High, or more. "Chapaev and Emptiness" in the theater "Practice
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On May 23, 2018, a show will be held on the stage at the Moscow Musical Theater comedy performance CHAPAEV AND EMPTINESS by novel of the same name Victor Pelevin. Unusual acting heroes- residents of a psychiatric hospital will give good mood and make you laugh for three whole hours!
"Chapaev and Emptiness" is one of the most successful and non-standard performances on the modern Russian stage. Unusual literary material, bold direction and stellar cast For the past 15 years they have enjoyed incredible success with the public.
The unpredictable Mikhail Efremov as Chapaev, the virtuoso Mikhail Krylov as Pyotr Void, the merry fellow and showman Mikhail Politseymako as Kotovsky, the young and talented Maria Kozakova as Anka the machine-gunner, and the brutal handsome Pavel Sborshchikov as Serdyuk. Undoubtedly, this is exactly the case when the sum of all the terms is greater than each actor individually.
To stage a performance based on Pelevin is not just a challenge. After all, to embody on stage an action that “occurs in absolute emptiness” is not an easy task. But the creative trio - Evgeny Sidikhin, Alexander Naumov and director Pavel Ursul - skillfully gave out their vision of the sensational novel, because the production is understandable even to those who have not read the book. And, judging by the longevity of the performance, it succeeded!
The viewer finds himself between two worlds, in one of which - the hero commander Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev and his squire Petka are trying to figure out the expediency of everything that happens in the universe, and in the other - a patient of a psychiatric hospital is in the world of his surrealistic dreams.
Other "psychos" are included in the incredible game: bearded man introduces herself as Just Maria and goes on dates with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a group of patients led by Kotovsky "eats mushrooms in search of an eternal buzz"...
Despite the seeming recklessness of the plot, "Chapaev and Emptiness" is a philosophical performance, piercingly sad and, at the same time, incredibly funny and modern. Theater and film stars Mikhail Efremov, Mikhail Politseymako and the rest of the actors involved in the production manage to meticulously unite all the eras in which events unfold - the civil war, the modern psychiatric hospital and the great Void, into which the heroes finally go ...
It is now possible to buy tickets for the cult performance Chapaev and Emptiness online on the iCity.life website.
Characters and performers:
CHAPAEV - Mikhail Efremov,
Petka Emptiness - Mikhail Krylov,
KOTOVSKY - Mikhail Politseymako,
SERDYUK - Pavel Collectors,
ANKA - Maria Kozakova / Ekaterina Smirnova,
JUST MARIA - Vladimir Maisuradze,
PANIC - Timofey Savin.
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Director: Pavel Ursul
Cast: Mikhail Efremov, Mikhail Krylov, Mikhail Politseymako, Pavel Sborshchikov, Maria Kozakova / Ekaterina Smirnova, Vladimir Maisuradze, Timofey Savin
Performance with intermission Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
The cult performance based on the cult novel "Chapaev and Emptiness" is one of the most successful and non-standard performances on the modern Russian stage.
Unusual literary material, bold direction and stellar cast have enjoyed incredible success with the public for 15 years now.
The unpredictable Mikhail Efremov as Chapaev, the virtuoso Mikhail Krylov as Pyotr Void, the merry fellow and showman Mikhail Politseymako as Kotovsky, the young and talented Maria Kozakova as Anka the machine-gunner, and the brutal handsome Pavel Sborshchikov as Serdyuk. Undoubtedly, this is exactly the case when the sum of all the terms is greater than each actor individually.
Staging a performance based on Pelevin is not just a challenge. After all, to embody on stage an action that “occurs in absolute emptiness” is not an easy task. But the creative trio - Evgeny Sidikhin, Alexander Naumov and director Pavel Ursul - skillfully gave out their vision of the sensational novel, because the production is understandable even to those who have not read the book. And, judging by the longevity of the performance, it succeeded!
The viewer finds himself between two worlds, in one of which - the hero commander Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev and his squire Petka are trying to figure out the expediency of everything that happens in the universe, and in the other - a patient of a psychiatric hospital is in the world of his surrealistic dreams.
Other “psychos” are also included in the incredible game: a bearded man introduces himself as Just Maria and goes on dates with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a group of patients led by Kotovsky “eats mushrooms in search of an eternal buzz” ...
Despite the seeming recklessness of the plot, "Chapaev and Emptiness" is a philosophical performance, piercingly sad and, at the same time, incredibly funny and modern. Theater and film stars Mikhail Efremov, Mikhail Politseymako and the rest of the actors involved in the production manage to meticulously unite all the eras in which events unfold - the civil war, the modern psychiatric hospital and the great Void, into which the heroes finally go ...
