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Dream. John Donne
Dream. John Donne
Metaphysical drama, text-music-fusion
Based on "The Great Elegy to John Donne" by I.A. Brodsky (1940-1996), Nobel laureate (literature, 1987)
Grigory Kofman, GOFF-Company, Russian Theatre (Berlin), LIK (Pushkin Hills), Tauragnai (Lithuania) theatre festivals, laureate of Russian-language foreign theatre festivals, associate professor of theatre schools in Berlin and Vienna.
Duet: Grigory Kofman (Berlin), Dasha Moroz-Khidasheli (Tbilisi).
Synopsis:
Joseph Brodsky meets John Donne meets Death – a sound performance based on the “Great Elegy...” by I. Brodsky, “an experience of approaching death”. A description of a walk starting from night London to the depths (heights) of the other world. “Night Journey...” or, a kind of indirect homage to La Divina Kommedia - although John Donne is not quite Virgil, and Brodsky is not Dante at all.
Genre description:
Musical and dramatic suspense - over-drama using the AA method - a combination of Academicism and Avant-garde, based on a specific “motionless” text, the standing of time, the expectation of an event, taking into account the active influence of sound fields emanating from the musicians on stage. The performance can be defined as a "Musical excursion to otherworldly places".
70 minutes, in one act.
Recommended for audiences from 12 to 81
Metaphysical drama, text-music-fusion
Based on "The Great Elegy to John Donne" by I.A. Brodsky (1940-1996), Nobel laureate (literature, 1987)
Grigory Kofman, GOFF-Company, Russian Theatre (Berlin), LIK (Pushkin Hills), Tauragnai (Lithuania) theatre festivals, laureate of Russian-language foreign theatre festivals, associate professor of theatre schools in Berlin and Vienna.
Duet: Grigory Kofman (Berlin), Dasha Moroz-Khidasheli (Tbilisi).
Synopsis:
Joseph Brodsky meets John Donne meets Death – a sound performance based on the “Great Elegy...” by I. Brodsky, “an experience of approaching death”. A description of a walk starting from night London to the depths (heights) of the other world. “Night Journey...” or, a kind of indirect homage to La Divina Kommedia - although John Donne is not quite Virgil, and Brodsky is not Dante at all.
Genre description:
Musical and dramatic suspense - over-drama using the AA method - a combination of Academicism and Avant-garde, based on a specific “motionless” text, the standing of time, the expectation of an event, taking into account the active influence of sound fields emanating from the musicians on stage. The performance can be defined as a "Musical excursion to otherworldly places".
70 minutes, in one act.
Recommended for audiences from 12 to 81
Harry's songs
... His guests, poets kindred to him in spirit, gather around the poet and hospitable host Harry Martinson. There is only one condition: everyone comes with their own character and free verse put into their mouth. The only “rebellious one” is the chansonnier, who inappropriately and angrily butts into the lyrical dialogues
Guest characters: Fly Agaric Monk, Jealous in Hell, Chansonnier, Odysseus, Quiet Insane, Street Musician, Antonio Vivaldi, Peeping on Bathers... (poems by Martinson, Kirsanov, Blaise, Chuck, Hughes, Brodsky, Brel, Pushkin...)
The performances of Grigori Kofman are distinguished by the synthetic nature of the action: a dramatic actor and a musician, often working with the most unusual instruments, exist on stage as equals. The line between theatrical and musical action is blurred: an actor can play his body like a musical instrument, and a musician can become a full-fledged stage character.
Duration - 75 minutes.
Age control: 12+
Language - Russian.
Guest characters: Fly Agaric Monk, Jealous in Hell, Chansonnier, Odysseus, Quiet Insane, Street Musician, Antonio Vivaldi, Peeping on Bathers... (poems by Martinson, Kirsanov, Blaise, Chuck, Hughes, Brodsky, Brel, Pushkin...)
The performances of Grigori Kofman are distinguished by the synthetic nature of the action: a dramatic actor and a musician, often working with the most unusual instruments, exist on stage as equals. The line between theatrical and musical action is blurred: an actor can play his body like a musical instrument, and a musician can become a full-fledged stage character.
Duration - 75 minutes.
Age control: 12+
Language - Russian.
OS'
OS'
75 minutes Mandelstam-avant-garde
Quasi-opera based on the works of O.E. Mandelstam
This is a story about three different Mandelstams
O.M. – lyric poet
O.M. – analyst of European literature
O.M. - documentary witness of the dying civil society in Russia
...Oh, where are you, holy islands,
where they do not eat broken bread,
where there is only honey, wine and milk.
creaky labor does not offend Heaven,
and the wheel rotates easily.
From sherry brandy to fish oil lanterns, from Jewish prayer to Russian crying in the Soviet night, stretches the time-space in which the hero of the play, Osip Mandelstam, exists.
Voices of O-sip Emilievich:
Lyrics – Grig-Oriy Kofman (texts).
The performance will be held in Russian.
Age control: 12+
75 minutes Mandelstam-avant-garde
Quasi-opera based on the works of O.E. Mandelstam
This is a story about three different Mandelstams
O.M. – lyric poet
O.M. – analyst of European literature
O.M. - documentary witness of the dying civil society in Russia
...Oh, where are you, holy islands,
where they do not eat broken bread,
where there is only honey, wine and milk.
creaky labor does not offend Heaven,
and the wheel rotates easily.
