Project
“Plague on Both Your Houses!”
Category
Best Implemented Theatre Set Design
About the project (provided by the applicant)
What happens in Verona after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Do passions, intrigues, feuds, and hatred still rage among the Montague and Capulet clans? Will love find its place in this fierce, burning cycle? Grigory Gorin’s irony and imagination reveal the futility of enmity to the audience.
The scenography is based on the stone walls of Verona. Mobile structures instantly transport the viewer between the Montague and Capulet houses, Friar Lorenzo’s cell, and the streets and squares of the city. The stones remember much… Intricate stained-glass panels reflect sword flashes and the torches of public festivals. The city, through the windows, seems to vigilantly watch its inhabitants. The stones remember everything.
Yes, the flow of human malice, quarrels, and intrigues is hard to stop, but it is within our power to remain human and find a saving island of love. Where only a miracle can save, that miracle becomes love.
Location
14 Karl Marx Street, Irkutsk, Irkutsk Academic Drama Theatre named after N.P. Okhlopkov, Russia
Project implementation year
2023
Project website
https://www.dramteatr.ru/spectacle/chuma-na-oba-vashi-doma
Extra visual materials
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/Puf3s-0zUC5FBw
Applicant
Irkutsk Academic Drama Theatre named after N.P. Okhlopkov
The Irkutsk Academic Drama Theatre, founded in 1850, is the oldest theatre in Eastern Siberia. Today, it successfully completes its 175th anniversary season. The theatre produces at least eight premieres per season, implements socially significant cultural projects, tours various cities and countries, participates in major theatre festivals, and organizes its own festivals.
Authors of the project
Director: Honored Artist of Russia Gennady Stepanovich Gushchin
Set Designer: Honored Art Worker of Russia Alexander Ilyich Plint
Photo
Irkutsk Academic Drama Theatre named after N.P. Okhlopkov
Customer
Irkutsk Academic Drama Theatre named after N.P. Okhlopkov
Other participants
Stage design produced in the theatre workshops of the Irkutsk Academic Drama Theatre.
Costume Designer: Oksana Gotovskaya
Lighting Designer: Svetlana Nasonova
Composer: Andrey Volchenkov
Status of the project
Implemented
