New sound of the poem “Vasily Terkin” in ShDI

On November 24 and 25, in the Manege Hall of the School of Dramatic Art Theater on Sretenka, the premiere of the play Vasily Terkin based on the poem of the same name by Alexander Tvardovsky will take place 12+

The audience is waiting bright play setting: artists and director Gleb Cherepanov create in the tradition of the square theateras open to the viewer as possible. After all, “Vasily Terkin” is an ideal material for a mask theater, for improvising commedia dell’arte, the director believes.

In the role of Vasily Terkin – Andrey Kharenkoalso busy in the play Igor Lesov, Regina Khakimova, Anastasia Fursova, Nikolai Gontar, Fedor Leonov, Evgeny Polyakov.

The poem of Alexander Tvardovsky really went to the people: its chapters were rewritten, readers en masse wrote sequels. The author did not mind, because the poem became what it was originally conceived. Not an ideology, but a spirit, not complex literature, but folk art. So why did the story of Vasily Terkin become practically popular? Why was it supplemented and added to?

Gleb Cherepanov Graduated from the B. V. Schukin Theater Institute in 2010, director’s workshop of Valery Fokin. In 2014 received Oleg Tabakov Prize for a successful directorial debut on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov. In 2014-2015 he was a stage director at the Moscow Studio Theater under the direction of Oleg Tabakov, in 2016 he was a stage director at the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army.

Staged performances at the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov, the Shchukin Theater Institute, the theater “School of the Modern Play”, the Theater Center on Strastnoy, the Theater. DOC, the Et Cetera Theatre, the Taganka Theatre, the Hermitage Garden, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Mayakovsky Theatre, the Fyodor Volkov Theater (Yaroslavl), the Youth Theater (Chelyabinsk), the Perm Youth Theatre, the A. Kazantsev Drama and Directing Center and M. Roshchin, the Kansk Drama Theatre, the Altai Youth Theater (Barnaul), the Khitrovka Cultural Center, the Mogilev Regional Drama Theatre, the Krasnoyarsk Pushkin Drama Theatre, the Perm Academic Theatre, the Voronezh Alexei Koltsov Drama Theatre.

Participant a number of theater festivals and readings. Screenwriter and director of the full-length feature film “23.59”. Has a number of acting jobs in films.

Producer – Gleb Cherepanov.

production designer — Olga Levenok, lighting designer — Alexei Mikhalevsky, choreographer — Ksenia Rudenko.

Photo by Natalia Cheban