Participatory performance-training
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THEORY OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM (practice of losers)
Participatory
performance-training
Can misfortune be cancelled and freedom taught?
The piece begins as an irony of personal coach trainings, but as it proceeds it invites the audience to ask questions about happiness and freedom for real, looking at these concepts every time from a new angle.

The piece is done in the genre of participatory theatre,
and in the second part of the play all the audience are invited
on stage for a party of losers.
The piece is the winner of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation’s New Theatre competition.
Production: 1st Theatre
Author, director: Alexander Andriyashkin
Set and costumes: Sergey Kretenchuk
Composer: Vasily Peshkov
Light designer: Vadim Dmitriev
Actors: Semyon Gritsenko, Daniel Dushkin, Daria Tropeznikova, Maxim Kudryavtsev, Elizaveta Kuznetsova, Elizaveta Masloboyeva, Andrey Mishustin, Yulia Shabaykina, Zakhar Dvorzhetsky, Alina Trusevich
Duration: 2 hours
Premiere: September 12, 2020
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