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Romeo and Juliet
A. Bryantsev Youth Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia
premiere 7 February 2020, Main stage
By
Translation
Stage version and director
Set design
Costumes
Choreographer
Light designer
Cast:
William Shakespeare
Ivan Didenko
Alexander Morfov
Semyon Pastuh
Nika Velegzhaninova
Igor Kachaev
Denis Solntsev
Romeo Montecchi Dmitriy Tkachenko
Juliet Capulet Anna Slynko
Mercutio, Romeo's friend and Oleg Senchenko
a kinsman to Prince Escalus
Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, Capulet Fyodor Fedotov
Benvolio Romeo's friend, Montecchi Ivan Stryuk
Lord Capulet, Juliet's father Aleksey Titkov
Lady Capulet, Juliet's mother Maria Polumogina
Friar Laurence Boris Ivushin
Juliet's Nurse Olga Karlenko
Lord Montecchi, Romeo's father Kirill Taskin
Prince of Verona Kuzma Stomachenko
Count Paris, a kinsman to Prince Konstantin Fedin
Balthasar, Romeo's manservant Maxim Podzin
Peter, servant of the Nurse Nikita Ostrikov
Rosaline Alexandra Ladygina
Chorus Vladimir Chernishov
Montecchis: Capulets:
Olga Pasternak Konstantin Fedin
Sofia Bolshakova Semyon Avralyov
Alexey Bondarenko Rimma Korsakova
Polina Vasilyeva Katrin Osipova
Vasiliy Getmanov Vladimir Podnozov
Artyom Komarov Irina Volkova
Semen Tolov
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a story about juvenile love with all of its typical details: rage against parents, the self-sacrifice of entering into a war against the whole world. Alexander Morfov staged a production that is in tune with the modern-day teenager, his emotionality, experiences and understandings. This narrative is for our teenage peers – the YouTube generation, the social media generation.
A production navigated by the taste and preferences of our youth, their habit of equally accepting glamour and filth, cosmic and tragic, beautiful and bizarre, venal and sublime. At the same time, this is a classical story about pure, true love. Alexander Morfov stages a play with high dramaturgical proximity to Shakespeare’s, leaving out literary conditioning and removing unnecessary pathos.
NOMINATIONS:
"The Golden Soffit" theatre award, St. Petersburg, Russia, season 2019-2020 - Best Supporting Actress for Olga Karlenko, Juliet's Nurse
"The Golden Soffit" theatre award, St. Petersburg, Russia, season 2019-2020 - Best Set Design for Semyon Pastuh
REVIEWS:
"When you are going to the theatre you are expecting a miracle. And it happens! […] Morfov has created a Shakespeare-here-and-now production without ruining the dramaturgical classics, without dismissing the main plots of the play. […] Yes, it is not a literary expression of passion to which we have grown used to seeing, - it’s their, the young ones’ restless and nervous expression of love. Not a hint of vulgarity but a pure albeit a bit egoistic feeling of youth. Here they are! If we go back to the centre of the set design – the bus: isn’t it the modern teenager’s symbol for driving forward towards the future? They will be different but theatre moves along with them, revealing the Great story of love to viewers of all age today!"
Theatre Community Review | T. Kuznetsova, member of the Jury
More:
"Romeo and Juliet" as a Banksy Graffiti | Maya Pramatarova, Petersburg Theatre Journal Blog, 25.02.2020
Theatre Community Review | T. Kuznetsova, member of the Jury
Romeo and Juliet, Here and Now | E. Ronginskaya, Clever Culture, 16.02.2020
Romeo and Juliet: A New Reading of the Story | Natalya Starodubtseva, "Okolo" Art Journal, 12.02.2020
