26 may Alexandrinsky theater will present the first quarantine premiere interactive performance “drama of chosse” on the play by Boris Akunin. Theatre, unlike film, it only exists in dialogue with the audience: how is it achieved when the theatres in quarantine, but the viewer on the couch?..Andrew Arhangelskiy the start of a pandemic theater arts had the hardest: the theatre in principle, there is no live audience participation. Transfer productions in the online mode is considered, naturally, as a temporary measure; however, even this purely “technical” matter, as it turns out, is an art. Stream the show on the screen suggests at least the alternation of large and General plans, this effect can be achieved by filming the performance with several cameras simultaneously. Not all theatres had such record; in most cases we can only talk about “fixing”, not “filming” of the show. “Right now I’m watching the broadcast of Opera performances and understand that it causes terrible harm to the art of Opera, says artistic Director of “Helikon-Opera” Dmitry Bertman.— The only exceptions are recordings made specially, but it’s very expensive”.Among Russian drama theatres, the most impressive programme broadcasts today at the Moscow youth theater. In the list of almost 20 names, which, in turn, were grouped thematically: “Week of Dostoevsky, Pushkin weekend”, “Week of Chekhov’s” the… Here you can see the works, long out of the repertoire, like “Notes from the underground” 1988. BDT presented a video version of a recent premiere of “Three fat men” by Andrey Moguchy. Perm “theatre-Theatre” — a video version of the play “the Perm gods” Dmitry Volkostrelov…But it’s all in any event — past premiere. Meanwhile, he went the third month quarantine and you have to think about how to support theatrical process. Want sad joke that the quarantine is “split” all of the troupe “on the Windows of Zuma”, when you consider that new productions today are most often held in the trendy format zoom conference. So, in “Pyotr Fomenko Workshop” held a virtual reading of the play by Dmitry Danilov “Choose three”. Parents, children and the grandmother of heroes phantasmagoria — discuss the next tightening of quarantine measures now to communicate you want to choose “no more than three relatives.” It should be noted that the overall fatigue from the “Zuma” comes faster than from the traditional theatrical forms. Screenlit format, what turned out to be the salvation for movie (see Ogonyok, No. 19), the theater looks depressingly boring. In “Gogol-center”, for example, understand this: announcing the YouTube premiere videoease “Fairies” on motives of the play of David bean, and “the Seventh Studio” (directed by Ilya Shagalov), the authors emphasize that it is “not a toyR monologues to Zoom, which all have a little bit nauseated”.Thus, spiritual “complicity” is replaced by technical; however this is not always an adequate substitute. However, to achieve the “effect of the participation of the spectator” does not have to resort to literal money. This teaches us two recent online premiere.Online called all — masters and beginners. If we had a reason in the old days, say, to pay attention to the student performance of the University?.. Now we consider the performance of “Cosmopolitans” (premiered may 15) along with all other. The theme of the play is not a stranger to Theatre: almost 70 years ago, in the winter of 1949, in those walls began the infamous trial of the “anti-Patriotic group of critics” is the final chord of the campaign against “formalism in art”. Student Mike Toptygin gets from the future in 1949, where he meets with those same critics — engaging with them in a tragicomic dialogue. Form of the play may seem to be primitive: it is, in fact, a video presentation. On the screen, there was found “immediately”, the Internet, photographs of the victims and the executioners of the process. As the background sounds to the radio play “the Wrong shade” on the play by Konstantin Simonov; the play was written on Stalin’s orders directed against “cosmopolitans”. It would seem that it’s even possible to “play”? However, the play has an important advantage: it makes you think. The UPS and downs of the process raises real drama, directed by “father of Nations”: according to inhuman scenario some artists here are forced to destroy the other (well, not literally).Photo: press service of the Alexandrinsky teatra here is an example from a completely different, it would seem that region. A year ago at the Venice Biennale of Dmitry Krymov has created a video performance of “the last supper”; its online premiere was held in mid-may on the website of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin. Before us is played by using cardboard and fabric a copy of “the last supper” of Tintoretto, of the Venetian Church of San Trovaso. In the space of the picture slowly “includes” people in overalls; they carry the details of the paintings for restoration?.. storage?.. In the end, in an empty frame is only one Central figure of the eternal story. The play poses the philosophical question: what remains of the miracle, enlightenment, faith in the era of solid rationality?.. The author does not know the answer to this question, offering everyone to look for the answer yourself: it is because of uncertainty and the feeling of “dialogue with the audience”, despite the fact that everything happens in absolute silence….Alexandrinsky theatre in Saint-Petersburg one of the first in the country moved to an online format through social networks and your own website. Now the theatre is preparing to present the first Karantinth premiere — online-performance “drama of sossa. Trial”. The play in the genre of “forensic detective” is written by Boris Akunin specifically for theatre. The audience will witness a trial taking place in St. Petersburg in the early twentieth century. The jury in real time will make their verdict. Will have the opportunity to take part in the vote and the viewers. The first jury will include Konstantin Bogomolov, Maria Mironova Polina Osetinskaya, Tatyana Tolstaya and Nikolay Svanidze. “Does this interactivity that the play can end in unpredictable ways?” — asked journalists to artistic Director of the theater Valery Fokine during the online conference. “Now everything could end in an unexpected way— dodged a direct response to the artistic Director.— For example, we should all be prepared for the fact that during the broadcast suddenly lost sound.”Traditional to its existence, the theatre will be back, according to Fokina, “to the August — September”. But the meeting with the audience “will not be easy,” he warns. If you follow the requirements on maintaining the distance in any theater hall will be occupied not more than half of the seats. “The actors have to literally play in half-empty halls— says Fokin— that over centuries of history of the theatre was actually considered a sign of failure. You imagine the actors?..” And the General producer of the New stage of the Alexandrinsky theater Alexander Malich says that “the culture for two months of quarantine free saved the world from loneliness.” However, over time the audience, including Russian, will have to get used to pay for online premiere. Which, of course, is a psychological shock for the layman. Remain in this case, the online theatre audience?.. And what about their number can be discussed in the future?.. On these sad issues of our time the answer is no today, no one.
