TEATRALNY KUFAR
International Student and Youth Theatre Festival
Festival Programme
30 November – 05 December 2015
Date | Time and place | Theatre and performance / event | Synopsis | Language | Tickets |
30 November | 18.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | Opening ceremony feat. Koleso Theatre performance Twilight. Sounds. Shadows…Suitcase (directed by Vladislava Tsviki) Vitebsk (Belarus) | Twilight… The wind of time moves in a spiral, and day’s energies concentrate so intensely, that become almost visible. Sounds asunder. The day breathes out… Fine worlds become apparent, diluting The Shadows. Two worlds twirl in a dance of life, engage and interact unconsciously, surrendering to the motion of the Universe. We are people. And by the evening of life our suitcase should be packed… Suitcase is a luggage that is getting heavier with each day. But we are people and that’s the only reason why the heavier the better. And twilight is the very time, when the wise forgive, let go and leave only love, disappearing into the darkness… As the stars can’t shine without darkness. | Physical | Free admission |
30 November | 19.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | Helver's Night (Ingmar Villqist, directed by Dmitry Tsishko) Na Balkone Theatre (Belarusian State University) Minsk (Belarus) | What could be worse and more dangerous than the crowd? The story of a woman and her intellectually disabled young charge. Two people live in their own world where She works, looks after, nurtures and educates him; He plays with toy soldiers, paints and sometimes goes to the shop at her request. But… The night… The play recounts the events of a November night in 1938. That night anti-Jewish pogroms were held on Hitler’s order. Dozens of them. Hundreds of them. Thousands of dead and maimed people. As the sound of broken glass didn’t stop, that night was named Kristallnacht (Crystal Night). | Russian | Tickets: www. http:// |
30 November | 21.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | MonoK PROGRAMME
The Orchard (Based on The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, directed by Andrei Sauchanka) Theatrical Project of Andrei Sauchanka Minsk (Belarus) | There is the Lost. The Orchard. The Memory. The History. Alone with loneliness, with acquired garden, with lost destiny. Rethinking the play by Anton Chekhov through one character, one man, one person. Lyrics are formed to the singular series, to the soundless chains, to the silent rituals. The selected form of mono-performance allows to increase an intimate and sacred character for acting, to use uncommon techniques for a classical work, to create a peculiar author's context. | Belarusian, Russian | Tickets: www. http:// Limited seating |
01 December | 18.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | The Story of the Green Face Fly and the Long Nose Mosquito (Maksim Bagdanovich, directed by Aliaksei Dziamidchyk) Triumph Theatre-Studio Barysau (Belarus) | Two young people tie the knot but love’s enchantment bit by bit gets eliminated by daily routine which leads to eventual death of one of them. | Belarusian | Tickets: www. http:// |
01 December | 20.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | A Tale of the Seven Hanged (Leonid Andreev, directed by Aleksandr Balaban) Cinematograph Theatre (Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts) Kyiv (Ukraine) | A very deep story by Leonid Andreev of a person and humanity. Time of terror. Time of love. The characters have time only before the dawn. Time for what? Everyone decides for oneself. | Russian | Tickets: www. http:// |
01 December | 22.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | MonoK & Plastilina. 2 in 1 PROGRAMME
1. Grain (Choreographed by Siarhei Paiarkou, performed by Ihar Chypouski) Project of Siarhei Paiarkou and Ihar Chypouski Minsk, Belarus = interval = 2. "The Closer" (Choreographed by Iryna Shyrokaia) Skyline Dance Theatre Minsk, Belarus | 1. One day a thought comes to mind, which seems unusual, sharply differing... Daring or stupid, absurd or beyond any logics. It is like a grain begins to germinate in my head. Where did it come from? A thought then develops itself, and gradually begins to crowd out the other ones, more and more grabbing my attention... Is it me? Who has invented it all and where to put it? The thought growths... Can I control this process? Is it necessary? Where will it take me? After all, where did this grain come from? 2. The issue of perception has always excited me more than others, so it is possible the work carries a very poignant argument to dismiss our focus from "closeness" to its dissemination and a false sense. In the play, we focus on the issues of physical closeness, verbalization and mental connection. As a result, even relations among us became a discovery and sometimes a difficult hurdle. This performance is about being closer to the closest ones, about revealing the depth of relations with the dearest ones... | Physical Physical | Tickets: www. http:// |
