Theatre at the Microphone 5

16 hrs. 28 min.

Audio Plays, Radio Productions & Literary Readings

Language Russian

Narrator theater actors

Audio plays performed by famous artists from Moscow and St. Petersburg theatres.

John Priestley — “He Came”
An audio track from the television play based on John Boynton Priestley’s play.
Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin. Cast: Arthur Berling — Nikolay Volkov; Mrs. Berling — Lyudmila Tselikotskaya; Sheila — Irina Kupchenko; Eric — Vyacheslav Zholobov; Gerald — Oleg Shklovsky; Inspector Gull — Vladimir Etush. Recorded in 1973.

Anton Chekhov — “The Cherry Orchard”
Cast: Gae v — Innokentiy Smoktunovsky; Ranevskaya — Rufina Nifontova; Dunyasha — Natalia Gundareva; Yasha — Vitaliy Solomin; Lopakhin — Yuriy Kauryov; Charlotte — Natalia Vilkina; Trofimov — Eduard Martsevich; Anya — Yelena Koreneva; Varya — Tamara Torchinskaya; Simeonov-Pischik — Yevgeny Burenkov; Yepikhodov — Valeriy Nosik; Firs — Nikolay Sergeev. Director: Leonid Heifets. 1976.
Audio track of a TV play.

160 kb/s, 44 kHz; 1h 19'; 83.5 mb

A. N. Ostrovsky — “It doesn’t happen from day to day”
a production by the Maly Theatre based on the play “Heavy Days.”
Vasiliy Dmitrich Dosuzhev, an official dealing with private matters — A. Korshunov
Tit Titych Brus kov — Dmitriy Koznov
Nastasya Pantkratyevna, his wife — Irina Telpugova
Andrey Titych, his son — Sergey Potapov
Harlampiy Gavrilovich Mudrov, a cook — Vladimir Dubrovsky
Natalya Nikanorovna Kruglova, a merchant’s wife — Yevgeniya Dmitriyeva
Aleksandra Petrovna, her daughter — Olga Zhevaki na
Vasilisk Pertsov, served in some service and now long retired, an idle wanderer — Dmitriy Zenichev
An Unknown — Vasiliy Dakhnenko
Lusha, a maid — Lyubov Yeshchenko
Staging by Aleksandr Korshunov.
Recording — October 2006.

Bertolt Brecht — THE THREE-PENNY OPERA
Moscow Satire Theatre, 1973
Cast: A. Mironov, S. Mishulin, N. Kornilenko

F. M. Dostoevsky — “THE DEVILS”
St. Petersburg Small Drama Theatre, radio recording
mp3 — VBR up to 80 kbps — 22Hz — Mono
Pyotr Semak — Stavrogin
Oleg Dmitriev — Pyotr Verkhovensky
Tatyana Shestakova — Lyebyadkina
Igor Ivanov — Lyebyadkin
Sergey Vlasov — Shatov
Sergey Kury shev — Kirillov
Igor Sklyar — Fedka-katorzhny
Directed by Lev Dodin

Vladimir Sollogub — “TROUBLE FROM A GENTLE HEART”
Radio vaudeville, the most popular play
of the Russian theatre in the last 150 years.

N. A. Nekrasov — “The Adventures of Khlyshchev, or the Newly Invented Privileged Paint” Dirling and Co
An unbelievable story

Agatha Christie — “A Case from an Advocate’s Practice”
Cast: E. Agafonov, V. Karpova, G. Bogachov, and others
Dramatization. Runtime 57 minutes.
144 kbit/s

Aleksandr Kuprin — “A Good Society”
Cast: M. Kazakov, I. Savvina, G. Bortnikov, and others
Based on short stories. Runtime 1 hour 22 minutes.