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Performance "An ice-run"
Cheremkhovo drama Theater named after Gurkin
2021
Author: Alexey Zhitkovsky
Director: Dmitry Akimov
Stage and Costume designer: Julia Vetrova
The performance "An ice-run" is one of my favorite performances; it awakened in me memories of my childhood, with all the joys and sorrows that happen to us in childhood. Even now, looking through photographs from the performance, I return to the atmosphere of our childhood and the atmosphere of the country as it was then. It was both scary and joyful, because we were children. The scenery I came up with is a courtyard of a house with a playground, an apartment, a kindergarten, a street, and a prison. The time of year is winter and it snows constantly. The most difficult thing in writing this performance was coming up with costumes; more precisely, I had the task of turning adult actors into children of the USSR. I remember how I looked through many photographs from kindergartens during the USSR, looked for the characters we needed, and then applied this to the actors. Our play combines two times, the Soviet Union and our modern time. Two narrators guide viewers through the story. My favorite moment in the play is the finale, when the garlands are lit in the courtyard and an ice-run appears, from which the actors roll down as they take their bows at the finale. It's so good that everything ends with a happy ending.
2021
Author: Alexey Zhitkovsky
Director: Dmitry Akimov
Stage and Costume designer: Julia Vetrova
The performance "An ice-run" is one of my favorite performances; it awakened in me memories of my childhood, with all the joys and sorrows that happen to us in childhood. Even now, looking through photographs from the performance, I return to the atmosphere of our childhood and the atmosphere of the country as it was then. It was both scary and joyful, because we were children. The scenery I came up with is a courtyard of a house with a playground, an apartment, a kindergarten, a street, and a prison. The time of year is winter and it snows constantly. The most difficult thing in writing this performance was coming up with costumes; more precisely, I had the task of turning adult actors into children of the USSR. I remember how I looked through many photographs from kindergartens during the USSR, looked for the characters we needed, and then applied this to the actors. Our play combines two times, the Soviet Union and our modern time. Two narrators guide viewers through the story. My favorite moment in the play is the finale, when the garlands are lit in the courtyard and an ice-run appears, from which the actors roll down as they take their bows at the finale. It's so good that everything ends with a happy ending.
