Mark Twain

Talents and the Dead

Таланты и покойники

A performance by Evgeny Pisarev based on Mark Twain’s only play “Is He Dead?”, found in 2003 in the archives of the University of California at Berkeley. Starring Sergei Lazarev.

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Actors

Jean-Francois Millet

Sergey Lazarev

Agamemnon Buckner

Igor Teplov

Hans von Bismarck

Anton Feoktistov

Phelim O'Shaughnessy

Nazar Safonov

Basil Thorpe

Aleksey Rakhmanov

Papa Louis Leroux

Aleksey Voropanov

Marie Leroux

Anna Karmakova

Cecile Leroux

Anastasia Lebedeva

Bastien André

Sergey Miller

Crew

Translated by

Mikhail Barskiy

Director

Evgeniy Pisarev

Set design

Zinovi Margolin

Costume designer

Viktoriya Sevryukova

Lighting designer

Aleksander Sivaev

Choreography

Albert Alberts

Music by

Sergey Chekryzhov

About

Follows a young, poor and truly talented artist, François Millet, and a group of his friends, who stage a funny and daring farce in a French suburb, using Millet's imaginary death to achieve wealth and fame.

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