Cal Performances Presents Th ursday, December , , pm Friday, December , , pm Saturday, December , , pm & pm Sunday, December , , pm & pm Zellerbach Playhouse Th e Chekhov International Th eatre Festival’s Production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Presented in Association with David Eden Productions, Ltd. Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. CAL PERFORMANCES 11 Cast Twelfth Night Cast Orsino, Duke of Illyria Andrey Zavodyuk Sebastian, brother to Viola Sergey Mukhin Antonio, a sea-captain, friend to Sebastian Mikhail Zhigalov Another sea-captain, friend to Viola Vsevolod Boldin Valentine, a gentleman attending on the Duke Yury Makeev Curio, a gentleman attending on the Duke Mikhail Dementiev Sir Toby Belch, kinsman to Olivia Alexander Feklistov Sir Andrew Aguecheek Dmitry Dyuzhev Malvolio, steward to Olivia Dmitry Shcherbina Feste, fool to Olivia Evgeny Pisarev Olivia, a rich countess Alexey Dadonov Viola Andrey Kuzichev Maria, Olivia’s gentlewoman Ilya Ilyin 12 CAL PERFORMANCES Cast Production Credits Director Declan Donnellan Designer Nick Ormerod Lighting Designer Judith Greenwood Assistant Director Evgeny Pisarev Choreographer and Movement Consultant Jane Gibson Movement Director Albert Alberts Movement Coach Alexandra Konnikova Music Vladimir Pankov, Alexander Gusev Literary Consultant Dina Dodina Wardrobe Assistant Natalia Vedeneeva Stage Manager Olga Vasilevskaya Music Coach (guitar) Sergey Rodukov Music Coach (trumpet) Taras Kutsenko Declan Donnellan’s Interpreter Anna Kolesnikova Company Manager Olga Sharapova Technical Director Vladimir Kizeev Lighting Operators Sergey Timchenko, Sergey Govorushkin Sound Operators Nikolay Klishev Makeup Olga Kazakova Props Larisa Abashkina Costumes Natalia Vedeneeva Stagehand Georgy Siprashvili Surtitles Operator Natalia Gerasimova Tour Manager Svetlana Semenova General Producer Valery Shadrin Costumes made by the Lena-Line, Divnyi Svet and Bolshevichka Enterprise theatrical workshops. Set and furniture made by the VHUTEMAS XXI Century workshop run by Vladimir Ezhakov. For David Eden Productions, Ltd. U.S. Production Management Christopher Buckley and Sara Overgaard, P&PFC, LLC U.S. Company Manager Pamela Vachon General Manager Erica Charpentier Visa Coordinator Stonie Darling CAL PERFORMANCES 13 About the Artists Since its creation by the International Leontiev) in and works as a teacher of the- Confederation of Th eatrical Associations in atrical speech and acting in a school-studio, Sh. , Th e Chekhov International Th eatre E. S. T. His theater appearances include Lady Festival (Moscow, Russia) has grown to be- for a Day, Treasure Island, Brigands, Romeo and come one of the most important and prestigious Juliet, Explicit Polaroids, In the Pupil, Th e Gypsies theater events in the world. and Inspector General at the Pushkin Th eater Over the course of six festivals in Moscow, and Th ree Sisters at the Chekhov International the program has given a platform to the work Th eatre Festival. of directors as diverse and eminent as Robert Wilson, Tadashi Suzuki, Heiner Goebbels, Mikhail Dementiev (Curio) studied at the Peter Fomenko, Luc Bondy, Peter Stein, Giorgio Russian Gerasimov State Cinema Institute. His Strehler, Eimuntas Nekrosius, Robert Sturua, theater appearances include Th ree Sisters at the Luca Ronconi, Th eodoros Terzopoulos, Bartabas Chekhov International Th eatre Festival. His and Declan Donnellan. fi lm appearances include Khrustalev, the Car, It’s Th e festival also aims to support and develop Hard to Be God, Leningrad, November, Singer the work of emerging Russian practitioners and Josephine or Mouse Population and Goosefl esh. supports cutting edge and experimental work through its Experimental and Youth Program. Dmitry Dyuzhev (Sir Andrew Aguecheek) Th e most recent festival, in , show- graduated from the School for Gifted Children cased work by Th eatre de Complicité, Matthew in and from the Russian Th eater Academy Bourne’s New Adventures, Cloud Gate Th eatre (workshop of Mark Zakharov) in . His the- of Taiwan, a new production of Sarah Kane’s . ater appearances include Th e Romantics, Who Psychosis and a specially commissioned Russian Kisses the Princess, and Tatiana Repina at the language production of Chekhov’s Th ree Sisters, Moscow Young Spectator Th eater and Boris directed by Declan Donnellan. Godunov at the Chekhov International Th eatre Th e Chekhov Festival aims to capture and Festival. His fi lm appearances include Th e Ark, celebrate the unique spirit of Russian theater Brigade, Shnek, Hours, Th e April and Secular and to promote Moscow as a strong contender Chronicles. for theater capital of the world. In the words of the Chekov’s general producer, Valery Shadrin, Alexander Feklistov (Sir Toby Belch) graduat- “Th