Sketches from Another World


Sometimes you go into a new project thinking you're doing the right thing and going in the right direction, and then one fine day the director (in this case an animator) tells you that your work doesn't meet his expectations. Regardless, I had a great time and gained a lot of knowledge about the world of animation through this experience. The process was indeed very enjoyable. It was as if I suddenly gave my inner child the freedom it needed.

Sketches from Another World

The play titled “Слуга двух господ: RUSSIAN EDITION” (“The Servant of Two Masters: Russian Edition”) was directed by Russian director Yuriy Muravitskiy at the Pushkin Drama Theatre in Moscow. It premiered on April 2, 2022.

In this version, Muravitskiy reimagines Carlo Goldoni’s classic comedy through the lens of Russian theatrical culture, drawing inspiration from popular Russian theater and the traditions of Russian jesters. The staging features close interaction with the audience, turning spectators into active participants. Although the actors follow a written script, they improvise and perform using specific “masks” for each scene, enhancing the play’s lively and spontaneous atmosphere.

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Fight Samourai

The Government Inspector

THE DRAMATIC THEATRE OF WARSAW, Poland

Play by Nikolaj Gogol

CREATIVE TEAM
Director Jurij Murawicki
| Set and Costume Designer Galya Solodovnikova | Composer Louis Lebee | Translation Agnieszka Lubomira Piotrowska | Choreographer Maćko Prusak
| Lighting designer Paulina Góral
| Video Stanisław Zaleski
| Director’s assistant Inga Shemaeva

One of the greatest privileges of working in Russia is the chance to explore the Russian classical repertoire. Since then, Gogol’s The Government Inspector has become one of my favorite plays. Yury was invited by the Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw to direct this production, proposing a fresh take through the lens of classic horror—a concept for which I found rich inspiration in Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers. I have wonderful memories of this production; we stayed right in the theater, and on show nights, would drift through the backstage corridors in our dressing gowns.



CURTAIN INTRO

The performance is dedicated to the amazing fate of the Soviet actress Valentina Karavaeva (1921-1997). Having played her first star role in the film “Masha” (1943) and having received the most prestigious Stalin Prize in the USSR for her, Karavaeva got into a car crash that disfigured her face and after that she was no longer filmed. She lived part of her life in England, married an English aristocrat then returned to the USSR and died in oblivion and poverty. The last years of her life Karavaeva filmed herself with a movie camera at home — and she did this for many years. Like a selfie? It is this part of her biography that carries the prototype of modern video blogs and selfies which has become the main source of inspiration for the creators of the play.

Talking her into death

A play by Oscar Wilde Directed by Maxim Didenko. For the first time at Gesher Theatre, a co-production with the London Royal Haymarket Theatre, from the West End.

Yokanan The Time Has Come

Dance Salome

Louis Lebee is a franco-english multi instrumentalist composer and music teacher who spent the last decade across europe scoring for theater, musicals and movies. In the last years he colaborated a lot with prestigious russian directors such as Maxim Didenko and Yuri Muravisky.  Many of the projects he has worked on have won awards.



Louis Lebee's atypical background as a former linguistics student at the Sorbonne added to his passion for jazz, classical music and his talent as an arranger (forged over the years in the ultra-competitive Parisian world of advertising and events) enable him to satisfy the most demanding requests in the shortest possible time, with style and personality.


“Music is  about tension and release. If you can play something simple but with a tiny hint of novelty, something unusual, you will appeal to the listener."
Louis Lebee is a franco-english multi instrumentalist composer and music teacher who spent the last decade across europe scoring for theater, musicals and movies. In the last years he colaborated a lot with prestigious russian directors such as Maxim Didenko and Yuri Muravisky.  Many of the projects he has worked on have won awards.



Louis Lebee's atypical background as a former linguistics student at the Sorbonne added to his passion for jazz, classical music and his talent as an arranger (forged over the years in the ultra-competitive Parisian world of advertising and events) enable him to satisfy the most demanding requests in the shortest possible time, with style and personality.

Sketches from Another World

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