At the theater S.A.D. prepare the play "Arcadia" based on the play "Harold and Mod" Automatic translate

In the only theater in the world located in the botanical garden, the play "Arcadia" based on the play by K. Higgins "Harold and Mod" will be shown.

The meeting of two opposing heroes, with a completely different approach to life. He sees life in black and white, fascinated by death and all its manifestations. She loves life and continues to enjoy every new day, despite her advanced age. Aggression and cheerfulness intertwine and create an amazing contrast between masculine and feminine, idyllic relationships where age and other social cliches lose all meaning.

Harold is the son of a wealthy woman who does not pay any attention to him. To attract the attention he lacks, Harold pretends to commit suicide, to which the mother does not attach any importance. Tormented by the constant, becoming chronic, depressions, he, fascinated by death, spends time at other people’s funeral. One day, he meets the Countess 79 years old - Maud, fascinated by life to the same extent that Harold’s death…

The lost paradise of "Arcadia" sounds very useful. In everyday, everyday rush, sometimes there is no time to pay attention to something really important. This happens with the characters in the play Harold and Mod. Sometimes, in order to find inner harmony, it is necessary to go a long way. For some, this path is built into a lifetime, for others through thorns of misunderstanding on the part of relatives. And even in Arcadia, death is still there…

The director of the production was a theater and film actor Vladimir Kimmelman, known to viewers from the films "Mom", "Fifth Guard", "Lord of the Police", "Mom Laura" and others.

Starring theater artists. E. Vakhtangova: Agnes Peterson and Kirill Rubtsov.

Participating in the performance: Sergey Savluk (Gogol-Center), Alyona Ivanova (Tabakerka), Svetlana Josefiy (E. Vakhtangov Theater).

The premiere of the performance will take place in February 2020.