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Home , Alexander Tairov, Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan, Measure For Measure, Nick Ormerod, Peter Stein

2018 BAM Next Wave Festival #BAMNextWave

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Adam E. Max, Katy Clark, Chairman of the Board President

William I. Campbell, Joseph V. Melillo, Vice Chairman of the Board Executive Producer By Pushkin / and

BAM Harvey Theater Oct 16—20 at 7:30pm; Oct 21 at 3pm

Running time: approx. 1 hour 50 minutes, no intermission

Director Declan Donnellan Designer Nick Ormerod Lighting designer Sergey Skornetskiy Music composer Pavel Akimkin Chroreographer Irina Kashuba

US tour produced by David Eden Productions, Ltd.

Season Sponsor:

Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Achelis and Bodman Foundation The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Measure for Measure

CAST

Duke Alexander Arsentyev Escalus Yuri Rumyantsev Angelo Andrei Kuzichev Lucio Alexander Feklistov Claudio Petr Rykov Provost Nikolay Kislichenko Executioner Ivan Litvinenko Elbow Vladimir Ziberev Barnardine Igor Teplov Pompey / Friar Peter Alexey Rakhmanov Isabella Anna Vardevanian / Mistress Overdone Elmira Mirel Juliet / Francisca Anastasia Lebedeva

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Technical Director Alexander Solomin Lighting Alexey Eremin Sound Pavel Romanov Wardrobe Elena Semenova Props Liubov Fedkovich Makeup Natalia Savostianova Assistant Director Kirill Sbitnev Stagehand Vladimir Mazlov Stage Manager Marina Krymova Surtitle Editor Anna Kolesnikova Surtitle Operators Anna Kolesnikova Liliia Kazakova

Produced by Cheek by Jowl and the Pushkin Theatre, Moscow in a co-production with the Barbican, London; Les Gémeaux/Sceaux/Scène Nationale; Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid (INAEM).

Additional support is provided by the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

FOR CHEEK BY JOWL Executive director Eleanor Lang Consultant producer Anna Kolesnikova General manager & PA to the directors Teya Lanzon Administrator Marie Couvert-Castera Photo: Johan Persson Measure for Measure

SYNOPSIS

In the absence of its Duke, is ruled by Lord Angelo’s iron-fist. He revives forgotten laws on morality and sexual license and decides to make an example of Claudio, a young man who has had pre-marital sex with his fiancée, Juliet.

Hearing of Claudio’s death sentence, his sister the novitiate Isabella resolves to petition Angelo for her brother’s life. Despite his outward strict moral code, Angelo tells Isabella he will only free her brother if she sacrifices her virginity to him. Isabella is shocked by this and refuses Angelo; she begins to resign herself to the necessity of her brother’s death to protect her own virtue. Luckily, her conversation with Angelo had been overheard by the Duke, who is still in fact in Vienna, disguised as a friar, as a means to oversee Angelo’s government without his presence being known in the city.

The Duke comes up with a plan to save Claudio, preserve Isabella’s virginity and reveal Angelo’s mis- deeds. Under the cover of darkness Angelo is tricked into believing he is meeting Isabella, but instead has sex with his estranged fiancée, Mariana. After this, he still refuses to pardon Claudio; however Angelo is none the wiser when he is sent the head of another man in Claudio’s place.

The Duke returns and reveals his disguise to all. He judges Angelo for his crimes, and forces him to marry Mariana. Claudio is pardoned and allowed to marry Juliet. At the play’s end a third and final couple materialises: the Duke proposes marriage to Isabella. Who’s Who

