A number of employees of the Nizhny Tagil Youth Theater turned to the mayor of the city with a request to cancel the premiere of the play "with eyes widely closed" based on the play of the Swedish playwright Augustus Strindberg (1849–1912) "Frequen Julie". The authors of the message said that the play contains "an eroticism too frank for the Youth Theater." And they considered it necessary to warn: “Based on the dynamics of the development of some productions in the youth theater (“ Love with the taste of the tangerines ”,“ Love is evil, or do not go to the fortuneteller ”), then the following plays will contain either light porn or hard erotica, and for schoolchildren they will put the lessons“ Kama Sutra ”?”,The ambassador says. This text was widely replicated by local media. As a result, for the first time in the last years, the Tagil public has sold out all the tickets for the premiere. And the deputy head of the city, the head of the local culture department, deputies, as well as the theatrical critics in the Urals personally arrived to accept the performance a day before the premiere show.
Scene from the play "With Years widely closed"
The actors and director of the performance were noticeably nervous before the run. There was no such status public in the Nizhny Tagil "Youth" for a long time.
- Our actors were framed, because they are not called for the delivery of critics. Their name is the tenth for the performance so that it lay down, so that the artists are used to the scenery. And today they will immediately work for a bunch of critics, for the administration - there is no heavier public, ”the director Tatyana Zakharova complains behind the scenes.
August Strindberg wrote the drama "Freken Julie" in 1888, and even then critics appreciated it as "too bold and too naturalistic." For many years, no one decided to set this play. Only at the beginning of the 20th century did several Stockholm theaters dare to set up a scandalous work. A century passed with small, and now - the premiere in Nizhny Tagil, the city, which, thanks to the special attention of the head of state to him, is now often called "Putinograd."
The production, however, turned into a big scandal.
Appeal of an independent trade union of theater and cinema actors to the mayor of Nizhny Tagil Sergey Nosov
There is a sexual connotation, and in the end, the main character was offered to shoot themselves. What are we teaching youth?
- The age category at the Youth Theater is from the smallest to 17 years. Since we have a municipal theater, respectively, all productions are carried out at the expense of state funds. Freken Julie is an anatomical play that describes the bad relationship between a man and a woman. There is a sexual connotation, and in the end, the main character was offered to shoot themselves. What are we teaching youth? The Director of the theater Zhuravlev decided to put this play contrary to the objections of Khudruk, ”says Dmitry Tatarinov, chairman of the Independent Theater and Film Actors of the Theater of theater and Cinema of the Urals Film District.
Director Dmitry Tatarinov
Director of the MMT Julia Zhuravleva , in turn, claims that the current youth repertoire has long been outdated and the theater has been swollen on the spot for 10 years:
Let's say then that Rembrandt is a pornographist, Titian is a pornographist, all Greek culture is pornography, and we are all forbidden
- Young viewer is people in the age category 25–28 years old. Today, there is simply no quality repertoire for them in the theater! And the halls are empty. And I change this situation. Let's say then that Rembrandt is a pornographist, Titian - pornographist, all Greek culture is pornography, and we are all forbidden.
In fact, Passion on Strindberg in Nizhny Tagil arose for a reason. For two years now, the scene of the Tagil Youth Theater has been shared by two warring groups. Part of the team rallied around the artistic director of the theater Vladimir Vaide. The winner of the title "Honored Artist of the Russian Federation", the winner of numerous awards Vaide in 1993, created this theater. The General Progon "Julie" Khudruk and his team defiantly ignore. In the office of Khudruk, they have their own rehearsal - a romantic comedy "Love Madness". To show the young audience the story of Strindberg about how the footman slept with the count's daughter, and then convinced her to be stabbed in the halo, in this theater, Vladimir Vade is convinced.
Intimate relationships, lack of demand, very sensual. Here Freud, Jung, and Dostoevsky - the heroine had problems with his mother. I don't need it today
- Intimate relationships, lack of demand, very sensual. Here Freud, Jung, and Dostoevsky - the heroine had problems with his mother. I don't need it today. Strindberg is not included in the aesthetic program that I created! And this happens because the theater is led by a girl who should not and close to him! - The artistic director is burning, demonstrating the posters of two years ago, the period when he was still attended by the creative life of "Youth" and his finances, and the former director - his son Andrei Vaide, was engaged in the host. In the poster of 2014, the production of Munchausen, Leopold, the Demidov dynasties, the patriotic drama "This, girls, war!".
