Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” in our own words
Sara Holdren“A magic-lantern show of anarchic games and tiny miracles”
Elisabeth Vincentelli“Reaching deep into its core and extracting the marrow, what makes us human”
About the production
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 Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” in our own words, 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?
Shari Perkins, Krymov Lab NYC Dramaturg
Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” in our own words was presented by La MaMa ETC as a workshop in 2022, and as a sold out mainstage production in the Ellen Stewart Theater in 2023, as part of Big Trip, the debut season of Krymov Lab NYC. In 2024, it received an extended run at BRIC as part of the Under the Radar Festival.
On stage
Photos: Steven Pisano & Bronwen Sharp
Sara Holdren“Krymov’s theater, in its truest form, is astonishingly light and yet full of gravity. It floats heavenwards while understanding, even celebrating, its own, and our own, ephemerality.”
“a production that is inventive, resourceful, and gleefully irreverent in its treatment of this most sacred text of Russian literature.”
Cast and creative team
Cast
Natalie Battistone
Kwesiu Jones
Jeremy Radin
Jackson Scott
Elizabeth Stahlmann
Anya Zicer
Creative team
- Dmitry KrymovWriter/Director
- Tatyana KhaikinInterpreter, Producer, Casting Director
- Shari PerkinsDramaturg and Onegin Translator
- Emona StoykovaProduction Designer
- Krista SmithLighting Designer
- Luna GombergCostume Designer, Second Puppet Designer
- Kate MarvinSound Designer
- Patrick DunningSound Designer
- Yana BiryukovaProjection Designer
- Leah OgawaPupper Designer
- Marie de TestaAssistant Production Designer
- Heather Ann MilamDraper / Tailor
- Pamela Floyd-OgawaPuppet Fabricator
- Ka Yee ChenPuppet Fabricator
- Sean DevaresPuppet Fabricator
- John TsungPuppet Fabricator
- Wen-You CaiPuppet Fabricator
- Anastasia MezhankskayaPuppet Fabricator
- Arina KleparskayaPuppet Fabricator
- Anna LabykinaTechnical Director
- Rachel McMullinSwing Choreographer
- Tim EliotProducer
