“Homecoming” by Harold Pinter, “The Coming City” slow-reading festival from “Eshkolot”, Depeche Mode in Moscow, Photobiennale-2014, “It's Easy to Quit” at the Theater of Nations and another conversation about the era of the nineties. All this and more coming next week.

Pinter on Lesnaya

The production of the play "Homecoming" by Harold Pinter, a British playwright and human rights activist, is the third in a cycle of "Pinter" performances by the excellent director Vladimir Mirzoev. It was preceded by "Betrayal" and "The Pinter Collection", staged with the participation of Maxim Sukhanov, who, together with Maxim Vitorgan, will play the main roles in the premiere, in particular - on Friday evening . The plot is simple, as usual, with a playwright: Teddy, after many years living away from home, decides to visit his tyrannical father, a weak-minded uncle and two younger brothers. He travels from the US, where he received his Ph.D., to the outskirts of London to see his family and introduce his father to his wife, Ruth. The house greets him unfriendly, although nothing has changed in it, and from the moment Teddy and Ruth cross its threshold, their own destinies cease to belong to them. The play about the unity of man with his animal nature through the story of one family develops into a story about a huge, mysterious world in which we live, not really understanding how everything works.

st. Lesnaya, 8. Performances start at 19.00

city ​​to come

The cultural and educational project "Eshkolot" continues to promote the idea of ​​slow reading to the masses, for which it holds a festival of it with enviable regularity. Moreover, from festival to festival, not only does the topic for joint reflections on certain texts change, but the very concept of the text receives an ever broader interpretation. From the ancient Jewish tradition of joint reading to semiotic zaum. In addition, from time to time the festivals change their location. The sixth and last at the moment took place in Voskresensky near Moscow. The seventh will go in the last days of June to the Holy Land, to Jerusalem. Participants will be invited to read in this city not only the monuments of the past, but to see the sights of the future through the prism of prophetic, apocalyptic, mystical and utopian texts. The program of the 7th Festival of Slow Reading "The City to Come" is planned from three main streams: "Eschatology", "Mysticism" and "Utopia"; each includes 11 workshops and 15 hours of "field research". There will also be literary walks and other amenities. The main thing is to be on time register . To do this, you need to before March 10 fill out an online questionnaire on the festival website http://eshkofest.ru .

DM DM

According to the schedule on the official website of Depeche Mode , with a concert on March 7 at the Olimpiyskiy the band is going to finish the world tour in support of last year's album Delta Machine . The album came out excellent, but with such a catalog of impeccable hits as Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher have behind them, the choice of a set list for any concert is a "political" question: it is difficult to break through with new material to the hearts of fans, where forever nested Personal Jesus and In Your Room , A Question of Time and No Good , Behind The Wheel , of course, Enjoy The Silence and many more items from an extensive - more than thirty years of career - list. It is not surprising that the preliminary set list of the second Moscow concert as part of the Delta Machine tour - the first, completely sold out, happened in June last year - of the songs from the last album once or twice and counted. The rest are proven militants of the past, which, however, have not lost their relevance in the slightest. Also, don't forget that, unlike many synth-pop pioneers of the 1980s, Born from live performances, DM 's bubbling synth textures, guitar flashes and sensually alienated vocals are invariably saturated with rock blood and the uniqueness of each performance.

16 Olympiyskiy Ave. Beginning at 19.00

Six by nine and others

The Multimedia Art Museum is gaining momentum Photobiennale-2014 . No sooner had the first four exhibitions opened in the middle of the month than two more were added to them. You should hurry up to the exposition of Evgeny Antufiev “Twelve, wood, dolphin, knife, bowl, mask, crystal, bone and marble: fusion. Materials Research” is the shortest and closes on March 8. It is as if the artist is returning to the world of things the sacred content that has long been lost, reinventing objects and involving in this micro-act of creation the whole variety of familiar materials and things. Until March 19, it will be possible to watch the series the famous "Women are beautiful" by photographer Garry Winogrand . The "King of the Streets", Winogrand disliked working in the studio, using flash and exposing the composition of the frame, preferring to work in direct contact with reality. “I don’t know if all the women I have photographed are beautiful, but I know for sure that they are beautiful in the photographs,” he wrote in the preface to the series, which was published as a book back in 1975, it was not immediately recognized, but it came to Russia already as a classic. Almost a must-see for all Anglophiles exposition “Another London. The life of the city in the lens of world photographers. 1930s – 1970s” , which is listed as the central project of the Photobiennale 2014, the main theme of which is “Britain and British photography in focus”. This exhibition is an opportunity to see the British capital and how it has changed over the course of almost half a century; enjoy the British eccentricity, which is sometimes more visible "from the outside" than from the inside; plunge into the contrasts of the English way of life - from Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park to the city market, see stars and onlookers, princes and beggars ... And at the same time, The Other London is precisely an encyclopedia of the history of world photography of the 1930-1970s, open until 20 April. As well as two other excellent exhibitions - "Photographs of St. Petersburg and Moscow 1850-1870s" by Ivan Bianchi and "Andre Steiner. Photos" . Ivan (Giovanni) Bianchi, an outstanding Swiss photographer and artist of the 19th century, one of the founders of the genres of photo reportage and architectural photography, once, or rather, in 1852, intending to acquaint his contemporaries with the artistic treasures of the capital of the Russian Empire, he arrived in Nikolaev Petersburg, armed with the latest technologies: calotype and wet collodion method according to the Archer method. In his pictures you can see the Peter and Paul Fortress with a still wooden spire of the cathedral, the Admiralty with "Onegin Boulevard", Palace, Admiralty and Senate Squares, unusual, without angels located in the corners of St. Isaac and Kazan Cathedral, the monument to Peter I and the Alexander Column ... Petersburg expedition Bianchi lasted 32 years. A slightly shorter period of time is covered by a retrospective of one of the outstanding masters of the European avant-garde, Andre Steiner, whose name and work are inextricably linked with the New Look. The central idea of ​​this innovative Parisian trend of the 1920s was the desire to free photography from all conventions and traditions. And here is the result: abstract compositions, advertising photos, a series of shots on the theme of sports and dance, applied photography, photomontages ... The highly paid fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld, whose exhibition “Erwin Blumenfeld. Photos, drawings, photomontage” will run until May 11.

