There will be no epitaph

Personal resistance of actor Alexei Devotchenko

There will be no epitaph. Alexey Devotchenko, in the monoscope of the “Waltz of Farewell”, blocked Putin's present with the Brezhnev past. The actor placed accents without coordination with the Kremlin ideologists

The comparison of the current leader with the browing Secretary General did not cause laughter for long. Now we were officially reported to us: we are returning to stagnation, which is called stability. And Brezhnev from this moment is not a rotten stump of decay and decay, but a brave leader with a huge fat plus. So we told us the mustachioed batman Pahan. Excuse me, a press secretary of the future president. From its presentation, a new mythology of Brezhnevism is created: it was good, calm, amicably, proudly and full.

The time machine , as if in response to these Kremlin river, Alexei Devotchenko, plays a new monoscope (director Vladimir Michelson) “Waltz goodbye” with the early verses of Joseph Brodsky, with fragments of the texts of Solzhenitsyn, Bukovsky and Khodorkovsky. “Farewell to goodbye” is an opportunity to carry time by car of the “beautiful era” by car. This invitation to recall for those who were there, and “please” the discoveries of those who happened to be born later.

A cot, a coil tape recorder, a cloak on a naked body, a crumpled “slap” in a pocket, the newspaper “Pravda” ... Time ticks loudly, counting us back- into the world of communal

Lock, Pervomaev, Congresses of the CPSU, white bows and pink balls, into the world of faded cloves and swollen drunkenness, into the world of endless lines and great construction, into the world of sonorous dreams and broken destinies.

The Brodsky that lies, wrapped in a bright cloak in an empty room, crossing his hands on his chest and not taking out cigarettes from his lips, is still so far from his Nobel glory, from black tuxedo and perfect English. “Do not leave the room” sounds like a spell, like a prayer. Do not see, do not know, do not touch. But the ears include the meaningless muttering of the announcer, reporting on the discovery of the next Kremlin gathering, a frenzy smacking of the Secretary General, drowning in applause, applause, applause ... The hero Devotchenko listens to this meaningless radioobred with a grin. The hall laughs with joyful recognition. This is our soundtrack - an era passed under it.

Each survivor has its own experience in survival and confrontation. Your experience in preserving speech during the times of total non -metabolic. Your way to find breathing, find that saving oxygen in order to breathe in it with full chest. Do not suffocate, do not mean, do not go crazy, not to become a cattle that is leading to slaughter.

Alexey Devotchenko shares his personal experience of resistance, and the lines rushing into the sky at some point cease to be text about the hawk, and they themselves become a hawk that take us to a dizzying height. These are not learned poems, this is a rebellion, a crushing rebellion of human consciousness, a riot of an unbearable personality.

Mono -performance Devotchenko is a personal experience of resistance, a riot of an unbearable personality in the region of neutralized biographies The fact of survival cannot be an accident. Brodsky and Devotchenko unfold before us the sad album of the fate that had not happened: the entire “School Anthology” cycle consists of all of them. Living portraits of time are classmates who have come down from school photographs that arise in light glare memory with all their romantic dreams. Dreams and broken into blood, boredom, into the void with lives. The ironic and bitter truth of a whole generation of stagnation opens before us to the sounds of a school waltz and the rustling of grave carnations - the only available colors that fell with broken clusters for both weddings and a funeral.

But it is too early to write epitaphs to the era. The Brezhnev slide appears through the parchment of time with swamp spots, and now the already forgotten radio wakes the room with familiar Putin intonations and, like a hackneyed plate, repeats everything and repeats the next imperial mantra. Time was looped.

The map of everyday life is the uniqueness of Alexei Devotchenko is that he himself lives as he declares from the stage. Each of its performance is extremely journalistic, as close as possible to the reality of today. “Actualization of sensory ideas” - this process for the artist has long become decisive in the profession. Refusing of his own free will of pure art, he takes Pushkin, Brodsky, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Sasha Black and ruthlessly shreds the “Map of the Budny”. It is impossible to resist this intellectual pressure - and what's the point?

Moreover, it will definitely be a way out, it is important not to let yourself be deceived, it is important to preserve your speech, to find your own language of resistance.

The “Valt of Farewell” does not just send us in yesterday, he demonstrates all the absurdity and farce of the current era, as if choosing familiar melodies on a hopelessly upset, rattling tool.

There are other Devotchenko plays “Waltz goodbye” in the premises of the small theater hall inside the “Atrium” on Kursk. The Children's Theater "Courage" provided him with this opportunity for free, by love. The tearful audience wanders stunned by a passionate confession after the performance through the flickering glossy trade hell, they go into the buzzing blackness of the station square. "Not everything is carried away by the wind, not all the broom, taking widely in the yard, will pick up ..."

Two days after the performance, Alexei Devotchenko put his signature under the next appeal: “We, the lower signature, did not authorize and do not authorize the“ Putinists ”from the culture to sing A posture to the existing regime. But we do not blame them. In the end, this is their personal moral choice and their civic position. In our appeal, we only consider our duty to say that among those who attribute themselves to the creative intelligentsia, there are others. Those for whom the existing regime is deeply vicious, immoral and unacceptable. ”