Published on Dec 15, 2011

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Genre: Dance & Ballet

Dates: Jan 7-8, 2012

Venue: Poly Theatre

Prices: 180, 280, 380, 580, 880, 1280

Features: "Russian Hamlet" is one of latest and best known production by Eifman Ballet of St.Petersburg Ballet. From January 7th to 8th, This ballet show will perform in Poly theatre for Beijing fans.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

PROLOGUE
Catherine is humiliated by the drunken debauchery of her husband, Tsar Peter III. Her Court Favorite aids her in staging a coup against the Emperor. Little Prince Paul becomes an involuntary witness to the murder of his father.

ACT
We are in the Russian Royal Court Chambers in the middle of 18th century. Young Prince Paul feels alone among the hypocritical courtiers, in the atmosphere filled with empty chatter of the maids, gossip and intrigue, His mother—the Empress—is inaccessible, always shielded by her Favorite. Catherine keeps her son away from the throne—for her, power is indivisible.

The Favorite's attempts to accustom the Prince to the depravity of Court life do not bring the expected results, and so the Empress decide that an early marriage must distract him from any thought of inheriting the throne.

Paul is happy with his wife, but she is filled with ambitious plans - she dreams of power and pressures him to fight for the throne of Russia. The Empress discovers the young bride's intentions. Lies and treachery are commonplace in the struggle for power, and Catherine's next scheme destroys Prince's happy life in marriage —his wife becomes Favorite's prey. But even that is not enough: the death of his beloved is the full price paid for her pursuit of the throne. Paul is scared in the midst of the endless chain of betrayals and crimes.

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