Russian Nights Theatre and School
..."The poet himself chooses subjects for his songs; the crowd does not have a right to rule his art..." "...What would the honorable public like?.." Alexander Pushkin, "Egyptian Nights" |
Theatre Performances Poems
The Wandering Voice
Compozitor Publishing House • Saint-Petersburg
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Russian Nights Theatre Arts School
Wandering voice (Valentina Beletskaya`s studio)
Russian Nights Acting Technique (Aleksandr Markov`s studio)
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Poems
(1 act, in Russian) The opening night of Poems took place on 27 December 1999, again at the Dostoyevsky Memorial Museum. The performance is made up of 35 poems – from widely read works such as A Feast During the Plague by Alexander Pushkin, poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Iosif Brodsky to the lesser known Prayer by Nikolai Gogol, poems by Vladimir Markov and Lev Timofeyev. On December 2001 at the St. Petersburg Multi-Regional Festival “Rozhdestvensky Parad” (Christmas Parade), held by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and The Theatrical Union of St. Petersburg, Poems was acclaimed the best performance and awarded a grant from the Committee of Culture of the St. Petersburg Administration.  In May 2002 the performance was staged in London, Oxford and Cambridge as part of the Russian Nights. festival of Russian culture in the United Kingdom. Following the success of its UK tour, the BBC Russian Service broadcasted a performance of Poems to audiences worldwide.
The performance was created by the following people:
Actors
Valentina Beletskaya
Alexander Markov
Stage Design
Mart Kitayev
Lighting
Arkady Gorelik
Costumes
Tatyana Koshits
Assistants to the Director
IlyaPankratov
Maxim Tararin
Stage Technigue
Grigory Kondratov
Director
Alexander Markov
Duration of performance – 1 hour 20 minutes The performance was staged in Cambrigde, London, Oxford, St.Petersburg. For more information please follow on Russian Nights Society. |