Artistic Director of MMT Vladimir Weide
"Entered" the new director to the theater himself Andrei Vaide. In 2014, when a competition was announced for the vacancy of the Director of the MMT, he asked Yulia Zhuravlev, a friend, a specialist in state health care specialist, a specialist in state contracts for the health department of Nizhny Tagil. She, without hesitation, agreed. She was bored at that time to engage in purchases, and the old comrade promised to support and teach. However, joint work did not set. In 2015, theaters throughout the country made changes to the charters. The financial department and the right to hire workers from artistic managers passed to the directors. The new manager began to argue with the creator of the theater:
It turned out not that I am some kind of fool with the right signature. I began to ask questions, to understand the documents. Here the interests and dispersed
-It turned out not so that I am some kind of fool with the right signature. I began to ask questions, to understand the documents. Here the interests dispersed. Then she asked him once, asked two about plans for the season, by the way, we must fulfill the plan, otherwise we will lose financing. I did not receive an answer and began to look for another director, ”says Julia Zhuravleva .
Zhuravleva invited Tatyana Zakharova from the Tagil Drama Theater of her director of the St. Petersburg Theater Academy. The young director actively joined the struggle for a new repertoire, relying on loyal actors. Tatyana Zakharova now calls those who support Vaide, “professional -free people”:
- I wanted to put a “thunderstorm”, but when I started working with artists, I realized that they should be sent to study for the first year again. They have the education of social teachers, let them teach methodological materials! They come here, not knowing what a task is, an action, how to work with a partner, how to see and hear on stage. I realized - they will not stretch the "thunderstorm".
The actors who graduated under the leadership of Vada, the department of stage arts of the Nizhny Tagil State Social and Pedagogical Institute, meet Tatyana Zakharova "complete reciprocity":
- Having played in her performance, I tore my back and went to the sick leave. The next day, the same performance was walking, and although there was a replacement, Zakharova accused me of sabotage, ”says Roman Gaev . After this incident, he refused the role of a persistent tin soldier and now even under the threat of dismissal with Zakharova does not work.
Actor MMT Roman Gaev
- I cannot call the artistic director to the dialogue. He always wants to be a monologue, his monologue. He used to do what he wanted. And stubbornly wants to continue to act in the same spirit, ” Julia Zhuravleva is indignant.
Director of the MMT Julia Zhuravleva during the discussion of the performance
Two groups in one theater are no longer able to find a compromise. Weide and his students write letters to Medinsky, the governor, mayor and even in the OBEP. The artistic director requires the director to cover the "illegal" theater. Zhuravleva continues to call directors from the side and put "provocative" performances. Weide states that it is impossible to show non -childhood plots in the theater for young spectators. Young directors are parrying: pensioners from preferential tickets come to children's performances, the hall is empty. It is necessary to lure the audience 16+, raise the problems that are relevant for young people.
And here is the run of the scandalous performance in Stripberg. Everyone had to decide the invited status guests. The performance lasted 1 hour 20 minutes. The discussion took a little less time.
It was not that I was disappointed by the absence of some obvious sexual scenes, but it was very strange to compare what I heard before, with what I saw on the stage
- I heard a lot about what preceded and surrounded the appearance of this performance. It was not that I was disappointed with the absence of some obvious sexual scenes, but it was very strange to compare what I heard before, with what I saw on the stage. On stage I saw an artistic, very life, almost ballet theater. Very expressive, ” said the critic Lyudmila Shcherbakova .
Scene from the play "With Years widely closed"
Theater critic Natalya Reshetnikova supported her colleague.
This reminded me of the 70s and 80s, when there was a system for acceptance of performances. When party officials could, at their discretion, allow or prevent performances
- I heard that the performance is complex, which some people do not accept, that even a certain conflict situation has developed ... It is very strange to see officials in the hall. This reminded me of the 70s and 80s, when there was a system for acceptance of performances. When the party officials could, at their discretion, allow or prevent performances.
Scene from the play "With Years widely closed"
Other opinions sounded at the discussion:
I watch four performances, in four performances, artists crawl along the stage like Tritons. I don't understand why all this happens in horizontal space
-Can you bring 14-15-year-old children to this performance? I know that there is an age restriction. Let me remind you that we have written - "Youth Theater" and in brackets - the theater of the young spectator. In addition, I do not like one -lineness in Zakharova's productions. I watch four performances, in four performances, artists crawl along the stage like Tritons. I do not understand why all this is happening in horizontal space, ”said the member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, journalist Vasily Ovsepyan .
After such stormy discussions, the head of the Culture Department of the Nizhny Tagil administration noted that the authorities would not act as a censor and impede the production, and the viewer must decide the fate of the performance.
As a result, on March 24, at the premiere of the drama of Stringerga in the Nizhny Tagil "Youth" there was a complete full house. The audience decided that it was a performance.
Refugees from the countries of the Middle East in line for food. Lesbos Island, Greece. October 2015
Hedliners of the thirteenth issue of the program "Music at Free" -refugee artists and refugee listeners. Rock Critic Artemy Troitsky represents on the waves of Radio Liberty and on the pages of our site an international humanitarian action.
