A fairy tale for adults in two acts
In the role of Chukovsky — Honored Artist of Russia Danila Kozlovsky.
Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky — this name has been ringing, delighting, and warming the hearts of children and adults for over a hundred years. The circulation of his fairy tales surpasses that of Pushkin. Generations and fashions change, but his fairy tales are still read and loved.
Everyone knows Chukovsky as a kind storyteller, a cheerful grandfather, and a friend to all children. But do we really know him as a person? A self‑taught man, born under Alexander III, a friend of Mayakovsky, Blok and Akhmatova, a researcher of Nekrasov and a translator of the great American poet Whitman, a father of four children who lost three of them during his lifetime.
What was he really like, what did he hide from outsiders, and why did he renounce his fairy tales?
«Chukovsky» is a journey into a paradoxical fairy tale that becomes reality. Here, the translator Nikolai Korneychukov becomes the storyteller Korney Chukovsky, the animals solve the problems of the SNT «Limpopo,» and in magical dreams, as in life, love always triumphs.
The 1920s were the decade when all of Chukovsky’s major fairy tales were written: «Barmaley,» «Fedorino’s Woe,» «The Roach,» «The Fly‑Cockroach,» «Moydodyr,» «Aibolit,» «The Telephone,» and «The Stolen Sun.» The play «Chukovsky» is being staged to mark their centenary.