CREATIVES staged The Merry Wives of Windsor. In 2008 he directed his first show at of Nations, DECLAN DONNELLAN (director) with Letters to Felice. He went on to work with Declan Donnellan is joint artistic director of the theater as an assistant director to Thomas Cheek by Jowl. As associate director at the Ostermeier on his production of Miss Julie. In National Theatre his productions include: 2010 he became an assistant director on Declan Fuenteovejuna; Sweeney Todd; The Mandate; Donnellan’s production of . He went both parts of . Other on to collaborate with Donnellan again, not only productions include: Le Cid (Avignon Festival); with Measure for Measure, but performing the The Winter’s Tale (Maly Drama Theatre of St. parts of Malvolio and Antonio in . Petersburg); (West End). Sbitnev has worked as a director at the Pushkin Opera includes: Falstaff (). Theatre in Moscow since 2011. He also works Ballet includes: ; as a teacher for Igor Yasulovich’s acting course in (Bolshoi). Film includes: Bel Ami. In 2009, the State Film Academy of . Donnellan shared the Carlemany Prize with Craig Venter and Archbishop Tutu. He was SERGEY SKORNETSKIY (lighting designer) awarded the Golden Lion of Venice for Lifetime Skornetskiy graduated from the Moscow Art Achievement in 2016 and an OBE for Services Theatre School in lighting design in 1995. to Theatre in the Queen’s Birthday Honours He started working as a lighting technician in in 2017. His book, The Actor and the Target, Tabakov’s theater while studying, and went was first published in Russian in 2000 and has on to work there as a lighting designer after subsequently appeared in 15 languages. graduation. He has created lighting design for more than 60 theater shows for companies such NICK ORMEROD (designer) as Moscow New Opera, RAMT, Mayakovsky Nick Ormerod is joint artistic director of Cheek by Theatre, Pushkin Theatre, and many others. Jowl. For the National Theatre: Fuenteovejuna; Shows Skornetskiy has worked on include ; Sweeney Todd; The Mandate; The Lower Depth, Idiot, Encore Van Gogh, both parts of Angels in America. For the Dangerous Liasons, Arcadia, Flight, The Royal Shakespeare Company: The School for Government Inspector, Woe from Wit, Talents Scandal; (RSC Academy) and Great and Admirers, and Ladies Night. Expectations, which he also co-adapted. Other work includes: The Rise and Fall of the City of PAVEL AKIMKIN (composer) Mahagonny (); Martin Akimkin graduated from music school as an Guerre (Prince Edward Theatre); Hayfever accordionist. In 1998, he started at the Gnesin (); Antigone (); Falstaff Academy of Music as the folk choir master (Salzburg Festival); Shakespeare in Love (West and in 2006 he graduated from the Russian End). Ormerod co-directed the film Bel Ami with Academy of Theatre Arts as an actor. In 2001, Declan Donnellan. In 2017, he was awarded he met Vladimir Pankov while working at the an OBE for Services to Theatre Design in the Soglasie Center, and in 2006 he became a Queen’s Birthday Honours. regular collaborator of SounDrama where Pankov is the artistic director. His theater works include KIRILL SBITNEV (assistant director) Gogol, Evenings, Swedish Match, Romeo and In 2007, Sbitnev graduated from the St. Juliet, Grooms, Shukshin’s Short Stories (at Petersburg Academy of Theatre Arts. As an the Theatre of Nations), Morphine (for the Et actor, he participated in the productions of Cetera Theatre), Hot Heart (Theatre on Malaya APTO Theatre in Moscow, including the parts Bronnaya). As a music director, he has worked of Vladimir Mayakovsky in Mistery-Bouffe, and on The Lady of the Camellias and on Mother Vladimir in Waiting for Godot. There he also Earth, both for the Pushkin Theatre. Photo: Johan Persson Who’s Who

