A guest performance at Playhouse Teater.
ALEXANDER * A is multimedia performance immersing the audience in the world of Alexandra Kollontai — a revolutionary, diplomat, and one of the key figures of early socialist feminism in the twentieth century.
The performance explores Kollontai’s political and personal legacy, on stage, her ideas about freedom, labor, love, the body, and revolution collide with the present moment, in which questions of power, violence, exile, and female subjectivity once again become urgently relevant. Rather than attempting a historical reconstruction, the project transforms Kollontai’s figure into a space of dialogue between past and present, between utopia and disillusionment, between political imagination and the experience of displacement.
Directed and produced by Vika Privalova
Text: Ekaterina Avgustenyak
Cast: Alisa Dmitrieva Shishko, Asya Ashman
Multimedia: Teona Kokoreva
Second director and production support: Diana Meyerhold
Light: Daniil Moskovich
Music: Oleg Krokhalev
Choreography: Yulia Arsen
Costumes: Sasha Ageeva
Sound tech: Georgii Malykh
Graphic Design: HVOII, Evgenia Vlasova
The creative team consists primarily of FLINTA artists, producers, and performers living in exile after being forced to leave Russia for political reasons. The director of the production is an activist and coordinator of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiative.
Running time: 70 minutes, no intermission.
Questions around bookings and payment: Please contact Tickster's costumer service. Questions around the performance: kollontai.project@gmail.com