Shchepkin Drama Theatre
Belgorod, Russia
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Mikhail Mokeev
Director
Mikhail Mokeev, a graduate of Kharkov University, abandoned his nuclear physics soon after graduation and joined Oleg Yefremov's class at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Mokeev is the founder of the Ulysses theatre and he has directed over twenty productions at various Moscow theatres. He has also worked in Austria, England, Ireland and the USA (where, among other plays, he directed The Cherry Orchard with Suzanne York and Kenneth Haig).
Translations by Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik and Boris Pasternak
Directed by Mikhail Mokeev
Designed by Yuri Kharikov
Choreography by Andrei Kuznetsov
Lighting designed by Ruslan Rodionov
Cast: M.Zhemchugova (Juliet), A.Basmanov and V.Klepatsky (Romeo), A.Orlov (Mer-cutio), V.Bgavin (Tybalt), G.Yezhova (Nurse), V. Starikov (Friar Laurence) and others
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