The repertoire of the Lenkom Theater is known practically by heart to all theatergoers in the capital. Fans of domestic dramatic productions do not miss a single premiere and enjoy going to their favorite shows several times. In the new season, the theater troupe is ready to surprise the audience with new original and already beloved productions.
"Day of the guardian"
The repertoire of the Lenkom Theater in the new season will open the play "Day of the Oprichnik". This is a dystopia based on the popular novels by Vladimir Sorokin “Telluria” and “Day of the Oprichnik”. The action takes place in the near future, after about 100 years.
Sorokin is an outstanding author of our time, who is considered a successor of Gogol's traditions. Moreover, the attitude towards his work in society is ambiguous. But many believe that he, with his conflicting novels, is trying to uncover the secrets of human nature, without disdaining to touch the darkest sides.
The performance of Mark Zakharov goes on for two and a half hours with one intermission. It contains various phantasmagoric visions that can materialize in Russia. The play itself and the works by which it is directed are aimed at ensuring that a person learns to distinguish painful sadism from the bright sides of the human soul. The main thing is that the performance teaches not to sing tyrants and not to erect monuments to them. The shocking and evil satire possesses special properties in Sorokin, among which the most important is unpredictable and witty prose.
"Flying over Cuckoo's Nest"
The repertoire of the Lenkom Theater in the new season will include this production based on the novel by American writer Ken Kesey. The director himself defines her genre as a stage fantasy. The performance lasts three hours and 20 minutes with one intermission.
The creators of this play succeeded almost impossible. On one stage, fit a psychiatric clinic in which a variety of people live and suffer together. They are trying to equip their own, even a small personal space and get a path to inner freedom.
In the main role of the legendary McMurphy in the repertoire of the Lenkom Theater you can always see the famous Russian actor Alexander Lazarev Jr., who admits that he feels every time a debutant. After all, Ken Kesey’s novel and the picture with Jack Nicholson in the title role set the work to an incredibly high standard.
"Juno and Avos"
This is not the first year that the audience, when they get acquainted with information about the repertoire of the Lenkom Theater, encounters modern opera in two parts of Juno and Avos.
This is an amazing story about a real person - a Russian statesman and traveler Nikolai Rezanov. He was one of the founders of the Russian-American trading company, served in the Izmailovsky regiment.
I remember most of all my contemporaries when I went on a trip to California in 1806 with the aim of establishing trade interaction with American partners, as well as with the colonists from Spain.
If the repertoire of the Lenkom Theater for the current month has this production, you should definitely go to it. The season in Lenkom starts in September. In addition to the productions mentioned in this article, the audience is waiting for the opera for the Drama Theater “Royal Games”, the play “All-in” by Ostrovsky, the premiere of “Dreams of Mr. de Moliere”, the comedy “The Marriage” of Gogol, the play “Boris Godunov”, stage fantasy “The strange people are these adults,” “The Cherry Orchard,” and “The Aquitaine Lioness.”
"Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"
The production of the play by the French playwright Beaumarchais is one of Lenkom's business cards. Once the main role in it was played by Andrei Mironov. So now she is dedicated to him.
The repertoire of the Lenkom Theater for a month almost always has this performance. This is a classic example of classicism in the theater, as it respects three unities - time, place and action. All the events of the performance take place in one day at the estate of Count Almaviva. The reason for everything is the decision of his servant named Figaro, who wanted to marry the Countess Rosina Suzanne's maid.
Meanwhile, the count himself is experiencing a passion for Suzanne, whom his wife has long ceased to interest. He tries in every possible way to achieve the girl’s voluntary consent, stressing that he can upset the engagement at any time.
Not only he is trying to prevent this wedding. The housekeeper Marcelina, to whom Figaro owes money, also intends to upset the union. To count Almaviva behind the Suzanne, Figaro makes him suspect his spouse in infidelity and switch all attention to her. A fascinating action takes place on the stage, filled with intrigue and humor.