Opus Magnum Konstantin Bogomolov

"Perfect husband" in the Moscow Art Theater blew the theater Moscow

In the role of Dorian Gray - Sergey Chonishvili

This performance was born before our eyes, all the way from the plan to the triumphal premiere Facebook users went along with its author Konstantin Bogomolov. Online online. About a month before the release, the director wrote on his page: “Some kind of opus magnum*. It’s even scary. ”

This feeling of sweet fear did not leave those who were in the first pre -premiere shows. From the texts of Oscar Wilde, Chekhov, Goethe, Sorokin, the verses of Verochka Polozkova, the thieves chanson and Soviet hits, Konstantin Bogomolov put his civilian manifesto, in which he violated all the conceivable and unthinkable taboos, which were stacked and approved by all layers of society - from lumpen to the elite. “With this performance,” the director shares in his diary, “I proved: on the main stage of the country you can work without an internal censor. And one more thing: freedom is you yourself. And no one but yourself will make you free. ”

"Capture" the homeland

The picture of the world and society, written by Konstantin Bogomolov, amazes with its murderous adequacy of what is happening in the country. He cleared his homeland like cabbage - tearing the petal behind the petal. To the very stump. Risking to be accused of blasphemy, slander, abuse of shrines, as well as in the propaganda of homosexuality, pedophilia, cruelty, violence and extremism. He is not afraid of anything. And with this reckless fearlessness, it infects the whole team, from monitorers to leadership, and the auditorium. The fact that his high disease is transmitted to others, the director noticed even during rehearsals, when Damir Ismagilov, one of the best artists in the world, commented on what was happening on the stage. “P-TC, P-TC, just P-TC,” Damir repeats, putting the light. “Well, well,” the director fixes laughing.

The current Russian elite is the main object of mockery. The formula “patriotism is the last refuge of the villain” the mantis develops Wilde: “Morality is the last refuge of people indifferent to art.” Wilde, a malicious and shameless violator of all generally accepted foundations, who had come to contemporaries with a lecher and sodomit, above all the acts in the world, who put art and love, - the best partner in the game in exposure Konstantin Bogomolov could not be found. They fell into each other like a knife in the oil.

The fall. Comedy

From London of the late XIX century, the action was transferred to Moscow in 2013. Titras flickered - Barvikha, Kremlin, Pushkin ...

Assistant Minister Sir Robert turned into Robert Ternov, Minister of Rubber Products (Alexei Kravchenko), and his friend Lord Goring - in the bisexual star of chanson. He is also the former killer Kondraty Mogil (the opening of the play is actor Igor Mirkurganov, who has some special magic of attraction), once burnt by female insidiousness, “switches” to men and builds his star career on homosexual relations with higher government officials and on patriotic corporations in the Kremlin palace. The wife of the Minister Ternova is the Kholenaya beauty Gertrude (luxurious Daria Moroz), winning all tenders for the production of "rubber crap". Gertrude 32 years (“32 years without love”), on her young body, tattoos in the form of patterns from the form of the Olympic team of Russia are glowing with a bloody color, she loves Erotic poems by Verochka Poluzkova and experiences an orgasm at the time of monetary revenues to her account.

The Mission Mission Chilivo (Marina Zudina)-a zombie woman, unknown and indestructible, blackmail the cloud of thorns with a video company about the homosexual joys of the minister. The supreme power is personified by a person without age and vices Dorian Gray (brilliant subtle work of Sergei Chonishvili) and a cute demon Archimandrite Artemy (Maxim Matveev), who holds a brothel for high -ranking pedophiles under the guise of a children's shelter and trades orphans under the accompaniment of Orthodox chants of his own composition. The characters of the “three sisters” act as the public gaskets between the “elite” and “cattle” - the regulars of glamorous taverns and beauty salons. The conditional three sisters (Svetlana Kolpakova, Yana Osipova and Nadezhda Borisova) with a terrible dialect and manners of the provincial Bl ***, with a breath, pronounce the Chekhov texts, and the Tuzenbach of Caucasian nationality, correcting black glasses and scratching indecently, goes to the duel, as for disassembly.

The asexual manner of Tommy Libachka (hilarious Pavel Vashchilin), wriggling in white smoke, performs Alla Pugacheva’s “iceberg”, smoke is replaced by snow, and snow-cocaine.

Dorian Gray, who received eternal youth, with disgust examines the rumpled faces of his compatriots in the auditorium, and then dancing the crazy waltz in an embrace with the archimandrite who turned to Mephistopheles, and the emperor’s golden crown sparkles on his head. The magnificent in his horror, this episode transfers the plot about eternal youth into the plot of eternal infallibility, to the degree of falls from where there is no way back. The conscience is chopped with Botox to the state of a sparkling gloss.

“God, that is, then he is not,” Dorian Gray says thoughtfully, going down mountains along the Sochi Olympic routes with his retinue. The wind whistles in the ears, scarves flutter with the patterns of Kusnirovich. There is the sun where we are. Only there the sun.

Dorian Gray will never die, he is immortal. It will provide the magnificent funeral of Kondraty to the grave and the Minister of rubber products: under a huge tricolor, both criminals and victims, and victims, along with their secret vices and indistinguishable repentance ... will be buried in almost the entire stage ...

The formula of success

They say that the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater Oleg Tabakov did not immediately make a decision on the release of the performance. When the performance on your scene begins with the words “Dad, you took Berlin, and your son took the Kremlin!”, And under the song “Snow goes”, the inscription “Snow is one of the names of cocaine” appears on the screen, when a half -naked actress hangs over the scene in the form of crucifixion, and on her forehead - a video surveillance camera offers to remove state reasons All homosexuals, here to think about it.

It seems that the decision was influenced by the public, which did not leave Tabakov the possibility of choosing. The spectators gathered for the first runs as for protesting: information about the upcoming scandalous sight was distributed on social networks at the speed of sound. Facebook made the first box office to the “ideal husband”: by now, tickets for tickets at the network ticket offices reach 14 thousand rubles with an initial figure of 7 thousand! There are no tickets for the nearest shows at the cash desk of the theater. The mouth, the main information agency of the Soviet era, has long migrated to the Internet - it was there that in these minutes the glory of the “ideal husband” boils. No one reads reviews in the newspapers, but everyone reads each other. They argue to hoarseness, share their own interpretations, curse Bogomolov, deify Bogomolov ... Perhaps, for the first time since the time of Soviet Taganka, we observe such a stir around one theater performance. And this means that the time has come for a new truth in art - not the one that is allowed, but the one that does not obey anyone.

From the diary of Konstantin Bogomolov
“She want to say. My spectus cannot be accused of propaganda of homosexuality. In my play homosexuals are very bad heroes. Negative. Then. A naked teenager lying in a bath with his father is oriented heterosexual. And even very much. And he discusses with his father exactly his love for a woman. Next. About the feelings of believers. The priest is obviously not Orthodox. I still do not understand what denomination his robe can be attributed to, but it is closer to the Catholic canon. That is, there is a struggle for traditional values ​​and exposure of missionaryism. Finally, the fight against corruption is the direct demand of our president. And we fulfill it. Yes. And the last. Under the snow, this refers to snow. And only snow. "

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