Rooks flew in, or an emergency in Zimmervald

The performance “Rooks flew, or an emergency in Zimmerwald” based on the play by Swiss playwrights, Arian von Graffenrid and Matto Campf, will be held at the Generation Theater in St. Petersburg 3, 4, and April 5.

A joint project of the theater of generations, the Schlakhthaus Theater (Bern), the Winkelviz theater (Zurich) and the City City Theater. In the performance of the Swiss-Russian-German composition of the participants, the production was included in the parallel program of the Biennale of Modern Art “Manifesto 10”.

This is a surrealistic black comedy, the action takes place in the Swiss mountain hotel in Zimmervald, where modern left -wing socialists are found under the pretext of conference ornithologists. Among the characters of the performance are, for example, “PAPPU YAGGI, the owner of the hotel, aka Baba Yaga”, “Olga Brygoguzkina, a radical eco activist, pretending to be a nostalgic socialist-director, aka Trotsky” or “Emphasized by V.I. Lenin ".

The performance is in Russian and the Berne dialect of the German language with subtitles.

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