Gesher Theater – Don’t Look Back

Photo Credits: Alexander Khanin, Sergey Demyanchuk, Victoria Shub

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A NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

In loving memory of Rimas Tuminas and Faustas Latenas.

Based on the play “Eurydice” by Jean Anouilh, this is a freestyle, sensual, ironic adaptation of the ancient Greek myth.

Erely beautiful and powerfully haunting…a journey of pure theatre magic through the realms of love and death.

The story revolves around Orpheus, a street musician collecting alms with his father at the train station, and Eurydice, an actress waiting for a train on her way to a performance. Love bursts out between them, inevitable as death and pitiless as life.

Can’t there be love without suffering? Is suffering necessary for creativity? And is it worth looking back?

This production, one of the last works by the late legendary Director Rimas Tuminas and honors the late composer Faustas Latenas, whose score adds a poignant layer to the performance. Both artists have brought their work to Toronto’s audience many times with The Vakhtangov Theatre prior to February 2022. They have been actively collaborating with Gesher Theatre in recent years, and this production marks Rimas Tuminas’s last work as a Theatre Director.

The cast includes Anatoly Beliy, Lena Freifeld, Nikita Naidenov, Israel (Sasha) Demidov, Lilian Shely Ruth, Itai Tarkhanov, Nikita Goldman-Koch, Polina Pakhomova, and Henry David.

Secure your tickets now and be part of this cultural event that will leave a lasting impact.

Let’s celebrate the resilience of the human spirit together!