Domovoi goes to Avignon!!!

Finally, thanks to you all, we have made it to 102%. Hurray! These are great news! I can’t express enough the gratitude I feel to all of you, our colleagues, friends, families, audiences and supporters. Now we have the fundamental conditions to offer the best of ourselves to our performance and to Festival Off Avignon 2025. Actually, since 16th May, me and Kostya Novitskiy, we are back to Teatro la Darsena - Magadino, CH, where we are doing the second residence of rehearsals to make the final adjustments before the tournée. We just bought a new smoking machine adapted for the small theatre rooms, made the new audio registrations and remade the soundtrack, brushed up the colors of scenography, and we continue to work on acting and drammaturgy. Our piece KTO TAM? is now published online in digital and printed form by Harmattan. From today on, it’s already possible to reserve tickets for our performance at the Festival Off Avignon.

A few other infos, - even though we made it, it’s still possible to contibute to our crowdfunding for those who wanted to support us but didn’t have time.

If you’d like to stay in touch, we have: WEBSITE - https://domovoi.ch/ FB - https://www.facebook.com/domovoishow IG - https://www.instagram.com/domovoishow/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMXY4ZujlSMnae16PKO57rg

We have only 2% to go at our crowdfunding and it’s time to say thank you. Last chance to share it to your friends, colleagues and family so that we can arrive at 100% and get your generous support. I’d like to also share with you the actual news of the projects. Now starts the time with so many things to do - many deadlines, printing the affiche & flyers, inviting pros, planning the whole thing but most exciting thing is that we start our second artistic residence at Teatro la Darsena (Magadino - CH). Me and our director Kostya Novitskiy come again to this atmospheric and welcoming space to make our final adjustments in directing, drammaturgy and acting from 16th to 23rd July 2025. This is a super exciting and creative period I am looking forward to. Before Avignon, we’ll have some showcases in Suisse Romande and France. If you’d like to be update about the tournées of our company, you can subscribe to our newsletter (just write us an email and we’ll add you), or check out from time to time our website with all the updated info. And surely, me and my team will be happy to see you all at Théâtre la Luna (salle 3) at 10h00 o’clock, every morning from 5th to 26th July 2025 (except for 9th, 16th and 23rd July). Have a wonderful day.

Today is a very special day. You know why? Because everyday is a special day, Jango Edwards was always saying. And he was right. However, today is a special-special day as for the first time in my life, a theatre piece called KTO TAM that I created during the pandemia 2020, which was written down by me and my new theatre director Kostya Novitskiy, and translated by Luna Scolari, is now published by the famous editing house l’Harmattan based in Paris, France. In French. Which is crazy, outstanding, unexpected, I would never have imagined that. It seems a crazy idea, to write down and publish a clown theatre piece without any words? How do you do that? Well, it is possible and it is a reality. You can order it online via the link below or you can buy it during the entire Festival Off Avignon after watching our performance at Theatre la Luna from 5th july to 26th July 2025, every morning at 10h00 (expect for 9th, 16th and 23rd july, the days off). Have a nice reading, friends and followers!

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/livre/kto-tam/78837?srsltid=AfmBOooIWdQr33x2jK8Az-iZrrvD_1NHOiZq5cu8_wUIu5YV73Tc2xcM

To thank all of our supporters, we’re here to share our new trailer filmed and edited by Uri Gerschman (IT). We would like to thank all of our collaborators, audience members and supports, as well as Swiss private foundations to believe in our project, to give us a chance to go to Festival OFF Avignon 2025. As you may see, we are almost arrived to 50% of the campaign but we have only 9 days left. To get this support, we need to arrive at 100% or else everything returns back to the donators and all these months of work will not be paid. So, this is the perfect time to start sharing our projects to your close friends, theatre lovers, neighbours, anyone who could be interested in support, anyone who believes that the culture is important today, anyone who may support us. Thank you very much for the support you have already given us. Peace over your heads!

So, it’s half time now and I’d really love to share with you our special journey with the show KTO TAM? Unfortunately, due to the limit, I couldn’t share everything I wanted as we’ve been in about countries and 2 continents since 2020. I would like to rethink to all the audiences, children and adults, whom we’ve met and could already enjoy the performance. I would like to express my utmost gratitude to all the organizers, festivals and theatre, all the collaborators who help us to make the show better (drammaturgically, visually etc.), my beloved Luna for her patience and availablity always to give a hand, to all who made it possible. Being it half time, and also a «all or nothing» project, we would really like to ask your support in sharing the campaing to your friends, family, colleagues. Now the time is really running and without 100% of this campaign, it’ll be very challenging for us to bring this performance to Festival d’Avignon 2025.

Enjoy the photos and our trips and help us to make it.

We are happy to present to you our official flyer and affiche approved by Théâtre la Luna. It has all the infos about the days of playing, days off, QR code and telephone number for reservation and etc. The original photo was made by Anna Shishkina (artistic director and theatre director of Walking Dolls of Mr. Pejo theatre company) in 2021 in St. Petersbourg more than a year before the war started. The design of the flyer was elaborated by Elena Levina who also produced quite a few wonderful graphics of our performance. Shortly we’ll share more updates for that.

We’ll be super happy to meet all of you in theatre room number 3 at Théâtre la Luna at 10h00 in the morning from 5th to 26th July 2025 and dream together of a better world. Save and share the flyer with anyone that could be interested.

To prepare for our participation at the legendary festival, we hired a presse officer Dominique Lhotte who is in charge of organizing and realizing as much press as possible about our shows at Avignon. We are super happy to share with you our first publications.

• Thanks to J’Mag for the interview with Igor Mamlenkov about the show Kto Tam! To be discovered at Festival Off Avignon at Théâtre La Luna (salle 3) at 10:00 o’clock. (see in photos)
• Direct en Jeu is an online newspaper and a podcast where you can hear the interview with Igor Mamlenkov by Alain Moreno. (French only, click on the link below)

https://www.directenjeu.fr/podcasts/igor-mamlenkov-auteur-comedien-producteur-de-kto-tam-en-route-vets-le-off-avignon-25-1318?fbclid=IwY2xjawJp8EZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHnDzAxvYILnzP9KzTcLH3tHxTWmnv5MbVmzbCSONT4W5MxjeLOvch4VZWrjr_aem_LtJ61ZQ3MWTMdXMeV9pIQQ

To prepare for Avignon, we made a residence at Teatro La Darsena (Magadino, CH), then we made a public showcase at Teatro Cambusa (Locarno, CH). NOW, we are taking the show KTO TAM? to KLAP festival in Kolding, Denmark. They say, it’s world’s largest festival for young audiences. We performed twice at the local school’s theatre twice on 5th April for a mixed audience - youngesters, families and producers. Kostya, our director, also were there with us. It was a super important step in getting the show ready for Avignon and a fun experience.

Stay tuned for more.