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  "[It] takes not simply an extraordinary directing mastery to bring "The Tempest" to life on stage, but also a certain worldview and intellectual basis, as well as bravery and even adventurousness. [...] Alexander Morfov has presented to the world not Shakespeare – a new one or an unknown one, in prose or in deep philosophy, but himself – unrestrainable in his fantasy and endless in the invention of gags and building of stage techniques; along with that, he has revealed a form of theatrical existence which had been so far unknown to Russian stage – one pierced by city square celebration spirit on one hand, and by Balkan eccentricity on the other. [...]

     Morfov’s liberty is revealed in the enrichment of the stage material, in searching and finding the exact instruments (during the working process, at that) which will beautify and animate the text of the play on stage. [...] The ambiguous world, the interpenetration and interlacement of fantasy and reality – proposed by Shakespeare, have permitted Morfov a fullpower outburst of stage director’s fantasy. There is hardly any other Shakespearean staging competeable with Morfov’s "The Tempest" in terms of number of gags and overwhelming density of comic touches. The fruits of the shared fantasising of director and actors are revealed in the form of an endless kaleidoscope of unimaginable tricks where expressiveness and saturated visual dynamics cast a shadow upon everything else." 

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~ excerpts from Ilya Proklov's review

Alexander Morfov's Productions in Russia

State Institute of Culture, Moscow, 2015

* Komissarzhevskaya's "The Tempest"

has more than 300 performances so far

and is entering its 20-th year of stage life

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