GERDA’S ROOM

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genre: A lyrical horror tale \ 12+

GERDA'S ROOM

General admission

1 hour 30 minutes

Without interval

About the production

The production immerses the audience into the world of things and words from "The Snow Queen", the world of enchanting sounds and puppets. The audience sees Gerda just on her own.

Like a mirror, she reflects other characters, and follows these reflections. Gerda is still young in her memory. She doesn't notice the passage of time, and keeps looking for Kai."Gerda's Room" is about searching and fearing. It's about eternity that is always ready to meet us. We put this eternity into a word, and breathe it out on a frozen window so we can finally see something dear to us which we have long lost.

This show is growing the familiar plot out of the walls. The walls are like pages. They are turning the habitual towards something new and shocking. The Theatre of the Absurd and black humour have proved to be more congenial to Andersen that we thought at the beginning of our journey.

Author
based on Hans Christian Andersen's
fairy tale The Snow Queen

Directed by
Yana Tumina

Cast
Evgeny Filimonov (the Room)
Kirill Smirnov (the Room)
Alisa Oleinik (Gerda)

Set Designer
Kira Kamalidinova

Art Technologist
Nik Khamov

Costume Designer
Anis Kronidova

Lighting Designer
Vasily Kovalyov
Anatoly Lyapin

Sound Designer
Yury Leikin

National Theatre Award "Golden Mask" (2019)

- Best Actress in Puppet Theatre – Alisa Oleinik
- Best Director in Puppet Theatre – Yana Tumina

Nominations: Best Production, Best Director, Best Actress,Best Actor, Best Set Designer

Participant of the World Festival of Puppet Theatres (Le Festival Mondial des Theatres de Marionnettes)

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Awards

National Theatre Award "Golden Mask" (2019)
National Theatre Award "Golden Mask" (2019)

- Best Actress in Puppet Theatre – Alisa Oleinik
- Best Director in Puppet Theatre – Yana Tumina

Nominations: Best Production, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Set Designer
The National Festival of Theatre Art for Children "Harlequin"
- Best Production
- Special Award "For Outstanding Professionalism" (Dmitry Chupakhin, the Room)
- Best Female Role (Alisa Oleinik)
- Best Costume Designer (Anis Kronidova)
- Best Lighting Designer (Vasily Kovalyov and Anatoly Lyapin)
- Best Set Designer (Kira Kamalidinova)
The International Puppet Theatre Festival "Petrushka the Great"
- Grand Prix of the International Puppet Theatre Festival "Petrushka the Great"
- Recognition Award (Alisa Oleinik)
- Best Actress Award
Golden Soffit Award in 2017 and 2018:
- Best Production
- Best Director (Yana Tumina)
- Best Female Role (Alisa Oleinik)
- Special Prize "For creating a unique set" (Kira Kamalidinova)
The Fairytale Kingdom Festival, Sevastopol
- The journalists' jury special award from the media partners of the festival, Vesti
- Sevastopol and the culture and education weekly Sevastopolskaya Gazeta
- Grand Prix: Best Direction, Best Set Design and Best Acting
- Children's jury prize "Royal Delight"
Theatre-Lover Award (Saint Petersburg)
- Best Production
- Best Actress
The International Festival "Christmas Parade"
- Best Production
Vladas Bagdonas Award (Alisa Oleinik) at Monocle Festival (Saint Petersburg)
The International Puppet Festival "Crossroads" (Novosibirsk)
- Best Female Role
- Best Sound Design
Participant of the World Festival of Puppet Theatres (Le Festival Mondial des Theatres de Marionnettes)

Reviews

I think "Gerda's Room" of the Saint-Petersburg-based Osobnyak Theatre and Yana Tumina's Theatre Laboratory is not only Tumina's best work, but also one of the most interesting puppet theatre productions that goes well beyond the boundaries of this genre.

Marina Shimadina

St. Petersburg Theatre Magazine

Yana Tumina's production is full of beautiful manmade things that are both frightening and mesmerising. It feels like this work was created to help you to cope with the horrors of life. But the fear therapy here is less evident than the desire to immerse the audience into the cozy yet dreadful world of that room. This world can make you uneasy and then immediately turn into something very nice and sweet. And it's probably this quality of the place that makes you shiver.

Nadezhda Stoeva

St. Petersburg Theatre Magazine

The 16th National Festival of Theatre Art for Children "Harlequin" in Saint Petersburg came to an end. It presented ten shows in competition and ten shows out of competition – from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, the Ural Region and Siberia. The majority of awards, however, were received by the productions from Saint Petersburg. The Grand Prix of the 16th Harlequin Festival was given to "Gerda's Room" by Yana Tumina.

Marina Shimadina

St. Petersburg Theatre Magazine

The production's programme states that "Gerda's Room" is a lyrical horror tale. In this show you won't see horror on stage, but from the very first minute it will get under your skin and won't leave you for a long time. Because Gerda is not a lively red-haired girl you would expect Alisa Oleinik to play, but a crook-backed old woman who is barely able to walk and instead of her face has a rigid ashy mask without eyes.

Irina Seleznyova-Reder

St. Petersburg Theatre Magazine

In each of their productions, Yana Tumina and her team respond to the single most important question – what makes people alive? – without saying big, or often any, words. In "Gerda's Room", their art of saying important things so quietly that they could sink into the mind of the noisiest and most inattentive pupil in class (that is, in the auditorium) reaches its goal. And the audience reaches a catharsis.

Olga Komok

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