Booff Show
Booff Show is a Toronto based comedy group founded in 2007 under the leadership of artistic director Nikolai Terentiev. The show currently consists of a troupe of 8 performers, and has introduced their first production called: "The Door".
Background
The first production of the Booff Show: "The Door" is characterized as being a nontraditional theatrical performance reflecting European/Russian style miming and clowning. While the common western style clowning is based on slap-stick humor, the artists of the Booff Show create an environment using the art of miming, and the occasional hand made prop, then proceed to break this reality and thus creating a funny situation for the clown. Therefore in keeping with the basic philosophy of the show, the entire performance is without words, however everything is clear to the audience through out the internationally common human feelings, mimics, understandings and the common comedic situations.
Nikolai Terentiev
Nikolai Terentiev started his professional career in 1968 and now has over 40 years of experience in performing, clowning, and acting in movies at international level. Nikolai has performed in "Slava's Snow Show" created by his long time friend Slava Polunin, Cirque du Soleil's show Alegria, was the co-founder of pantomime clowning theater "Puzyr", clown/mime theater "Litcedei". He has also performed in many more shows and circuses in over 70 countries. Nikolai was a professor of St. Petersburg’s Academy of Theater Arts. In 2007 Nikolai created the Booff Show, where he continuous to perform while being the artistic director of the show.
Themes in the show
The show consists of numerous acts that are based on the base characters. The acts include:
- The Door
- Blue Canary
- Simulation
- Host/Janitor story line
- Sports: Box, Marathon, Tennis
- Japanese Fishing
- Drunk Dance
- Restaurant
- Grave Diggers
- Mozart
- Opera Singer
- Brooms
- Execution
- Headless
The Cast of the Booff Show
Performers from the Solar Stage theater show seen in the Photo above are: Nikolay Terentiev, Arthur Kantemirov, Yan Krupnik, Tim Kachurov, Alina Krupnik, Sasha Totrov, Jack Sade, and Irina Filler.