REQUIEM ON "THE CENTURY - VOLCODAVU" on the works of prisoners of the Gulag:

"To Kolyma Stories" by V. Shalamov, poems by V. Shalamov, O. Mandelsham, Yu. Dombrovsky, D. Andreev, J. Smelyakov, A. Zhigulin, V. Bokov

ABOUT THE PERFECT:

The play was created in the Theater "On the Embankment" based on the works of the GULAG prisoners in 1987, when they could find their works only in samizdat. And, in everything, it was the first performance, then back in the USSR, directly and uncompromisingly addressed to this terrible tragedy of our people. Now ... he may be the last. Was Varlam Shalamov right that this camp experience will not be able in any way, should not it be useful to man?

But still:

"To wrest a century from captivity,

To start a new world,

Knotty knee days

You need to ... connect the flute ", -

the word Mandelstam sounds in the play; the voices of Shalamov, Dombrovsky, Andreev, Zhigulin, Smelyakov sound ... not victims and not heroes, but - creators, creativity, violence and death of those who overcame. And we - do not omit our ... flute.