Russia (bbabo.net), - The Golden Mask Festival on February 23 opens an out-of-competition program in Moscow - Mask Plus. The playbill includes eight performances from different cities of Russia, all performances are united by a non-standard, experimental approach, bright artistic solutions and new director names.
The first performance of "Mask Plus" will be the "City of En" of the Prokopiev Drama Theater (Kemerovo region). Director Artem Ustinov staged the novel of the same name by Leonid Dobychin - the story of growing up in a small town in the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the first production of the book, published in 1934. Show - February 23 on the stage of the Center. Meyerhold.
The program will continue on February 25 and 26 "Connecting Rods" of the St. Petersburg Theater-Festival "Baltic House". The young director Roman Muromtsev turns to the work of the mystic and philosopher Yuri Mamleev, and the audience is promised immersion in real Russian horror. The work will be shown on the stage "Under the Roof" of the Theater. Moscow City Council. In the same place, on February 23 and 24, another theater from the Northern capital - "Organisms" - will present to the public a performance-concert "The First Subbotnik" based on the prose of Vladimir Sorokin. Director - Vladimir Antipov.
The shopping center "Metropolis" will become a theater venue for five days. It is there that the performance "33 Sisters" by the Perm company "Nemhat" will be shown. "The project was born out of an experiment. We asked those who wished to re-read Chekhov's play and answer one question: "What happens in it?"...", director Alexander Shumilin says about his work.
For the first time in the program "Mask Plus" a performance from Chelyabinsk. In the Black Hall of the Center. Meyerhold - production of theater with the ironic title "I dance like a moron." Igor Vitrenko's play was directed by Ivan Minevtsev. Debuts on the "Golden Mask" and theater. Komissarzhevskaya from Ussuriysk. The troupe will perform a production of "Karenin" by Roman Gabria.
From Ulan-Ude to Moscow will come the play "Korea 03" Buryat Drama Theater. Khotsa Namsaraeva. The "Mask Plus" will be completed on March 3 by the play "Grey Rainbow" by the independent "One Theater" from Krasnodar. Director and lyricist Nikolai Russky plays with the stylistic and artistic codes of the Soviet era, inventing his own post-ronic world for each of the characters.
After the screenings, there will be discussions with the authors of the productions and artists, as well as a series of discussions at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre.
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