How do you like it?

What is worth watching in December

The scene from the play by Dmitry Krymov “How you like it” based on Shakespeare's play “A Summer Night Dream”

Theatrical December is an overture for future changes.

Performances that should be watched on the Moscow stage

Last December, folk protest festivals became the most striking and passionate theater plot. As if all the spectators of theaters and cinemas left the auditoriums overnight and escaped a noisy festive crowd on the streets of the city. The artists and directors escorted their viewers with puzzled glances, and some even joined the protesting crowd, without washing the makeup and without taking off the theatrical costumes.

By this December, an artistic protest, the artistic challenge became the main trend of the season. Theaters, as if waking up from a magical sleep, burst into public life with their artistic manifestos, creative debates and serious ambitions: let me, as if they scream, we also have something to say!

Comrade Oleg

One of the main events of this December and
From the main expectations of the year, of course, the opening of the new season at the Ermolova Theater is certainly. In fact, this is the discovery of the new history of the theater, the author and inspirer of which was Oleg Menshikov recently appointed by Khudruk. The folk idol had long been in creative throwings, long tried himself in directing, staged several performances in his “Partnership 814”, gathered a good stray troupe there.

Judging by the December poster, the basis of the new Yermolovsky repertoire will be the hits tested by the public and time, collected by the new artistic director from different pieces of their life: “Players” (director Oleg Menshikov, 2001), “1900” (director and performer Oleg Menshikov, 2008), “Dream Orchestra. Copper ”(director and performer Oleg Menshikov with an orchestra, 2011),“ Everywhere Life ”(Entreprise Yegor Druzhinin, 2011),“ Odessa 913 ”(production company Leonid Roberman). All these productions from different periods of time are united by one circumstance - commercial success. And who will say that this is a drawback?

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Theaters burst into public life with their artistic manifestos and serious ambitions: let me, we also have something to say!

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The first real premiere will be the “largest little drama” (December 9) in the production of Rodion Ovchinnikov with the participation of the former chief director of the theater, and now his honorary president Vladimir Andreev and the Gaft invited to his partners. The play based on Chekhov’s one -butt “Swan Song” (based on his own story “Kalhas”) was written by the director himself, and it is dedicated to the theater. Theater as a service. The dialogues of the old actor and the old souffler are very convenient for any benefit, since the heroes lose to the audience all their played and unsuccessful roles. Once the Swan Song was brilliantly performed by Oleg Borisov in a duet with his brother Leo. A similar performance was also on the stage of the theater of Ermolova himself - the legendary “costumer” with the participation of Vsevolod Yakut as an old artist and the incomparable Zinovia Gerdt in the role of his costume. For the theater, not spoiled by theatrical hits, the “costumer” was a real masterpiece.

The second premiere - the play “Gentiles” - will be presented in December Evgeny Kamenkovich. The play was written by the young playwright and poet Anna Yablonskaya, who is no longer alive - in January 2011, a terrorist attack at the Domodedovo airport cut off the life of a young beautiful woman who then flew from Odessa to award the Award of the Fine Arts. Yablonskaya received the prize for "pagans" posthumously. “Gentiles” is a terrible, explosive and frighteningly relevant thing. When Anna wrote this text, the discussions about the impending clericalization of society were just beginning, there was neither church censorship, nor the Pussy Riot group, nor the Orthodox squads, nor the lessons of Orthodoxy in schools ... Today Anna Yablonskaya, whether she was alive, Kiselev (which VGTRK) would be recorded together together in the ranks of the blasphemy. “Gentiles” is a drama about the end of faith, about religious fanaticism, bordering on fascism, about hypocrisy and inhumanity of any fanatical idea, no matter how noble it is. The premiere was announced on December 15th.

Mayakovka. Renaissance

Another theater, rising from the ruins, is them. Mayakovsky, who celebrates his 90th anniversary this season. The theater survived a grand repair, completely updated and now, under the leadership of Mindaugas, Karbauskis, cleans its “chakras” with high classics, and clogged vessels - young fresh blood. The main events of the lighthouse are unfolding on a small stage: here they play a new young drama, experiment with the old, come up with collective plots and new theatrical forms, assert themselves without any constraint and open amazing talents. Everything that happens on the small stage of the theater resembles the end of the 80s in the atmosphere when we did not know the words “New Drama”, and Petrushevskaya was already prohibited.

Krymov has already played his joke in Shakespeare's homeland. There everyone was stunned by how the Russian director with the English god is playing

Sasha Denisova, the playwright and director, invented the strange performance “Mayakovsky goes to sugar”, in which she tried to connect the poet from the school curriculum with the daily life of his current peers. To the anniversary of the theater, Sasha prepared a one -time performance in the wardrobe (literally) dedicated to the glorious path of the famous team. Meyerhold, Popov, Okhlopkov, Goncharov - all these museum characters in Sashin imagination turned into living furious people who drove their fates, like nails in the palm of the history of the theater. “Nine Punch” - the performance of Sasha Denisova, who has been part of the repertoire of the Mayakovsky Theater (December 23, 29) since December, was called.

Genius, son of geniuses

The School of Dramatic Arts still lives without the protagonist-director Anatoly Vasiliev still teaches directing in France-but with his heroic blessing. Hedliner December - Dmitry Krymov, artist and director, son of Anatoly Efros and Natalia Krymova. Looking at him, nature was simply fucked up: such an plexus of talent, humor, fearlessness, fantasies in one person, she clearly did not expect. Everything that Krymov does in his “laboratory”, which has become a part of the “School of Dramatic Art”, is an ordinary miracle that escaped for flags: Krymov’s performances not only correspond to any theater school and any theatrical laws - they are all contrary to these laws! Each of his work is a protest against inertness, norms, banality and primitive, against boring and vulgarity, against the dictate of unanimity, against fear, against the triumph of the majority, finally.

The premiere of the season - “How do you like it” based on Shakespeare's play “Summer Night” (13, 14). This is a joke that Krymov has already played in the author’s homeland, and there everyone was stunned by how easily, playfully and Panibratic, a Russian director with the English god turns. Krymov never puts plays - these are variations on the topic of plays, on the topic of authors. Krymov turned the comedy, which was invented by the heroes of “sleep on a summer night” under the influence of magic drops, into an absolute all -converging absurdity, from which no one was allowed to evade. “You are all for him,” the director says laughing and pulls you by the hare ear directly to the light, under the spotlight.

During December, the “School of Dramatic Art” can be seen by Dmitry Krymov’s best performances: “Demon. View from above ”(25, 30),“ Katya, Sonya, Fields, Galya ... ”(26),“ Tararabombia ”(27, 28, 29),“ Death of Giraffe ”(11),“ Sir Vantes. Donky hot ”(19).

Photo: N. Cheban