Butusov, Krymov, Tuminas: "Three Masters - Three Masterpieces". Showing video versions of theater performances from 27 to 29 March 2026

For World Theater Day. Three Masters - three masterpieces. Spend the last weekend of March with meaning.

Show video versions of theater performances on the screen:

March 27, 2026.
Yuri Butusov. "Government Inspector ("R").

Duration 2 hours 58 m. with one intermission of 10 minutes.

The play based on Nikolai Gogol's play "The Inspector" explores the double impossibility of accepting reality and simultaneously escaping from it. As in many of Butusov's productions, chaos and pathos are organically intertwined, and art appears as a means of liberation and healing at the same time. Script by Mikhail Durnenkov, starring Konstantin Raikin and Timofei Tribuntsev.

Filmed in front of a live audience at the Moscow Theater "Satirikon".

With the participation of: Konstantin Raikin, Timofey Tribuntsev, Maria Spivak.
In Russian with English translation.
After the performance - an open conversation with the author of the script, playwright Mikhail Durnenkov (online).
 

March 28, 2026.
Dmitry Krymov. "Everything is here."

Duration 1 hr. 45 m. without intermission.

Inspired by the American touring production of Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" in 1975, which he visited in his youth, Dmitry Krymov created the play "All Here" - a work based on memories, a starting point for a flight of fancy and immersion into his own past. The structure of the performance allows for the interweaving of events, memories, fantasies, associations, dreams - a carefully planned, as if random chaos, which in the finale leads the viewer to an acute realization of his own life.

Filmed in front of a live audience at the Moscow "School of Contemporary Theater"
With the participation of: Maria Smolnikova and Alexander Feklistov.
In Russian with English subtitles.
 

March 29, 2026.
Rimas Tuminas. "War and Peace".

Duration 4 h.21 m. with one intermission of 10 min.

Rimas Tuminas' latest Moscow production, the epic "War and Peace," centers on three families - the open and cordial Rostovs, the honest and uncompromising Bolkonskys, and the arrogant and charming Kuraginy. Tuminas creates and explores destinies, paradoxes, madness, love, joy and despair. The world he presents to the audience is beautiful, aesthetic, theatrical and fragile, but constantly at risk of destruction by the ominous comet that already hangs in the sky.

Filmed in front of a live audience at Moscow's Vakhtangov Theater.
With the participation of: Sergei Makovetsky, Irina Kupchenko, Evgeny Knyazev, Lyudmila Maksakova.
In Russian with English subtitles.