02 December | 18.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | Viy (Nikolai Gogol, directed by Viachaslau Sashcheka) Studiosy Theatre Studio (Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts) Minsk (Belarus) | The genre of the performance could be described as “a horror joke”. A traditional Gogol’s plot structure remains in the play. During three nights seminarian Khoma Brut, protected by the magic circle, reads prayers at the grave of the witch he murdered. The witch rises from the dead every night. However, there are no traditional Ukrainian costumes and almost no set in the performance. The main thing about it is the play of light, shadows and sounds of a human voice; these are the elements that help the actors and the audience to plunge into a horror story. Contemporary theatrical language makes this performance clear to any audience. | Russian | Tickets: www. http:// Limited seating |
02 December | 20.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | Hamlet (William Shakespeare, directed by Andrei Gorbaty) Theatre Studio 29 (Moscow State University) Moscow (Russia) | Do you know that there is a lot of humour in Hamlet?! With an obscure and farcical flow your imagination becomes a key to our thought. We are not going to retell the story in detail but we will give you an opportunity to hear the perspective of the ddenly, for a moment you get to a street theatre where everything is gaudy, bright and obvious. The prince and carnival of jesters are all around. Claudius is an open-hearted clown. Hamlet’s inseparable pair of bosom “friends” are court pages from the Soviet cartoons of the 1940s, Polonius is an old buffoon, Gravedigger is a cheerful philosopher… | Russian | Tickets: www. http:// |
02 December | 22.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | MonoK PROGRAMME
I. V.F (Based on Seeds by Michelle Pettigrove, directed by Gerda Surgautaitė) Creators of Free Air Theatre Klaipeda (Lithuania) | This performance explores the agony and the expectation, dreams and realities, ins and outs and the ups and downs that make up the I. V.F. experience. Darkly humorous in its style, it is an in - depth search for sanity in an often totally insane quest. The audience follows four different women, as their hopes, secrets and fears are expressed. Each story stands alone and gives the audience a different perspective on the whole I. V.F. roller coaster ride… | English | Tickets: www. http:// |
03 December | 18.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | Philopater (Gregorius Cnapius, directed by Rimantas Venckus) MINIMUM Theatre (Vilnius University) Vilnius (Lithuania) | The dead king must be replaced with one of his sons. Senators decide that the new king will be the one who will dare to launch an arrow to the father's corpse. The sons are shocked by this decision and initially refuse to do that. But then Love and Power, two allegorical figures, become involved into the dispute. The first one tries to dissuade from this immoral action, the second one tries to encourage it – otherwise a foreigner will take control of the country… | Lithuanian with translation | Tickets: www. http:// |
03 December | 20.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | After Slash / (Viktar Krasouski, directed by Kalev Kudu) TUT Theatre (Tartu University) Tartu (Estonia) | Two young people, girl and boy, love each other but hesitate to say it. They even don’t know how to say and what to say. And the same time they are trying to keep their freedom and independence as long as possible, but love itself is stronger than their egos. And they can do nothing, at least love wins. | Estonian, Russian | Tickets: www. http:// |
03 December | 22.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | Plastilina PROGRAMME The Shadows and Wind (written and directed by Fereydoun Velayi) Barish Theatre Maragheh (Iran) | A joyful play with one’s own shadow brings to the depth of self and reveals desperate loneliness out of unsolvable problemmes... Do you really smile when you smile? What is behind your shadow? | Physical | Tickets: www. http:// |
