The story intertwines the horror and beauty of a human attempt, absurd and painful, to subject the miraculously bestowed love to a seemingly perfect self-invented system.
This play is a story of performance is about our fatal and absurd obsession with tailoring everything to our life and ostensibly elaborate plans. A story of inability to see the simple truth, unparalleled and live by the side of every human. A story of human pursuit of perfection and refinement of the living genuine spirit to fit ephemeral goals.
With its strong visual and musical images, our performance has phantasmagorical nature. Its main character exists both in the real circumstances of his ruined life and, at the same time, in the broken imaginary world of his dreams.
A GENTLE CREATURE
A fantastic story about the collapse of one ideal system
Based on the story by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky A Gentle Creature
Featuring:
Sergei Garmash
Yuri Bashmet
Chamber ensemble MOSCOW SOLOISTS
Students of Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School
E. Dolbnikova
A. Pletneva
V. Samokhina
A. Semina
Yu. Sergeeva
A. Shchukina
Yu. Bazhanova
Stage direction, design, and adaptation Victor Kramer
Composer Kuzma Bodrov
Costume designer Maria Utrobina
Lighting designer Igor Fomin
Video artist Alexey Obraztsov
Choreographer Alexey Kot
Producer Dmitry Grinchenko