Renowned British Director Declan Donnellan and top-class Russian
theater actors will perform the Russian classic Boris
Godunov next month which will be its Asian debut.
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Poster design by Kean | Lanyon for Pushkin's Boris
Godunov
Director: Declan Donnellan
Designer: Nick Ormerod
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Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong
Kong government,
Boris Godunov will be staged from November
29 to December 2. Since its premiere in the 2000 Moscow Chekhov
International Theater Festival, Donellan's
Boris Godunov has
been invited to arts festivals globally including the Netherlands,
France, the US, Germany and Brazil.
The play is about politics, power and human nature. Russian
literary titan Alexander Pushkin, the playwright of Boris
Godunov, turned a piece of unofficial Russian history into
drama.
Boris Godunov plotted to kill a prince and succeeded in usurping
the throne. His lust for power is satisfied, but his people have
proved fickle and his conscience is not at peace. Being privy to
the sham that Boris throws over the people, a young monk Grigory
disguises himself as the slain prince in his ambition to seize the
throne and expose Boris.
Chekhov International Theater Festival has been held since 1992
to introduce to the world theater of great Russian playwrights such
as Chekhov, Stanislavsky and Meyerhold. It also brings famous works
to Russia, including those of Peter Brook, Peter Stein and Tadashi
Suzuki.
(Xinhua News Agency October 23, 2007)