IRINA KASHUBA (choreographer) taught at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts Kashuba graduated from Moscow State since 2001. University of Culture and Art as a choreographer in 2003. As a performer she has participated ANDREI KUZICHEV (Angelo) in many musicals, some of which include: Kuzichev trained at the Russian Academy of Twelve Chairs, Chicago, Beauty and the Beast, Theatre Arts, and has since worked with major and Zorro. Since 2008 she has worked for Moscow theater companies. He has been Stage Entertainment Russia as a resident collaborating with the Centre of Drama and choreographer, where she was an assistant Directing (with A. Kazantsev and M. Roschin) choreographer on The Sound of Music. Kashuba since 1999, where he has played such parts as also works as a choreographer for major Gary in Shopping and F***ing and Maksim in Moscow drama theater companies. Some of her Plastiscine, for which he received credits include A Warsaw Melody, Government Award for Best Actor. Kuzichev has starred in Inspector, The Trial, Treasure Island, Zoika’s Flat, most of Declan Donnellan’s 1914 Cabaret, and Donnellan’s The Tempest. productions, as Viola in Twelfth Night, Tuzenbach Kashuba works as a choreographer in film and in , Ariel in The Tempest, and now currently has four projects in production. as Angelo in Measure for Measure. Kuzichev is working in film with Russian directors including CAST Roman Balayan and Vladimir Mashkov. He teaches acting at the Moscow Art Theatre ALEXANDER ARSENTYEV (The Duke) School. In 1994, Arsentyev enrolled in the Moscow Art Theatre School. After graduating, he joined ALEXANDER FEKLISTOV (Lucio) the company of the Moscow Art Theatre. His Feklistov graduated from Moscow Art Theatre debut on the professional stage was as Albert in School in 1982 and has worked with major Pushkin’s Little Tragedies. He has been acting Moscow theater companies: Moscow Art with the Pushkin Theatre since 2001. His first Theatre, Stanislavsky Drama Theatre, Pushkin part in the company was Mercutio in Roman Theatre, and on many independent projects. Kozak’s Romeo and Juliet. Since then he has He continues his relationship with Moscow Art played Karandishev in Without a Dowry, and Theatre by playing the part of Samuel Pickwick Brunello in , Tito Merelli in Lend in The Pickwick Papers. Feklistov has been cast Me a Tenor, and Benedick in Much Ado About in all of Donnellan’s Moscow-based productions. Nothing. Arsentyev is starring in Evgeny Pisarev’s He has played in Boris Godunov, recent production of The Marriage of Figaro as Sir Toby in Twelfth Night, Vershinin in Three Count Almaviva. He has worked with Declan Sisters, Caliban in The Tempest, and now Lucio Donnellan previously playing the part of Orsino in Measure for Measure. Feklistov has been in Twelfth Night. presented with two Seagull Awards as best actor: for the part of Claudio in Peter Stein’s YURI RUMYANTSEV (Escalus) Hamlet and for Sir Toby in Declan Donnellan’s Rumyantsev graduated from the Russian Twelfth Night. In film, where Feklistov has Academy of Theatre Arts in 1964 and was had an extensive career, he has worked with employed by Pushkin Theatre the same year. distinguished Russian directors including Pavel He has played in more than 60 productions for Lungin and Vladimir Menshov. the theater with roles including: Marek in The Good Soldier Schweik, Vozhak in The Optimistic PETR RYKOV (Claudio) Tragedy, Spiegelberg and Schufterle in The Rykov graduated as a linguist in 2006, then Robbers, Moiseika in Ward Number 6, Fedka pursued a career in modelling. From 2006–10 and Lebedyakin in The Demons, and Zemlyanika he worked in the fashion industry in Milan, in The Government Inspector. Rumyantsev has , Tokyo, and New York. In 2010 he began Photo: Johan Persson Photo: Yannick Grandmont Who’s Who Theatre School in2009,where shewasawarded Vardevanian graduatedfrom the Schepkin ANNA VARDEVANIAN (Isabella) Ado AboutNothing. of Szechwan,TheMarriage ofFigaro, andMuch shows includeGrandMagia,TheGoodPerson and joiningthePushkin Theatrecompany. His TheatreSchool before trainingatMoscowArt underMarkZakharov Academy ofTheatreArts Rakhmanov studiedactingattheRussian ALEXEY RAKHMANOV(Pompey, Friar Peter) Russian channels. inmanyTVseriesformajor has participated Aguecheek inDonnellan’s Twelfth Night.Teplov and Testosterone of . Healsoplaysthepart Much AdoAboutNothing,GrandMagia Treasure, TheRobbers Island,MadameBovary , inPussin 2007.Hehasperformed inBoots , Theatreschool graduating fromMoscowArt Teplov joinedthePushkin Theatrecompanyafter IGOR TEPLOV (Barnardine) in Shakespeare inLove. Theatre Company, wherehecurrentlyperforms graduating in2017,hejoinedthePushkin TheatreSchool.After at theMoscowArts Ziberev studiedactingunderEvgenyPisarev ZIBEREV(Elbow) VLADIMIR and Testosterone. Treasure Island,TheMarriage ofFigaro, inTheGoodPersonhas performed ofSzechwan, some 20TVseries.For thePushkin Theatre,he him toactinaTVseries.Hehassinceplayed School whenhisteacherDmitriBrusnikininvited Theatre Litvinenko studiedactingatMoscowArt IVAN LITVINENKO (TheExecutioner) Tenor, Testosterone, andTheMarriage ofFigaro. inLendMea in 2011.Hehassinceperformed School in2007,andjoinedthePushkin Theatre Theatre Kislichenko graduatedfromMoscowArt NIKOLAY KISLICHENKO (TheProvost) the Camellias. of Theatre includeGrandMagiaandTheLady under IgorYasulovich. HisshowsatthePushkin studying actingattheStateCinemaInstitute its Co-Artistic DirectorsDeclan Donnellanand its Co-Artistic Cheek byJowlwas establishedin1981by CHEEK BY JOWL and asanactorinthecompanyfrom 1993. regularly atthetheaterasadirector from1996 director. Prior tohisappointmenthehadworked in 2010,EvgenyPisarev isthecurrentartistic its nametothePushkin Theatre.Appointed Tairov’s needs.In1950 thetheaterchanged still occupies,wasreconstructedespeciallyfor was formedandthebuilding,whichtheater director AlexanderTairov in1914.Thecompany Russian theater founded bythelegendary theaters.Itwas prominent Moscowrepertory The Pushkin Theatre isoneofthemost THE PUSHKINTHEATRE production ofDrumsintheNight. for herroleofMankeinthePushkin Theatre Actress Golden MaskAward forBestSupporting dozen TVseries.In2018,shereceivedthe Since 2006shehasstarredinmorethana oftheCamellias. and BlancheDuvalinTheLady Turandot, MargaretinMuchAdoAboutNothing 2007. 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Who’s Who

