June 6, 2015 in the theater world happenedan event that left neither viewers nor critics indifferent. This is the premiere of the play "The Tales of Pushkin" (Theater of Nations), the reviews about which you can hear the most controversial. An extraordinary presentation with such a native name for every Russian comes with a sell-out not for the first month and still causes a lot of emotions.
Robert Wilson: Style and Creativity
The director of the play has become a world famousproducer. He is considered the leader of the modern theatrical avant-garde and almost a cult figure, and legends about his fees. The master has many followers and even has his own academy on Long Island.
Robert Wilson's style is surreal.mix of classic drama, avant-garde art, elements of traditional national theaters of different nations and extravagant modern dances. In his performances, all means are used to convey the designer’s intention to the audience: visual effects, plastic and pantomime of actors, inimitable magic of light and original music specially written for each performance. It is in this combination of different types of scenic art lies innovation, which attracts the audience, Robert Wilson.
"Tales of Pushkin" (Theater of Nations)
Robert Wilson often refers to the classics of differentpeoples. So, in Greece he staged the Odyssey, in Berlin the Threepenny Opera, in France the Fables of La Fontaine. In our country, a 73-year-old director chose Pushkin's fairy tales for his performance (Theater of Nations, tickets are recommended to be ordered in advance), the works of the great Russian poet known to us all from childhood.
In the process of working on the Moscow production, Wilson studied the works of Bilibin and Palekh painting. The source of inspiration for him was the drawings of the greatest Russian poet.
В созданном талантливым режиссером спектакле, Something similar to an enchanting circus show, there are neither bright decorations nor usual costumes. On the stage dominated by the contrast of black and white - black robes of actors and white masks of faces. According to the peculiarities of visual perception, the play resembles such an avant-garde trend in painting as suprematism.
Creators and performers
Together with Robert Wilson, opera director Nicola Panzer, stage designer A. Lavalle-Benny and lighting designer A. D. Weissbard worked with him on the production.
In the play "Pushkin's Tales" (Theater of Nations, reviewssee below) involved more than twenty actors. The central image of the Narrator (Pushkin) was created by Yevgeny Mironov, who managed to embody the director's intention. At the same time, his character is similar to Pushkin, as Kiprensky saw him, and to Johnny Depp, and Mad Hatter L. Carroll.
Together with him, Daria Moroz (Tsar Dodon), Alexander Stroyev (Rybak), Dmitry Serdyuk, Oleg Savtsov, Elena Nikolaeva and others worked on the stage.
CocoRosie
Huge role in the new production of Robert Wilsonmusic plays, and not ordinary, but experimental folk. It is in this style that an American duet brought by Wilson, consisting of two Kesedi sisters - CocoRosie - works on the stage. Moreover, the musical accompaniment to the play the girls wrote right during the rehearsals, so that it was inspired by the play of Russian actors.
"Tales of Pushkin" (Theater of Nations): reviews
Describe the impression the performance made.on the Russian theater community, in one word - shock. And the point here is not so much a categorical rejection of the unusual statement of our favorite fairy tales - and it also occurs - as in the effect of surprise. It turned out that our theater community is simply not ready to accept such a Pushkin.
But moving away from the first shock and making senseSeen on the stage, critics and reviewers paid tribute to the talent of the director, and the skill of the actors, and amazing, enchanting visual effects, and a kind of presentation of the text.
The most important thing that can be noted in the reviews, andmost of them are reserved and positive, - this is the understanding that the Russian audience was presented with something completely new under the usual name of Pushkin's Tales. The play (Theater of Nations), staged by Robert Wilson, is a distinctive avant-garde piece that needs to be taken on its own.
Public opinion
Unlike reviews in which, along withrejection, one can clearly see the admiration of the Master's creative work and the innovation that he showed in the play “Pushkin's Tales” (Theater of Nations), the responses of ordinary viewers are more categorical. Those who watched this performance were divided into two irreconcilable groups.
One of them did not even recognize the possibilitysimilar performances of Russian classics, and reviews of this group are replete with such assessments as “Nightmare!”, “Unique nonsense”, “the creation of a neurotic staying in a state of paranoid disorder” and other similar ones.
Particularly angered the Russian public gloomythe atmosphere that is created by the strange make-up of the actors and the light-and-noise effects. After all, every Russian person has the kindest and most pleasant childhood memories with Pushkin's fairy tales, but not scary stories in the style of Western European Halloween.
The second group, on the contrary, enthusiastically accepted"Tales of Pushkin" (play, Theater of Nations), although these viewers could see in him not at all the symbolism of meaning, transmitted by means of surrealism and avant-garde, but a banal theatrical show.
Well, both opinions have the right to exist.However, everyone agrees on one thing: even children of 10-12 years old, not to mention babies, should not be led to this performance, so as not to destroy the charm of Pushkin’s real fairy tales, which should stay with them for life.
Ticket prices
Within five months, the performance excitesinterest of the audience and goes with full notice. Thus, if you are interested in the play "Pushkin's Tales" (Theater of Nations), tickets to it must be ordered in a few days. And the prices are far from low. Even for places on the balcony you need to pay 4000-5000 rubles. Even more expensive are the tickets to the mezzanine (6,000–9,000 rubles) and to the ground floor (from 17,000 to 25,500 rubles).
However, true lovers of avant-garde spectaclescontinue to storm the Theater of Nations. "Pushkin's Tales", the price of tickets for which is quite high, has already been watched by several thousand people, and their number continues to grow.
If you want to get in touch with a great mixEuropean directing and Russian acting skills, be sure to look at Pushkin's Tales (Theater of Nations). Reviews are always subjective, and perhaps you write your own, which will be different from all existing ones.
