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THE 2022 PROGRAMMATION - 76th EDITION

THEATRE - SHOW

THE BLACK MONK

THE ЧЁРНЫЙ MÖNCH
Based on Anton Chekhov's play

Kirill Serebrennikov

Hamburg - Moscow - Avignon / Created in 2022

Overworked intellectual Andrey Kovrin needs rest. A

ghostly black monk appears to haunt him… But
there’s more than just one truth.

PRESENTATION
Andrey Kovrin, overworked intellectual who dreams of
liberty and glory, decides to retire to the country house of his
old friend Pesotsky and his daughter Tanya to get some
rest. As he sits in the garden, he sees the ghost of a monk,
who will haunt his stay and eventually drive him mad.
Adapting this short story, Kirill Serebrennikov remembers
that Anton Chekhov depicts characters lost in the “infernal
circle” of peculiar truths. Nothing less could shrink their field
of vision so. The director also remembers that the story is
made up of many personal stories that clash and weave
together into a complex ensemble: that of a truth no one can
hold alone. A challenge to which the dissident artist
responds by showing the same story from the point of view
of each of the protagonists, and by multiplying perspectives
and vanishing points. Meanwhile Hecate, the goddess of
evil moons which haunt the stage, watches over all…

A physician by training, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is one

of the most famous poets of Russian literature. He believed
in progress and happiness. His lucidity and his rejection of
all delusions, about men, society, or religion, nurtured his
work but also influenced the renewal of theatrical notions of
his time

Distribution

With Filipp Avdeev, Odin Biron, Bernd Grawert, Mirco

Kreibich, Viktoria Miroschnichenko, Gabriela Maria
Schmeide, Gurgen Tsaturyan
And the singers Genadijus Bergorulko (baritone), Pavel
Gogadze (tenor) , Friedo Henken (baritone), Sergey
Pisarev (tenor), Vasiliy Sokolov (baritone), Alexander
Tremmel (tenor), Dmitriy Volkov (baritone)
And the dancers Tillmann Becker, Arseniy Gordeev,
Chris Jäger, Laran, Ilia Manylov, Andrei Petrushenkov,
Ivan Sachkov, Daniel Vliek

Direction, set design Kirill Serebrennikov

Choreography Ivan Estegneev, Evgeny Kulagin
Collaboration in the direction Ivan Estegneev, Evgeny
Kulagin
Music Jēkabs Nīmanis
Musical direction Ekaterina Antonenko, Uschi Krosch
Musical arrangements Andrei Poliakov
Dramaturgy Joachim Lux
Lights Sergey Kuchar
Video Alan Mandelshtam
Costumes Tatyana Dolmatovskaya
Assistant direction Anna Shalashova

Production

Production Thalia Theater (Hamburg)

Co-production Festival d'Avignon with the support of the
ministère de la Culture
With the support of the Gogol Center (Moscow)
With the help of the Michael Otto Foundation, Rudolf
Augstein Foundation, Richard M. Meyer Foundation et
Cybersteel
In partnership with ARTE and France Médias Monde

An international production with German, Russian,

American, French, Georgian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Armenian
and Filipino artists.

PRACTICAL INFOS

Cour d'honneur du Palais des papes

PLACE DU PALAIS
84000 AVIGNON

DURATION : 2H40

Show broadcast live on ARTE on 9 July and available on

arte.tv.

SHOW IN GERMAN, ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN

Surtitled in French and English

Thursday 07 22h

Friday 08 22h

Saturday 09 22h

Sunday 10 22h

Tuesday 12 22h

Wednesday 13 22h

Thursday 14 22h

Friday 15 22h

Consult the rates

Single rate Carte Festival Carte 3 clés

Category 1 40 € 30 € 15 €

Category 2 35 € 25 € 10 €

PICTURES

2 © Krafft The Black Monk, Kirill Serebrennikov, 2022 © Ira

Polyarna

AUDIOVISUAL

TEASER - THE BLACK MONK, KIRILL

SEREBRENNIKOV, 2022
24 MARCH 2022

AND…

THE WORKSHOPS OF THOUGHT

DIALOGUE WITH KIRILL SEREBRENNIKOV

ABOUT THE SHOW THE BLACK MONK
With the Ceméa
TUESDAY, JULY 12 AT 11:00

JARDIN CECCANO
DURATION : 1H

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