Anastasia Patlay

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Non-format

documentary performance
director
Moscow, Meyerhold Center, 2021

Director — Anastasia Patlay
Authors of the play — Nana Grinshtein & Anastasia Patlay
Set Designer — Mikhail Zaikanov
Lighting Designer — Elena Perelman
Composer — Kirill Shirokov
Choreographer — Tatyana Chizhikova
With Nargis Abdullaeva, Jan Badmaev, Aziz Beyshenaliev,
Rafael Durnoyan, Feruza Ruziyeva

The performance includes poetry by the poet Shamshad Abdullaev

Language: Russian

A testimonial play about the search for identity. What is it to feel ‘different’ all the time? An actor's appearance is not only his tool, but also his destiny. What is a Kyrgyz, an Uzbek, an Armenian, a Kalmyk to do in Russian cinema? And if you have a whole bouquet of nationalities in you, and your face does not look like the faces of the majority of the audience, can you succeed?

Photo: Katya Kraeva

Who do you really feel you are if you are an non-format — not only in your profession, but also in the country? Not only in the country, but also in your family? Maybe there is another question behind this question. Who am I?

Non-format is a testimonial performance in which actors talk about themselves, their profession, their roots, their traumas and discoveries.

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