"Family Happiness" By Moscow Theatre-Atelier Piotr Fomenko

After sensational multiple appearances at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York, the acclaimed international theater group “Theatre-Atelier Piotr Fomenko” is debuting in Boston with Family Happiness, a story about the evolution of love, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy and adapted for the stage by Piotr Fomenko. Told from the viewpoint of the main heroine, Masha, the play abandons the novel's straightforward storytelling to recall the quiet affair between Masha and her father's friend, Sergey,… Show more the first months of happiness, her thirst for social status and the disappointment with society, the return and attempt to build a new, calm kind of family happiness. Passionless, dry and, at times, cynical, Masha rips away the cover of time to reveal the sweet happiness of young love that can never be recaptured.
Family Happiness premiered at the Theatre-Atelier Piotr Fomenko in 2000 to rave reviews, and went on to win multiple awards and prizes for the cast and director. It is part of the theater's repertoire and is heavily featured on the festival circuits in Russia and Europe.

“…A CAST OF POLISHED ACTORS, [THEATRE –ATELIER PIOTR FOMENKO] ACHIEVES THE BEAUTY OF A WELL-MADE CHARACTER SKETCH.”—NEW YORK TIMES

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