Theater (select works)
The (Un)Double
“An extraordinary performance written and directed by Anthony Nikolchev. This precisely choreographed, sonically impeccable, and intellectually sharp performance includes Dostoevsky's novella The Double, but goes far beyond it…All in all, an artistic, conceptual, (un)narrational work of rare competence.”
-Richard Schechner (Editor, TDR)
written and created by Anthony Nikolchev
co-creation Lukasz Przytarski
performed by Chris Pollick, Anthony Nikolchev and Lukasz Przytarski. Collaboration with WD.
co-direction Gema Galiana
a Useless Room production
world premiere: 2025 Biennale di Venezia
Socratic dialogue, psychiatric intake exam, dance/movement, and literary adaptation—The (Un)Double, inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella The Double. Taking the audience through the lens of several real-life icons of doubleness, it dissects the space between the self, the ideal, and the unreliable if not violent role of narrative. From Dostoevsky’s incisive characterization of the human desire to be seen as someone we are not, a complicated journey emerges by which one maintains the self.
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directed by Gema Galiana
performed by Gema Galiana, Julian Sandoval and Anthony Nikolchev
a Useless Room production
world premiere: Dance at the Odyssey
(International Theater Olympics, Summerhall at EdFringe)
A funereal ritual for the last of a species, the end of Mystery and Beauty, and a call to arms against senseless destruction.
“The Last One takes on a multitude of complex themes and studies them with an intensely tender scrutiny. In an hour, we are taken on a journey through an existential crisis and which feels completed though not resolved. It is a show that truly packs a punch and one that is not to be missed."
The last one
The echoes off the walls are louder than your footsteps above me
written and created by Anthony Nikolchev
performed by Anthony Nikolchev
co-direction Matej Matejka, Yura Kordonski
world premiere: 2012 United SOLO (Theater Row, NYC) (Best Actor)
A one man tragedy about the comedy of sales during the great American recession.
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"this remarkable play—half physical performance, half haunting lyrical monologue—is an ode to the un(der)employed Millennial"
-NYTheatre.com
