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02-04-2006, 04:45 PM
MUST SEE, REAL THEATRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Shelter
Written and directed by Valery Belyakovich - Founder and Director of South-West Theatre in Moscow
ODYSSEY THEATRE
2055 South Sepulveda Blvd. LA, CA 90025
January 28 – March 5, 2006
Premier – January 28th
Half Price Previews Jan 26, 27
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 7pm
For tickets call 310 477-2055 or go to the website www.odysseytheatre.com
STARRING: FRANKLYN AJAYE, JAY ALVAREZ, NICOLE ANSARI COX, IMELDA CORCORAN, AL FARIS, ALAN FRAZIER, LARRY GELMAN, NICK GILLIE, DEBORAH KELLAR, DONALD LACY, PAUL LIEBER, PASHA D. LYCHNIKOFF, JOHN MARZILLI, TIMOTHY V. MURPHY, SHARON OMI, TERENCE J. ROTOLO,TOMER SAVAGE-KATZ, STASHA SURDYKE, FRANCISCO VIANA
"The Shelter" provides a rare opportunity for Los Angeles audiences to experience Russian-style dramatic art at its highest level. The play is based on Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, written and staged in 1902 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. Valery Belyakovich is the acclaimed Professor of Dramatic Art at the Russian Academy for Dramatic Arts in Moscow. He founded the famous and critically acclaimed Moscow Studio Theater of the Southwest in 1977, and has acted as Artistic Director for the theatre since that time.
Belyakovich has also directed many productions at the Moscow Art Theatre and is recognized as one of the most innovative figures in Russian drama. He was honored as the People’s Artist of Russia in 2003, and he was the Laureate of the Moscow Mayor Award in 2000. He directed The Lower Depths at the Moscow Art Theatre. He took the production to the Japanese Culture Festival in 2004, where he both produced and directed at the Touen Theatre.
In The Shelter, Belyakovich has re-written The Lower Depths to dramatize Gorky's masterpiece in a universal work that examines human existence in any age or time, or in any country.
Belyakovich has produced and directed plays in various theaters in Moscow including the Gorky MHAT, the Gogol Theater, and the Novaya Opera. His achievements abroad include Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Master and Margarita and Moliere by Bulgakov, The Dragon by E. Schwartz, The Three-Penny Opera by B. Brecht, The Three Sisters by A. Chekhov and Rhinoceros by Ionesco. Altogether, Belyakovich has directed more than 120 international productions.
Belyakovich's style is tough, dynamic and expressive. He uses music, light and a minimum of set dressing to create an atmosphere of intense action. His theater is a creative space for the extremes of emotion and human passion. His favorite genres are tragic-farce and existential drama that express both the state of the modern world and the relationships of human beings to that world and to each other.
The setting of The Shelter is a lodging house for the homeless run by an ill-humored, exploitive old curmudgeon and his conniving wife. The lodgers represent virtually all strata of society and illustrate the universal nature of human beings who have fallen prey to their individual depravity. Some have had success, but all now share the same plight: they are penniless alcoholics and are all living in abject misery. A visitor appears, a wanderer, a man of peace, a teacher, a philosopher and a preacher. His quiet promises of hope engender in some of the lodgers an expectation of a better life. Stripped of everything, materially and spiritually, they are led to explore the most profound questions: What is good? What is truth? And what is one human being's responsibility to other human beings and to one's self? Some begin to hope for a better life.
Belyakovich does a brilliant job of making the audience feel connected to each of the players. He makes each of us begin to question our own pre-set ideas, and work through our judgments.
The Shelter
Written and directed by Valery Belyakovich - Founder and Director of South-West Theatre in Moscow
ODYSSEY THEATRE
2055 South Sepulveda Blvd. LA, CA 90025
January 28 – March 5, 2006
Premier – January 28th
Half Price Previews Jan 26, 27
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 7pm
For tickets call 310 477-2055 or go to the website www.odysseytheatre.com
STARRING: FRANKLYN AJAYE, JAY ALVAREZ, NICOLE ANSARI COX, IMELDA CORCORAN, AL FARIS, ALAN FRAZIER, LARRY GELMAN, NICK GILLIE, DEBORAH KELLAR, DONALD LACY, PAUL LIEBER, PASHA D. LYCHNIKOFF, JOHN MARZILLI, TIMOTHY V. MURPHY, SHARON OMI, TERENCE J. ROTOLO,TOMER SAVAGE-KATZ, STASHA SURDYKE, FRANCISCO VIANA
"The Shelter" provides a rare opportunity for Los Angeles audiences to experience Russian-style dramatic art at its highest level. The play is based on Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, written and staged in 1902 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. Valery Belyakovich is the acclaimed Professor of Dramatic Art at the Russian Academy for Dramatic Arts in Moscow. He founded the famous and critically acclaimed Moscow Studio Theater of the Southwest in 1977, and has acted as Artistic Director for the theatre since that time.
Belyakovich has also directed many productions at the Moscow Art Theatre and is recognized as one of the most innovative figures in Russian drama. He was honored as the People’s Artist of Russia in 2003, and he was the Laureate of the Moscow Mayor Award in 2000. He directed The Lower Depths at the Moscow Art Theatre. He took the production to the Japanese Culture Festival in 2004, where he both produced and directed at the Touen Theatre.
In The Shelter, Belyakovich has re-written The Lower Depths to dramatize Gorky's masterpiece in a universal work that examines human existence in any age or time, or in any country.
Belyakovich has produced and directed plays in various theaters in Moscow including the Gorky MHAT, the Gogol Theater, and the Novaya Opera. His achievements abroad include Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Master and Margarita and Moliere by Bulgakov, The Dragon by E. Schwartz, The Three-Penny Opera by B. Brecht, The Three Sisters by A. Chekhov and Rhinoceros by Ionesco. Altogether, Belyakovich has directed more than 120 international productions.
Belyakovich's style is tough, dynamic and expressive. He uses music, light and a minimum of set dressing to create an atmosphere of intense action. His theater is a creative space for the extremes of emotion and human passion. His favorite genres are tragic-farce and existential drama that express both the state of the modern world and the relationships of human beings to that world and to each other.
The setting of The Shelter is a lodging house for the homeless run by an ill-humored, exploitive old curmudgeon and his conniving wife. The lodgers represent virtually all strata of society and illustrate the universal nature of human beings who have fallen prey to their individual depravity. Some have had success, but all now share the same plight: they are penniless alcoholics and are all living in abject misery. A visitor appears, a wanderer, a man of peace, a teacher, a philosopher and a preacher. His quiet promises of hope engender in some of the lodgers an expectation of a better life. Stripped of everything, materially and spiritually, they are led to explore the most profound questions: What is good? What is truth? And what is one human being's responsibility to other human beings and to one's self? Some begin to hope for a better life.
Belyakovich does a brilliant job of making the audience feel connected to each of the players. He makes each of us begin to question our own pre-set ideas, and work through our judgments.