From sherry brandy to fish oil lanterns, from Jewish prayer to Russian crying in the Soviet night, stretches the time-space in which the hero of the play, Osip Mandelstam, exists.
Voices of O-sip Emilievich:
Lyrics – Grig-Oriy Kofman (texts).
The performance will be held in Russian.
Age control: 12+
The Author Has Nothing To Fear
A solo performance-concert, a program with many specific acting "tricks", that is, playing in the characters, created by a great Master Alexander Galich.
A.Galich is completely unfairly assigned the status of "bard" - let alone one of the leading ones in the Russian-speaking space. There are no doubts that this is a great poet of the second half of the 20th century, and as a poet-chronist (-historian) one of the few who gave an accurate diagnosis of the society in which he lived most of his life. His work, full of humor and tears, suffering and optimism - was one of the sharpest indicators of the state of the country.
«The author has nothing to fear»
Performance-concert – songs, verses, theatrical scenes – virtuoso changes of masks-characters of Galich.
Duration: 70 min. in one action
Accompaniment – acoustic guitar.
Grigory Kofman
Actor, director, theater teacher, poet.
Founder of one of the first «off-theatres» in Petersburg (1989)
Since 1994 lived in Berlin.
About 40 works in Russian and German languages.
More than 50 roles in theater, 15 roles in cinema.
Organizer of two theater and music festivals in Russia and Lithuania.
"Theatre is like poetry, an insidious thing: every time from the white paper - the previous trump cards are not considered. That's why I love it.»
Age control: 12+
The performance will be held in Russian.
A.Galich is completely unfairly assigned the status of "bard" - let alone one of the leading ones in the Russian-speaking space. There are no doubts that this is a great poet of the second half of the 20th century, and as a poet-chronist (-historian) one of the few who gave an accurate diagnosis of the society in which he lived most of his life. His work, full of humor and tears, suffering and optimism - was one of the sharpest indicators of the state of the country.
«The author has nothing to fear»
Performance-concert – songs, verses, theatrical scenes – virtuoso changes of masks-characters of Galich.
Duration: 70 min. in one action
Accompaniment – acoustic guitar.
Grigory Kofman
Actor, director, theater teacher, poet.
Founder of one of the first «off-theatres» in Petersburg (1989)
Since 1994 lived in Berlin.
About 40 works in Russian and German languages.
More than 50 roles in theater, 15 roles in cinema.
Organizer of two theater and music festivals in Russia and Lithuania.
"Theatre is like poetry, an insidious thing: every time from the white paper - the previous trump cards are not considered. That's why I love it.»
Age control: 12+
The performance will be held in Russian.
Speech of chief procecutor
Based on Vladimir Sorokin (7th part of the novel “Norma”)
Trial - schizophrenia with split personalities of all present, including jurors-spectators
Prosecutor – Grigory Kofman (text, action)
Accused – Grigory Kofman (sound, action)
The works of Vladimir Sorokin provide an excellent opportunity to unfold multi-layered situations on stage. This happens thanks to a modern mythological image, which can be designated as the Ghost of the Culture of Humanity. That is, this is not a full-blooded physical character, but a kind of spirit, molded from the traces-imprints of the most important achievements in the history of Culture. It manifests itself through the richness of linguistic associations, the absurdity of the characters’ behavior, and it interferes with shocking elements in a seemingly completely traditional theatrical action.
Thus, in the “Speech of the Chief Prosecutor,” the prosecutor is dealing with the Case of a certain Defendant, who is essentially accused of placing, as a result of his scientific research, the art of the twentieth century above all other achievements of human culture - above Leonardo, Shakespeare, Mozart... Forced, however, during the analysis In this case, to operate with specific cultural evidence and turn to the non-standard logic of the accused, the speaker himself from time to time turns into the Accused.
Text-music-fusion in 72 minutes.
Age control: 12+
Language - Russian.
Trial - schizophrenia with split personalities of all present, including jurors-spectators
Prosecutor – Grigory Kofman (text, action)
Accused – Grigory Kofman (sound, action)
The works of Vladimir Sorokin provide an excellent opportunity to unfold multi-layered situations on stage. This happens thanks to a modern mythological image, which can be designated as the Ghost of the Culture of Humanity. That is, this is not a full-blooded physical character, but a kind of spirit, molded from the traces-imprints of the most important achievements in the history of Culture. It manifests itself through the richness of linguistic associations, the absurdity of the characters’ behavior, and it interferes with shocking elements in a seemingly completely traditional theatrical action.
Thus, in the “Speech of the Chief Prosecutor,” the prosecutor is dealing with the Case of a certain Defendant, who is essentially accused of placing, as a result of his scientific research, the art of the twentieth century above all other achievements of human culture - above Leonardo, Shakespeare, Mozart... Forced, however, during the analysis In this case, to operate with specific cultural evidence and turn to the non-standard logic of the accused, the speaker himself from time to time turns into the Accused.
Text-music-fusion in 72 minutes.
Age control: 12+
Language - Russian.
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