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)