The image of Mayakovsky in the play by Maxim Didenko "Flute-spine" Automatic translate

ST. PETERSBURG. In the repertoire of the theater. Lensoviet appeared a new performance. On the Small Stage on January 30, the premiere of the original production of Flute-Spine took place. This is the work of the young director Maxim Didenko, known for his avant-garde approach to the embodiment of his stage ideas, created together with students of the acting course of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic Institute.

Although the name of the play is identical to the name of Mayakovsky’s poem, the production uses fragments of the poet’s most varied works. The performance contains poems known from childhood, “What is good…”, coming from the very bottom of the heart to the lines “Listen!” And letters addressed to Lilya Brik - the most personal of what the poet wrote.

On the playbill, the scene of the performance is the Small Stage, however, the audience plunges into its atmosphere back in the lobby, when instead of ringing the sound of the flute sounds, and a woman in a black dress appears on the steps of the stairs. The audience follows the story, moving from the lobby of the theater, where they survive the first suicide of Mayakovsky, into a small corridor, and only then get into the hall.

Among the characters in the play are Lily and Osip Briki, Stalin and Pierrot, and silhouettes, the significance of each of which is to be recognized by the audience. The performance is constantly played by music performed by the actors themselves. They periodically become a real orchestra, in which the violin and double bass, clarinet and, of course, the flute sound.

Poems sound recitative, sometimes sung. The music in the play was used by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and the desperate letters in the play by Osip Brik are accompanied by the music of the composer Ivan Kushnir, the author of the musical accompaniment of the play. The image of Mayakovsky is embodied by two actors, but each of the participants in the play believes that each of them is a particle of the Poet.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru