Leopoldstadt
Леопольдштадт
Tom Stoppard returns to the RAMT stage with an autobiographical family saga, a multidimensional, multi-figured and, despite all, ironic epic about faith and illusions, about the confrontation between man and history, about human strength and weakness. And about the voice of blood that makes a person human.
Actors
Hermann Merz
Evgeniy Redko
Emilia Merz
Larisa Grebenshchikova
Eva
Anna Taratorkina
Ludwig
Aleksandr Doronin
Ernst
Aleksandr Grishin
Vilma
Yanina Sokolovskaya
Rosa
Maria Ryshchenkova
Percy
Maksim Kerin
Nathan
Aleksandr Devyatyarov
Crew
Director
Aleksey Borodin
Music by
Aleksandr Devyatyarov
Set designers
Stanislav Benediktov, Viktor Arkhipov, Liliya Baisheva
Costume designer
Maria Danilova
Lighting designer
Narek Tumanyan
Hermann Merz's family also comes from Leopoldstadt. But if his great-grandfather was just a fabric peddler, then Hermann Merz himself is a successful manufacturer, one of the richest people in Vienna, a regular at the opera and social salons accepted by high society. A few days before the start of the new 20th century, gathered his entire noisy, large family in a luxurious living room, Hermann Merz does not doubt for a second that his children and grandchildren will live in a kingdom of reason and beauty, scientific progress, philosophy and art...
In 1955, in this very same living room, Rose, Nathan and Leo meet – three “fragments” of a once huge family, the only ones who managed to survive the fire of the 20th century…
- laureate of the MK Theatre Prize in the nomination "Best Large-Form Performance" in the "Masters" category (2023)
- laureate of the Small Crystal Nail Award - “Gvozd Sezona” (Nail of a Season) Awards of the Russian Union of Theatre Workers (2024)
- laureate of the Golden Mask in the nomination "Best Set Designer's Work" (Stanislav Benediktov, Viktor Arkhipov and Liliya Baisheva, 2024)
Language
Russian
Runtime
2 hours 38 minutes
2024
16+
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