The young playwright Sasha Denisova presented at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov’s new play "Job" in his own production Automatic translate

MOSCOW. The premiere of the play "Job", which took place on January 28 at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, simultaneously became the directorial debut on the stage of the theater of Sasha Denisova. She staged a play based on her own play, written by a young playwright specifically for the Moscow Art Theater. The performance "Job" was the result of a laboratory conducted by the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov in 2015.

The work of the director’s laboratory becomes a way to replenish the repertoire of the theater, expanding opportunities for experiments. Sasha Denisova already had experience in directing, staging several performances at the Center. Meyerhold in Mayakovka. Becoming a member of the Moscow Art Theater Lab. Chekhov, she presented a sketch of the play "Job" in her new play.

The work of Sasha Denisova was approved by the project managers. The sketch was finalized to a full-fledged performance, which took place on the poster of the Moscow Art Theater. Media representatives talked to the theater’s press service before the premiere. They were told about how Sasha Denisova worked on her play.

The hero of the play was a young scientist, a Harvard graduate, who decided to find his father, who at one time was a famous mathematician. In the search process, he finds himself in a remote village, ready to present an invoice to his father for children’s insults. However, the young man is faced with surprises. In the process of staging the artists participating in the play, the director suggested including observations from their own lives in the image of the Father, remembering the words and deeds of their own fathers.

In the play, these documentary observations organically merged with the artistic fabric of the play. The text of the play also combined the speech of our contemporaries, which is characteristic of everyday conversations, with the poetic language in which a person conducts a biblical dialogue with God. The performance was performed by Larisa Lomakina.

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