MONEY TO BURN

Theatrical performance by Tatyana Kazakova based on the comedy of the same name by Alexander Ostrovsky.

The Nikolay Akimov Saint Petersburg Theatre of Comedy

Country: Russia

Premiere: 2018

Duration of the performance is 3 hours 

Age restriction 12+

A beauty is looking for a rich husband and in the pursuit for a successful match gets in a deadfall of a hoax. The plot of this play by Ostrovsky resembles “Without a Dowry” by the same author, but all the situations of the drama here are interpreted sharp-wittedly. Russia in the end of XIX century, when the magnificent era of lighthearted beauties and reckless wastrels, burning money on no end, was being replaced by austere providence and rationing, the time when the new standards of business and family relations were developing, reminds Russia of 2010s. The world of Ostrovsky’s heroes, in which convexly presented vices and virtues engage in an intricate game and interconnection, continues the satiric line of the repertoire policy of Akimov’s Comedy Theatre, in which an important place has always belonged to the social criticism.

The performance creators:

Director – Tatyana Kazakova
Designer – Stephania Graurogkayte
Composer – Evgeniy Stetsyuk

Cast of characters:

Vasilkov Savva Gennadich – Alexander Matveev
Telyatev Ivan Petrovich – Honorary artist of Russia Nikolay Smirnov
Kuchumov Grigory Borisovich – Honorary artist of Russia Sergey Russkin
Glumov Egor Dmitrievich – Honorary artist of Russia Dmitriy Lebedev
Cheboksarova Nadezhda Antonovna – People’s artist of Russia Irina Mazurkevich
Lidia Yurievna – Daria Lyatetskaya
Vasiliy, the Vasilkov’s Servant – Nikolay Kolosov

Servants in the house of Cheboksarovs – Sergey Romanyuk, Bogdan Psyol, Alisa Kondratieva, Arsenia Bychkova
Gymnasium students – Stas Kablukov, Oleg Tilkin, Denis Lukichyeev, Igor Yudin