Jan 26—27, 2013
Family Happiness
Fomenko Theatre / From Moscow
Two performances only!
After sensational multiple appearances at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York, the acclaimed international theatre group “Theatre-Atelier Piotr Fomenko” is debuting in Boston with Family Happiness, a story about the evolution of love, based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy and adapted for the stage by Piotr Fomenko. Told from the viewpoint of the main heroine, Masha, the play abandons the novel’s straightforward storytelling to recall the quiet affair between Masha and her father’s friend, Sergey, the first months of happiness, her thirst for social status and the disappointment with society, the return and attempt to build a new, calm kind of family happiness. Passionless, dry and, at times, cynical, Masha rips away the cover of time to reveal the sweet happiness of young love that can never be recaptured.
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Venue
Cutler Majestic Theatre
219 Tremont St., Boston
“The joy of theater as made by Fomenko is as sure and infallible as the beauty of a diamond.”
— Moscow Times
“As always, Pyotr Fomenko’s work is distinguished for the softness and depth of its intonation.”
— The Russia Journal
“Yet, it is his productions, staged in the 70-seat auditorium, that both the new rich and ordinary Muscovites are flocking to see. They emerge with vulnerable smiles and tears on their faces as if they have just received.”
— Financial Times