Monologues in the Boyar Chambers – Moskovskaya Pravda

April 2 and 3 at the Boyar Chambers (20.00) Theater “Workshops” presents the play “The Tale of the Seven Hanged” based on the story of Leonid Andreev, staged by Polina Sinilnikova. Production designer – Anastasia Baranovskaya. Both graduated from the Vladimir Pankov Workshop at GITIS.

This is a performance for which the theater raised funds with the help of crowdfunding on the platform and won the STD RF competition, the main prize of which is the provision of a venue for rehearsals and showing the performance in the Boyar Chambers.

“The Story of the Seven Hanged” Leonid Andreev wrote in 1908. This is a story about the last days of the lives of seven criminals. Their mental monologues (the heroes one by one comprehend the approach of imminent death) the writer considered an expression of personal protest against the death penalty. He waived the copyright so that the work could be read all over the world. The story has been translated into many languages.

Director Polina Sinilnikova: Our performance is a story about the fact that death is not so terrible as life without love, about how love gives meaning to everything that exists and makes a person immortal, infinite. … That the death penalty is becoming a vicious circle of killing people by people and that the only way out of this circle is mercy and non-violence in any form and under any circumstances.” Before the performance, the audience can watch a thematic exhibition.

Reference: The new independent Theater “Masterskikh” is a team of graduates of GITIS and the Higher School of Performing Arts, actors and directors from the theater Workshops: Sergei Zhenovach, Vladimir Pankov, Konstantin Raikin, Alexander Koruchekov and Oleg Kudryashov. They play their performances at various venues and in different cities.

The history of the theater began with auditorium 39, located on the 3rd floor of the directing department of GITIS, through which many actors and directors of the Masterskikh theater passed.

First, Yegor Trukhin’s Hamlet was born. The performance was a resounding success at GITIS, then became an independent theatrical project and was shown not only in Moscow. The Masterskie Theater’s repertoire also includes Murat Abulkatinov’s performance (directed by Sergey Zhenovach’s workshop), staged together with graduates of Konstantin Raikin’s workshop L’impression. Garden”; performance “Belated Flowers” by Sergei Tonyshev (graduate of Sergei Zhenovach). It was released together with graduates of the Pankov Workshop as part of the Chekhov Collaboration project of the CDR Theater. As well as the performance of Svetlana Zemlyakova “Kumutkan”, a musical and poetic evening (artistic director Maria Goryacheva), the performance of Varvara Nasonova and Alexander Antipenko “Letters of Chekhov and Lika Mizinova”.

Polina Sinilnikova is an actress of theater and cinema. In 2020 she graduated from the acting department of GITIS (Workshop of V. Pankov). Plays in the theater: “Look back in anger”, dir. Oleg Menshikov (Yermolova Theatre), Factory Girl, dir. Vladimir Pankov (CDR), Nadyusha Lapina, Belated Flowers, dir. Sergei Tonyshev (Workshops Theatre) Marusya Priklonskaya, Kaleriya Ivanovna, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, dir. Alexander Mizev, Marya Shatova. Acting in films.

Irina Shvedova.

Photo by Olga Strelets provided by the theater press service