Wild duck
Henrick Ibsen 16+
The characters of the new Timofey Kulyabin’s production “Wild Duck” are forced to choose between illusion and reality, between truth and lies. A photographer Martin Berg and his family lived a modest and in their own way happy life until Thomas, Martin’s childhood friend and a son of a rich businessman Werle, made Martin choose. As usual, Ibsen explains that the reason of split, disunion and, eventually, disaster is in the long ago past. And everything that should bring peace and harmony turns out to be a tragedy.
The theatre itself during the play pushes its boundaries, starts a double life — the audience with the actors find themselves in two worlds, in two realities at the same time. Martin Berg is not only a photographer but a movie director as well, and we see life of his family not only with our own eyes but through a camera lens also. Both parts of this constantly doubling world may be considered as real and in the end due to their compound the true catastrophe happens
Production team:
Director — Timofey Kulyabin
Set Designer — Oleg Golovko
Dramaturgy — Olga Fedyanina
Lighting Designer — Taras Mikhalevskiy
Sound Design — Timofey Pastukhov
Video — “Gamma” studio:
video content director — Anastasiya Zhuravleva
head cameraman — Vladimir Burtsev
cameramen — Stanislav Kulikov, Andrey Borovikov, Vladimir Ivanov, Vladimir Bulnygin, Aleksandr Dyachenko
film editor — Natalya Mezentseva
Characters and cast:
Håkon Werle, a businessman — Honored Artist of Russia Andrey Chernykh
Bertha Gross — Honored Artist of Russia Elena Zhdanova
Thomas Werle — Pavel Polyakov
Herbert Berg — Honored Artist of Russia Vladimir Lemeshonok
Martin Berg — Denis Kazantsev
Gina — Irina Krivonos
Hilda — Anastasiya Pleshkan, Luiza Rusanova
Dr. Relling — Aleksandr Drozdov
Security — Sergey Bogomolov, Evgeniy Osokin
Opening night: 18 December 2021
Running Time: 1 hour 50 minutes (w/o intermission)