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“Valentine's Day”. Ironic comedy, based on a play by Ivan Vyrypaev
In 1970s USSR, a young couple, Valentine and Valentina are madly in love and want to get married, but their parents object to the relationship for practical reasons, destroying the love and lives of their children. This age-old story is retold in a famous Soviet-era play by Mikhail Roshchin, "Valentine and Valentina," which eventually became a popular film. In Valentine’s Day by Ivan Vyrypayev, one of Russia’s young generation of post-modernist theatrical provocateurs, we witness the continuation and eventual outcome of that story in the modern times.
As time flows seamlessly between the past and the future, we see the characters as young, naïve twenty years old lovers (here, Vyrypaev shows original text from Roshchin’s play); as forty-year-olds, whose destinies turned out completely different from what they had once hoped; and as two sixty-year-old women — Valentina, and Valentine’s widow — bound by sharing the love for the man of their dreams.
Full of comedy and improvisation, this melodramatic farce is emotionally charged, and performed by a stellar cast.
Cast:
Agrippina STEKLOVA, Honored Artist of Russia
Olga LOMONOSOVA
Evgeny STYCHKIN
Directed by Pavel SAFONOV
The premiere was held in Moscow on April 6, 2014
Performed in Russian.
Full of comedy and improvisation, this melodramatic farce is emotionally charged, and performed by a stellar cast.
Cast:
Agrippina STEKLOVA, Honored Artist of Russia
Olga LOMONOSOVA
Evgeny STYCHKIN
Directed by Pavel SAFONOV
The premiere was held in Moscow on April 6, 2014
Performed in Russian.
schedule
| Date | Time | Location | Venue | Address |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, February 14, 2020 | 8:00 PM | Chicago, IL | North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie | 9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL 60077 |
| Saturday, February 15, 2020 | 7:30 PM | Boston, MA | John Hancock Hall | 180 Berkeley St, Boston, MA 02116 |
| Sunday, February 16, 2020 | 7:30 PM | Brooklyn, NY | Master Theater | 1029 Brighton Beach Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11235 |
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