The STD library premiered the play "Public Readings" Automatic translate

This performance will never be played on stage, since this mystical love story between a man and a woman, where there is still the main third character - the library. “The idea to put on a play in the library, to work with non-standard spaces came to producer Evgeny Khudyakov six months ago. I grabbed onto it because I had long wanted to make a theater where there could be no theater. It is possible to imagine a theater on the street or at the station, but the library is interesting in that you can not make noise here, violate strict rules. Our performance is an attempt to prove the universality of the theater, we are interested to show that the theater can be done everywhere. And today, when technological progress pushed libraries to the background, we wanted to reflect on this topic. We wrote a bright, slightly fantastic story about love, where the library plays an unusual and important role in the relationship between a man and a woman, ”says director Denis Azarov.

In this library, among the cabinets and books, among the tables at which the audience was sitting, two actors play - a man and a woman. Love is born in the reading room, a taboo place of culture with a strict code of conduct.

“The library is a place where there are so many words that they become toxic. It was interesting to suggest what could happen in such a thoroughly formalized space. We tried to make a small revolution: to convince our viewers that the sun is still in the center of the world, and that this sun is a man. Therefore, we chose a somewhat strange and somewhat melodramatic plot: he, she, and “words, words, words,” commentator playwright Valery Pecheikin.

“Now it is difficult to evaluate the result that we got. In any case, this is an interesting experience, because the play is short and intelligible, and the absence of any technical means makes the performance completely focused on the actors, ”adds Denis Azarov.

Denis Azarov - director, creator of the opera studio "Moscow Youth Opera House". Graduated from GITIS (workshop of I.L. Reichelgauz). One of the few directors who simultaneously work in opera and drama, and who know how to successfully exist at the junction of these two genres. His dramatic performances are in the “Gogol Center” (“The Christmas Tree by the Ivanovs” according to Vedensky), and the “Center for Drama and Directing” (“Viy” by Natalia Vorozhbit). He staged operas: “Passion for Nicodemus” by A. P. Manotskov, “Iolanta” P. I. Tchaikovsky, "Journey to the Reims" by J. Rossini, "Aleko" S. Rachmaninov, "The Wedding of Figaro" VA Mozart and others.

He was the second director on the opera Golden Cockerel at the Bolshoi Theater (dir. K. Serebrennikov) and American Lulu by O. Neuvert in Komische Oper (dir. K. Serebrennikov, Berlin).

For the play "The village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants" according to F. Dostoevsky, staged in Sarov, he became the laureate of the prize "Action to support theatrical initiatives" of the Theater of Nations.

Denis Azarov’s works were shown at festivals: “Territory”, “Characters”, “Transfiguration” (Yaroslavl), “December Evenings” (Sarov), “Oldenburger Promenade” (Oldenburg, Germany), “Durence Luberon Festival” (France).

Valery Pecheikin - Russian playwright, screenwriter, journalist. He graduated from Tashkent State University of Economics, with a degree in economics. In Tashkent, he worked as a senior correspondent for the newspaper of the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan, Pravda Vostoka, and an assistant director at the Ilkhom Theater. Together with his artistic director, Mark Weil, he wrote the play “Grenade with Pomegranate” (under the pseudonym Dmitry Tikhomirov) about the work of Alexander Nikolaev, staged on the stage of the theater. Together with Pavel Lungin, he wrote the script for the film “Conductor” (dir. Pavel Lungin, 2012). He participated as a playwright in the productions of the project "Platform" "Metamorphoses" by Ovid and "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" by Shakespeare, as well as "Idiots" by Lars von Trier in the "Gogol Center". Winner of the Debut Prize (2007) in the nomination Dramaturgy for the play Falcons and the Five Evenings contest in memory of A. M. Volodin for the play My Moscow.

The project "Open Stage" was created in 2001. This is a space of free creativity and experiment in the field of theater, audiovisual art, performance, music and education. We are open to new forms, young names and unusual formats.

Today, Oleg Glushkov, Kirill Vytoptov, Denis Azarov, Arseniy Epelbaum, Vyacheslav Ignatov, Filipp Vinogradov, Alexey Razmakhov, Tatyana Borisova, Ekaterina Vasileva and others put on their open performances in the new season 2013/2014: dramatic, musical, plastic and children’s performances, the development of new scenic spaces, festivals, exhibitions, educational projects, the launch of the Academy of Theater Spectators and much more.