Sergey Orlov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of “RWM Capital” Investment group gave an idea and sponsored the staging of a performance “Before and After”, a joint social project of the “Artiste” Charity Foundation, “Dmitriy Brusnikin Workshop” and “Territory” International Theatre Festival.
The characters of the multi-genre documentary project are real people fostered by the “Artiste” Charity Foundation, senior Russian actors and retired theatre workers who take well-deserved rest. Young students of Dmitriy Brusnikin’s course at the Moscow Art Theatre School have visited the elderly people as volunteers over several months, helped them, were talking to them over a cup of tea, and gathered precious material that formed a dramaturgical basis of the unique performance.
The performance was presented twice at the New Space of the Theatre of Nations: to the visitors immediately after the end of the “Territory” Festival, and, on October 21, 2016, to friends, partners and persons under the charge of the “Artiste” Charity Foundation that celebrated its eight birthday.
“I am very pleased, says Sergey Orlov, that my idea was supported by Evgeniy Mironov and all founders and patrons of the “Artiste” Foundation. Along with the wonderful young peoples’ acting, I sincerely adore Dmitriy Brusnikin’s direction, Mikhail Durnenkov’s dramaturgy and Kseniya Peretrukhina’s scenography. I believe that the entire creative team was united not only by the interesting professional task but also by this truly good deed, efforts to tell about interesting destinies, a link between times and generations of peoples who devoted themselves to the performing art. This project would not have happened without the active participation of the team of the “Territory” Festival and support of Vladimir Smirnov’s “Obraz Zhizny” (Way of Life) Foundation. And, of course, I wish that such creative, voluntary and mutually beneficial cooperation of theatre schools students and the “Artiste” Foundation continues on the permanent basis.
The performance has got response from the spectators and is likely to go on at the stage of the Theatre of Nations. The greater part of receipts from the performance will be contributed to the “Artiste” Charity Foundation to proceed with the “SOS” program for support of elderly theatre and cinema actors.
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