Performances
The Humpbacked Horse
Age category: over 6 years oldDuration: 2 hours
Playwright: Peter Pavlovich Ershov
Director: Yury Petrovich Osherov
Production-designer : Yury Mikhailovich Namestnikov
The fairytale by Pyotr Ershov “The Humpbacked Horse” - one of the most favorite fairytales has been celebrating almost two centuries’ anniversary nowadays. Its presence to folklore, lightness and delicacy of rhyme has provided this fairytale with vast popularity both among children and adults. The idea of St. Petersburg’s student Pyotr Ershov to write “The Humpbacked Horse” was born in his mind after reading the fairytales by Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin in 1834. Eventually we have a joyful fairytale about brave Ivan – a peasant’s son, a stupid Tsar and about a miraculous humpbacked little horse. A. S. Pushkin highly appreciated the fairytale by Ershov. The fairytale contains quite many folk motives. An original, musical, and deeply romantic fairytale is about dream, about the fact that if you believe in dreams with all your heart they will necessarily come true. Ivan got a wonderful present from his life – a faithful friend Humpbacked Horse. Seeking for happiness they together come through numerous endurances and adventures.
Actors:
| Foma, Ivan the Fool | Shchedrin Anton Yurievich |
| Erema, Humpbacked horse | Loginova (Lisenko) Olga Dmitrievna |
| Milolika, Fire Bird, Tsar Maiden | Voloshina Zhanna Vasilievna |
| Merchant Sidor Karpovich, the Tsar | Emelyanov Valery Nikolayevich Skachkov Dmitry Valentinovich |
| Ivan’s brother Gavrilo | Karabanov Alexey Nikolayevich |
| Father | Varenov Alexey Nikolayevich Egorov Vladimir Vladimirovich |
| Commander | Bykov Andrey Valentinovich Konev Vladimir Ivanovich |
| Duma’s Deacon | Kuzin Artem Evgenievich |
| The Moon | Polozova Marina Ivanovna Shanina Victoriya Victorovna |
| The Sun | Divlyatshin Ruslan Sergeevich |
| Soldiers, Fire birds, Salesmen, crowd on the square | Zhukova (Shindina) Maria Alexandrovna Nikulina Svetlana Igorevna |
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