Playthings / игрушки
Premiere: 27.11.19 at New European Theatre Festival in St. Petersburg
Performance and Scenography
Direction SIGNA - Signa Köstler with Arthur Köstler & Larysa Venediktova
Set & Costume Signa Köstler with Amanda Babaei Vieira and Lorenz Vetter
Media & Tech Arthur Köstler with Simon Salem Müller Ambient Sound Mikk Siemer
»A dying woman of significant wealth returns with her entourage to Saint Petersburg, the birth city of her estranged mother. Disappointed by how little her shielded life had to offer, she is determined to catch up before she dies. In an abandoned factory she creates a kingdom around the throne of her death bed. The citizens of her sovereign state are underprivileged youth recruited on the streets of the city. Day and night they must play ‚The End Game‘, to conjure up every moment that their queen missed out on. The prizes are plentiful; the mansions, the diamonds, the ferrari… But the stakes are higher than anyone bargained for. Failing is not an option.«
Devising Ensemble: Alexandra Kolosovskaya, Alexandra Kraeva, Alina Nechepurenko, Amanda Babaei Vieira, Anastasia Kovalchuk, Andrey Vasilyev, Anna Barkalova, Arthur Köstler, Dari Boronkinova, Daria Sedova, Daria Shakurova, Elena Gorlatova, Ivan Kurkin, Julia Chernykh, Karina Scherbakova, Ksenia Komoza, Ksenia Nefedova, Larysa Venediktova, Liza Terina, Lorenz Vetter, Maria Galochkina, Maria Khromova, Maria Ponomareva, Maria Pusser, Mikk Siemer, Roman Mikhashchuk, Signa Köstler, Simon Salem Müller
Photos © Erich Goldmann / SIGNA
