Bury Me Behind the Baseboard
Great Puppet Theatre · Saint Petersburg
director / performer
premiere 24 March 2021
- 18+
- 2021
- 60 MIN
- Russia
Is a lighthearted talk about loneliness and the complicated and incomprehensible adult world that those close to him have built around it. Performed onstage at the BTK, directed by Roman Boklanov
An autobiographical play-memory
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Grandma was my life, my mother was a rare holiday. The holiday had its own rules, life had its own rules.
The story is about a boy named Sasha Saveliev who lives with his grandparents. His childhood is not peaceful and serene: Sasha is surrounded by the tyrannical love and despotism of his closest relatives. Their home is a battlefield, where the family is at war with each other with extreme cruelty. What is the price of love gained in this way?
The solo performance Bury Me Behind the Baseboard is a sad conversation about how difficult it is for a child to break through loneliness and navigate the unfriendly, complex, and incomprehensible adult world that has been built around him by loved ones.
Based on the book by Pavel Sanayev.
Credits
- Director
- Roman Boklanov
- Production designer
- Svetlana Strukova
- Lighting Designer
- Anastasia Kuznetsova
- Producer
- Elizaveta Ekimova
Awards & Festivals
- 2021First-degree laureate production — 3rd On. Ona. Oni (He. She. They.), International Festival of Chamber and Solo PerformancesYekaterinburg
- 2021Best Actor (Maxim Morozov) — 3rd On. Ona. Oni International FestivalYekaterinburg
- 2022Special prize of jury chair Oleg Loevsky — SVOY Open Theatre FestivalYekaterinburg
- 2022First-degree laureate production — 9th MONOfest Solo Performance FestivalPerm
- 2022Best Actor (Maxim Morozov) — 5th One. Two. Three All-Russian Festival of Chamber PerformancesNovosibirsk
Press
- Why is Bury Me Behind the Baseboard one of the season's key premieres at the Big Puppet Theatre?
- PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT: RUSLAN KUDASHOV'S COURSE
- Far-reaching Perspectives
- The Big Puppet Theatre brought the solo show Bury Me Behind the Baseboard to Ryazan
- Bury Me behind the Baseboard
- St Petersburg, capital of puppet theatre: a guide to the best shows, worth the trip even for a day
- "Should have died by sixteen": a familiar story about funerals and the baseboard at the Big Puppet Theatre
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