After "Romeo and Juliet" by W. Shakespeare
"A girl comes out on stage.
She still doesn't know that she's Juliet. She's only thirteen. But that's already enough. It's enough for some mother somewhere to send her boy off somewhere, so that he "accidentally" bumped into this girl on the way. He would apologize at first, then take a look... And a story with a famous tragic ending would play out.*
The unavoidability of drama and its appearance from nowhere; from simplicity; from nothing, a jumble of words, a communal apartment where everyone is more or less good people. Also...at some point, a year and a half or so ago, while watching a student étude on "Romeo & Juliet," I thought: "Everyone's just getting in their way." It's not just the families' hatred that gets in the way, but their friends, too – like Mercutio. All that the agreeable Mercutio cares about is his "Queen Man," and his ironic blabbering. And the mother, and the father, and the brother, and the Duke, and the "good Nurse," who changes her goodness depending on where the wind is blowing. Even Laurence, the "helper": he helped so much that there's no more need to help – and nobody to help! The poor kids...the poor, happy kids. Meanwhile, the communal apartment lives on. The eternal communal apartment."
Dmitry Krymov
* "As always, we rewrote the play. Which is to say: we wrote a new one, which we called: 'Romeo & Juliet: Kinder Surprise.'"
Moscow Komsomolets Theate Award, season 2017 - 2018, nomination "Student show"
The show features student actors from the Kamenkovich-Krymov Workshop at GITIS:
Romeo: Nikita Naydenov
Juliet: Anna Patokina
Lady Capulet: Victoria Miroshnichenko
Capulet: Aleksandr Morovov
Lady Montague: Sofya Kuskova
Mercutio: Vladimir Komarov
Tybalt: Nikolai Yaskevich
Nurse: Aleksandra Keselman
Laurencee: Rifat Alyautdinov
Paris: Anzhey Novoselov
Servant: Aleksey Gubkin
Duke: Georgiy Tokaev
with
Nurse's Husband: Arkady Kirichenko
Idea, composition, staging: Dmitry Krymov
Designers: Anna Grebennikova, Evgeniya Rzheznikova (also from the same course)
Composer: Kuzma Bodrov
Lighting designer: Andrey Abramov
Choreographer: Anatoly Voinov
Cello: Vasily Stepanov
Lighting: Anton Morozov, Aleksey Mikhalevsky, Ekaterina Sinyakina
Sound: Sergey Aleksandrov
Props: Maria Masalskaya, Natalya Urvacheva, Maya Uvarova
Costumes: Irina Bakulina, Olga Terleeva
Technicians: Ivan Barakin, Valery Guryanov, Anton Kantomirov, Nikolay Markov, Sergey Nazarov, Timur Chikovani
Technical director: Aleksandr Nazarov
Line producer: Kirill Fedorov
Stage manager: Margarita Bondarenko
Costumes produced by "Wondrous Light" (Divny svet), LLC
A joint project of the School of Dramatic Art and GITIS
Premiere: 27-29 December, 2017
Runtime: 1h40m
Bezpridannitsa (Wizout a Dowry)
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