The Good Person of Szechwan

Year: 2024
Country: Russia
Director: Yuriy Butusov
Set design: Aleksander Shishkin
Lighting designer: Aleksander Sivaev
Musical director: Igor Gorsky
Choreography: Nikolai Reutov
Cast: Aleksandra Ursulyak, Aleksandr Arsentyev, Anastasia Lebedeva, Aleksandr Matrosov, Vera Voronkova, Andrey Sukhov, Natalya Reva-Ryadinskaya, Anna Begunova, Aleksandr Dmitriev, Aleksey Rakhmanov, Irina Tsarenko
Genre: theatre production
Runtime: 184 min.
Age: 16+
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...

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Awards & Festivals:

Golden Mask-2014:
  • Best Actress (Aleksandra Ursulyak)

Nominations for the Golden Mask Award:
  • Best Performance in Drama
  • Best Director
  • The Production
  • Best Supporting Role (Alexander Matrosov)


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