The Swedish Matchstick
The play opened
September 25, 2007
The Swedish Matchstick is a joyous, inventive musical show filled with humor. The audience rarely ceases laughing from beginning to end. Each of the young actors, former students of Oleg Kudryashov at the Russian Theatre Academy, takes on several roles and often they are unrecognizable in their new guises. Interweaving plots about a missing landowner and an unfaithful wife develop into a comical criminal detective story laced with bits and pieces of vaudeville, melodrama, amateur theatre and even circus acts. The entire performance is accompanied by a small orchestra consisting of the actors themselves, who easily demonstrate that they not only sing and dance well — they are accomplished musical instrumentalists.
Winner of Crystal Turandot Prize in Best Debut nomination
Laureate of Golden Knight Festival
Nominee for Golden Mask Best Small-Format Production and Best Male Part awards.
Winner of Crystal Turandot Prize in Best Debut nomination
Laureate of Golden Knight Festival
Nominee for Golden Mask Best Small-Format Production and Best Male Part awards.
Duration
2 h
(without intermission)
February, 20 2012
(mo),
19:00
Theatre of Nations
Theatre of Nations
February, 21 2012
(tu),
19:00
Theatre of Nations
Theatre of Nations
March, 7 2012
(we),
19:00
Theatre of Nations
Theatre of Nations
March, 8 2012
(th),
19:00
Theatre of Nations
Theatre of Nations
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| Directed and dramatized by | Nikita Grinshpun |
| Design | Ksenia Shimanovskaya |
| Chubikov | Yevgeny Tkachuk |
| Stanovoi, Musician | Vladislav Abashin |
| Village Woman, Nurse Klyauzova, Horse | Viktoria Sadovskaya-Chilap |
| Psekov, Horse, Musician | Artem Tulchinsky |
| Nikolashka, Stepan, Danilka, Musician, Klyauzov, Horse | Pavel Akimkin |
| Maid, Chubikov's Wife | Yelena Nikolaeva |
| Dyukovsky, Yefrem | Roman Shalyapin |
| Stanovoi?s Wife | Yulia Peresild |
| Village Woman, Nurse Klyauzova?s Servant | Maria Biork |



















