Moscow poster, October 16-22

Theater

"Uydi-uydi" by Nikolai Kolyada, directed by Nikolai Kolyada

In what other theater, besides Sovremennik, are playwrights loved as devotedly and tenderly as God grant them to be loved by others? Where else will they, the poor fellows, experiencing cruel torment from the chronic misunderstanding of the directors, be allowed to take on the production themselves? Nowhere. Only Galina Borisovna Volchek, a kind-hearted person, is ready to do this. At first, Alexander Galin was generously allowed to retrain as a director here, and he managed to stage two of his plays at Sovremennik - “Anomaly” and “Accompanist”. And this season it was the turn of another contemporary favorite - Nikolai Kolyada. The play by the Yekaterinburg singer of Russian chernukha is called “Go away, go away.” The action develops in a small provincial town, from which every normal person just wants to leave. Allusions to Chekhov's "Three Sisters" are skillfully introduced into the context of the play. Only in Kolyada the heroine (Elena Yakovleva) with all her soul rushes from the soldier’s garrison not to Moscow, like the Prozorov sisters, but to the Krasnodar region. There, in the bright and warm distance, the moth-eaten adventurer Valentin, played by Valentin Gaft, beckons her. The music plays so cheerfully, so cheerfully... With the march “Farewell of the Slavic Woman,” Nikolai Kolyada puts an end to his performance.

Sovremennik Theater, October 18.

"Marat and the Marquis de Sade" by Peter Weiss, director - Yuri Lyubimov

The Taganka Theater opens its season in Moscow almost later than everyone else, and Yuri Lyubimov’s play “Marat and the Marquis de Sade” (the full title of the play by Peter Weiss requires patience when reading - “The Persecution and Murder of Jean Paul Marat, enacted by the inhabitants of an insane asylum in Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade") have not played in Moscow for God knows how long. It is now customary to speak with some skepticism about the directorial power of 83-year-old Yuri Lyubimov, but “Marat - Sade,” staged two years ago, allows us to see the true scale of the talent of the creator and director of Taganka. The performance, unfortunately, was not noticed by the expert council of the Golden Mask festival, but it went to the Avignon Festival this summer, which in itself is a huge honor. In this madhouse, located on the small stage of Taganka, you will be greeted like family. Yuri Petrovich himself often directs the seating of the audience, saying something like: “All of Russia is a big mental hospital.” This will be followed by a continuous and stunning two-hour attack not only on your souls, but also on your ears. Everything that is capable of sound sounds: an ungreased hospital grate falling down like a guillotine; saxophone by Sergei Letov; the voices of the soloists of Dmitry Pokrovsky’s ensemble and, finally, just the toes and heels of Lyubimov’s young actors, intently performing a professional step.

Taganka Theater, Small Stage, October 17, starts at 21:30.

Music

"Eugene Onegin" by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, director √ Boris Pokrovsky

The Bolshoi Theater releases the premiere. However, the play “Eugene Onegin” is already more than half a century old - Boris Pokrovsky is restoring his own very old production in the scenery of Peter Williams. Kozlovsky and Lemeshev once sang in it, and now Nikolai Baskov will sing Lensky. The production was started under the previous management: we will understand by the end of the season what the new Bolshoi Theater is, where Gennady Rozhdestvensky has come.

Bolshoi Theatre, October 18, 20, 22.

Exhibitions

For artistic impressions, it’s better to go to St. Petersburg; even though it’s thirty years late, something like an Andy Warhol exhibition is happening there. In Moscow, it’s all about the little things. Truly exquisite. The Tretyakov Gallery has opened two exhibitions of those who are called a “good artist,” which in Soviet times meant “a person not engaged by the authorities, thinking only about his profession, engaged in art.” Evgeniy Teis - graphic artist, etching master, student of Favorsky. Mikhail Matorin is a painter, plastic artist, who once belonged to the “Jack of Diamonds”. Both received a good art school, had talents, lived great lives, and created personal systems. Both provide food for the eye of a sophisticated lover of fine art, who is not looking for scandals of contemporary art and disdains spectacular exhibitions. Another viewer risks getting bored.

Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, from October 17.

Pushkinsky also entered the season rather slowly. The exhibition with the pretentious name "Russia on the Road" shows a Russian putt (that is, travel) icon. The spectacle is also for connoisseurs and amateurs. Or a collector - small cast icons and folding icons were once fashionable to collect, and even now they are briskly sold in antique shops. Having looked at the real rarities from the collection of Count Stroganov and the decent collection of the sculptor Burganov, you can be glad that you never bought anything in these shops.

Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, until November 19.

Prepared by Gleb Sitkovsky, Pyotr Pospelov, Olga Kabanova