The premiere took place on February 27, 2020.
Translation: Irina Lake
Stage author: Marfa Gorvits
Director: Marfa Gorvits
Artist: Maria Tregubova
Costume Designer: Evgenia Panfilova
Lighting Designer: Sergey Vasiliev
Video artist: Ilya Starilov
The "cricket" of Martha Gorvits and Maria Tregubova is a story about how suddenly everyone in this world became ill: both to humans, to animals in the forest, and even to trees.
The central image of the performance is a forest after an atomic explosion, in which everything mutated and no one else, not one animal, not a single plant, can fulfill its original and natural purpose. The squirrel can no longer fulfill the purpose of the squirrel, and the cricket is the purpose of the cricket.
In this story, the cricket, which prefers inaction, has no alternative: there is always a skewed “effective” elephant that cannot stop in its “effectiveness”.
All animals living in this fantastic forest were covered by human addictions and phobias - identifying ourselves with them, we can also look at how far gone from nature. Tolstoy wrote about a similar feeling in the novel Anna Karenina, where Levin longed for harmony and calm, useful work. It is when the simple and necessary work passes away from life that the Great Depression rolls on mankind.
The revitalized nature reflects on its depression, thereby reflecting a loss of integrity in the modern world. Fantasy becomes reality: what to do after you have ceased to feel holistic and happy? You can cry, you can laugh, but the best thing is to try to find a way out.
The Dutch writer Thon Tellegen is known for his absurd tales, melancholy and sharply dissecting the time in which we live today.
On the image: sketches of costumes Cricket and Elephant. Costume Designer - Evgenia Panfilova
