Premiere, unique exhibition and performance "Workshop of Peter Fomenko". Theater them. Kachalova opens a new season
On September 11, the Kazan Academic Russian Bolshoi Drama Theater named after V. I. Kachalov opens its 230th season.
The first performance after six months of separation from the audience will be the hit of the repertoire "Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro" based on the immortal comedy by Beaumarchais. The last time the Kachalovites played it with great success was at the beginning of March in France at the festival of Russian art in Marseille.
The opening day of the season will be marked by the long-awaited opening of the exhibition dedicated to the 145th anniversary of the People's Artist of the USSR Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov, in the atrium foyer of the theater. This unique and unprecedented joint project of the Theater Museum, the A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theater Museum and the Moscow Art Theater Museum will present an exclusive exposition telling about the life and work of the great Russian actor.
Among the exhibits are Kachalov's personal belongings, theatrical costumes, letters and memories, sketches, and models of scenery. It was previously planned that the exhibition will open in April and will run until the end of the season, but the pandemic has made some adjustments. Now the exhibition will run until the end of the year, and viewers of the Kachalovsky Theater have a unique opportunity to see exhibits that have never been exhibited outside of Moscow before.
A few days after the opening, on September 17, 18, viewers will see the first premiere of the season: the comedy Ball of Thieves, staged by Ilya Slavutsky based on the play of the same name by Jean Anuy. A whirlwind of comic situations and unexpected plot twists, intrigues and revelations, brilliant irony and humor create a unique atmosphere of an elegant theatrical game, where everyone plays their own performance, changing roles, masks, costumes, where destinies are decided in the whirlpool of the ball, where the only true path to happiness turns out to be love.
The production designer of the play is Alexander Patrakov, the lighting designer is from St. Petersburg Evgeny Ganzburg. Honored artists of Tatarstan Elena Ryashina, Marat Golubev, artists Pavel Lazarev, Ksenia Khramova, Alexander Malinin, Honored Artist of Tatarstan Alexey Zakharov, artists Slavyana Koscheeva, Ilya Skryabin, Viktor Shestakov and others are involved in the performance.
Another gift for the audience in September will be the arrival of one of the best Russian theaters - the Moscow theater "Workshop of Peter Fomenko". On September 23, 24, within the framework of the Golden Mask festival in Kazan, on the stage of the Kachalovsky theater, the Fomenki will play Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Ivan Popovski.
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