is kind of theatrical forum is fi rst and fore- ed from the Moscow Art Th eater School in . most a necessity for our own art of the stage, He worked at the Moscow Art Th eater from for it helps our theater professionals to identify to and from to . Mr. Feklistov themselves and their position within the world’s is one of the founders of the Fifth Moscow Art theatrical process.” Th eater Studio. His theater appearances include Days of the Turbans, Th e Golovlevs and Tatoo Rose Vsevolod Boldin (sea captain) graduated from at the Moscow Art Th eater; Th e Emigrants at the the Russian Th eater Academy in . His Chelovek Th eater Studio; Hamlet, Boris Godunov theater appearances include Saturday, Sunday, and Th ree Sisters at the Chekhov International Monday, Alexander Pushkin, Maria Stewart, Th eatre Festival; Th e Black Prince at the Pushkin Tsar Maximillian, Virtual Masquerade and Mary Th eater; and Masquerade at the Fifth Moscow Poppins at the Ermolova Th eater and Th e Love of Art Th eater Studio. His fi lm and television ap- Don Perlimplin at the State Army Th eater. pearances include Plumbum or a Dangerous Play, A Close Circle, Envy of Gods, Detachment, Alexey Dadonov (Olivia) graduated from the Th e Fathers, Broken Light, Luna Park and Th e Moscow Art Th eater School (workshop of A. Bourgeois’s Birthday. 14 CAL PERFORMANCES About the Artists Andrey Kuzichev (Viola) graduated from the in the List for Love? at the Mossovet Th eater, and Russian Th eater Academy in and worked Plasticine, Transfer and Floor Cover at the Center at the Sphere Th eater in Moscow. Since , of Dramaturgy and Th eater Directing. His fi lm he has worked at the Center of Dramaturgy and appearances include My Sergey, Siberian Barber, Th eater Directing. His theater appearances in- Photo, I Am a Murderer and Don’t Even Th ink clude Plasticine, West Side Story, Shopping and About It. Fucking and Your Well-Known Writer at the Center of Dramaturgy and Th eater Directing Evgeny Pisarev (Feste) graduated from the and Th ree Sisters at the Chekhov International Moscow Art Th eater School in . He has ap- Th eatre Festival. His fi lm appearances include peared as an actor in Th e Government Inspector, Investigation Is Led by Experts, Twenty Years After, Th e Great Gatsby, Les Fourberies de Scapin and Family Secrets, A Murderer’s Diary, Moon Flights Some Explicit Polaroid (Chaika Award, ) at and Lines of Fate. He is a winner of the Seagull the Pushkin Th eater, and in Old Tesidential Area Prize () and the Award of Moskovsky at the Tabakov Studio Th eater. As a director, he Komsomolets (). has staged Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, J. D. Salinger’s Love and Other Th ings and Ilya Ilyin (Maria) graduated from the Russian Ken Ludwig’s Borrow the Tenor (Chaika Award, Th eater Academy (workshop of A. Borodin) ) at the Pushkin Th eater. His television ap- in . From to , he worked at the pearances include Kamenskaya- and Turetsky Russian Youth Th eater. His theater appearances March. Mr. Pisarev has been teaching acting at include Romeo and Juliet, Captain’s Daughter, the Moscow Art Th eater School since . Trap , Size , A Lark Is Flying Between the Sky and the Earth, Tom Sawyer, Our Small Town, An Dmitry Shcherbina (Malvolio) graduated Evening of Russian Vaudevilles and King Lear at from the Moscow Art Th eater Studio in . the Russian Youth Th eater and Boris Godunov From to , he worked at the Moscow at the Chekhov International Th eatre Festival. Art Th eater and Oleg Tabakov Studio. Since He has worked for Radio Russia since . His , he has worked at the Mossovet Th eater. fi lm and television appearances include Master His theater appearances include Undina, Biloxi Th ief, Th e Little Nothings of Life and Lady Th ief. Blues and Passions by Bumbarash at the Moscow Art Th eater; Madame Bovary, Mon Ami, Cyrano Yury Makeev (Valentine) graduated from the de Bergerac, King Lear and Twelfth Night at Russian Th eater Academy in . His theater the Mossovet Th eater; and Hamlet and Boris appearances include Love of Don Perlimplin at Godunov at the Chekhov International Th eatre the Russian Army Th eater, Platonov at GITIS Festival. His fi lm appearances include Th e Two Th eater and Th ree Sisters at the Chekhov Destinies, Th e Black Room, Escape from the Death, International Th eatre Festival. His fi lm appear- Lady Peasant, Th ree Days Outlaw and Th e Shah’s ances include Cobra, Bed Scenes, A Crushing Diamonds. Force: Overtime and Simple Truths. Mikhail Zhigalov (Antonio) graduated from Sergey Mukhin (Sebastian) graduated from the Moscow Chemical Engineering Industry the Russian Th eater Academy in and Institute in and Moscow Children’s worked at the Mossovet Th eater. Since , he Th eater drama Studio . From to , has worked at the Center of Dramaturgy