Nick Ormerod. The company is dedicated to company in Leningrad. Ten years later, they producing fresh and vivid productions that focus directed and designed The Winter’s Tale for on the actor’s art, avoiding directorial and design the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg, a concepts. Cheek by Jowl produces work in production which won Russia’s prestigious English, French, and Russian. The company has Golden Mask Award, an award that Cheek by performed in over 400 cities in more than 50 Jowl’s Measure for Measure—the company’s countries spanning six continents. latest Russian language production—was nominated for in 2015. Cheek by Jowl’s first production was ’s The Country Wife, presented Throughout the 1990s the International at the Edinburgh Festival in 1981 and Theatre Confederation had regularly invited supported by a small Arts Council grant. Cheek by Jowl to Moscow as a part of the Before long the company received its first Chekhov International Theatre Festival, and this official invitations to perform abroad, taking relationship with Russia intensified in 1999, their productions of Vanity Fair and Pericles when the Chekhov International Theatre Festival, to the Almagro, Valladolid, and Jerusalem under the leadership of Director Valery Shadrin, festivals in 1984. These productions were also commissioned Donnellan and Ormerod to form subsequently invited to perform in London at the their own company of Russian actors in Moscow. . This sister company performs in Russia and internationally and its repertoire includes Boris For that first London season Cheek by Jowl won Godunov by Pushkin, Twelfth Night, and The the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Tempest by Shakespeare, and Three Sisters by Newcomer in 1986, with over half of the Chekhov. Measure for Measure was Cheek by company’s plays receiving Olivier awards. The Jowl’s first co-production with Moscow’s Pushkin company grew rapidly throughout the 1980s— Theatre, a relationship that continues in 2019 creating 18 productions in 10 years, touring with ’s The Knight of the across six continents and giving more than 1,500 Burning Pestle. performances. In 1990, The Independent said, “If there is one company to have influenced British In addition to their work in English and in theatre in the 1980s, it is Cheek by Jowl.” Russian, in 2007 Paris-based theater director invited Donnellan and Ormerod to The core of Cheek by Jowl’s repertoire has form a group of French actors. The result was always been Shakespeare; by the time of a French language production of Andromaque Périclès, Prince de Tyr in 2018 Cheek by by Racine, co-produced with Paris’ Bouffes Jowl had presented no fewer than 14 of du Nord theater, which toured throughout the Shakespeare’s plays. Another of the company’s UK and in 2008/2009. Following that principles has been to present major works of production’s international success, Cheek by European drama, both in translation and their Jowl worked with the same French actors on original versions. To date Cheek by Jowl has their production of Alfred Jarry’s . This given the British premieres of 10 European marked the first time that Cheek by Jowl was classics including The Cid by Corneille and lead producer in a foreign language and culture. Andromache by Racine, over 300 years since With this same ensemble, Cheek by Jowl then they were first presented in Paris. went on to produce Périclès, Prince de Tyr in 2018, its first French-language production of a In 1986, Russian theater director Lev Dodin Shakespeare play. invited Donnellan and Ormerod to visit his Who’s Who

DAVID EDEN PRODUCTIONS, LTD. (US tour Royal Court Theatre, Russian Patriarchate producer) Choir of Moscow, State Ballet of Georgia, the David Eden Productions, Ltd. has been one of Bolshoi, and has worked on special projects the leading American organizations devoted to with BAM, John F Kennedy Center for the Arts, producing international work in the US for over Lincoln Center, American Dance Festival, and 30 years. Most recently, DEP has produced Jacob’s Pillow. tours for Druid Theatre, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Maly Drama Theatre, Théâtre de la Ville, Producer David Eden Ensemble Basiani from Republic of Georgia, Gate General Manager Pat Kirby Theatre Dublin, and Batsheva Dance Company. Production Advisor Kat Khellblau DEP has produced tours for The Public Theater, Visa Coordinator Elise-Ann Konstantin Martha Clarke, Declan Donnellan, Propeller, Rezo Gabriadze, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, London’s