Mark Twain

The Prince and the Pauper

Принц и нищий

This production, based on Mark Twain's most famous historical novel, marks a new chapter in the creative journey of Teresa Durava and her team—their first foray into the traditions of national musical cultures.

In The Prince and the Pauper, medieval English and German music comes to life, performed by an orchestra on period instruments—including the doppia harp, bowed psaltery, hurdy-gurdy, crumhorn, rauschpfeife, bouzouki, bodhrán, and landsknecht drum—some of which are actual museum pieces.

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Actors

Prince Edward Tudor

Grigoriy Cheglakov

Tom Canty, the Pauper

Danila Teplov

Miles Hendon, the teacher-monk

Rufat Akchurin

Lord Somerset

Vladimir Antipov

King Henry

Sergey Dik

Lady Jane Grey, the Prince's cousin

Sofia Krakovskaya

Prince's Tutor

Pavel Maltsev

The Bishop

Vladimir Sedletskiy

John Canty, Tom Canty's father

Andrey Khudyakov

Tom Canty's Mother

Yulia Yunusheva

Crew

Director

Tereza Durova

Playwright

Artyom Abramov

Lyrics by

Andrey Usachyov

Composer, arranger, musical director

Maksim Gutkin

Stage Designer

Maria Rybasova

Costume designer

Olga Reznichenko

Lighting designer

Andrey Izotov

About

Grey and foggy London is a strange place, and in it, anything can happen. A poor beggar boy who accidentally stumbles into the royal palace might just end up on the throne. That is, of course, if he happens to look exactly like the crown prince. What seems like a simple game—swapping places with the prince—turns out to have consequences no one could have foreseen.