" Creative Workshop" preparing for a new premiere: "On the way to Damascus"
The theater of drama "Creative Workshop" is preparing to present to the audience the production "On the way to Damascus"
The theater of drama "Creative Workshop" is preparing to present to the audience the production "On the way to Damascus". The premiere is scheduled for Saturday, November 15.
Immersion in the world of August Strindberg promises to be unusual. Director Nikolai Ringburg reimagined the classic drama, turning it into a bright, daring and full of irony theatrical puzzle.
As the representatives of the theater promise, the audience is waiting for an exciting journey through the labyrinths of the alien subconscious. Together with the main character, the Wanderer, we will go through the mystical hotel, the mysterious house of the Doctor and the gloomy gorge to meet in the final with the strictest judge – your own conscience. The music highlights this atmosphere.
The scene promises to become a mirror reflecting the innermost corners of the human soul.
Work on the performance began in the last creative season. Director and screenwriter Nikolai Ringburg, a graduate of VGIK (workshop of V.V. Menshov and V.V. Alentova), trained in France and at the laboratories of famous theater figures, is known for his ability to stage a variety of productions - from large-scale projects to chamber performances. The art design belongs to Valery Polunovsky, a graduate of LGITMIC, behind whom more than a hundred decorated performances in Russia and abroad.
Producer and lighting artist, Yevgeny Goncharenko, technical director of the KukLab Theatre, will bring his experience of working with leading theaters to the production. Musical and sound design will be created by a graduate of the Gnessin Academy of Arts Anna Rodyukova, whose works can be seen in the “Lenkom” and the Theatre of Nations. Choreography, combining modern dance and theatrical expressiveness, belongs to Alexander Kozin, a dancer, teacher and director, as well as one of the leading actresses of the Creative Workshop Evgenia Vereshchagin, who actively develops choreography in an amateur acting club.
The play On the Way to Damascus is one of the most revealing works of Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The name refers to the biblical story of Saul’s conversion. Like the apostle, the protagonist goes through trials, fear, guilt, and the search for truth, seeking to find himself. He tries to escape from the past, but constantly confronts it, experiencing insanity, temptation and broken relationships. The play was written after Strindberg was tried for blasphemy in 1884, a turning point in his work.
