Russian Folk Tales/Русские сказки
Directors-Ilya Shagalov, Alexander Sozonov/Илья Шагалов, Александр Созонов
In "Gogol-center" simultaneously with the work on the production of "Who Is Happy in Russia?" there was a big workshop on the Russian folk tale from the collection of A. Afanasyev.
"Russian Fairy Tales" - are going on all around the theater at the same time. You choose your path out of the three proposed. Three groups. Three Ways. Three different impressions. Lots of music. Many plots. Different genres and moods.
Mary Morevna, Ivashechka, One-eyed Liho, Pravda, Krivda, Chert, Tsarevich Ivan, Ershishko-Plutishko, Tsar, Sister Fox, Priest, Wolf , Toothy pike, Vasilisa the Beautiful, Baba Yaga, Firebird ...
Dozens of fairy tales. Familiar childhood characters, words and situations. Almost all the actors of the theater are part of this performance.
Kirill Serebrennikov:
The new season of "Gogol center" will be released once the two performances. It will be a kind of film series. "Who Lives Well in Russia" based on the poem N.Nekrasova and "Russian fairy tales" tales from the collection of Afanasiev. Neighborhood Nekrasov and Afanasyeva quite organically. They were friends: Nekrasov published Afanasyev, on the poet's desk in Karabikha is precisely the book of fairy tales Afanasiev. Moreover, in many ways they definitely opposed. Nekrasov wrote, invented the "vernacular" of the poem, the first time in the literature after Pushkin to create a recognizable original stanza Afanasiev carefully recorded all the folk tales of many variations, almost treating the original, as we would say today, documentary material. The whole poem Nekrasov, written after the abolition of serfdom, ask questions of freedom and slavery. It's about the impossibility of gaining freedom and convenience of the usual bondage. Fairy tales - on the contrary, it is the space where the Russian people is absolutely free and short, and the body. They have in common - the unconditional love of and interest in the Russian people, for the motherland. It must be very loving and a good understanding of their country, to write these words: "Thou art a pauper, yet thou art abundant, you and the mighty, and impotent, Mother Russia!