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Richter’s Fairytale
OCT 19, 2024. 20:00. ACKER STADT PALAST
This is a music-filled play about the famous German-Russian-Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter and the freedom he achieved through music.
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Natalia Skorokhod. Peterburgskij Teatral'nyj Žurnal; Saint Petersburg Theater Journal. 16.07.2023
Denis Epifantsev. The Moscow Times. 09.06.2024.
THE RED FOLDER
{ REPERTOIRE }
GENRE
12+
performance with live music
Premiere
May 2023 at the ACUD Theater (Berlin)
LANGUAGES
TIME
AGE
GERMAN, English, Ukrainian, Russian (with subtitles)
1 hour
In the show, you can also hear other languages: Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian
It’s a story of international family of three: mom, dad and little girl, who had to leave their home because of the war. It’s a "road movie" of their few months travel through 10 countries of Europe.
This story isn’t about war, this story about people on the way, the people who helps each other, who making life better and actually running this world. Starting as an ordinary travel-story, it goes into the myth and talking about Human population in general.
"The Red Folder" — it’s a folder with documents, which each immigrant or refugee should collect on the way. So, it’s a true story based on documents of this family, but turned into the uplifting form of fairytale which parents telling their daughter.
{ DIRECTOR }
Natalia Lapina
{ MUSIC }
Mikhail Poliakov
{ SET DESIGNER }
Arina Slobodyanik
{ Choreography }
Lea Svenja Dietrich
{ VIDEO }
Yaroslav Bulavin
{ PRODUCER }
Witalij Schmidt
{ CAST }
Illia Rudakov
Olha Kryvosheieva
Luis Krummenacher
Mikhail Poliakov
RICHTER’S Fairytale
{ REPERTOIRE }
GENRE
16+
performance
Premiere
May 2024 at the theaterforum kreuzberg (Berlin)
LANGUAGES
TIME
AGE
GERMAN, Russian (with subtitles)
1 hour 30 MIN
RICHTER’S FAIRYTALE offers insight into the life of Sviatoslav Richter (1915−1997), one of the greatest Soviet pianists in music history. The life of this German-Russian piano virtuoso was marked by an escape from the reality of the Stalinist regime into the boundless and unrestricted world of music.
The play is a fantasy exploring the mutual relationship between the artist and power. It is based on documents from Richter’s archive as well as interviews with this artist, his colleagues, and close friends. The theatrical piece narrates the story of a musical genius forced to invent his own "free world" in order to remain as far removed as possible from dictatorial rule, totalitarianism, and stagnation. Through the integration of live music, elements of dramatic and documentary theater, puppetry, and clowning, an extraordinary and fantastical story is brought to the stage… a tale of this unique personality.
"Politics holds no interest for me," Richter used to say. However, his fate was intertwined with it: Richter’s father was executed due to false accusations, his mother fled with the retreating German troops to Germany, and Richter himself, narrowly avoiding arrest, played at Stalin’s funeral.
{ DIRECTOR }
Kostya Novitskiy
{ ANIMATION/VISUAL EFFECTS DESIGN }
Valeriia Nikolicheva
{ CAST }
Mihail Rjabov / Oleksandr Kryvosheiev
Ilya Khodyrev
I found freedom
by withdrawing into myself
{ Puppets }
Roman Boklanov
{ Sound }
Daria Delman
Nikita Burenok
{ Light designer }
Iaroslav Ushakov
Made on
Tilda