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A HERO OF OUR TIME

“Director Vladimir Shcherban only founded HUNCHtheatre in May this year and already has a hit with this startling adaptation of Mikhail Lermontov’s 1839 novel.” — Edward Lukes

★★★★ “A blistering feat of storytelling” (The Stage)

★★★★ “A sugar rush of intrigue and excitement” (The Scotsman)

★★★★★ “Contemporary in its face and historical in its heart” (Spyinthestalls)

★★★★★ “More soon please!” (Broadway World)

★★★★ “A mesmerising spectacle” (A Younger Theatre)

★★★★ “A powerful, sweaty and ingenious piece of theatre” (BroadwayBaby)

A man with curly hair in a dark jacket and gloves is pouring water from a yellow lemon-shaped container into a glass, with an audience wearing masks visible in the background.
A man with dark hair and a beard wearing a black leather jacket looks down at a woman with curly red hair, dressed in black, lying on a metal stretcher. The woman appears to be unconscious with her head resting on her folded arms. They are positioned in front of a large, ornate wooden door with decorative columns on each side, set in a stone wall with marble-like columns and detailed carvings.

KING LEAR

★★★★ “In Vladimir Shcherban’s production, this is King Lear endowed with the anarchic spirit of the 1941 movie Hellzapoppin. But, although the mood is initially jaunty, the production gives us a glimpse of what it must be like to live under a whimsically irrational dictatorship.” (The Guardian)

★★ “In Vladimir Shcherban’s production, this is King Lear endowed with the anarchic spirit of the 1941 movie Hellzapoppin. But, although the mood is initially jaunty, the production gives us a glimpse of what it must be like to live under a whimsically irrational dictatorship.”— The Guardian

★★★★★ “One of the greatest productions of King Lear London has ever seen... It shook the Globe from the yard to the rafters” (The Arts Desk)

★★★★ “Vladimir Shcherban’s production presents us with an utterly broken state, which punishes those who fight against corruption and causes its population to turn mad… I have never experienced a deeper silence at the Globe... ”— Dan Hutton (The Hutton Enquiry)

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BEING HAROLD PINTER

★★★★★ “First-hand testimony from victims of state brutality also reminds us, in Vladimir Scherban's dazzling production, that Pinter's political plays carry a different, dynamic charge in Belarus.” (The Guardian)

★★★★ The effect is a gradual darkening of mood as we see threatened brutality turn overt. The cast wear black suits and white shirts, and Vladimir Scherban’s staging is lucid and uncluttered, so that simple effects have a big impact: someone stamping on an apple and smashing it to pulp has a clear and dreadful resonance.” ( Financial Times)

“The playwright's work, which often blended absurdism and realism, gains new meaning in Vladimir Shcherban's adaptation and direction” (Desert News)

Watch a clip of Vladimir Shcherban’s production of Being Harold Pinter 

A fragment from Vladimir Shcherban's prodaction Being Harold Pinter