Saratov Drama Theater named after Slonov
2023

Author: Lev Tolstoy
Director: Ivan Komarov
Stage and costume designer: Julia Vetrova

The novel "Anna Karenina" has always been a rather difficult text for me to implement on the theater stage; I always thought about how I would draw it, what kind of performance I would come up with based on this novel. And then a proposal arose to compose a play on a large stage, which, among other things, was well technically equipped. I won't talk much about this performance, because it turned out to be incredible, grandiose, this is one of my favorite performances and photographs can tell much more than words. The performance is filled with many set elements, props, costumes with masks and makeup. I made the setting for our novel the metro in Paris, where you can find a huge variety of images and events, a busy setting, constant movement of underground carriages and people, a crossroads at which our heroes find themselves. We made the decorations for many months; it was painstaking work in the workshops. Materials and textures, decoration details, furniture carefully selected by me. Our costumes look like a separate work of art, they have a complex cut, a carefully selected combination of fabrics, the costumes are hand-embroidered with embroidery, beads, feathers, decorative elements, braid, sewn according to the principle of multi-layering with the addition of clothing details with a historical cut.
This project is our common pride and love, I hope that the performance will be successful for many years.