Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms

Don your moustaches and throw on your dandy garb for an evening of not-so-innocent pranks and antics, vignettes and dreamlike incidents, as the St. Petersburg eccentric Daniil Kharms (re)meets Artel’s unique brand of clownpunk. Artel is reviving and revamping its acclaimed Russian absurdist comedy. Experience why audiences are still talking about this show 4 years later!

Kharms was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist, a post-modern artist before the term had any cultural currency. He exploded the conception of theatre as a literary representative, defining the rules of theatre not as dramatic but scenic.

Artel ransacks the storehouse of Kharms, particularly his creative practice of sluchai (chance event), to propose its own poetics of illogical perspectives formulated for a new decade of theatrical hooliganism.