1 December 7 pm
Millenáris Teátrum (Budapest, I., Kis Rókus u. 16-20.)
Phantom Pain
Coproduction of the Moscow Arts Theatre (Mkhat) / Theatre.doc / Centre de production ABSOLU (Moscow)
Performed by: Kirill Pletnyov, Elena Liamina, Valentin Samokhine, Alexander Szokovikov
Light: Vladiszlav Kaptur
Sound: Olga Tomenko
Scene: Marija Utrobina
Director: Irina Kerucsenko
Running time: 1 hour, without interval
With Hungarian simultaneous translation
Vaszilij Szigarjev is a young Russian dramatist from Yekaterinburg. His play is about two security guards in a tram depot, who “find each other” during a long, vodka-fuelled night. They meet Olja, who is desperately looking for her husband. To kill the time, they amuse themselves with pretending that they are the lost husband… This is a romantic fantasy play about love, madness, tenderness and hope.
Vaszilij Szigarjev is well known in Hungary. His play, Black Milk, directed by Péter Gothár in the Katona József Kamra Theatre, was a great success. At the 2005 Festival, Plasticide, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, was one of our prominent guest performances.
The director, Irina Kerucsenko, started to study Phantompain at the Moscow Art Theatre when she was a final year student in Kama Ginkas’ class. Later she directed the play at a well-known documentarist theatre, Theatre.doc, that gives priority to dramas from the Ural region, because they bring stories from the depth of Russia. Szigarjev’s characters are always running away from life, dread to confront reality, are emotionally dead, and, almost always, alcoholics.