Vladimir Pankov created a production inspired by Federico Fellini’s film and the creative biography of Mark Zakharov.
The play «Orchestra Rehearsal» is a tribute to the director and the legendary past of his theatre, which is on the verge of a century. According to the film’s plot, the orchestra becomes a metaphor for society, in which a person’s self‑expression is impossible without a team of like‑minded individuals. Continuing this idea, Vladimir Pankov calls the theater an orchestra in which there are no large or small parts, but every instrument is important for creating a single musical harmony.
The production brought together the entire Lenkom troupe: it features 80 dramatic actors and more than 20 musicians from the symphony orchestra.
As always, in productions in the sounddrama genre, music becomes an independent participant in the action: the play features specially composed original music, harmoniously combined with the famous motifs of the great Nino Rota, as well as the song «Orchestra of Terror» — words and music by Alexander Vist.
