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Moscow Art Theater of A.P.Chekhov

Show
Weekends
Only for children
Only adults
January
19.14
Purchased earlier: 6048
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Location:
125009, Москва, Камергерский пер., 3
Duration:
01 h 40 min
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The author of the play Alexander Molochnikov: "Why are there so many diverse works of art about the Second World War every year and almost nothing about the First? What do I know about the First World War, except that it started with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and was the first to use poison gas? What is the Great trench war, about which we know except from Remarque's novel "On the Western Front Without Change"? Perhaps these questions aroused my interest in such an important and, I think, occupying an undeservedly modest place in our memory, a grandiose episode of the history of the twentieth century. However, when I read the pre-war diaries and letters from the inhabitants of the opposing countries, I was more interested in something else: they were all encompassed by the euphoria of the desire to fight, the sense of war as some kind of beautiful adventure that would last very briefly and become an occasion for heroism, struggle with our own complexes and splash Accumulated grievances against "enemies." Today, looking back at a hundred years ago, it's terrible to imagine how quickly these illusions were dispelled, when yesterday's residents of beautiful European capitals were in the trenches for four years, where mud, death and madness prevailed. It seems that mankind constantly forgets that there is nothing more terrible than war, and in the eternal aspiration to romanticise it over and over again comes to the same rake.

In the play we tell the story of several French and German soldiers. Their way - from utopian fantasies, fanatical patriotism, through mutual hatred and the inevitability of destroying each other to complete devastation, the loss of any kind of moral reference points, self-destruction.

But do not think that you will be presented with some kind of didactic pathos full of historical action, a lecture on human cruelty. The story will be told in the genre of cabaret, the master here is entertainer, his only goal is to entertain the audience with songs and funny stories, at least until ... "

What a stupid, absurd war - neither to give nor take a cabaret.

The beginning of the First World War. The Germans want to fight, for them the war is a valorous adventure, a heroic adventure. The French are also ready. For them, military actions are a series of romantic feats and beautiful victories.

What neither those nor the others expected was the long, painfully prolonged hell in which they walked. The pernicious days of shooting, when those who yesterday played together in football today are mercilessly killing each other. Terrible days of trench wait, when you have to lie in the mud, tolerate lice and diseases and reap, wait, wait ... When is the end?

It is not for nothing that it is said that at the end of the war soldiers often do not remember why they went to her at first. War erases all human, including memory, leaving only a raid of inhuman breath of bloodshed.

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