150 Reasons Not to Protect Motherland12+
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About the fall of Constantinople and 7 strategies of survival in the era of change
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Anna Kotova-Deryabina, Tatyana Parshina, Anastasia Patlay, Natalya Sapetskaya, Varvara Faer
The play and production - Elena Gremina
Composer Dmitry Vlasik
Scenography by Elena Gremena and Konstantin Terentiev
Costumes Hope Averina
Coordinator and assistant director Anastasia Il'ina
One day everything around you can suddenly disappear: loved people, values on which grew, great cities, world empires. Disappear, to become completely different ...
Theater and music tell about May 29, 1453.
About the fall of the main city of the then world.
About why the West did not help, about 150 reasons not to defend the homeland, 150 reasons not to unite in a moment of danger, 150 reasons to work for the enemy.
About thousands of very true and thoughtful motives to seek and find a compromise with the enemy and with a conscience to survive.
And the search for one single reason to go to the death to defend what others have already sold, betrayed or mediocre lost.
Everyone who could hold a sword will die on this day. And when men all die, women have to tell.
The play uses "verbatim of the 15th century" - authentic notes by a Janissary, a witness of events, and authentic poems by Sultan Mehmet Fatih and Sufi poet Yunus Emre, specially translated for the play.
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“ ~ 70% of perception of media products depends not on the picture, but on the sounds. In this performance, sounds are perfectly realized, on the basis of which you yourself "complete" the scenery. The brain at first does not believe its happiness - "we were not given ready visual images ?!" And then comes off in full - the rain, the trampling of feet, the battle, clothes, the appearance of heroes, places, events. The show itself for me that nothing has changed in the past few hundred years - what we have been, remain so. We speak about the importance of goals, faith, cooperation, self-realization, family, honesty, and we rush, betray, fall into pride, throw our comrades-in-arms. Unusually and well.
“ It is described unusually - all characters are male, but all roles are performed by women. There are four of them, although in general there should have been five scenarios, but four of them coped, though with small overlays. Dressed in different colors right there in the hall, they appear before us by the Turkish sultan Mehmed with their subjects (in red), the Byzantine king Constantine with his commanders (in gold), then Europeans (in blue). Their story is accompanied by sounds that they themselves create - then rolling beans, pebbles, beads and nuts (I really liked the version of my friend - "the sands of time", and as if by this rustling and rolling it seemed to enter us into a trance), then a gnashing of a cup About a saucer, something that is unbearably disgusting some kind of device, and then a dull thud and ever increasing to the sound of the music triangles, which, with the fall of Constantinople, became a ringing of bells and eventually a tocker. Story-narration-reasoning is conducted on behalf of conquerors and defeated, on behalf of defenders and attackers, on behalf of rulers and their subordinates, and each has its own truth and its own idea of those events. But how really everything happened? We will never know. A performance is one of the versions that also takes place. The decoration of the play is very modest. Decorations are gypsum busts placed on the stage and in window openings. Costumes are hoodies of three colors. Props - stones, beads, nuts, saucer cups, lanterns.
“ Spektakl 'otlichniy! Material, igra aktris (!), Muzyka / zvuk - na ochen 'dostoynom urovne. Vodil na spektakl 'semyu i druzey; Znayu, shto oni vo mnogom razdelyayut moyu otsenku. Bezuslovno rekomenduyu.
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“ ~ 70% of perception of media products depends not on the picture, but on the sounds. In this performance, sounds are perfectly realized, on the basis of which you yourself "complete" the scenery. The brain at first does not believe its happiness - "we were not given ready visual images ?!" And then comes off in full - the rain, the trampling of feet, the battle, clothes, the appearance of heroes, places, events. The show itself for me that nothing has changed in the past few hundred years - what we have been, remain so. We speak about the importance of goals, faith, cooperation, self-realization, family, honesty, and we rush, betray, fall into pride, throw our comrades-in-arms. Unusually and well.
“ It is described unusually - all characters are male, but all roles are performed by women. There are four of them, although in general there should have been five scenarios, but four of them coped, though with small overlays. Dressed in different colors right there in the hall, they appear before us by the Turkish sultan Mehmed with their subjects (in red), the Byzantine king Constantine with his commanders (in gold), then Europeans (in blue). Their story is accompanied by sounds that they themselves create - then rolling beans, pebbles, beads and nuts (I really liked the version of my friend - "the sands of time", and as if by this rustling and rolling it seemed to enter us into a trance), then a gnashing of a cup About a saucer, something that is unbearably disgusting some kind of device, and then a dull thud and ever increasing to the sound of the music triangles, which, with the fall of Constantinople, became a ringing of bells and eventually a tocker. Story-narration-reasoning is conducted on behalf of conquerors and defeated, on behalf of defenders and attackers, on behalf of rulers and their subordinates, and each has its own truth and its own idea of those events. But how really everything happened? We will never know. A performance is one of the versions that also takes place. The decoration of the play is very modest. Decorations are gypsum busts placed on the stage and in window openings. Costumes are hoodies of three colors. Props - stones, beads, nuts, saucer cups, lanterns.
“ Spektakl 'otlichniy! Material, igra aktris (!), Muzyka / zvuk - na ochen 'dostoynom urovne. Vodil na spektakl 'semyu i druzey; Znayu, shto oni vo mnogom razdelyayut moyu otsenku. Bezuslovno rekomenduyu.