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R&J. Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Premiere: 15 June 2009 | Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes | No intermission | 18+
About
Roman Viktyuk’s interpretation of the famous play by Shakespeare is filled with youthful irony, enthusiasm and abstraction.
The production tells a story within a story: it opens with four young sailors on a ship who, waiting out a storm, find a copy of “Romeo and Juliet”. The longer they read the play, the more involved they become, starting to act out fragments, dividing up characters and, eventually, they put on the full performance. The all-male cast reminds us of acting traditions of Shakespeare’s contemporaries while simultaneously, challenges our own convictions about what theatre ‘should be’ like.
Artistic team
Author
WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR
Director
ROMAN VIKTYUK
Set designer
VLADIMIR BOER
Lighting designer
SERGEY SKORNETSKY
Choreographer
PHILIP SYTNIKOV
Movement director
MIKHAIL VISHNEVSKY
Sound designer
LIUDMILA PLATONOVA
Assistant director
ANDREY BOROVIKOV
Cast and Characters
Student I
IVAN IVANOVICH
Student II
IGOR NEVEDROV
Student III
STANISLAV MOTYREV
Student IV
ALEXEY LITVINENKO