FROST-people
(ОТМОРОЗКИ) by Zakhar Prilepin and Kirill Serebrennikov
Direction and Stage Design: Kirill Serebrennikov (World Premiere)
Guest performance Russian with German surtitles
Cast: Evgeniya Afonskaya, Filipp Avdeev, Artur Beschastniy, Ivan Fominov, Alexandr Gorchilin, Jana Irtenjeva, Dmitriy Komov, Nikita Kukushkin, Fyodor Lavrov, Yuri Lobikov, Svetlana Mamresheva, Maria Poezhaeva, Alexandra Revenko, Iliya Romashko, Harald Rosenstrem, Artem Shevchenko, Roman Shmakov, Ekaterina Steblina, Anton Vasilyev, Tatyana Vladimirova
»Otmorozki« stands for the irredeemable children who were born as the Soviet Union collapsed and have grown up in the criminal 90s. At the start of the new millennium the »Otmorozki« have taken to the streets and are fighting for justice. They encounter their first experiences of love, death and betrayal. They are bristling with energy and want to commandeer a position in life. The protagonist Grisha asks himself as everyone does: »Who am I? Am I evil? Good? Reliable? Despicable? There is no mirror in which you could see your own image. It's as if it has been crushed by a boot.«
Zakhar Prilepin [b.1975] is writer, journalist and public figure in Russia. He is politically active in the left-radical scene. His books have been awarded many prestigious Russian literary prizes. Works of Zakhar Prilepin have been translated into 11 languages.
Kirill Serebrennikov [b.1969, Russia] studied physics and now works as a theatre and film director in Moscow. He is one of the founders of the Territorija Festival since 2006, and teaches at the Moscow Art Theatre School since 2008.
A production of Moscow Art Theatre School in collaboration with »Territorija in Berlin«, supported by the Presidential Administration of Russia, the Ministry of Culture of Russia and the Nomos Bank.