The Knight
of the Burning Pestle
Name | Character |
---|---|
Alexander Feklistov | Grocer |
Agrippina Steklova | Grocer’s wife |
Nazar Safonov | Rafe |
Sergei Miller | Venturewell |
Anna Vardevanian | Luce |
Kirill Chernyshenko | Jasper |
Andrei Kuzichev | Humphrey |
Alexei Rakhmanov | Mr Merrythought |
Anna Karmakova | Mrs Merrythought |
Danila Kazakov | Michael |
Kirill Sbitnev | Tim |
Role | Name |
---|---|
Director | Declan Donnellan |
Designer | Nick Ormerod |
Lighting designer | Alexander Sivaev |
Composer | Pavel Akimkin |
Choreographer | Irina Kashuba |
Assistant director | Igor Teplov |
Date | Location |
---|---|
20 August 2021 | Worldwide, Livestream from Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania |
20-21 August 2021 | Sibiu, Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania |
26-27 September 2020 | Voronezh, Platonov Arts Festival, Russia |
24 September 2020 | Samara, Samara Drama Theatre, Russia |
24-26 September 2019 | Toulouse, Théâtre de la Cité, France |
4 August 2019 | Gdańsk, Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski, Poland |
16 January–2 February 2019 | Sceaux, Les Gémeaux, Paris, France |
24-28 April 2019 | Madrid, Centro Dramático Nacional, Spain |
5-8 June 2019 | London, Barbican, UK |
Date | Location |
---|---|
26 December 2021 | Moscow, Pushkin Drama Theatre, Russia |
21 November 2021 | |
22 October 2021 | |
6 June 2021 | |
18 April 2021 | |
27 March 2021 | |
21 February 2021 | |
13 January 2021 | |
13 December 2020 | |
19 September 2020 | |
31 January 2020 | |
9-10 November 2019 | |
18-19 October 2019 | |
27 June 2019 | |
21–22 May 2019 | |
30 March 2019 | |
13–15 March 2019 |
Best Show of the Season 2019
Moskovskiy Komsomoletc Newspaper
Best Production 2019
Crystal Turandot Awards
“Simple and wild direction… Diabolical tempo… Radical…A blaze of life and theatre.”
Télérama Read the full review
“Irresistible…A whirlwind anthem to theatre and why we need it now”
Le Figaro Read the full review
“Exhilarating”
Les Inrockuptibles Read the full review
“Virtuoso cast”
Les Echos
“Witty, joyous, never before have we seen such a collision of traditional and modern art!”
MK
“Donnellan grasps something in Russia that we, being inside, just don’t notice – this is why, as always, he hits the nail right on the head”
Rossiyskaya Gazeta
“Touched by grace…Donnellan gives free rein to the Russian actors, all magnificent”
El País Read the full review
“Pure fun, pure enjoyment”
ABC Read the full review
“Imagination and perfection”
El Mundo Read the full review
“A magnificent and versatile cast…Extraordinary”
El Cultural Read the full review
“Brilliant and festive…The audience melted with pleasure at Cheek by Jowl and its acclaimed Russian company”
Periodista Digital Read the full review
“Cultural sabotage of the wittiest kind…performed by a crack Russian cast”
The Telegraph Read the full review
“The Russian company is dizzyingly skilful”
The Stage Read the full review
“Audacious and bewitching”
The Times
“Freshly modern, polemic and truly hilarious”
Theatre Weekly Read the full review
“a wonderful, mad night”
What’s On Stage Read the full review
“Exhilarating”
Les Inrockuptibles