Press\/Critics are invited to either performance. For reservations, please call (617) 942-0022.<\/p>\n
NEEDHAM, MA: After two acclaimed Russian productions at Boston Playwrights\u2019 Theatre and the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, Arlekin Players\u2019 one-woman show Natasha\u2019s Dream<\/em>, featuring actress Darya Denisova is returning in a translated run at the Arlekin Players Theatre, 268 Hillside Avenue in Needham, February 27 and 28, 2016. Performances are at 7:00pm, and tickets ($25\/$50) are available by calling (617) 942-0022, or online at www.arlekinplayers.com. This production is for mature audiences.<\/p>\n Natasha\u2019s Dream<\/em> is one of two plays in Yaroslava Pulinovich\u2019s Natasha Plays. The plays (along with I Won!<\/em>) catapulted the young playwright to prominence in theater circles in Russia. Both are compelling portraits that delve deep into the souls and the experience of two very different young women from one of Russia\u2019s provincial cities. In Natasha\u2019s Dream<\/em>, a girl tells the story of her life in a small-town orphanage, and her desire to be free; to fly away and break the vicious circle of life. From the inside of a court room, she will make twists and turns through her unique appeal to audiences, letting them into her world where she dreams about love, family, acceptance, adjusting and her future.<\/p>\n Originally performed in Russian, the production has been translated into English by John Freedman. \u201c[It] is one of the most resonant texts to have emerged in Russia over the last two or three years,\u201d noted Freedman in 2011. \u201c[It] is an incisive look at the complex life of one teenage girl who runs up against insensitive teachers, shifty classmates, a journalist who unwittingly wins her heart, and a couple of experiences that most likely will scar her life forever.\u201d He continues, \u201cPulinovich\u2019s text, written when she herself was a teenager, is deceptively simple. Much more than a picture of teenage angst, it is a stinging rebuke to an insensitive society. It is a portrait in pastels \u2014 with a few strokes of dark, bloody red \u2014 of youthful dreams being offered up as a sacrifice to \u2018the way of the world.’\u201d<\/p>\n In Natasha\u2019s Dream<\/em>, the stage setting (Anastasia Grigorieva), the lighting (Mike McTeague), video (Anton Iakhontov) and music (Yury Schelkovsky, Vadim Khrapachev) are used in creative ways to support the actress in her storytelling. With the help of 3D video mapping to project images on different surfaces, the story comes to life. Directed by Arlekin Artistic Director Igor Golyak, the play explores new and unique ways of interaction between the actress and her surrounding space through this technique. Apart from the visual aspect that electrifies the set, original music was composed for this play to accentuate the design of the video and crystallize the emotional aspect of Natasha\u2019s story. Of the production said Benny Sato Ambush, Senior Distinguished Producing Director-in-Residence of Emerson College, \u201cTheir acting style and productions are of very high quality and his aesthetic as a Director is alive, often surprising, theatrically imaginative and representative of the storytelling innovation of that part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Actress Darya Denisova joined Arlekin\u2019s Studio in 2013, during which time she was also studying acting at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow. Having played some bright and memorable roles at student showcases, Denisova made her Arlekin company\u2019s Memorial Player in 2014. \u2018Natasha\u2019 is her first starring role, in which she fills Pulinovich\u2019s text with of energy, destructive and creative at the same time. Simple words about love and dreams turn into a spell. Each word settling in soil and taking its germ there. Denisova absorbs the energy of her viewers, and from her first word, she is \u2018Natasha\u2019 in dialogue with her audience, trying to open her confined space and mind, and showing there is so much more than just pain within.<\/p>\n After seeing this production in December, 2015, Dr. Anatoly Smeliansky, head of the Moscow Art Theater School and the Co-Head of Dramaturgy, A.R.T. Institute, was so impressed by the performance, he suggested Arlekin Players to join the Moscow International Theatre Festival in Moscow, in May 2016. Arlekin Theatre\u2019s application is currently in submission for consideration.<\/p>\n Playwright Yaroslava Pulinovich was born in 1987 in Omsk, Russia. The winner of the Theatre Union\u2019s scholarship, she graduated from Yekaterinburg Drama College in 2009, where she studied playwriting under the famous writer, Nikolai Kolyada. Pulinovich received prizes and diplomas in numerous drama competitions. Shortlisted for the Debut Prize in 2006, she then won the prize in 2008. Her plays have been produced in Russia and abroad.<\/p>\n Arlekin Players\u2019 Natasha\u2019s Dream<\/em> will play at the Arlekin Players Theatre, 268 Hillside Avenue in Needham, February 27 and 28, 2016. Performances are at 7:00pm, and tickets ($25\/$50) are available by calling (617) 942-0022, or online at www.arlekinplayers.com. This production is for mature audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Press\/Critics are invited to either performance. For reservations, please call (617) 942-0022. Arlekin Players\u2019 Natasha\u2019s Dream Returns in Highly-Anticipated English Translation NEEDHAM, MA: After two acclaimed Russian productions at Boston Playwrights\u2019 Theatre and the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, Arlekin Players\u2019 one-woman show Natasha\u2019s Dream, featuring actress Darya Denisova is returning in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/nashboston.com\/arlekinplayers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_7668.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Yuliya","author_link":"https:\/\/nashboston.com\/arlekinplayers\/author\/yuliya\/"},"yoast_head":"\n