“Metamorphoses V: Madrid” is the fifth production from the series “metamorphoses”, a kind of established tradition that is embodied on the basis of the works of the great classics A.P. Chekhov and I.A. Bunina.
The performance is based on a kind of literary and stage collage consisting of eight works by the great classics Anton Chekhov (“Summer Residents”, “Familiar Man”, “Nerves”, “Gone”, “The Witch”) and Ivan Bunin (“Three Rubles”, “ Clean Monday ”,“ Madrid ”). According to the directors, the performance should show the finest atmospheric stories, the depths of human psychology and reveal the theme of the Russian soul in its various angles and in its infinite variety. Minimum stage means accentuate the internal content and acting technique.
“In the process of rehearsals in our creative laboratory, new, sometimes experimental, forms of reproduction of the wonderful prose of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Ivan Alekseevich Bunin are put on the stage plane, whether it be a drama theater with its inherent psychoanalysis or a plastic theater based on the fact that the great Mikhail Chekhov called the "theater of psychological gesture." We are trying to open up new facets for the viewer, and sometimes new meanings in the works known to everyone, ”says Nikita Mikhalkov, the main director of the play.