He is. Ostozhenka, 16

Verbatim

Quitting is Easy is the first production by the Theater of Nations based entirely on documentary material. Six real stories, six ways to escape. On the stage are not professional actors, but the authors of the text themselves, young people who have undergone rehabilitation from drug addiction at the Center for Healthy Youth. One of the most famous directors of the "new drama" Ruslan Malikov and playwright Marina Krapivina turned separate conversations into a single whole. The performance, composed of monologues about drugs, develops into a reflection on human addiction in general. It's easy to quit, but in today's world it's hard not to get "addicted" to something new again ... The premiere took place in February. The next ones are March 6th and 7th .

Petrovsky per., 3. Beginning at 20.00

Polovtsian dances in New York and Moscow

On March 1, Alexander Borodin's epic Prince Igor will appear on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera for the first time since 1917, when it was performed in Italian. Therefore, the current production is, in fact, the first original version of a recognized masterpiece for the American public. And the Russian public will be able to take a fresh look at "Prince Igor" thanks to the director's reading of Dmitry Chernyakov, who makes his debut in the New York theater, and the live broadcast of the performance in the Formula Kino cinemas and the GUM cinema hall . And if the music is well known — maestro Gianandrea Noseda conducts — then the spectacle will not be quite familiar ... Just imagine The Tale of Igor's Campaign in the revolutionary aesthetics of the films Chapaev, Two Comrades Were Serving, Forty-First, etc. ., yet incredibly picturesque. Ildar Abdrazakov will perform in the title role of Prince Igor.

Start at 21.00

Metropolitan cloisters

For many centuries, Moscow has been a unique city of monasteries: by the beginning of the 20th century, there were 25 monasteries within the city, 15 for men and 10 for women, more than not only in other Russian cities, but also in other dioceses. From the very beginning of their history, Moscow monasteries enjoyed the privileges of the capital, the patronage of the authorities and the generosity of benefactors. But the location in the capital more than once put them on the brink of existence - like the whole of Moscow, they suffered from fires and the invasion of enemies. Among the most famous and ancient monasteries of Moscow are Miracles for men and Ascension for women. Both were located inside the Kremlin walls, both were founded in the XIV century by major statesmen, both have not survived to this day. They will be the subject of the third lecture from the cycle “Monasteries of Moscow as monuments of history and culture” , which starts in the lecture hall of the Moscow Kremlin Museums . The first of March 1 will be a story about the role and significance of monasteries in the history of Moscow. The narrator will be Tatyana Atamuratova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, an employee of the Museums-Cathedrals Research and Storage Department of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, a specialist in the social history of Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, historical urban studies and the history of the Orthodox Church.

Kremlin, Armory. Start at 16.30

Dashing nineties

Center project. Meyerhold (CIM) and the Polit.ru portal is dedicated to an era with which relations in Russia have not yet been clarified. To which a glance follows with mixed feelings - delight and sadness, tenderness and horror, nostalgia, shame, bewilderment. Nineties - what was it? Catastrophe or historical chance? An episode in a chain of accidents or a pattern? For two days in a row at TsIM they will argue about the nineties, sing nineties rock, wear nineties clothes, dance like in the nineties. will begin The "Nineties" on Friday evening, at 19.00 , with the premiere of the musical performance of the same name in four parts, joint compositions of directors and composers of the TsIM and the Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music. At 21.00 there will be a costume party of the legendary collector and performer Alexander Petlyura - as an opportunity to resurrect the taste of those years. In continuation, but already on Saturday , at 18.00, the ProScience Theater project will present scientific thought on the theater stage - a public discussion “The Nineties. The look of a normal person "under the control of political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin. And one of the best musical groups in our Palestinians will take the stage - "Polite refusal" . The enigmatic rock band will present the "Right Size Distance" program, made up of songs from the nineties, before and after. It's about time, of course.

He is. Novoslobodskaya, 23