Kirill & Friends
The Blizzard
After Vladimir Sorokin
Guest performance
Vladimir Sorokin’s The Blizzard is a ‘road novel’ of the most fantastical kind, with a country doctor and his coachman travelling through a fairy-tale, post-apocalyptic Russia, racing to vaccinate the population against a mysterious plague that turns the infected into zombie-like creatures. As they drive their sleigh through a raging blizzard, hallucinations and homesick dreams begin to blur the line between reality and fantasy.
Kirill Serebrennikov transforms Sorokin’s novel into a fever dream of theatre – polyphonic, seductive, and unsettling. With dance, live projections, and a troupe of actors and musicians, the director crafts an existential cabaret suspended between fairy tale and dystopia, submerging the audience in sensory overload and surrender. Hailed at the Salzburg Festival, The Blizzard is now sweeping into Berlin for the first time.
Kirill Serebrennikov transforms Sorokin’s novel into a fever dream of theatre – polyphonic, seductive, and unsettling. With dance, live projections, and a troupe of actors and musicians, the director crafts an existential cabaret suspended between fairy tale and dystopia, submerging the audience in sensory overload and surrender. Hailed at the Salzburg Festival, The Blizzard is now sweeping into Berlin for the first time.
In a stage adaptation by Kirill Serebrennikov
German text by Andreas Tretner, adapted by Rustam Akhmedshin
German text by Andreas Tretner, adapted by Rustam Akhmedshin
A co-production of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus with the Salzburg Festival and Kirill & Friends Company
Next dates and cast
Schillertheater – Großer Saal
Bismarckstraße 110
10625 Berlin
10625 Berlin
Thu
10. Sep
19:00
Guest performance
Fri
11. Sep
19:00
Guest performance
Sat
12. Sep
19:00
Guest performance