04 December | 18.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | Democracy (Joseph Brodsky, directed by Stanislav Golodnitsky) Chamber Drama Theatre (youth group) Kostroma (Russia) | Joseph Brodsky’s play pamphlet Democracy was written over 20 years ago but since that it hasn’t lost its painful relevance. Real political puppet masters hide behind comfortable screen ideas, when all of a sudden they are ordered to announce to their people that the regime of democracy has been introduced. Actually the characters of the play do not have any faces, they wear masks shifting their own opinion with a reaction of chameleon. Kostroma version of Democracy does not have geographical ties or time frame, it may be something that happens in our neighbourhood where children play in an old rusty automobile carcass without wheels and there is no place for birds to build their nests as only stumps have left from trees. | Russian | Tickets: www. http:// |
04 December | 20.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | To Go and Not Return (Vasil Bykau, directed by Andrei Sauchanka) Mikalai Kirychenka Workshop (Belarusian State Academy of Arts) Minsk (Belarus) | A war. She. order she have to cross the enemy’s territory. She goes. He hurries to help her. On his own. Without permission. He rushes because her life is the most important thing for him. First she accepts his aid. Then his feelings. But the war forces them to choose. Their choice is different. He is confident in his choice. And she should accept it. She should? Or shouldn’t she? What can they do to defend their choice? How far are they willing to go? To go… And not return? | Belarusian | Tickets: www. http:// |
04 December | 22.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | Edith Piaf. My Legionnaire (Ksenia Dragunskaia, directed by Aivars Ikselis) Valka City Theatre Valka (Latvia) | Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan... these names have become legend. They became a symbol of love, bright as lightning. Their relationship was difficult, but surprisingly open. Their love was cut short at the highest point, as the flight, at the time when they were on top of their happiness. Our performance is a fantasy on the theme when Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan first met, when they were not known, and their career was just at the beginning. The performance is set in 1936. This is not an illustration of Piaf’s biography. Funny, touching, simple like a song, it is a story about love and freedom, fleetingness, tenderness, and the war. The story which can make you cry, but you can laugh to tears... | Russian, Latvian | Tickets: www. http:// |
05 December | 14.00 TBD | KufarDramaLab PROGRAMME
Staged readings of Belarusian contemporary dramaturgy | Great Migration of Freaks (N. Rudkovski, directed by Dariusz Jezierski (Poland)) – in Bel. Two is Too Many, the Third is Too Much (L. Chikanas, directed by Edward Lewis (UK)) – in Eng. Opium (V. Korolev, directed by Aleksandr Balaban (Ukraine)) – in Rus. | Free admission | |
05 December | 17.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | MonoK PROGRAMME
4.48 Psychosis (Sarah Kane, stage adaptation by Robert Sturua and Nino Kantidze, directed by Kita Rokva) Telavi Professional State Drama Theatre Telavi (Georgia) | ‘Have in mind the light and trust to the light’. ‘The truth will light you before the death’. The reason of the main character’s depression is doublethink. He is desperately hopeless. He talks to himself but all his efforts to know himself end up in vain. He is in love with his doctor, but this feeling is a fruit of his imagination too. He blames God, who in his opinion has left him, as well as all the others. He tries to change the life with his imagined love and avoid suicide. He is frightened, because it is possible his torture will not end after his death. | Georgian with translation | Tickets: www. http:// Limited seating |
05 December | 19.00 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | Silk (Alessandro Baricco, directed by Marco Pascolini) TURLg Theatre (Liege University) Liege (Belgium) | ‘It was one of those men who like to witness their own life, considering any ambition to live it as unbecoming. To earn a living, Hervé Joncourt bought and sold silkworms’. 1861. Lavilledieu is a rural town thriving quietly with its silk trade. But, when an epidemic dooms this trade by its ravaging consequences, the people of Lavilledieu have no other choice than to look upon the mysterious and forbidden Orient, and the reclusive isle of Japan. It is decided that Hervé Joncour will be the man sent to save the slowly dying silktrade. There he'll find love, he'll find war, he'll find loyalty and death. And destiny - the kind he will not, he cannot undertake - will find him and will change the foundations of what was his world, forever, and ever... | French | Tickets: www. http:// |
05 December | 20.30 BSU Lyceum (8, Ulianauskaia St.) | Closing ceremony. Performance. Awarding |
