Overnight at the museum. Ekaterina Sadur and Tanya Strelbitskaya present open rehearsals of scenes from the play by E. Sadur "THE ISLANDS OF BLESSED" 
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Gallery A3, May 16, 2015, 19-00, Starokonyushenny per. d.39
Ekaterina Sadur, a prose writer and playwright, was born in the city of Novosibirsk in the family of another great writer, Nina Sadur. Since then, Catherine graduated from the Literary Institute in Moscow and wrote several novels, the most famous of which is the novel Air, five plays, including Crowd of the Lonely and Salt, as well as essays and cycles of stories. time and cities, countries and eras, people and events… Her texts are filled with mystical, almost witchcraft images of Moscow, rattling and at the same time beckoning nightlife in Berlin and quiet, bewitching landscapes of Crimea. And, of course, people who seem to meet by chance, but not at all by chance connected in one endlessly beautiful story. Three books of prose were published in Moscow, two in Germany. The works of Catherine Sadur were translated into European languages, and the plays were performed in the theaters of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Oslo. Currently, the writer lives and works in Berlin.
The play "Islands of the Blessed" was written in Berlin in 2014. The Russian singer Olga, a former Meyerhold actress, escapes to Berlin after the revolution and opens an artistic bar with the Nietzschean title “Island of Joy”. Visitors to the bar, her friends, are Russian and German bohemians, musicians and actors. The year 1933 is coming, Hitler and the Nazis come to power, the Reichstag burns… Then the action of the play takes the viewer today, where in the same Nietzschean bar "Island of Joy" a jazz singer Olga with Russian roots gathers contemporary German bohemia around herself and decides to repeat concerts his brilliant grandmother. The play plunges into the atmosphere of memories and overflows of memory, through which the picture of the future emerges brighter and brighter.
The reading of the play takes place against the background of the exhibition of the famous symbolist artist, front-line soldier Oscar Kacharov in Gallery A3. The exhibition presents drawings and sketches of the artist, made during the war and later paintings, reflecting the history of his search for new means of expression, new color relationships, rhythms, geometry, plastics, paintings and graphics.
Director: Tanya Strelbitskaya
Music: Sergey Letov
Artist: Oscar Kacharov
Actors:
Olga - Irina Loseva
Harold - Le Van
Dimitri - Oleg Dulenin
Martin - Stas Motyrev