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St. Petersburg Theater "Workshop"

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Weekends
Only for children
Only adults
June2023
Любовные письма
Санкт-Петербург.  Любовные письма16+
Purchased earlier: 101
from 2100 rubles
Location:
Санкт-Петербург, Народная ул., 1
Duration:
01 h 15 min
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The play of American Albert Gurney, written in the middle of the twentieth century, at one time very popular, and then thoroughly forgotten, takes on a new life on the stage of the "Workshop" theater. The love story in the letters that they write to each other throughout the life of Andy and Melissa, as if specially created for the benefit of two great adult actors. In Moscow, this play was played by Armen Jigarkhanyan and Irina Kupchenko, Oleg Tabakov and Olga Yakovleva, Vladimir Menchov and Vera Alentova. In St. Petersburg theater-goers remember well the wonderful lyric performance "Love Letters" performed by Andrey Tolubeev and Ekaterina Maroushak.

Director Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya chooses another way. On the role of Andy and Melissa, she takes two young actors, and this gives the play an unexpected sharpness and depth. Disappears some "tabloid", characteristic of the play, sentimentality and melodramatic. "Love letters" performed by Arina Lykova and Mikhail Kasapov become a desperate love story as an eternal duel between a man and a woman. This story could have occurred in any country, at any time, and the laconic scenography of Nikolai Slobodianik emphasizes this spatio-temporal convention.

Andy and Melissa met children, began to correspond and could not stop. Before our very eyes, the story of their lives, going parallel and yet inextricably linked, unfolds. A gifted girl from a rich family descends to the very bottom, an ordinary guy from the bottom rises to the very top of the social ladder. A timid teenage novel, hastily interrupted by parents, turns out to be fate. Designed to each other, Andy and Melissa can not be together, and only letters become a connecting thread between them. This thread is stretched to the limit, because to love is to slip on thin ice, walk along the edge of the abyss, burn, fly and fall, wound and save. Arina Lykova and Mikhail Kasapov tell the story of true Love with utmost frankness and honesty, and the conventionality of the stage design and the way of actor's existence provide the play with a sharp modern sound.

Their relationship - a lifetime - became love at a distance, a long-term novel by correspondence. Having met at school, they wrote to each other a lot and often. How good it is to have an understanding interlocutor, to whom you can pour out complaints about life, express dissatisfaction with school regulations!

But time passed. They grew up, grew up ... Already old age is not far off, and their love has remained - letters, their feelings - in their words ...

Could they be together? Each of them watched the fate of the other: she is his professional growth, he is her sad history. Well, letters are already a lot. Correspondence is a novel in every sense: it can even be printed! Many do not even have this ...

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