Fantastic Mr Fox
· Recht Boomssloot 52, 1011 EC Amsterdam
Theater
Upcoming performances
A Fairytale About People Like Thumbelina
· Sajetplein 39 1091 DB Amsterdam
The Nutcracker
· Nieuwe Achtergracht 170, 1018 WV Amsterdam
The Nutcracker
· Sajetplein 39, 1091 GC Amsterdam
The Nutcracker
· Sajetplein 39 1091 DB Amsterdam, Sajetplein 39 1091 DB Amsterdam
The Nutcracker
· Kruisstraat 201, 3581 GK Utrecht
The Nutcracker
· Nieuwe Achtergracht 170, 1018 WV Amsterdam
The Nutcracker
· Hobbemastraat 120 2526JS Den Haag
Team
Founder of the theater
Anastasiia Pavlina
Founder · Artistic director · Stage director
Anastasiia Pavlina is the founder of the international theater Art Code, a stage director, actress and singer. More than 20 years on stage. Art Code was created as a space where each person's cultural code becomes part of shared creativity — where different stories, languages and traditions come together to create something beautiful.
Actors
Eva Politakis
Actress
Eva Politakis is a young actress born and raised in Amsterdam, with a degree from a UK drama school in Spain, now bringing her talents to the stage in a Russian theater group. Thanks to her neverending curiosity, she finds in each project an opportunity to grow.
Nick Vitsinsky
Actor · Improv teacher
Nick Vitsinsky is an actor with the Kharmelin theater «S ulitsy Roz» in Chișinău, Moldova — Lord of the Flies, Bonjour Monsieur Perrault. He also performs stand-up and improv comedy.
Elena Abramenkova
Actress
A theater and film actress, model and special-needs educator. Her love of acting has grown since childhood; sensitivity and a childlike openness help her feel her characters and stay honest with the audience, conveying everything her inner world holds.
Natalia Chernysheva
Actress
An actress without formal acting training — always at once afraid of being on stage and longing for it. She has taken part in amateur productions and concerts and performed stand-up. Happy to be part of Art Code.
Olga Kuznetsova
Actress
An actress for whom theater is above all a way to give the audience emotions that stay with them after the show. “If after a performance someone says they were moved to tears, all the hours of rehearsal were worth it.” Olga performs in Russian-language productions and is growing into Dutch- and English-language theater; beyond the stage she appears in Dutch films, series, TV shows and commercials.
Olga Senchishina
Actress
For me, theater is a place where you can be yourself while becoming someone else. It is a chance to live many lives, to feel more deeply and to be amazed, every time anew, by the power of human stories.
Kirill Uvarov
Actor · Assistant director
Professionally trained in theater, Kirill has worked on stage for many years as an actor and takes part in creating performances and theater projects — from the idea and the staging process to organisation and meeting the audience. For him, theater is not only the stage and the roles: it is a space to explore the human being, to speak about complex things in simple language, to experiment and to create living contact between people. That is the theater he is excited to make at Art Code — modern, open and unafraid to step beyond familiar forms.
Daniela Mudreac
Actress
A graduate of the Moscow Art Theatre School, she is a multilingual theatre and film actress with extensive international experience, having performed in numerous countries and languages. She is passionate about the art of storytelling and continues to follow her lifelong connection to acting, exploring characters with authenticity, sensitivity and a genuine curiosity for the human experience.
Olga Bulychev
Rehearsal director · Actress
Olga Bulychev. A professional actress with experience in theater and film. I worked in a theater with a mixed company that performed in English. I have experience as a rehearsal director. I teach online courses in charismatic speech. Awards: the Golden Calf at the film festival in Utrecht. A Special Jury Prize from the American Film Academy in Miami. And from me… With the years, with practice and with my innate curiosity, I fall more and more in love with my profession! I find exploring, listening and sharing very interesting and useful!
Madlen
Actress
Theater is a mirror of the soul, a place where one can glimpse many facets of human existence, experiment, and try out different things… It helps to distinguish what is truly one’s own from what is alien, the authentic from the superficial. For me, acting is a means of self-discovery and self-expression, and I am glad to be part of the "Art-Code Theater" community.
