thieves and trigger-happy murderers, artel workers and grinders, sailors and railroad men, our protagonist, one-legged Ilya Dzyndzyrela – in general, people of our clime copied from Pieter Breughel the Elder’s pictures and transplanted to the heart of Russia.

On the other bank of the river there are remnants of the cultural tradition of an intellectual Russia. The 19^th century. Petersburg. A.S. Pushkin, Eugene Onegin… Yakov Ilyich Palamakhterov is a freelancer, writer, now a gamekeeper, hunter, chief huntsman, an ‘odd man’ living right here in the valley of the river.

And ‘between’ there is Maria, once called Marina, Orina by others – Love Everlasting calling for death.

“The Gardeners”

Comedy  in 4 acts

Formalny theatre preformance produced with support of the Baltic Circle festival, Alexandrinsky theatre, AKHE theatre, and the Culture committee of Saint Petersburg.

Author – Maxim Isaev
Director – Andrey Moguchy

Scenography by Maxim Isaev
Music by Andrey Sizintsev
Light by Alexander Kuleshov

Executive producer  – Antonina Dzotsenidze

Costume designer – Natalia Zhukovskaya
Property by Svetlana Kalinovskaya
Video by Anna Kolosova, Alexander Lyakh
Sound by Eduard Zagorsky, Alexey Titov
Technical maintenance and logistics by Sergey Onoshko
Director assistant – Lana Ivanova

Lev Rubinstain – one of the founders and  leaders of the Moscow literature conceptualism (in the same raw with Vsevolod Nekrasov and Dmitry Prigov). He was born in  1947 in Moscow.  He  studyed in the Moscow State Pedagogical College and then, during a long time worked as a bibliographer.  In literature – from the end of 60′s; in  the begining of 70′s he started to create his own minimalistic style.

In the end of 70′s his first publications apeared in the West; in Russia – from the end of 80′s. His works were translated to main european languages.

He took part in a lot of music and poetry festivals, art exhibitions  and performances including the  “Theatrical Space of Andrey Moguchy” festival in 2009.

В субботу, 5 декабря, в Лофте ЭТАЖИ Андрей Могучий и музыкальный коллектив под управлением Андрея Сизинцева (АХЕ) сыграли shoegazing-jam на девяти бас-гитарах, трубах и двух барабанных установках.

On the 8th of  December Konstantin Uchitel a musican and critic took part in the  “Theatrical Space of Adrey Moguchy” festival at Loft ETAGI with his music and literatural program  “Chosen notes”.

We hasten to inform you that our nice company with Andrey Moguchy and Alexandr Shishkin now have a roof over one’s head  – a cosy studio at  Loft ETAGI. Its a temporary story, but at least we now have a place from were we can handle the uncountable number of our projects.

Visual associations based on the novel by Sasha Sokolov

Formalny theatre, 2000