Directed | By Konstantin Raikin |
Set Design | Boris Valuev |
Costumes | Alla Kozhenkova, Evgeniya Panfilova |
Music | Valeri Chernyshev |
Cast |
Elena Kutyreva, Alena Razzhivina, Elena Bereznova and Julia Popova, Konstantin Tretiakov. Artem Osipov. Ekaterina Grosheva, Georgi Lezhava, Sergei Kuzkin, Alexei Bardukov, Artem Chilek, Sergei Sotnikov, Marina Drovosekova, Julia Melnikova, Yana Davidenko, Anton Egorov, Michael Whiton. Alexander Gunkin, Valeri Zaitsev, Anna Zdor, Julia Popova, Alexandra Shidlovskaya |
Konstantin Raikin was born in 1950. In 1971 he graduated fr om the Shchukin Theatre School. From 1971- 1981 he acted at the Sovremennik Theatre, wh ere he played 38 roles, among them 15 lead roles ( Valentine and Valentina' by M. Roshchin, 'Etudes on Hamlet' based on Shakespeare. 'Monument' by E. Vetemaa, ’Fartyaeva's Fantasies' by A.Sokolova. Lorenzaccio’ by A. de Musset, The Cabal of Hypocrites' by Bulgakov, etc.). In 1981 he moved to the Miniature Theatre, run under the management of Arkadi Raikin (now the Satirikon Theatre named after Raikin). Since 1988 he has been the artistic director of this theatre. He has played lead roles at this theatre, in Genet's The Maids’, Rostand’s ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’, Crommelynck’s The Magnanimous Cuckold', Kafka's Metamorphosis’. Brecht's The Threepenny Opera’, Kundera’s ‘Jacques and his Patron’, Shakespeare's 'Hamlet’. Patrick Susskind’s Contrabass’, Goldoni’s 'Seignior Todero brontolon', and Shakespeare's ‘Richard III’. He has directed Kipling's 'Mowgli'. Gersh's 'Butterflies are Free’, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’, Goldoni’s The Chioggian Squabbles'. 'Quartet’ based on Moliere, and Ostrovsky's 'A Profitable Place and The Country of Love'. He is “People’s Actor" of Russia, the winner of State Prizes etc.