The major goal of the Opening Forum of the New Stage is presentation of the theatre and cultural complex of the Alexandrinsky Theatre. On May 15, public will enter its premises for the first time; this is why a tour around the new building, its theatre halls, auditoriums, and studios will make an important part of the opening; there will also be presented projects of young directors from Andrey Moguchy’s creative laboratory. These performances interpret motives of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The core of the experiment was implantation of the painful and bleeding Dostoyevsky’s ideas in the matrix of the internet in order to try and actualize them in the modern media world. According to the creators’ idea, this should give a new life to these ideas. To achieve this, new technologies and all technical capacities of the New Stage will be used. For the whole day, lectures, performances, presentations will be taking place; the first night of A. Manotskov’s opera The Prophets will conclude the day.
The Choice
Performance of the AXE Engineering Theatre
Director: Maxim Isayev
Composer: Nickolay Sudnik
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s phrase from the Crime and Punishment novel gave the foundation to the project: “This is THE BEST MINUTE, ONE NEVER COULD FIND A BETTER ONE.” Svidrigailov comes up with this phrase prior to making the hardest decision in his life. This minute, a series of bright images and hectic thoughts flew before his mind. With the help of new technologies, the AXE Theatre is making an attempt of the space and time deformation.
Mercifulness
Performance
Director: Anna Yeremeyeva
Composer: Alesya Mikhailova
The Skype Theatre. Virtual and real public and an actress… It is not always clear at the Skype Theatre who is watching whom. The internet, as well as our world, is cruel and not safe; it is hard to stay innocent and honest in it at all times. However, in the course of the performance, the heroine – a modern Sonya Marmeladova – conquers her weaker self and, that is, the entire world. Questions about “a tear of a child” and “what will save the world” were taken off the table.
Fairness
Performance
Director: Valeria Surkova
Playwright: Natalya Vorozhbit
Actors: Yulia Marchenko, Victoria Rotanova
Not only Raskolnikov is capable of a murder. Each one can kill. Life might become so intolerable that a murder might turn into the only way out. But how fair is this in regards of the slain? The Director, contemplating on the issue, gives the public a chance to be present at the creation of a new reality, the reality of the cinema. An actor is playing his role on the background of a chromakey, while, at that very moment, he is already existing in some other reality on the screen… Guilt and fairness, the victim and the headman: all this turns illusory at some point.
Punishment
The theatre of text
Dramatists: Natasha Borenko, Asya Voloshina, Tatyana Rakhmanova, Yury Uryupinsky
There is nothing but the text. A computer and a playwright can be at any part of the world. And one can see the “theatre of the text” on the screen. Thanks to internet-translation and special software written for the project, public will be able to see the very process of playwriting and even take part in it.
Prophets
Opera
Composer: Alexander Manotskov
The only form of existence for the Prophets opera is its instantaneous performance. Seven untrained and non-professional performers follow instructions of a composing demiurge, repeat the sounds they hear in the earphones. This way they turn into prophets of a supreme force. Prophets had never chosen their destiny, they had been mediums…