Bogomolov put the Dragon in the Moscow Art Theater

February 10 and 11 on the main stage of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov will be held pre -premiere shows of the play “Dragon” according to the play by Evgeny Schwartz in the production of Konstantin Bogomolov.

It is reported by RIA Novosti .

“Why Schwartz? This is a wonderful real literature. - said the director TASS . -To make a performance about politics, to make a satirical review or did not really want to do anything like that, and it did not seem interesting. The main clue is the time of writing the Dragon, which was in the years of World War II, is a feeling of some kind of apocalypse, which hung over both the author and the world. ”

As a result, it turned out, according to Bogomolov, "the story about the fact that the time of the dragon is more honest than the time coming."

“For me, this is a strange performance. He says. - There is the phrase "red color, fading, becomes pink." Red color is the color of the blood. The color of the blood is erased, the memory is erased, and this is sad, because the memory of this blood should not be washed out. ”

The main roles in the Dragon are played by Oleg Tabakov (burgomaster), Igor Vernik (Dragon) and Kirill Vlasov (Lancelot). Nadezhda Paleganov, Evgeny Perevalov, Pavel Tabakov, Kirill Trubetskoy, Artem Panchik, Vladimir Panchik, Ulyana Glushkova and Alexander Bulatov are also engaged in the performance.

For Bogomolov, the Dragon became the seventh directorial work at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, where he previously put an “event”, “perfect husband” , “Karamazovs” , “jubilee jeweler” and other performances.