Grigory Oster, Andrey Andersen BAD ADVICE Folk-rock-rap-pop music fantasy for children and adults   Director – Andrey Andreev Set and costumes – Maria Tregubova Choreographer – Egor Druzhinin Concertmaster – Vera Nikolaeva Six characters on stage, six clowns in the masks of naughty kids behave like hooligans following Bad Advice by Grigory Oster – a collection of paradoxical short poems for children, in which the author humorously prescribes his little readers to do what they are persistently asked NOT to do. The actors take things without permission, jump down from the roof with an umbrella, wrangle with adults and spoil their life by all possible means. The most amazing thing is that children start to understand the irony of Grigory Oster’s poems from the very first lines, especially when they are presented in a form of a super-trendy musicale combining rock, pop, rap and folk music, fantastic choreography and unexpected effects. Adults who accompany children at the theatre highly appreciate specific humor of Bad Advice and burst out laughing, when giant puppets of mother and father appear on stage: they look exactly as if they were designed by a five-year-old mischievous boy. Actors: Ekaterina Direktorenko, Maxim Evseev, Tatiana Tsirenina, Marina Zelenskaya, Julietta Gering, Pavel Drozdov, Dmitry Sotiriadi, Nikolay Golubev, Tatiana Fasiura, Aleksandr Tcoi, Maria Simakova, Julia Skirina Duration of the performance – 120 minutes (one intermission) Premiere –  December 28, 2002