NET is supposed to decipher the abbreviation as New European Theater ("New European Theater"), but it also heard the Russian decisive "no" and the English meaning "network". Having spread the network throughout Europe, the organizers of the festival that for a year give the Moscow public all the fish caught in this way. NET is the festival poor, but the fish is very pleasant to taste. It was the “Netovites” (the comrade -in -chief of the festival - Marina Davydova and Roman Dolzhansky) at one time brought to people of few people then the famous Evgeny Grishkovts with his play “How I ate the Dog”. From Lithuania, they brought to us the performances of Oscaras Korshunovas, from Poland - Grzegozha Yazhin, from Ukraine - Andriy Zholdak. All of the listed directors are not at all like each other, but belong to about the same generation (between thirty and forty) and walk about one direction. In the poster of this year, there are a lot of people who are familiar to the non -voltage public at the same festivals: in addition to today's Naja, on the stage of the Meyerhold Center will show the new work of Oscaras Korshunovas "Romeo and Juliet", the last novelty of the St. Petersburg theater Ahe "Mr. Karmen", the performance of Viktor Ryzhakov based "Genesis No. 2", as well as the Hungarian "Seagull", which is praised by everyone who saw. But the main joy of the festival, wealthy only thanks to the support of the Goethe-Institute, will be the arrival of the German director Thomas Ostermayer. The leader of the Berlin Theater "Shaubune Amber Leniner Plack" today is the largest, most interesting figure in theatrical Germany; The Moscow public, which is kept in the know of all European innovations, has not yet seen any work of Ostermaeer for inexplicable reason. NET will help to make up for this gap: at the stage of the Mossovet Theater, at the end of the festival, as many as two performances of Shaubune - Nora and the Concert on Applications will play. If you want to understand what the new European theater is, you must watch.
11/30/2004 / Gleb Sitkovsky