Alexandr Pushkin, Little Tragedies

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 through Saturday, November 14, 2009

Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies consists of four short lyrical verse plays about human nature's inherent contradictions. The Knight-Miser, the richest man in the world discovers that money can't buy him love or the respect of his son. Mozart and Salieri is the story of the greatest genius - and the greatest villain - in the history of music. The Stone Guest features the swashbuckling lover-poet Don Juan in a love triangle with his fiery mistress Laura (the actual prototype for Carmen) and Doña Anna, the true love of his life, (with far more action in a few minutes than in all of Chekhov's plays combined). And in The Feast in Time of Plague, revelers honor a fallen friend with poems and songs, in search of answers to the question: what do we do, when there's nothing we can do?

*Robert Carin *Karen Chapman *Stephen Innocenzi Nika Leoni Julian Henry Lowenfeld *Brandon Ruckdashel Luiz Simas *John Leonard Thompson *Peter Von Berg
Directed by Julian Henry Lowenfeld in cooperation with Natalia Kolotova, a Director of Maly Dramatic Theatre of St. Petersburg, Russia

Songs composed by Julian Henry Lowenfeld, Musical Direction Luiz Simas, Art Design Lea Orth

More Information: www.littletragedies.org