Richard III (1976)
Richard III became one of the significant roles of M. A. Ulyanov. This was the first performance for many years to be created by a unified directorial idea. It spoke about an overall bail of evil. Everyone is engaged in their own strives. Here one murder prosily follows another murder.
Kaplanyan put Shakespeare on the stage with the fury and excessiveness characteristic of Armenian theatre. But Ulyanov was not afraid by the pressure of the directorial temper. The grotesque motive of the comedian craft became prevailing for his Richard.
Main Stage
Premiere was on 29 September 1976
Characters & Cast:
King Edward IV, first York king |
Alexander Grave Harry Dunts |
King’s sons | |
Edward, prince of Wales | Liubov Korneva Inna Alabina |
Richard, prince of York | Olga Gavriluk |
King’s brothers | |
George, duke of Clarence | Evgeny Karelskih |
Richard, duke of Glochester, then King Richard | Mikhail Ulyanov |
John Morton, Iliy’s bishop |
Joseph Tolchanov |
Duke of Backingham |
Aaleksandr Filippenko |
Duke Rivers, queen Elisabeth’s brother |
Yuri Volintsev |
Queen Elisbeth’s sons from the first marriage | |
Marquis Dorset | Eugeniy Shershnev Alexander Galevsky |
Lord Gray | Vladimir Vikhrov Alexei Kuznetsov |
Lord Hastings, lord-chamberllain |
Grigory Abrikosov Anatoliy Menshchikov |
Lord Stenley |
Mikhail Semakov |
Sir Richard Ratcliff |
Viktor Zozulin |
Sir William Catsby |
Ernst Zorin Vladimir Koval |
Sir James Tyrell |
Mikhail Vorontsov Aleksey Zerebtsov |
Sir Robert Breckenberry, Tower guard |
Vladimir Pokrovsky Aleksey Kotrelyov |
Lord-Mayor of London |
Anatoliy Borisov Konstantin Monov |
Page |
Inna Alabina |
Killers |
Vladimir Ivanov Oleg Forostenko |
Priests |
Alexander Lebedev Semyon Khmara |
State Council |
Aleksey Zerebtsov Viktor Ermakov Aleksey Kotrelyov Konstantin Monov Vadim Ruslanov |
Elisabeth, Queen, Edward IV’s wife |
Alla Parfanyak |
Duchess of York, Edward IV’s mother |
Elena Izmailova |
Margarete, Henry VI’s widow |
Elena Korovina |
Lady Anna, Henry IV’s daugther in law |
Lyudmila Maksakova Irina Kupchenko |
Crew:
Production and decoration |
Rachiya Kaplanyan |
Stage director |
Mikhail Ulyanov |
Music director |
Feliks Aramyan |