Give a Hand! Here's the Chest!

Monologue theatre play based on the work of Vladimir Mayakovsky

On February 8, at 16:00, the monologue theatre play “Give a Hand! Here's the Chest!", based on the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky will be shown at the Russian Cultural Centre.

The performance is recommended for pupils of middle and high Russian schools and for everyone who study Russian as a foreign language. Through the performance, schoolchildren and students become acquainted not only with the work of Vladimir Mayakovsky, but also with the atmosphere of the era, which was called the “silver age” of Russian literature.

The performance is in Russian with subtitles in Greek and English.

The monologue theatre play “Give a Hand! Here's the Chest!" is performed by the People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the Russian Government Prize, Nikolai Gorokhov, who is a true enthusiast of Mayakovsky’s work. It is the artist’s love for Mayakovsky’s poetry that is the key to a huge energetic, emotional component of the play, which includes many reincarnations and is distinguished by exceptional psychological persuasiveness.

This monologue theatre play has already acquainted fame and recognition not only in Russia, but also abroad. Among the many awards of the play “Give a Hand! Here's the Chest", we can single out the victory in the nomination“ The Best Male Role” and “The Best Dramatic Performance” at the XII International Theatre Festival “The Sacred Muse-2015 ”in Mongolia (2015), the diploma “For the Services to the

Theatre of Russia” of the 6th Federal Festival “Theatre Olympus” in Sochi (2016), diploma “For the high performing art” of the International Festival “Impulse” In Kyrgyzstan (2017) and many others.

The attention of the viewer will be offered an absolutely modern one-man theatre polay, with bright visual expressiveness. The staging recreates the controversial, witty, active, titanic and extremely vulnerable personality of Vladimir Mayakovsky. And, of course, - a stormy era of enlightening, the enthusiasm, the revolutionary dreams and the deadly disappointments, in which he lived.

The monologue theatre play “Give a Hand! Here's the Chest"

Date: February 8, 16:00

Place: Russian Cultural Centre (Nicosia)

Performance duration: 1 h. 00 min. (without intermission)

Tickets are available at www.tickethour.com.cy and at ACS Couriers.