Bertolt Brecht

The Good Person of Szechwan

Добрый человек из Сезуана

Yuri Butusov, having staged one of the most complex plays by Bertolt Brecht in a new translation by Egor Peregudov, seemed to return it to the roots: moving away from both the socialist pathos of the 40s and the dissident rebellion of the Taganka production of the 60s, he rediscovered a dramatic parable about the essence of man.

An emotional, passionate story about the exploitation of man by man with the wonderful music of Paul Dessau performed live. Alexandra Ursulyak plays a woman and a man, sings in German, dances, and her heroine tries her best to remain a kind person in the embittered and indifferent world of people and gods.

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Actors

Shen Teh, Shui Ta

Aleksandra Ursulyak

Yang Sun

Aleksandr Arsentyev

Gods

Anastasia Lebedeva

Wong

Aleksander Matrosov

Mrs. Yang

Vera Voronkova

Mr. Shu Fu

Andrey Sukhov

Widow Shin

Natalya Reva-Ryadinskaya

Old Woman

Anna Begunova

Carpenter Lin To

Aleksandr Dmitriev

Policeman

Aleksey Rakhmanov

Домовладелица Ми Цзю

Irina Tsarenko

Crew

Director

Set design

Lighting designer

Musical director

Choreography

Nikolai Reutov

About

Poor prostitute Shen Te unexpectedly receives a gift from the gods for her kind heart. But the more good she does to people, the more troubles fall on her head. Even her lover, pilot Yang Sun, takes advantage of the girl’s innocence. Until suddenly her cousin Shui Ta appears, who is great at saying “no”...

The performance is devoid of signs of time and place - this is not Chinese Szechwan, but simply a god-forsaken village on the edge of the Universe, possible in any country and in any century, and maybe at the very end of time...