Published on: 2026-06-09
Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –
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“Electrotheater Stanislavsky” invites you to the performance “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.
In the Shakespearean text, irrational but carefully organized, director Alessio Nardin contemplates whose dream is really being acted out on stage: the author’s, Titania’s, Titania and Oberon’s, or the viewer’s?
Besides that, the director poses several more questions: “What power does a dream have in our life? What is the relationship between a dream and reality? If this is a dream, then what theatrical tools can be used to make this dream a theatrical phenomenon?” To find answers, Alessio Nardin clarified which worlds are present in the play.
The polis, a golden cage governed by law, justice, order, and reason — this is the world of Theseus, Hippolytus, and Aegeus. The forest, where nature expresses itself in all its force and uncontrollable passion, — this is the world of Oberon, the Titans, Puck, and witches. The theatre of actors — this is the world of craftsmen who try to come closer to the gods and for that invent a new form of art, becoming artists. And the lovers — this is the real world of passion, beauty, sacrifices, betrayals, death, deception, and hope. Intertwining, all four realities reveal the fullness of the play and, possibly, the structure of life.
The play features actors who have undergone Del Arte comedy training and use masks as a means of transformation from one reality to another: Andrei Emelyanov, Dmitry Myagkiy, Vladimir Dolmatovsky, Anton Kostochkin, Lev Teregin, Anastasia Ksenofontova, Anna Mavlitova, Maria Belyaeva, Darya Kolpikova, Ekaterina Andreeva, Anton Kapanin, Yulia Abdel Fattah, and Pavel Kravets.
Director, choreographer, production designer — Alessio Nardin. Assistant director — Alexander Pentye. Line producer — Varvara Pushkarskaya. Production designer — Natalia Avdonina. Costume designer — Vadim Andreev. Composer — Alexander Belousov. Lighting designer — Alexey Naumov. Songwriter — Alexandra Polonik.
Duration: 2 hours 40 minutes with two intermissions.
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