Pushkin “Eugene Onegin”
Krymov Lab NYC
Presented by BRIC
photos: Steven Pisano and Bronwen Sharp
“One of the world’s finest theater makers… it is safe to say there is nothing else like this on New York stages right now.”
– THE NEW YORK TIMES
The internationally renowned Russian art maker Dmitry Krymov is generally acknowledged as one of the creative titans of his era, particularly for his copious work in the theater as a sceneographer and director. Today, Krymov finds himself a man without a country, unwilling and unable to return from America to Putin’s Russia following the criminal invasion of Ukraine. Since founding his NYC-based studio in 2022, Krymov’s company has already won significant acclaim from The New York Times, The New Yorker and New York Magazine, selling out a much in-demand 2023 run of his adaptation of Eugene Onegin at La MaMa Theater. Now, that work returns for a limited encore as part of Under the Radar’s 2024 season at BRIC Arts Media House. Every Russian grows up learning the story of Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin’s landmark novel in-verse. The work and its poetic images form a key part of the country’s national consciousness. In Krymov Lab NYC’s production, four immigrant Russians desperately try to communicate the value of an untranslatable classic to a New York audience. Why should we be made to care about the trials of a shallow Byronic hero, a too-deep teenage girl, and a less-than-successful birthday party? In the face of wartime atrocity, is there still a place in today’s world for Dostoevsky, for Tchaikovsky, for Pushkin? Can beauty and intellect survive such horrors? And should it?
“(With Krymov), you can see some of the most imaginative, aesthetically liberated, and gloriously thoughtfully messy theater in the world.”
– VULTURE
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, January 10 @ 7:30 pm
Thursday, January 11 @ 7:30 pm
Friday, January 12 @ 7:30 pm
Saturday, January 13 @ 2 pm
Saturday, January 13 @ 7:30 pm
Sunday, January 14 @ 3 pm
Tuesday, January 16 @ 7:30 pm
Wednesday, January 17 @ 7:30 pm
Thursday, January 18 @ 7:30 pm
Friday, January 19 @ 7:30 pm
Saturday, January 20 @ 2 pm
Saturday, January 20 @ 7:30 pm
Sunday, January 21 @ 3 pm
Run time: 90 minutes, no intermission
NOTE: additional performances run through January 28
CREDITS
Writer/Director: Dmitry Krymov
Cast: Natalie Battistone, Kwesiu Jones, Jeremy Radin, Jackson Scott, Elizabeth Stahlmann, Anya Zicer
Lead Producers of KrymovLabNYC: Tatyana Khaikin, Tim Eliot
General Manager of KrymovLabNYC: Sharon Fallon Productions
Production Manager: Manuel Da Silva
Production Stage Manager: Jacob Russell
Assistant Stage Manager: Patrick Dunning
Interpreter: Tatyana Khaikin
Dramaturg and Onegin Translator: Shari Perkins
Swing Choreographer: Rachel McMullin
Production Designer: Emona Stoykova
Lighting Designer: Krista Smith
Costume Designer: Luna Gomberg
Sound Designer: Kate Marvin
Projection Designer: Yana Biryukova
Pupper Designer: Leah Ogawa
Second Puppet Designer: Luna Gomberg
Assistant Production Designer: Marie de Testa
Assistant Sound Designer: Patrick Dunning
Draper / Tailor: Heather Ann Milam
Puppet Fabricators: Pamela Floyd-Ogawa, Ka Yee Chen, Sean Devares, John Tsung, Wen-You Cai, Anastasia Mezhankskaya, Arina Kleparskaya
Technical Director: Anna Labykina
Casting Director: Tatyana Khaikin
Digital Marketing Director: Dmitry Kersov
PR/Marketing Consultant: Katie Rosin, Kampfire Films PR
Marketing Consultant: Katya Choodnovskiy
Graphic Designer: Katya Popova
Voice Consultant: Jane Guyer Fujita
Special Thanks: Max Cherry, Matt Foss, Anna Driftmeier, Andrew Freeburg, Paul-Emile Cendron, Nick Lehane, Mac Calvaresi, Yaro Yarashvich, Kate Glowinski, Anastasia Mezhanakaya, Arina Kleparskaya, Tom Lee
Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” in our own words originally premiered at La MaMa ETC in September 2023 as part of Big Trip.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Dmitry Krymov (Writer/Director) is a world-renowned director, playwright, and designer. Krymov has already made an indelible mark on the theatrical landscape. Now living in political exile for his opposition to the invasion of Ukraine, Krymov brings his singular approach to NYC and the creation of new American works. His unmistakable style—”Theatre of the Artist”—weaves together classic texts, visual design, personal histories, inventive stagecraft, and music into living tapestries of wonder, tears, joy, and laughter.