Director   Evgeny Kozlov
Dance   Alexander Bondarev,Irina Kozlova,Julia Tokareva
Evgeny Kozlov, Marlene Wolfsberger,
Alexei Merkushev.
Video   Fionnula D´Arcy
Music   Roman Dubinnikov

Technical Director Tanya Williams

DoTheatre St.Petersburg/Aachen presents the award winning
dance-theatre spectacle
Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award’99

 About the piece:
A bizarre, comic and magical story. We are in an old derelict train station.Forgotten belongings lie about on the deserted platforms. The last train left a long time ago. But once a year this seemingly dead place comes back to life, animated by the phantoms and specters of past vagrants and tramps who are here to play a game. The game is very exciting and attractive but it is one which has deadly consequences for them all.
This hour long piece is both a requiem and a celebration, it takes us on a surreal and playful journey in the heart of darkness. It wakens the past, breathes life into
all those old black and white photos and forces us to remember not ghosts but the
flesh and blood.

Press Extracts:
"‘Hopeless Games’ is alternative theatre at its best-challenging our assumptions and forcing us to look at the world in new and surprising ways."
Philp Brandes, Santa Barbara News Press, May 17, 2001

"Such purity is hard to find and even harder to forget, It turns millions into individuals…
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, August 15, 2000

"It is more of a mood than a story, touching on partings, meetings, the great darkness at the heart of the 20^th century Europe and triumph over it of the human spirit."
The Scotsman, August 13, 1999

"…shocking, at time tender; comic and strangely beautiful-‘Hopeless Games’ proves be a rollercoaster ride for the senses- A must see!"
Movement Magazin, August 1999