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Dream. John Donne
Project Type
Photography
Date
April 2023
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