May 30 - July 29 2007

The program of the VII Chekhov International Theatre Festival consists of two parts: The World Series and The Moscow Programme . The main feature of the VII Festival is “The season of the Canadian theatre” Russian audience will get a chance to see four productions by outstanding contemporary director Robert Lepage. He admits that it’s a great honour for him and his company to participate in the Chekhov Festival. The Canadian theatre is also represented by modern choreographer Marie Chouinard, unusual theatre&circus performance “Rain” directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca and “Chekhov’s shorts” based on Chekhov’s prose.

Famous directors Peter Brook, Pina Bausch, Robert Sturua, Philippe Genty are among the participants of the Festival. Declan Donnellan will bring his new production. The Festival will present the premiere of the opera “Pelleas and Melizanda” by Claude Debussy. Director – Olivier Py, artistic director of the Odeon-Theatre d’Europe. It is a co-production of the Chekhov theatre festival, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre, and French Cultural centre. The festival program also includes performances from Japan, Argentina, Taiwan.

Program:

Canada
"The Far Side of the Moon" by Robert Lepage
Directed and performed by Robert Lepag.
Company “Ex Machina”, Quebec
July 3, July 4, July 5, July 6, July 7
Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre

"Chekhov’s Shorts", Adapted from the work of Anton Chekhov
Directed by Dean Gilmour and Michelle Smith.
Theatre Smith – Gilmour Toronto
June 25, June 26, June 27, June 28, June 29
Meyerhold Centre

"The Andersen Project" Robert Lepage
Written, directed and performed by Robert Lepage.
Company «Ex Мachina» Quebec city
July 12, July 13, July 14, July 15, July 16
Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre

"The Busker’s Opera", Inspired from The Beggar’s opera by John Gay and Christopher Pepusch
Director - Robert Lepage.
Company «Ex Мachina» Quebec City
July 13, July 14, July 15, July 16, July 17
Pushkin Theatre

"The Dragons’ Trilogy", Text – Marie Brassard, Jean Casault, Lorraine Cote, Marie Cignac, Robert Lepage, Marie Michaud
Director – Robert Lepage.
Company "Ex Мachina" Quebec City
July 21, July 22, July 24, July 25, July 26
Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre

"Rain"
Written and directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca.
Cirque Eloize, Montreal
July 17, July 18, July 19, July 20, July 21, July 22, July 24, July 25, July 26, July 27, July 28, July 29
Mossovet Theatre

"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", Music by Claude Debussy; "The Rite of Spring", Music by Igor Stravinsky, Rober Rasine
Choreography and Artistic Direction – Marie Chouinard.
Compagnie Marie Chouinard Quebec
June 19, June 20, June 21
Mossovet Theatre

"24 Preludes", by Frederic Chopin; "Choral", Original music – Louis Dufort
Choreography and Artistic Direction – Marie Chouinard Artistic Direction, Choreography and Vocal -Marie Chouinard.
Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Quebec
June 24, June 25, June 26
Mossovet Theatre

Columbia
"Perfume of the Suburb and Tango"
Directed by Ferley Velasquez.
La Casa del Teatro Nacional, Bogota
June 2, June 3, June 4
Meyerhold Centre

France
"Sizwe Banzi is dead" by Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona
Directed by Peter Brook.
The C.I.C.T./Theatre des Bouffes du Nord Paris
June 7, June 8, June 9, June 10, June 11
Meyerhold Centre

"Land`s End" by Philippe Genty, Mary Underwood
Directors - Philippe Genty and Mary Underwood.
Compagnie Philippe Genty
June 11, June 12, June 13, June 14, June 15, June 16, June 17
Mossovet Theatre

"The Grand Inquisitor", From The Brothers Karamazov by F. Dostoyevsky. Adapted by Marie Helene Estienne
Directed by Peter Brook.
The CICT and Theatre the Bouffes du Nord, Paris
June 9, June 10, June 11, June 12, June 13
Meyerhold Centre

Georgia
"Sweet, Sad Scent of Vanilla" by Irakly Samsonadze
Director - Robert Sturua, Andro Enukidze.
Rustaveli State Theatre, Tbilisi
May 31, June 1
Mossovet Theatre

"The Misfortune of Darispan" by David Kldiashvily
Directors - Robert Sturua, Zaza Papuashvili.
Rustaveli State Theatre, Tbilisi
June 3, June 4
Mossovet Theatre

Germany
"Masurca Fogo", A Piece by Pina Bausch
Director and Choreographer - Pina Bausch.
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
July 1, July 2, July 3, July 5, July 6, July 7
Mossovet Theatre

Great Britain
"Swan Lake" by Matthew Bourne (to the P. Tchaikovsky music)
Director and Choreographer Matthew Bourne.
Back Row Productions in association with New Adventures.
May 30, May 31, June 1, June 2, June 3, June 5, June 6, June 7, June 8, June 9
Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre

"Cymbeline" by William Shakespeare
Director- Declan Donnellan.
“Cheek by Jowl” Company London July 3, July 4, July 5, July 6, July 7
Pushkin Theatre

Japan
"Going away and leaving - revival of traditions". 1."Gateygatey - Buddhistic ritual Japanese
music". 2."Dionysus God of wine" Hieratical Ancient Greek Tragedy
Composed and directed by Tadashi Suzuki. 1.Percussion - Midori Takada, Shomyo - Singoshomyo. 2.Director - Tadashi Suzuki..
1.SAMGHA. 2.The Shizuoka Performing Arts Centre (SPAC)
July 11, July 12, July 13
Mossovet Theatre

"Places and Memories"
Directed by Osamu Matsumoto.
Piccolo Theatre, Hyogo
July 9, July 10
Meyerhold Centre

"Nina – materialized sacrifice"
Choreographed by Jo Kanamori .
Noism (Ryutopia Niigata-City Performing Arts Centre)
July 5, July 6
Meyerhold Centre

Russia
"Mariа Stuart" by Friedriсh Schiller
Director - Temur Chkheidze.
Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre
June 12, June 13, June 14
Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre

Russia-France
"Pelleas and Melizanda", Music by Claude Debussy
Director - Olivier Py, Conductor - Mark Minkowski .
Co-Production Russia-France. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre; Chekhov International Theatre Festival; Supported by the “Culturefrance” of the French Foreign Office.
June 18, June 20, June 22, June 23
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre

Taiwan
"Songs of the Wanderers", Music – Georgian Folk Songs
Choreography – LIN Hwai-min.
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
June 7, June 8, June 9
Mossovet Theatre

"Light after light"
Artistic Director - Tsong Ching Ju.
“Ju Percussion Group”
June 27, June 28, June 29
Pushkin Theatre

Аrgentina
"Tanguera". Love and Death in Buenos Aires
Choreographer - Mora Godoy, Director - Omar Pacheco.
Diego Romay Company
June 17, June 18, June 19, June 20, June 21, June 22, June 23, June 25, June 26, June 27, June 28, June 29
Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre

Moscow program

Petr Fomenko’s Workshop Theatre
“The Most important”. Etudes and improvisations based on the novel “The Venus’s Hair” by Mikhail Shishkin’s
Yevgeny Kamenkovich
June 20, 21

Moscow New Generation Theatre (Moscow Young Spectator’s Theatre)
“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennese Williams.Translated from English by V.Nedelina Henrietta Yanovskaya
June 14

“A little absurd poem" by Kama Ginkas after Fedor Dostoyevsky
Каma Ginkas
June 20

Tabakov Studio Theatre
«A Story of the seven hanged” by Leonid Andreev.Stage version by Midaugas Karbauskis
Mindaugas Karbauskis
June 13, 14

LENKOM Theatre
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (“Eclipse”), based on the novel by Ken Kesey
Alexander Morfov
June 8, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21

Theatre “SATIRICON” named after Arkady Raikin
“King Lear” by William Shakespeare. Translated from English by B.Pasternak, A.Drujynin, N.Ketcher
Yuri Butus
May 31; June 3, 5, 9, 14

Theatre Art Studio
“Family in decline” Chronicle Protazanov’s princes in two parts by Nikolai
Leskov.Composition by Sergei Zhenovach
June 20, 21 "Gamblers” by Nikolai Gogol
Sergei Zhenovach
June 22, 23

Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre
“The Golovlyov Family” by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, adapt for stage – Kirill Serebrennikov
Kirill Serebrennikov
June 29

Taganka Theatre
"Antigone” by Sophocles OPUS Composition by Yuri Lyubimov
Yuri Lyubimov
June 7; July 7

“Woe of the Wit” by Alexander Griboyedov
Yuri Lyubimov
June 5; July 8

PRAKTIKA Theatre
«July» by Ivan Vyrypaev
Victor Ryzhakov
June 6, 14, 15

Stanislavsky and Nemirivich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre
“Seagull” Ballet by John Neumeier after Anton Chekhov.Music: Dmitry Shostakovich, Evelyn Glennie, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Alexander Scryabin
Choreography, Set, Costumes, Lighting –John Neumeier, Conductor – Felix Korob
June 3

Playwriting and Directing Centre of Alexei Kazantsev and Mikhail Roshchin
“Tarelkin’s Death” by Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin
Alexei Kazantsev
June 16, 25

“Et Cetera”Theatre of A.Kalyagin
“Incendies” by Wajdi Mouawad
Wajdi Mouawad (Canada)
July 6, 7

Theatre School of Dramatic Art– Theatre of Europe
Dmitry Krymov’s Laboratory
“Auction” by Dmitry Krymov after Anton Chekhov’s plays
Dmitry Krymov
June 12, 14; July 5, 7, 9

“Demon. View from above” After Mikhail Lermontov’s poem
Dmitry Krymov
June 26, 30; July 1, 3

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