There are a lot of refugees, as you know well in Europe and all over the world. There are countries for which these refugees are akin to headaches, and there are hospitable countries. Among such countries are Belgium. It was in the compassionate Belgium that the company, under the Flemish-Vallon name Muziek Publique , which helps the cultural leisure of the "who came up", released a touching album called American . The subtitles of the record are "refugees for refugees." This is an album recorded by musicians from different dysfunctional countries and regions, recorded in order, on the one hand, to attract attention to their fate, and on the other hand, a little help the refugees financially. Artists from Tibet, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan participate.
Ammerley is a city near Baghdad, north of the capital of Iraq, which for a long time was in the siege of militants prohibited in many countries (and in Russia) of the Islamic State. For three months they were in the siege, but the siege withstood. Now the city is completely released and unlocked. The composition that I represent to you is devoted to this heroic resistance of the townspeople. Ommage to the persistent city of Ammerley is performed by Hussein Rasim on the ude. UD is the most popular in the near and Middle East string musical instrument , and the author and performer of the play, Hussein Rasim is also a professional musician and composer, a graduate of the Baghdad conservatory.
Our next musician is also from Iraq, his name is Ali Shahir Hasan al-Bayati , and he also sings a song about his homeland, namely about Babylon. If you remember, Babylon, where you tried to build the notorious Babylonian tower, all this happened in an ancient country called Mesopotamia, which was located exactly between the Tiger and the Euphrates, that is, in the territory of the current Iraq. Ali Shahir Hasan Al Bayati plays on a pinch string instrument of the eve , he studied in Baghdad at the conservatory and now lives in Belgium, works as a musician and composer. He composed "Babylon" himself.
Not far from Iraq is a country about which in recent years a lot is being talked about and written, which has been experiencing a tragic period of a piece of its history - this is Syria. Haled al-Haffez represents Syria in the album " American : Refugees for refugees ." He is a vocalist and percussionist, acts in the style of "Mua Shahad". Haled, as well as all his comrades who recorded this track (the track is called Yamuna Al Qalb ), are graduates of the Conservatory of the city of Aleppo, that very tragic city of Aleppo, which is now mainly destroyed, for which there were heavy battles that aviation bombarded, including Russian. The song is folk and created in incomparably more prosperous times. Let's hope that Syrian musicians will soon return from Europe to their native conservatory ...
Now Tibet: Dalma River and Kelsang Jul perform the folk song Chomolungma . The song about Jomolungme is a well -known mountain, many know it under the name Everest. This is a song from Tibet, a huge mountain district, which, according to many local inhabitants and solidarity with them around the world, is occupied by China. The occupation occurred back in the mid-1950s, since then the spiritual leader of Tibet Dalai Lama and many Tibetans have been living in exile. Refugees, so to speak, "old wave", and therefore, probably, their songs are especially sad and hopeless.
In the end, I would like to share one gloomy observation: I remember that in the 1980s and 1990s, noisy charity events under the patronage of world pop music stars were almost every year. Stadium concerts, global television devices, millions of circulations of charitable sound recordings ... The situation in the world has not become better since then - with poverty, and with hunger, and even more so with wars and refugees. But the bright knights of help and solidarity do not show something more in public. Some were old (Bob Galdof, and Bono, too), are not alive any other (George Harrison, the initiator of the Concert for Bangladesh; Michael Jackson, who composed We Are the World ), and the new generation does not seem to be so steaming. At the wrong time, good impulses and messianic aspirations disappeared ...
Playlist of the program "Music at Free" (Issue 13):
1. Damien Jurado (USA) .TAQOMA, LP VISIONS of USA ON A LAND
2. Post Industrial Boys (Georgia). NAKED, LP Unintended
3. Pascal Comelade & Les Limiñanas (France). (They Call Me) Black Sabata, Lp Traite de Giitarres Trioelectiques
4. Membranes (UK). Money IS Dust, Lp Dark Matter/Dark Energy
5. Dolma Requingi (Tibet). Chomolungma, LP Americli: Refugees for Refugees
6. Ali Shaker Hassan Albayati (Iraq). Babylon,LP American: Refugees for Refugees
7. Khaled Al Hafez (Syria). Qamarun Yajlo, LP Americli: Refugees for Refugees
8. Hussein Rassim (Iraq). Amerli, LP Americli: Refugees for Refugees
9. Big Deal (UK/USA). Hold Your Fire, Lp Say Yes
10. Charles Chaplin (USA). A Song, LP Chaplin Spundtracks
11. Hifi Sean FT. Yoko ONO (UK/USA/Japan). In love with life, lp ft
12. Hifi Sean FT. Alan Vega (UK/USA). A kiss before dying, lp ft
