Two -headed Berlyusputin

In the theater. DOC took place the first open reading of the play of the Italian playwright, the Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fer “Berlusputin” (2003). The satire on Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin in Italy is placed under the name “Two -headed anomaly” ( L'Anomalo biceFalo).

Ca received the Nobel Prize in Literature For the fact that "in the spirit of medieval jesters, power is beating and defending the interests of the oppressed." He has fifty performances in the Commedia Dell'arte genre, political satire, grotesque, buffoonery . According to Dario For, the state froze the cultural life of Italy, and “ because of censorship, self-censorship was bred among writers and playwrights. The government decides what programs should be on television. Everything is in the hands of Berlusconi today. Italy plunged into spiritual psychosis, ”said the playwright at the Copenhagen National Museum.

Officially, censorship in Italy, as in Russia, is not. However, this does not prevent the government from controlling the main information flow: Berlusconi owns three private television channels and, being the Prime Minister, controls three state ones. That is, it is almost impossible to come to television with acute political satire. And if you take into account that only 5% of Italians, according to Dario Fer, read newspapers, half of which adhere to the right orientation, the picture becomes even more joyless.

“ Dario F and his wife Franca Rama has his own theater, no one can prohibit them officially. But sites They don’t have their own, so they play strangers. And although the “two -headed anomaly” was not prohibited, the obstacles to be played in the theater, of course, were put, ”said the director of the Russian performance by Varvara Faer.

The tour of this play took place in 40 countries. In his native Italy, the “two-headed anomaly” had to be set somewhere in the backyards-all large, reputable theaters, says Varvara Faer, refused to provide a scene.

“If you dig deeper, then everything is much more interesting there,” says Varvara Faer. “A certain politician de Utry, who is mentioned in the Italian version of the performance, demanded from Dario FO compensation for a million euros for insults, claiming that Ca went beyond satire.”

The video of the performance agreed to show only the small, poor Atlantide channel . TV . But here it was not without excesses: the broadcast passed without sound.

Dario Ca himself took a shutdown of sound As a violation of his rights and wanted to sue. After that, information began to appear in the newspapers that the performance would be shown with sound. The playwright decided that this was not a fear of the court, but a purely political decision. With subsequent full -fledged shows, the press wrote that Dario Caus defeated censorship.

“The first shows of the play to the question of who was less disgusting to him-Putin or Berlusconi, Dario F. replied that he still liked Berlusconi more, because he very much gave him a play in Italy, but that it can be shown in Russia, he is very doubtful .”

Nevertheless, theater.doc is going to do this. As part of the reading, only the first action was presented so far.

The play is being translated by Paolo Cargo and Svetlana Belova. The case is not limited to the actual translation, it is necessary to adapt the text to Russian realities. Svetlana explained: “We were looking for analogies from Putin. Still, Dario Fer was guided by Berlusconi, and Putin is a secondary character for him. We have the opposite. ”

The heroes of the play - two friends, Silvio and Volodya, relax on the villa of the first: they go to the kimono, engage in karate, sleep on the bed, which Putin once gave Berlusconi. Suddenly the bandits attack them: they shoot the Prime Minister Silvio and the then President of Russia Putin, falling into their heads. Putin manages to save, secretly transplanting him one of the hemispheres of the Berlusconi brain. This is where the most interesting thing happens. The saved Putin returns to Russia, but begins to suffer from a split personality and remembers almost nothing. He often moves from Russian to Italian, scaring his wife Lyudmila. She, in turn, tells Putin about his life before the incident in the villa: how, due to the fault, the premiere is flowing from the pension fund, officials are rich in and the people are begging. Vladimir Vladimirovich does not remember anything and only says: "I did all this?"

The director of Berlusputin believes that Dario Fe asked this performance as this performance: if minus is dried by minus, can a plus turn out?

There are several plans in the play. The first: the incident on the villa and dialogue between Putin and Lyudmila, the second is a test for the role of Lyudmila Putin in the filming pavilion. Actors are director (Sergey Epishev) and actress (Evdokia Germanova). The director makes a film ridicurating Putin’s policy and his personal life. The actress wants to stop shooting several times, but still continues to play for the advance payment.

Play the prime minister’s wife can be unsafe: in the play by Lyudmila Putin - a nondescript, unfortunate woman who puts her family life on a show in ill -owned colors. At the selection of actors for Berlusputin, two people refused roles, and representatives of the Italian embassy visited open readers.

“As for the problems with the government or with unofficial censorship ... Let's put it, we will invite Dario For to visit, and then we will see whether there will be problems or not,” says Faer.

On the stage of the theater. DOC is a lot of ironic and caustic replicas about the situation in Russia. But not everyone is interested in watching such a political satire: “I am not interested in Putin. And Berlusconi, to be honest, too. But I would look at the poisonous spiders, ”said one of the viewers.

Poisonous spiders should appear in the second action. The audience will most likely be able to see the full production in the fall. The director explains: “It is unlikely that the production is possible in some other theater, since theater.doc is a free space that is distinguished by its fearlessness regarding relevant topics. Unfortunately, there are no analogues yet. Perhaps the theater itself will be released with this performance to a larger platform. The structure of the play (written in the best traditions of the field theater) provides for a thousandth audience. ”

Since theater. DOC is a private theater, it determines the repertoire himself. But in order to influence his work, there are indirect methods such as firefighters, sanitary-epidemiological service or unexpected telephone “mining” of the building on the premiere evening.

Performances comparable to Berlusputin, in terms of severity, are touring in Moscow in clubs. The Hindka Roman group shows “Office Permanation” - in one of the parts of which Putin is ridiculed. The theater named after Joseph Boyce organized acting readers of the transcript of Putin's meetings with cultural figures.

It is difficult to predict whether the director and actors of Berlusputin will have problems with the authorities. Before that, it seems that there was no precedent in the theater sphere. Perhaps politicians will prefer not to pay attention and react to this as harmless mosquito bites.