The Three Musketeers and Me

About

Dmitry Krymov started his career as a stage designer working for his father, the famous director Anatoly Efros, and prepared designs for over hundred productions in several Russian theatres. In 2002, he started to teach at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) but was forced to leave after signing an open letter condemning the annexation of Crimea. During his stay in Philadelphia, he denounced the Russian invasion to Ukraine and refused to return to his homeland. When his production Mozart. Don Juan. Dress Rehearsal, staged at the Fomenko Workshop Theatre, won the Golden Mask Award in April 2022, Krymov dedicated it to the editor-in-chief of the independent daily Novaya Gazeta. In the same year, his productions were withdrawn from the repertoire (with two exceptions where, however, the director’s name was deleted). In October 2022, Krymov announced opening of his new studio in New York City – Krymov Lab NYC.

For his original production prepared specifically for the Estates Theatre, Krymov found inspiration in the custom of bedtime reading, as well as in the worlds conceived by Alexander Dumas in The Three Musketeers and Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The director, known for radical adaptations of classics, employs his peculiar style of visual theatre loaded with surprises and metaphors to portray a fragile memory of the close bond between the grandmother, her little grandson, and his parents.