|The Old-world Landowners|


Opening night: December 25, 2001
Running time: 1 h 15 m
Ticket price range: 1000 rub.
Mindaugas Karbauskis, 30, a pupil of Pyotr Fomenko and a countryman of the Lithuanian Eimuntas Nekrosius, debuted last season with three remarkable productions. Of them, Old World Landowners is the most visual and the one least requiring translation. In it, Karbauskis avoids the use of words almost entirely, relying instead on a rich palette of visual images and sounds as the ideal international language — glances, gestures, the monotonous hoot of a horn, the footsteps of servants or the honking of geese as played by young actors. Gogol went back to the ancient myth of Philemon and Baucis for his tale about an old married couple who so love each other that even death cannot part them. Karbauskis's work, on the other hand, has echoes of Fomenko's fine-tuned details and Nekrosius's theatrical metaphors.
Director
Mindaugas Karbauskis
Set designer
Vladimir Maximov
Costume designer
Svetlana Kalinina
Assistant director
Natalia Koltsova, Lyudmila Sushkova
Characters & Cast
Afanasii Ivanovich
Alexander Semchev
Yavdokha
Julia Polynskaya, Maria Zorina
Room boy
Nikita Zverev, Artem Panchyk