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Home / Projects TI / New Drama 2008 Festival / Focus RussiaFocus Russia12 – 14 May 2008, BratislavaFocus Russia is a special programme section of the 4th year of the NOVÁ DRÁMA/NEW DRAMA festival of contemporary Slovak and world’s drama. The presentation of the Focus Russia is a result of the partnership of the Bratislava Theatre Institute in the international project called the European Translation Workshop and of a long-lasting co-operation with Russian dramatic scene. Programme12 May 2008, 10am – 4pm, The Russian Centre for Science and ResearchConference – “Russian Drama after 1989” The conference is organized by the Centre for Theatre Research of the Theatre Institute which focuses on research of history and theory of Slovak and central-European theatre. It is a platform for scientific and researching work of Slovak and foreign theatre scientists. The conference will bring theoretical and critical contributions mapping the issues concerning interpretation and transformation of staging approach towards Russian classical, modern and post-modern dramatic texts (the change of interpretation of dramaturgical and directing conception of classical, modern and / or contemporary Russian dramatic texts in the theatre practice in post-socialist countries, directing tendencies in staging classical, modern and / or contemporary Russian dramatic texts). Partner of the event: The Russian Centre for Science and Research 12 May 2008, 7pm, Astorka Korzo´90 Theatre Yevgeni Grishkovec: Winter Directed by: J. Czajlik Performed by: Z. Furková, L. Latinák, M. Miezga A theatre play by one of the most acclaimed Russian theatre professional grotesquely unveils the secrets of human peculiarities and curiosities in interpersonal relationships. By creating a contrast to the conditions of newly-made society it shows – through metaphoric scenes and dream-like memories – revaluations of traditional partner bonds within new concepts of interpersonal relationships. This chamber production was directed by exceptionally inventive director József Czajlik. It is our ambition to present this impressive production with a current message. 12 May 2008, 9pm, Astorka Korzo´90 Theatre – Trezor The Letí Theatre, Prague (Czech Republic) Olya Mukchina: FLYING Directed by: Marián Amsler Flying is composed of recorded real dialogues heard by the author herself from her Moscow friends. She spent a long time collecting this material; the first version of the play was published on a website in November 2004. Mukchina also directed this play (premiere: 1 June 2005 at the Mayakovsky Theatre in Moscow). The production from Prague is the first staging of this text outside Russia. “Flying is in fact a film script, Mukchina doesn´t write that one character moves to the left side of the stage and sits in an armchair. Mukchina doesn´t write that the character travels by an overcrowded tram, looks at the reflection of his face in the window, gets off, walks in the street, passing people, takes a lift to the highest floor of some skyscraper and from there observes night Moscow… In theatre we work with reducing means, we doesn´t want to create a visual illusion of reality, we want to grasp a moment, feeling, impression, emotion, state… The rest is on spectator’s imagination. We offer him space to dream with us. Perhaps about him flying… ” (M. Amsler). The guest performance of the Letí Theatre from Prague with Mukchina´s play is to be presented with the presence of the author. 13 May 2008, 10am – 4pm, Astorka Korzo´90 Theatre – Trezor WORKSHOP I – DOCUMENTARY THEATRE AND VERBATIM Lecturer: Yelena Isayeva (Russia) Yelena Isayeva was born in 1966 in Moscow. In 1989 she graduated in journalism at Moscow State University. She writes dramatic texts for theatre, radio and television and she also writes poems. For her dramatic works and poems she was awarded various prizes (the prize in the National Competition of Sovremenaya dramaturgia journal; the prize at the Lyubimovka festival of contemporary drama, etc.). She is a holder of prestigious literary awards – Triumph and Garland. She is a co-founder of the Teatr.doc in Moscow (from 2002) which is focusing on documentary theatre. The Teatr.doc presents her plays Doc.tor (a documentary sound drama directed by V. Pankov); The Journals of Sinful Eva (an anti-performance based on internet journals of three women – a supermodel who committed suicide, a daughter of a Russian oligarch and a writer infected by HIV virus). Her plays are presented also at other Moscow theatres. The aim of the workshop is to inform its participants about the creating processes of documentary drama, the principles of documentary theatre and the verbatim method using extracts, and to give comparisons of dramatic, traditionally constructed text and practical work by the verbatim method. 13 May 2008, Meteorit Theatre The Centre of Dramaturgy and Directing, Moscow (Russia) Yuri Klavdiev: I'm a Machine-gunner Directed by: Irina Kerutchenko Performed by: Yuri Pletnyov In this monodramaYuri Klavdiev, a contemporary dramatist from Toliatti, speaks in the language of action films, but through the criminal speech and contemporary reality of “settling accounts”, jeeps and street anarchy there are other, lexical and time layers leak out. The subconscious of the grandson-criminal enters the mind of his grandfather, a Great War veteran. Two epochs and two wars meet here: the patriotic and liberating one and today´s bloody slaughters with no rules and targets. Klavdiev´s monodrama is performed by Kiril Pletnyov, the star of Russian TV series Soldiers 3, The Criminal Squad, Taiga, The Course of Survival. For his acting he was awarded the Seagul Prize in the Discovery category. The guest performance of the Centre of Dramaturgy and Directing from Moscow is to be presented with the presence of the author. 13 May 2008, 9pm, Astorka Korzo´90 Theatre – Trezor Yelena Isayeva, Maxim Kurochkin, Rodion Belecky Staged readings of plays Doc.tor, The Kitchen, A Chocolate Wall with the presence of the authors, with a discussion and promotion of a new book entitled Russian Drama published by the Bratislava Theatre Institute. 14 May 2008, 10am – 4pm, Russian Language and Literature Department of FiF UK SEMINAR: CONTEMPORARY DRAMA AND TRANSLATION LECTURE: CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN DRAMA AND CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN THEATRE Lecturers: John Freedman, Maxim Kurochkin Partner of the event: The Russian Language and Literature Department of the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University 14 May 2008, 12am – 5pm, Astorka Korzo´90 Theatre WORKSHOP II - DOCUMENTARY THEATRE AND VERBATIM Lecturer: Yelena Isayeva
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