Performances

BIG HALL

Adventures of Shipov, or old vaudeville after Bulat Okudzhava’s story

Direction and Choreography: Sergey Gritzay
Scenography: Emil Kapelyush
Costumes: Andrey Klimovbakh

“Adventures of Shipov, or Old Vaudeville” if a phantasmagoric story told after Bulat Okudzhava. And as the author said, all of this was a true event. A nearly detective story with romantic intrigue unfolds in traditions of of “old vaudeville” genre.

W. Shakespeare «The Tempest»

Stage Director – Robert Sturua (Georgia)
Scene-designer – Georgy Alexi-Meskhishvili (Georgia)
Composer – Gia Kancheli (Belgium)

Robert Sturua, the theatre wise man who had staged all great Shakespeare’s plays, in collaboration with the scene-designer Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili and the composer Gia Kancheli, created the captivating world, ruled by Prospero, who knew all the secrets of Nature. “The Tempest” performance, resembling a fairy-tale, is in fact a philosophical parable full of bitter thoughts.

«The Producers » (Musical by Mel Brooks)

Stage Director: Dmitry Belov
Scene-designer: Olga Shagalina

It is even difficult to find anything in this performance to blame for as not to be taken for an advertising manager. «Nezavisimaya gazeta»

“The Producers” is just the hit parade top. It is such a saucy performance that it even made an old critic with sorrowful face shake his sides with laughing. «The Moscow Times»

Alexander Kuprin “Olesya”

Stage Director: Galina Polishuk
Scene-designer: Victor Shilkrot

Galina Polishuk, famous Latvian director, translated the legendary story by Alexander Kuprin into the theatre language. It is a story of magical, intoxicant, burn down love.

R.Bradbury “Fahrenheit 451”

Stage Director – Adolf Shapiro
Scene-designer – Boris Zaborov (France)

The theatre «Et Cetera» interprets the famous novel of the great American fantast.

“Competition”

Author and Stage Director – Alexander Galin

“A respectable Japanese company offers a prestigious job in posh night shows” such an advertisement appeared once in a newspaper of a provincial town.

The play “Contest” is about the absurd of our lives, lives which sometimes are comedies and sometimes become real tragedies.

A.Jarry “King Ubu”

Stage Director – Alexander Morfov (Bulgaria)
Scene-designer – Emil Kapelyush

This comedy is to some extent flamboyant, with lyrics not aimed at women’s gentle ears. It is a comedy but after seeing it the audience should feel a light taste of bitterness.

“Faces” (humoristic stories by A.P.Chekhov)

Stage Director – Alexander Kalyagin
Scene-designer – Victor Durgin

It is a very funny play based on Chekhov’s short stories with a brilliant acting duo of Aleksandr Kalyagin and Vladimir Simonov (Vakhtangov theatre).

M.Bulgakov “Morphine”

Scene-designer – Maxim Obrezkov

This play is a sounddrama: for the first time this new theatrical genre deals with classics. Aleksey Chernikh has received the “Crystal Turandot” theatrical award for playing doctor Polyakov there.

V.Kurochkin “Restrain and Excite”

Stage Director – Alexander Kalyagin
Scene-designer – Emil Kapelyush

It is about theatre people and their passions about the play which was written especially for Aleksandr Kalyagin.

“Incendies”

Author and Stage Director Wajdi Mouawad (Canada)
Scene-designer – Isabelle Lariviere

“Incedies” – is both a complicated detective story and a modern parable. One story is based on three stories: stories of love, hatred and reunion.

A.V.Sukhovo-Kobylin “Tarelkin’s Death”

Stage Director – Oskaras Kordhunovas (Lithuania)
Scene-designer – Urate Paulekayte (Lithuania)

“Buff-tragedy”, this is how the famous Lithuanian director Oscaras Korshunovas has described the genre of his play during which spectators both laugh and shiver with fear.

W. Shakespeare “Sheylok” (“The Merchant of Venice”)

Stage Director – Robert Sturua (Georgia)
Scene-designer – Georgy Alexi-Mwskhishvili (Georgia)
Composer – Gia Kancheli (Belgium)

Theatrical interpretation of Shakespeare featuring one of the up-to-date issues – human implacability in all its kinds: racial, religious, social. The play is created by great Georgian artists: director Robert Sturua, artist George Alexi-Meskhishvili and composer Gia Kancheli.

EFROS HALL

Jean Cocteau "Orpheus"

Fantasies on Jean Cocteau’s themes

Script and direction: Vladimir Skvortsov
Scenography and costumes: Andrey Klimov

Director Vladimir Skvortsov based his production of the “Orpheus” on the film script after Jean Cocteau. This story captures with its “difficult simplicity”, with the theme of self-sacrifice for the sake love, with strange and inexplicable actions. The characters are passionate loving but they don’t understand their overdetermination. You can not interfere in the way things go. Everything has its time and date.

«Hope, Faith and Love …» (music of Victory)

Stage Director – Ekaterina Granitova
Scene-designer – Elena Yarochkina

The war songs are the few kind and light things we’ve got as the heritage of the severe war years. The “Hope, Faith and Love…” performance was born out of these music phrases. It is about courageous and brave, heroic and honest warriors, the heroes, defended their Motherland. It is about their faith in their country, their hope for surviving and victory, their love, which protected them.

E.O’Neill “Beyond the Horizon"

Stage Director – Vladimir Bogatyrev
Scene-designer – Rashid Dominov

A pure and bitter play about young idealism and its collapse. It tells us a very gentle and sad story about the love of two brothers to one girl. The girl faces a choice and, as usual, she chooses not the best one…

“Companions”

Author and Stage Director – A.Galin
Scene-designer – Victor Shilkrot

A funny comedy with brilliant reprises, unexpected turns of the plot and a tragic final. This both funny and sad story tells us about common people who suddenly became involved in the tricky fraud.

S.Beckett “Krapp's Last Tape”

Stage Director – Robert Sturua (Georgia)
Scene-designer – Georgy Alexi-Mwskhishvili (Georgia)
Composer – Gia Kancheli (Belgium)

The main hero is the lonely old man whose only hobby is listening to old records. He looks back at his life: argues with his memories, resents, denies and hates his life, he tries to live it once again – his absurd and frustrated life...

Newspaper “Russian Invalid” for the 18th day of July …”

Author and Stage Director – Mikhail Ugarov
Scene-designer – Andrey Klimov

Why are Russians unique and mysterious? Because they can love passionately and not the woman they deserve. Do stupid things, spend fortunes, suffer from melancholy…The main hero of this play goes through all this. This is a postmodern interpretation of the classic plot about the disability of the Russian soul.

"All the floatings" (under the stories by Y.Buida)

Stage Direcotr - Rustem Fesak
Scene-Designer - Olga Vasilyeva

Welcome the new generation of the «Et Сetera» theatre! “All passing by”– is an eternal story about vicious people who dream of getting off this sinful land at least for a moment.

PERFORMANCES FOR CHILDREN

K. Chukovsky «Vania and Crocodile»

Old-old fairy -tale

Director – Ekaterina Granitova
Art Director – Elena Yarochkina
Composer: Grigory Auerbakh

It is a good old tale which even our grandpas and grandmas knew. We are waiting for you in our cozy Efros’s hall with our musical performance played in intimate, family atmosphere. Mothers, fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers and children, of course, you are welcome!

L.Titova and A.Starotorzhskiy “Royal Cow”

Scene-designer – Maria Rybasova

The leading part in our fairy tale is given not to an evil witch, nor to a fairy, but to… a cow. This musical vivid show is played by young actors. The play radiates positive energy, excitement and actable nature of the theatre.

A.Milne “Auntie Malkin Secret”

Stage Director – Alexey Serov
Scene-designer – Victor Durgin

“Aunt Malkin’s secret” by A. Milne (the author of “Winnie-the-Pooh”) is for kids but parents will not be bored either. This is a kind and a wise fairy tale which tells the audience that beauty is hidden from indifferent people, it is open only to a loving heart.

• ‘Producers’ Takes Four at Golden Mask Awards (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 19.04.2010)
• Fighting the Flames (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 08.02.2008)
• Connected by Blood (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 06.04.2007)
• Backstage Confessions (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 02.02.2007)
• Journey Into Darkness (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 17.11.2006)
• Behind Closed Doors (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 31.03.2006)
• Deadly Sins (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 15.04.2005)
• Getting Back to Basics in Racy Plays (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 24.10.2003)
• Sturua’s «Last Tape» Poignant, But Not Potent (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 29.11.2002)
• Long Live the King of Crank Comedy (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 15.02.2002)
• «Shylock» Is Rich and Poor (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 05.05.2000)
• «Competition» Short on Challenge (John Freedman, "The Moscow Times", 14.05.1999)