A cult performance based on the cult novel by Viktor Pelevin
Date: May 23
Venue: Moscow Musical Theater
Start: 19:00
"Chapaev and Emptiness" is one of the most successful and non-standard performances on the modern Russian stage. Unusual literary material, bold direction and stellar cast have enjoyed incredible success with the public for 15 years now.
The unpredictable Mikhail Efremov as Chapaev, the virtuoso Mikhail Krylov as Pyotr Void, the theater and film star Gosha Kutsenko as Kotovsky, the young and talented Maria Kozakova as Anka the machine-gunner, and the brutal handsome Pavel Sborshchikov as Serdyuk. Undoubtedly, this is exactly the case when the sum of all the terms is greater than each actor individually.
Staging a performance based on Pelevin is not just a challenge. After all, to embody on stage an action that “occurs in absolute emptiness” is not an easy task. But the creative trio - Evgeny Sidikhin, Alexander Naumov and director Pavel Ursul - skillfully gave out their vision of the sensational novel, because the production is understandable even to those who have not read the book. And, judging by the longevity of the performance, it succeeded!
The viewer finds himself between two worlds, in one of which the hero divisional commander Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev and his squire Petka are trying to figure out the expediency of everything that happens in the universe, and in the other, the patient of a psychiatric hospital is in the world of his surrealistic dreams. Other “psychos” are also included in the incredible game: a bearded man introduces himself as Just Maria and goes on dates with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a group of patients led by Kotovsky “eats mushrooms in search of an eternal buzz” ...
Despite the seeming recklessness of the plot, "Chapaev and Emptiness" is a philosophical performance, piercingly sad and, at the same time, incredibly funny and modern. Theater and film stars Mikhail Efremov, Gosha Kutsenko and the rest of the actors involved in the production manage to meticulously unite all the eras in which events unfold - the civil war, the modern psychiatric hospital and the great Void, into which the heroes finally go ...
Actors and performers:
CHAPAEV - Mikhail Efremov,
PETKA EMPTINESS - Mikhail Krylov,
KOTOVSKY - Gosha Kutsenko,
SERDYUK - Pavel Collectors,
ANKA - Maria Kozakova / Ekaterina Smirnova,
SIMPLY MARIA - Vladimir Maisuradze,
PANIC - Timofey Savin.
On November 18, the Moscow Praktika Theater, which specializes in productions based on contemporary texts, showed the premiere of "Chapaev and Emptiness" according to famous novel Victor Pelevin. The director is the indefatigable Maxim Didenko, who just a couple of months ago released the sensational "Black Russian", and the roles are played by young theater stars from the Brusnikin Workshop. The Village tells what components the potential hit "Practice" is assembled from.
Directed by Maxim Didenko
Today Didenko is almost the most demanded young director in Moscow. Totally agree Last year he produced a pantomime based on Dostoyevsky's Idiot at the Theater of Nations, a poetic performance about Pasternak at the Gogol Center, and an independent interactive project Black Russian in a real pre-revolutionary mansion.
Didenko is a polyglot from directing. He feels at home different genres performing arts- performance, dance, pantomime, drama, musical - and randomly mixes them on stage. In one of his last performances, Pasternak. My sister is life ”, the title character was divided into three hypostases (a young man, an old man and a child): one artist was responsible for poetic reading, the other for singing, the third for plasticity. The same technique - let's call it "three-sided approximation" - Didenko uses in a new work based on the text of Viktor Pelevin: the first act is musical concert to verses from the novel, the second - a dramatic scene, the third - a dance.
The final dance action is not so much an interpretation literary source, how many comments on Pelevin's "Chapaev": the director plays with the eclectic nature of the text and its Buddhist motifs. Watching over slow movements actors, the audience must enter a state similar to meditation - only the mantra is not a Sanskrit word, but a line from folk song"Ah, it is not yet evening". Quite in the spirit of the original.
A novel by Victor Pelevin
In Pelevin's postmodernist text, the evolution of Vasily Ivanovich and Petka continued - historical figures who first turned into epic heroes, and then in comic duo from anecdotes: Petka became an intellectual poet with a Buddhist surname Void, and Chapaev became his spiritual mentor. For the Void, there are two realities - Civil War and a psychiatric clinic in Russia in the 90s, and one of these worlds is definitely a hallucination (Chapaev claims both).
"Chapaev and the Void" can be read as a popular exposition of Buddhist philosophy - it is especially amusing how the characters describe the concept of nirvana, using analogies from the criminal world. The novel, published in 1996, is not as strongly associated with its era as, for example, "Generation P", and the replicas about Stalinism and Orthodoxy that sound in the play seem to have been written yesterday.
