"Yoknapatofa" - a new version of the play directed by Mindaugas Karbauskis. His production in 2004, based on the novel by the outstanding American writer W. Faulkner, performed at the Tabakov Theater throughout Moscow, was awarded two Golden Masks and the Crystal Turandot Prize.
Yoknapatofa is a Faulkner-invented county in the southern United States. Having visited Yoknapatofu, we will meet the large family of the farmer Bandren and go with her on a creaking cart drawn by humble mules on a journey along dusty roads of such a usual and at the same time such a mysterious country.
Crossing the turbulent river sweeping the bridges, we will see how people and animals are drowning in a stream of water that does not exist in reality on the stage. We wonder how, in the magic of theatrical performance, a grandfather clock suddenly turns into a coffin, and a basin of water for washing becomes a raging stream.
This is a performance paradox. In it, twenty heroes laugh and cry, curse and be sad, in a word, live to expressive country-style melodies, not afraid of death, understanding its inevitability and treating it with wise calm.
The main event of the performance - the departure from the life of the mother of the family - exposes for us the characters and feelings of each of the heroes, filled with vivid emotions.