The Art Seen and Pushkin House present an opportunity to watch the recording of one of the recent pieces by prominent theatre director Dmitry Krymov, Everyone is Here. After having been practically banned in Russia and all of his productions cancelled, Krymov has now left the country and moved to New York, where he has recently opened his new lab.
The recording of Everyone is Here will be available from Wednesday 16 November until Sunday 20 November 2022.
Join us online on Saturday 19 November at 2pm for a Q&A with the author, led by Michael Earley. The recording of the Q&A will be available after the event. Please note that the time has been updated.
25% of the income will be donated to Krymov Lab NYC. Please consider supporting them directly.
Inspired by a 1975 American touring production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town that he visited as a young man, Dmitry Krymov’s Everyone is Here is a memory piece, a starting point for a flight of imagination and immersion into his own past. Wilder’s Our Town is superimposed on the personal memories of Krymov, his biography and events from his family life. The structure of the play gives rise to an interweaving of events, memories, reminiscences, fantasies, associations, dreams – a carefully planned, as if random confusion, which in the finale leads the viewer to a keen awareness of their own life.
Everyone is Here was nominated for five 2022 Golden Mask Awards, including Best Play and Best Director, and features Aleksandr Feklistov and a memorable Maria Smolnikova. The recording was created during the performance before a live audience at the Moscow Theatre "School of Modern Plays".
Language: Russian
Translation: English subtitles
Running time: 105 min (no interval)
Creative Team
Director and Author – Dmitry Krymov
Stage Design – Maria Tregubova
Lighting Design – Ivan Vinogradov
Choreographer – Oleg Glushkov
Puppet Instructor – Maksim Kustov
Music Director – Vera Nikolaeva
Stunt Coordinator – Konstantin Mukhanov
Assistant Director – Viktoriya Vyazovskaya
Special thanks to Zaur Zugumov for Anton Chekhov's text adaptations
Cast
The Stage Manager – Aleksandr Feklistov
The Director – Aleksandr Ovchinnikov
Nonna Mikhailovna Skegina / Sonya Golden Hand – Maria Smolnikova
Mr Gibbs – Yury Chernov
Mrs Gibbs – Julietta Gering
Mr Webb – Nikolay Golubev
Mrs Webb – Olga Gusiletova
Joe Crowell – Aleksandr Seppius
George – Kirill Snegirev
Emily – Olga Grudyaeva
Mrs Soames – Viktoriya Kruchkova
Mother – Tatyana Tsirenina
Father / Chekhov – Pavel Drozdov
Anatoly Ivanovich – Vladimir Shulga
Grandmother – Olga Nadezhdina
Chekhov (Bottom Half) – Sergey Pokidin
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Dmitry Krymov graduated from the Moscow Art School Studio in 1976, after which he started work at the Malaya Bronnaya Theatre. There, as a set designer, he participated in productions by his renowned father, the director Anatoly Efros. In 2002, at age 48, Dmitry embarked on a new career as a director. Since then, his productions have won seven Golden Mask awards and he has staged his works in the US, the UK, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Finland and Estonia among many other countries. Krymov currently lives in New York City.
Michael Earley is Visiting Professor of Theatre at Harlaxton College, UK. He was previously Dean of Performing Arts and Professor of Drama and Theatre at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore, and 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 on Radio 3 and Radio 4. He is currently writing a new book about the relationship between the Russian theatre directors and revolutionary innovators Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold.
Cover photo by Yury Bogomaz, courtesy of The Art Seen.