SOFIA MATVEEVA

Drama Performance

Mandate

based on the play by N. Erdman, director – D. Azarov, Na Liteynom Theatre, St. Petersburg, 2020

Set designer, costume designer

Erdman’s comedy of the 1920s: the Gulyachkin family waits for a mandate that will be their ticket into the new life. Matveeva closed the depth of the stage off with a marsh-coloured wall and pushed the whole play down to the footlights.

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Production

Premiere
13 March 2020
Theatre
Na Liteynom Theatre, St Petersburg
Running time
2 h 10 min, one interval
Rating
16+

Creative team

Director
Denis Azarov
Play by
Nikolai Erdman
Set design
Sofia Matveeva

Press

Петербургский театральный журнал Надежда Таршис 22 March 2020

Вся Россия в сундуке

Декорация (художник-постановщик София Матвеева) красива: стеной болотного цвета она закрывает от зала глубину сцены.

The set (production designer Sofia Matveeva) is beautiful: a marsh-coloured wall closes off the depth of the stage from the house.