[21th] Drama point. Chayka
For some reason, visiting theatres is believed to be the pastime of those who want to "imrove their cultural background".
Maybe it's true for those who have too much spare time and money, but it's absolute nonsense when speaking of busy and quite educated fellows like me, who are sometimes even fed up with certain kinds of "culture" during their studies)
I adore THEATRE for my own specific reasons, which I'm going to clarify.
The most curious phenomena in this world is people.They're much more interesting than any kind of art or culture.
That's why conscious is one of the most exciting matters to investigate.
And watching stagings is a simple and plesant way of doing so.
As a person with lively imagination, I always create a new world, full of colours and sounds, reading a drama. A writer can drop you some hints how to imagine this or that character or scenery, but he or she always gives full play for you to think up what is missing.
Drama is elemental material for creating a new universe. Every reader has the same initial conditions, but everyone invents their own model.
You cannot penetrate everyone's head, but you can do it with the director's one)
It's a unique chance to see how someone else's mind works!
And compare it to your own.
So, on the one hand, while reading a drama. you're co-creating with the author, you're almost a demiurge.
And, on the other, while watching a staging, you're watching creation of the world and you're still not a usual observer, but a partaker.
And for me, there is nothing comparable to the act of co-creation, contemplation and osmosis.
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On the 6th of May we watched "Chayka", directed by Uriy Butusov, at Satirikon.
The tickets had been handed out by our adorable faculty, and my wondeful groupmate with her darling лузе me a pleasant company.
www.satirikon.ru/repertuar/chayka.html
I had been hesitating to vist it for a few days, becase the staging was supposed to last for (!) hours and comments about it were quite controversial.
At the last moment I finally decided to go and I've never regreted for it)
Despite being extremely modern and innovative, this interpretaion of Chehov's masterpiece only benefited the original.
The actors were dressed in modern clothes, the OST included Brian Eno and the scenery was far from real, but everything taken together created the right mood and really made me reinvent this drama.
And I should make a special mention of incredible plastique, the director's work and the idea of reiterating the most significant dialogues by different actors, which revealed all possible shades of meaning which could have been implied by the writer.
It was so breathtaking and spectacular that these 5 hours just flew by.
Bravo, Butusov!
Great work)
You made me really interested in you, your mind and your outlook.
Maybe it's true for those who have too much spare time and money, but it's absolute nonsense when speaking of busy and quite educated fellows like me, who are sometimes even fed up with certain kinds of "culture" during their studies)
I adore THEATRE for my own specific reasons, which I'm going to clarify.
The most curious phenomena in this world is people.They're much more interesting than any kind of art or culture.
That's why conscious is one of the most exciting matters to investigate.
And watching stagings is a simple and plesant way of doing so.
As a person with lively imagination, I always create a new world, full of colours and sounds, reading a drama. A writer can drop you some hints how to imagine this or that character or scenery, but he or she always gives full play for you to think up what is missing.
Drama is elemental material for creating a new universe. Every reader has the same initial conditions, but everyone invents their own model.
You cannot penetrate everyone's head, but you can do it with the director's one)
It's a unique chance to see how someone else's mind works!
And compare it to your own.
So, on the one hand, while reading a drama. you're co-creating with the author, you're almost a demiurge.
And, on the other, while watching a staging, you're watching creation of the world and you're still not a usual observer, but a partaker.
And for me, there is nothing comparable to the act of co-creation, contemplation and osmosis.
____________________________________________________________________________________
On the 6th of May we watched "Chayka", directed by Uriy Butusov, at Satirikon.
The tickets had been handed out by our adorable faculty, and my wondeful groupmate with her darling лузе me a pleasant company.
www.satirikon.ru/repertuar/chayka.html
I had been hesitating to vist it for a few days, becase the staging was supposed to last for (!) hours and comments about it were quite controversial.
At the last moment I finally decided to go and I've never regreted for it)
Despite being extremely modern and innovative, this interpretaion of Chehov's masterpiece only benefited the original.
The actors were dressed in modern clothes, the OST included Brian Eno and the scenery was far from real, but everything taken together created the right mood and really made me reinvent this drama.
And I should make a special mention of incredible plastique, the director's work and the idea of reiterating the most significant dialogues by different actors, which revealed all possible shades of meaning which could have been implied by the writer.
It was so breathtaking and spectacular that these 5 hours just flew by.
Bravo, Butusov!
Great work)
You made me really interested in you, your mind and your outlook.