They are returning

The reincarnation of the “Poet Citizen” is coming on the Rain Channel under the new name

Andrey Vasiliev, Mikhail Efremov and Dmitry Bykov continue to hooligate

A year ago, on March 5, 2012, on the next anniversary of the death of the leader beloved by the people, he went into oblivion and “citizen poet”. The funeral was magnificent - the mourning evening “to the death of the project” ended with a monologue of the mustachioed Generalissimo pipe (Mikhail Efremov), who thoughtfully said with a recognizable accent: “Your project is dead today, and mine is on the contrary.” The authors looked into the water - the Stalinist seed over the past year has grown up and sighed around the country with fat hairy ears, the country and society rushed with a joyful gikan directly into the arms of a familiar sweaty dictatorship. The year has passed. And exactly, by the 60th anniversary of the Stalinist immortality, the participants of the “citizen” united in the new “Newsik”-“Mr. Good”. The premiere of the artistic and political satirical almanac should be about to run on the rain. On the same "rain" from which they once began.

There is no death

Andrei Vasiliev, Dmitry Bykov and Mikhail Efremov, announcing the sudden death of the “poet’s citizen”, as many were supposed to endure their absence in the creative field for a long time. Looks like the nerves could not stand it, looking at what “what is going on with the homeland and with us”. On the one hand, the Radishchevsky syndrome did not give rest (“I looked in the neighborhood of me - my soul was wounded by the suffering of mankind”), and on the other - “toad strangled” to abandon the chicken that carries golden eggs. It is no secret that, in the complete absence of political satire, the intellectual hooliganism of heroes enjoyed a frantic success. Almost stadiums gathered at the “Citizen” concerts, many jealous citizens even reproached the participants with their cynical speeches at the most expensive venues in the capital.

Barvikha was bored and demanded a continuation. Dmitry Bykov’s poetic comments regularly appeared on the pages of Novaya Gazeta, and in the author’s design on the air of the Kommersant radio. Mikhail Efremov, as a reader, flew from a corporate party to a corporate party - he could be found at celebrations and friendly gatherings. A little more-and opened by Andrei Vasiliev such a successful and such win-win genre would begin his independent life, turning into thousands of small homegrown amateur “citizens”. And then six months after the declared death flashed "Mr. Good."

The new project has overgrown people and headings. Starting in the fall, he drives around Russia, maintaining the fire of cheerful resistance in the country devoid of air and light. They spoke!

Mikhail Efremov performs "shameful ditties"

The sequel is from the creators

“Mr. is good. Gotta fights ” - under the name in October 2012, the presentation of the new Newsist was held at the same hated honest inhabitants of Barvihi's Luxori Villidge. The poster on an expensive fence beckoned: "From the creators of the poet citizen!"

“Mr. Good” rolled around the country's sites in concert performance, checking and changing new ideas on the move, actively including spectators, video and musical numbers in the dramatic canvas.

“Petya multi -instrumentalist” was added to the group of citizens, assuring the audience that he plays on all musical instruments - from the pipe and guitar to the piano and the accordion. The project abandoned monologue and literary parody: now Bykov is increasingly being built into the size of other people's poems - only his own. Free, arrogant, controversial - but his own.

The headings appeared on the screen, which were born, modified or died depending on the reaction of the public: “Sob-Shayka” (compassionate songs from “Sergey Beznosov” were renamed “Christ-Radina”), “Rapka” (later renamed “Basics of Vasya Oblomova”), “shameful ditties” (performed by Mikhail Efremov in the case. The red rooster for the accompaniment of the three-line, ditties are composed on the go along with the audience), “Respondents”-another form of joint with the hall of creativity), “Amoral” and “Fla-Major”, “Nari-Schuka” (Video Commick, Cartoon-Riddle). In such a dense information regime, the inexhaustible Bykov needed help, and she came in the guise of another poetic commentator of the era - Andrei Orlov (Orlushi). Orlusha is a windy man, campaigned for Putin yesterday, today bravely joined the ranks of stylistic disagreements.

Producer Andrei Vasiliev himself took over the function of an experienced entertainer and, swallowing inevitable matules, swinging the audience, involving it in a political discussion, distributing roles, turning the audience into authors and participants. And of course, the unchanged branded Bykovsky impromptu: a poetic attraction in which anyone can order a topic to the poet, and the poet at the end of the evening will give out a fresh, impeccable product and accuracy - even now in a seal.

Citizen protest

A year ago, after the closure of the “Poet Citizen”, Vera Krichevskaya shot about him the documentary film “Citizen Poet. The run of the year. " The history of the creation of a “citizen” was told by both the participants themselves and their mothers. The recklessness and some drunken courage of the star trinity was reflected in the eyes of the generation of their parents with a genetic fear, fear of fathers to children. Vera Krichevskaya very accurately guessed the main meaning of the existence of this strange bizarre game on the verge of a foul: the moment when a citizen poet turned into civilian resistance and a protestic citizen launched through the streets and squares, armed with white ribbons.

The return of the “citizen” takes place where in more difficult conditions: against the backdrop of ongoing arrests, searches, prohibitions and threats. Today it is impossible. And a cheerful gambling theater, carelessly injected into the TV that has survived the miraculously, is now not shining a TEFI prize, nor participation in the concert program of the Sochi Olympics, nor the star of the hero of labor. Unless the "two -legged". Well, take a chance.

“Citizen Poet” was published in February 2011 on the Rain TV channel. Five issues were held on the air of the channel before the first censorship: Dmitry Bykov’s poem “Tandem in Russia is more than tandem” was first edited, and then completely removed from the show. After that, all project participants and director Vera Krichevskaya left the channel. “Citizen Poet” continued to go out on the F5 website and in an audit on the Echo of Moscow radio. The last issue was released, as the authors planned, after the presidential election, March 5, 2012.
"Mr. Good" as a pop view was born in April 2012. Since March 2013, his television version on the Rain TV channel is planned.

Photos: Sergey Kazakov