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Der Wij
Kirill Serebrennikov2023
Athens Epidaurus Festival
Athens, Greece
Kirill Serebrennikov’s Der Wij (The Viy), inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s dark fantasy, marked the director’s Greek debut at Peiraios 260. Blending horror and harsh reality, the performance reimagined Viy as a symbol of war’s soulless destruction, reflecting on modern atrocities in Bucha, Mariupol, and Irpin. Featuring Russian, Ukrainian, and German actors performing in their native languages, the production exposed the brutal inhumanity of conflict through a powerful fusion of poetic storytelling and stark visual intensity.
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Details
- Title: Der Wij
- Creator: Thalia Theater Hamburg / Kirill Serebrennikov, Director
- Date Created: 2023
- Location Created: Peiraios 260
- Type: Theatre
- Credit of photographer: Fabian Hammerl
- Artists: Director - Set and costume design - Kirill Serebrennikov / Set design collaboration - Elena Bulochnikova / Costume design - Shalva Nikvashvili / Music - Daniel Freitag / Choreography - Ivan Estegneev, Evgeny Kulagin / Lighting design - Sergei Kuchar / Artistic collaboration - Anna Shalashova / Dramaturgy - Matthias Günther / Translation - Kyra Heye / Cast - Filipp Avdeev, Bernd Grawert, Johannes Hegemann, Pascal Houdus, Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Falk Rockstroh, Rosa Thormeyer, Oleksandr Yatsenko / Supported by Körber Stiftung, ZEIT-Stiftung, Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, Mara & Holger Cassens Stiftung, ART Connects
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