Crew
Dmitry Anosov
Lighting and sound engineer
A sound engineer and lighting designer. “I believe the audience's emotions are made not only of the actors' performance, but of subtle details — the play of shadows, the right pause and clean sound. I am happy to create this atmosphere together with the theater.”
Sofia Tolmacheva
Set decorator
“I love the process itself — watching something real gradually emerge from ordinary materials. And the most wonderful part is seeing the finished set on stage and knowing a piece of your work lives in it.” For Sofia, theater became a way to try a new direction, learn what she couldn't do before, and be part of a big creative process where everyone contributes to the show.
All performances
A performance for your school, company or community
Would you like to organise a private showing especially for your audience?
We can bring a performance to your venue, or stage it in a rented theater hall chosen specifically for the format of your event.
It can be a school event, a cultural programme, a family celebration, a private showing for a company or a community gathering.
We will help you choose the right performance and format for your particular audience.
To discuss a showing, just write to us by email or in any messenger you prefer.
Past performances
The Little Prince
4+ · русский / English / Nederlands
A multimedia production based on the work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
The story of the Little Prince unfolds not only as a fairy-tale journey between planets, but as a path of growing up. The hero faces loneliness, friendship, love, responsibility and the need to understand himself.
Through the images of the book you can also read Exupéry's own experiences — his thoughts on closeness, loss and human relationships.
Our “Little Prince” is a performance about sincere love, true friendship and the inner growth that sometimes takes a very long road. About the most important thing — which, as we know, cannot be seen with the eyes.
Within this project we collaborate with our partners at Vincent Hall — most showings of “The Little Prince” take place at the Vincent Hall venue.
Rabbit’s Birthday, or the Improbable Story of the Hedgehog and His Friends
4+ · Russian only
Another meeting with the heroes of Sergey Kozlov's fairy tales — but this time the action moves to a bright, warm, blossoming summer forest.
It's Rabbit's birthday, and the whole forest is trying to decide what unusual gift to prepare for him. In the end, the friends decide to write a real book.
But it can't be created without the audience.
Together with the heroes, children invent stories, characters and unexpected plot twists, travelling to where imagination has no limits — even to the mysterious land of Mili Telemilitariandia.
An interactive summer performance about friendship, imagination and the joy of creating a story all together.
Raccoon Up High
Interactive literary reading performance
2+ · Russian only
An interactive literary reading performance based on Artyom Golikov's book “Raccoon Up High”.
Short, funny and fast-moving stories for the very youngest audiences — roughly from 2 to 6–7 years old. The main character is a restless little Raccoon who is always exploring something, getting into unexpected situations and turning the most ordinary events into real adventures.
This is more than an actor's reading. Between the stories, children become participants in the performance: they draw, play, do funny tasks, “twirl spaghetti” onto a fork, knock, whistle, squeal and help bring it all to life.
Performed by Anastasia Pavlina.
Stories of the Hedgehog and His Friends
4+ · Russian only
A winter production based on the fairy tales of Sergey Kozlov, filled with cosiness, warmth and the atmosphere of the childhood parents remember so well — and want to pass on to their own children.
There is a snow-covered forest, wonders, true friendship, Hedgehog's house, tea from the samovar and quiet conversations about what matters most.
It is a story where winter itself turns into a fairy tale, and the images familiar to grown-ups become children's own new memories.
Monologue of a Woman
Mono-opera
16+ · Russian only
Mikael Tariverdiev's mono-opera on Robert Rozhdestvensky's poem “The Waiting (Monologue of a Woman)”.
The heroine arrives for a date 32 minutes early. On the outside, only half an hour passes — but inside her, a whole emotional story unfolds: confidence gives way to anxiety, tenderness to irritation, hope to despair.
An intimate story about love, vulnerability and the enormous range of feelings that can fit into just a few minutes of waiting.
Performed by Anastasia Pavlina.
Oscar and the Pink Lady
Solo performance
16+ · Russian only
A solo performance based on the work of Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt.
Ten-year-old Oscar has twelve days left to live. The Pink Lady suggests he imagine that each of those days is ten years of a human life.
And so, in twelve days, the boy lives an entire lifetime: he grows up, falls in love, asks difficult questions, learns to forgive and to love — and, little by little, stops being afraid.
An intimate, piercing performance about the value of life, faith, love and the ability to live every day truly fully.
Performed by Anastasia Pavlina.