A rare opportunity to see one of Dmitry Krymov's best plays on the big screen and meet its creator for a sincere conversation. "All Here" is a production about the past. A memory, collected from many emotional episodes, about the life, work and atmosphere of the Soviet theater. At the center of its plot are images and situations reflecting the joys, difficulties and humor of everyday life.
When: March 31, 8pm
Where: Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Pl, South Kensington, London SW7 2DW
This work by Dmitry Krymov, which premiered at the School of Modern Play, is a declaration of love for theater without scenery. His endless imagination draws and erases one funny and touching scene after another for the next one to come. On the stage juggling break eggs and fry scrambled eggs, come to funerals and weddings, play cars, arrange Chekhov’s meeting with Sonia on Sakhalin, where she prompts him the theme for the future “Seagull”. Here they confess their love for the people who, in fact, make up the theater.
When creating the play “All Here”, Dmitry Krymov took the events of his own life and turned them into stage events, telling about what is dear to his creator. The basis of the performance are fragments of biography, documentary events and real people. Even Krymov himself, played by Alexander Ovchinnikov, appears on stage – in the role of a leading man, recalling how he first saw Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” performed by an American troupe as a student, which he remembered forever.
Come and share this memory with the director – and with each other. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Dmitry Krymov, hosted by British journalist Owen Matthews.
Showing language: Russian (with English subtitles).
Starring: Alexander Feklistov, Maria Smolnikova, Alexander Ovchinnikov and others.
The play runs 1 hour and 45 minutes with no intermission.
