For the first time ever, Pushkin House presents an online screening: Timofey Kulyabin's ONEGIN, from the Red Torch theatre, Novosibirsk
In collaboration with Stage Russia, Pushkin House is proud to offer, for the first time, an online screening and Q&A. Timofey Kulyabin's groundbreaking staging of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin has been one of our most popular events when shown in the House, and we're delighted to be able to screen it now in the comfort of your home. You'll be able to watch the film within the two days before 2pm on 29th November, when Timofey will be speaking live from Moscow, in conversation with Michael Earley.
About the play:
Timofey Kulyabin's Golden Mask Award winning ONEGIN removes all expectations of Pushkin's novel in verse and places in today's world, immersed in the inner thoughts, hopes, despairs, passions and disappointments that drift in, through and around the 4 central figures, Onegin, Tatiana, Olga and Lensky. There are no grand balls, no fans, no lorgnettes, no "Encyclopedia of Russian life". Just a quiet love story that perfectly conveys the attitude of the great poet and how very much his masterwork still resonates with our 21st century reality.
Presented in Russian with English subtitles.
160 minutes (includes one 15 minute intermission)
Reviews:
"Every gesture, stare or word is infused with Pushkin's mercilessness and tenderness" --Russian Sibnet
"Director Timofey Kulyabin is one of the most interesting directors of his generation and a virtuoso pro" --St Petersburg Theatre Journal
Timofey Kulyabin is one of the most prominent young directors in Russia today. He has already staged nearly two dozen productions across the Russian Federation as well as internationally in, among many countries, France, Austria, Romania, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. In 2016, he was commissioned by Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre to stage Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale" and in 2019 returned to the great theatre, offering up a new staging of Dvořák's opera "Rusalka". Kulyabin's work for Stage Russia includes a 2017 presented sign-language version of Chekhov's "The Three Sisters", a multi Golden Mask nominated production of Gorky's "Children of the Sun" and a 2018 Golden Mask Award-winning staging of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin".
Michael Earley is Academic Adviser for Stage Russia. He is writing a new book about the relationship between Russian theatre directors and revolutionary innovators Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold. Currently, Michael is Dean of Performing Arts and Professor of Drama and Theatre at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. He was previously Professor of Drama, Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in Sidcup. An American by birth, Michael had an extensive career in the United States where he was Assistant Professor and Director of the undergraduate Theatre Studies Program at Yale University and on the faculty of the Drama Department at the Juilliard School and also at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. As Chief Producer of Plays for BBC Radio Drama he directed over 50 productions for broadcast over Radio 3 and Radio 4.