The presentation of the director A. Gorbatyi-ml.o several chapters of the "Brothers Karamazov" Mr. FM Dostoevsky. With orchestra.
"Ivan and the devil," a fragment that was not included in the main staging, is about the idea. About pride, about faith and the loss of the soul. Philosopher Ivan came up with the concept of saving the world. And she turned into a monstrous justification for evil.
Dostoevsky without dostoevshchiny, for live orchestral, with a battered storyteller, "had his father three sons," a fairy tale with a terrible ending. A smart, polished Russian intellectual meets with a drunkenness, a broken hooligan and a joker devil, and comes into conflict with him, at first condescendingly, then drawn in seriously, and can not win. Because this devil is part of his idea and part of his soul. In any idea, especially the global one, lies the devil, always ready to show up, talk - and win. Idealists argue about the destinies of the world, they make plans for universal happiness - and they lose to the wily charming devil.
In an era when one in three is sure that he knows how to make happy and save the world, Dostoevsky sounds a tuning fork that guides the mind and mind. Andrei Gorbaty makes a funny and terrible story about what happens to an obsessed idea and forgot about the main thing - about the multitude of people around.
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Review
Dostoevsky's novels are a vast field for any improvisations, productions and screen versions. And, it is not necessary to put everything entirely. It is possible to pull out from a multi-colored canvas episodes and characters, lines and biographies a bright thread, bring it closer and ... put a full-fledged performance.
That's exactly what they did this time. After all, the "Brothers Karamazovs" are coming "side by side", so why not look at the fragments. For example, how the "idea" of Ivan was born, or how it reached such a state, capable of justifying any crime.
Maybe someone knocked Ivan out of the way? But who could it be? Oh, look, look, it's all about him some kind of noisy guy, broken-headed, quick-witted. With such disputes it is better not to begin .. as there are souls you will lose! But after all, if there is no soul, then where does love, understanding and compassion come from? All .. evaporate, as it was not ...
However, like and serious things we are talking about, and everything to live music and light, with a little sense of humor. And perhaps, that's how it should be talking about high matters, about how a great idea turns into something monstrous, capable of devouring the souls and lives of people ... about atrocities and ... devils.
