The Satyricon Theatre's production of Shakespeare's tragedy, and a live Zoom Q&A with actor Konstantin Raikin and Professor Michael Earley
Stage Russia HD and Pushkin House are proud to present a special online streaming (from April 8 to April 10) of the Satyricon Theatre’s King Lear, directed by Yury Butusov and featuring the great Konstantin Raikin as Lear. Then on Saturday April 10 at 2 PM (GMT), take part in a live Zoom Q&A with Russian theatre scholar Michael Earley and Mr. Raikin.
The film will be presented in Russian with English subtitles, and the Q&A will be conducted in English & Russian with English translation.
Yury Butusov's award-winning staging of King Lear tells a story in which the collapse of a family, the collapse of a country, and the collapse of an individual are all connected to each other. In Shakespeare's classic work, Lear imagined himself to be God's equal - and so he divided his kingdom between his daughters just to see what would happen. Featuring 4-time Golden Mask Award-winning actor Konstantin Raikin as Lear.
Konstantin Arkadyevich Raikin is one of the most highly decorated Russian stage actors of all time. He is a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art, winner of the Crystal Turandot Prize, of the International Stanislavsky Prize and four time Golden Mask winner for Best Actor (1995, 2000, 2003, 2008), including for the roles of Richard in Richard III and Lear in King Lear, both directed by Yury Butusov. In 1967 Raikin entered the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and was enrolled in the course of the renowned actor and teacher Yuri Katin-Yartsev. After graduation in 1971, Raikin was invited by Galina Volchek to the highly regarded Sovremennik Theatre, where he honed his craft for 10 years. In 1981, he moved to the Leningrad Theater of Miniatures under the leadership of his father, the revered Soviet actor and comedian, Arkady Raikin. In 1982 the theater moved to Moscow and became the State Theater of Miniatures (in 1987 it was renamed as the Moscow Theater "Satyricon"). In 1988, after the death of his father, Konstantin Raikin became the artistic director of the theatre, now known as Russian State Theatre "Satyricon" named after Arkady Raikin. Since then he has starred in and directed countless award-winning productions.
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.