The Stanislavsky Season festival opened in Lyubimovka with a sketch of the play based on the play Cherry Orchard

MOSCOW. The sketch of the play “Cherry Quest” on June 27 in the village of Lyubimovka, near Moscow, opened the Stanislavsky Season festival. Artists from four theaters came to the summer festival, held as part of the Our Moscow Region program. Collectives from St. Petersburg, Kazan, Sevastopol and the Republic of Karelia became participants in the summer festival of provincial theaters.

Festival performances will be shown on two stage venues, the main of which will be the Moscow Provincial Theater. However, the first guests of the festival arrived in Lyubimovka in order to become both spectators and participants in the play “The Cherry Orchard”, written here by Chekhov, in Stanislavsky’s estate.

Together with the heroes of the play, the audience will move around the estate. The play, staged by Sergei Bezrukov, was based on the first act of Chekhov’s play. He was represented by artists of the Moscow Provincial Theater, among whom was his leader. Sergey Bezrukov became a performer of a small episodic role of a passerby. In the future, the director plans to include the full version of the play "The Cherry Orchard" in the MGT’s repertoire.

Here, in the theater pavilion, on July 3 and 4, the Puppet Theater from Petrozavodsk will show its performance. They brought to the festival the directorial work of Oleg Zhyugd - “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”. The audience will see the rest of the festival performances at the Provincial Theater.

The program will begin with the play directed by Yuri Butusov "Dream of Autumn", staged by him at the St. Petersburg Theater. Lensoviet. Then the artists of the theater. Kachalov, who arrived from Kazan, will show a performance about the famous Figaro directed by Alexander Slavutsky. Director Nikita Grishpun, together with the artists of the Sevastopol Drama, will present the play “TODASYO”, staged based on the works of Chekhov.

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