Hastily retelling "Chapaev" on stage, trying to keep within two or three hours, is a deliberately failed undertaking: such a production will almost certainly lose to the original source. Didenko chose, probably, the only correct way - to create an independent work based on Pelevin. The director left a large dialogue scene from the novel, where gangsters from the 90s eat mushrooms and talk about dukkha and nirvana, poems by Peter Pustoty plus excerpts from the poet’s conversations with Chapaev (in the 1920s) and a psychiatrist (in the 1990s).
"Brusnikintsy"
The workshop of Dmitry Brusnikin - a group of graduates of the Moscow Art Theater School - even before graduating from the institute, became the favorite young theater troupe in Moscow. The head of the course, Dmitry Brusnikin, followed a strategy that ran counter to the conservative way of creative universities: his students studied with successful directors, played performances based on plays by contemporary authors, studied performance, documentary and plastic theater - in a word, they mastered the actual context of art.
"Brusnikintsy" entered the professional scene early: their educational performances now and then they appeared outside the Studio School - in the Meyerhold Center, "Teatre.doc", the same "Practice". In June 2016, a year after graduation, Praktika announced that it would provide Masterskaya with a residence.
There are many serious challenges for the artist in Chapaev: modern dance, singing, a huge dramatic episode where, instead of normal emotions, you need to play the reflection of a person under substances. The universal actors of the Workshop can do all this: Didenko's merit is also that he was able to show the young troupe from all sides in three hours.
The main character, Piotr Pustota, is played by Vasily Butkevich, one of the most recognizable Brusnikinians, who recently starred in Rag Union, and this is an impeccably accurate casting: the harsh verses of Void effectively contrast with the gentle, almost childish appearance of the artist.
Dmitry Brusnikin himself became a psychiatrist Timur Timurovich in one of the teams, which serves as an occasion for insider jokes. “When I imagine how much fuss will be with you, I get scared”: either the doctor says this to the sick, or the master - to the students.
Music by Ivan Kushnir
Composer Kushnir is the permanent co-author of Maxim Didenko. The tandem released two original musicals - Lenka Panteleev based on the Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kharms. Myr" to the words of Oberiut Daniil Kharms.
Kushnir also wrote luxurious arrangements folk songs and the first Russian anthem for "Black Russian", set to music Babel's prose for "Konarmiya" and Pasternak's poems for "Pasternak", composed the soundtracks of "The Idiot" and "Earth". The production company Ecstátic, which released Black Russian, reviewed the joint performances of Kushnir and Didenko and collected a whole music program: The Black Wedding concert is scheduled for November 29th.
In Chapaev and Void, the composer's main interest was the first, vocal act: Kushnir created a repertoire for a fictional rock band based on the poems of Peter Void.
But in "Chapaev" the stage designer was limited by the cramped basement of the Praktika theater, and as a result, the energy of resistance helped Solodovnikova to design one of her best scenery - laconic, witty and spectacular. The tiny stage has turned into a music studio lined with spiked sound-absorbing panels: in the first, “song” section, the audience seems to be present at the recording of the album. As soon as they leave for a break, the red room turns into exactly the same yellow room, and that, in turn, into blue: each color corresponds to the main mood of the act.
A former fashion designer, Solodovnikova loves to come up with eccentric outfits, and Chapaev is no exception. For example, for the first act, the artist created costumes in which she combined the Russian revolution with the Mexican carnival of death, a mix worthy of Pelevin.
Photos: Dasha Trofimova/Practika Theater
All fans of bright and non-standard productions should definitely watch the play Chapaev and the Void. Through very unusual scenery and costumes, non-standard situations and the uncertainty of what is happening, a red thread runs major thought and the need to know yourself. The performance was staged based on the work of the same name by V. Pelevin, domestic writer, which already during his lifetime became a cult. This is one of his loudest and brightest works, and putting it on stage is a great difficulty for the director, but M. Didenko undertook to cope with this task.
The work is interesting in that everything in it takes place in absolute emptiness - this is the first such work of its kind. It is not easy to convey the absolute emptiness on the stage, so the scenography of the performance deserves special praise. Hurry up to get tickets for the play Chapaev and the Void to personally see the story on the verge of everyday life and reality, somewhere between the past and the present, on the border of Asia and Europe. However, it does not matter when and where the events take place - it is important whether the characters can learn to comprehend themselves. The director warns that his performance is not an attempt to retell the book, it is just a commentary on the novel, a vivid illustration to it, so only those who are well acquainted with the original work will be able to fully understand everything that happens on the stage.
Spectators have the opportunity to pass hard way together with the heroes, solve some riddles famous work, delve into themselves and make very important conclusions and observations. All this makes the performance important, exciting and worthy of close attention.
