A new production based on Ivan Vyrypaev’s play: “The Only Tallest Trees on Earth”
Starring actresses Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Mashkova, and musician Vasily Zorky
The bold, cheeky, harsh, funny, and tragic production “The Only Tallest Trees on Earth” is Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Mashkova, and Vasily Zorky’s first collaboration with one of Europe’s most acclaimed playwrights, Ivan Vyrypaev, whose plays have been translated into more than 30 languages and staged in dozens of theaters around the world.
In an intentionally simple form, the three artists engage in a dialogue where humor and anxiety, cynicism, contempt for values and religion, the everyday and the philosophical, hope and its collapse coexist side by side.
The very form of the stage action becomes a way to ask difficult and frightening questions: the ones the viewer faces in life, but does not always dare to voice aloud. Paradoxical metaphors, bold statements balancing on the edge of what is permissible, contemporary and relevant dramatic solutions - all this takes the production far beyond the boundaries of traditional theater, turning what happens on stage into a meditative act that touches on the viewer’s most varied feelings. “The Only Tallest Trees on Earth” provokes diametrically opposed reactions, but leaves no one indifferent.
Using the structure of language itself as a theatrical instrument, Vyrypaev turns the spoken text into an independent element of stage action that immerses the audience in the author’s universe and, layer by layer, reveals inner experiences, gradually leading to the main questions: faith and the search for the meaning of life.
Director: Mykola Mishyn.
Cast: Chulpan Khamatova, Masha Mashkova, Vasily Zorky.
Producers: Alexandrina Markvo, Maksim Volkov.
A joint project of the Teal House Foundation and Bird&Carrot Productions.
Attention! Contains a lot of uncensored language!! 18+
