“I was ready to live.” Performance of the folk theater “Success” in Krasnovishersk based on the works of V. T. Shalamov
The review of the play “I was ready to live” by the folk theater “Success” in Krasnovishersk is a kind of tribute to the folk theater groups of provincial cities. Amateur creativity is rarely appreciated by professional critics, although the importance of folk theaters for the cultural life of small...
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Ekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Управление культурой |
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| Online Access: | https://managing-culture.eaca.ru/archive/2022/4/9 |
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| Summary: | The review of the play “I was ready to live” by the folk theater “Success” in Krasnovishersk is a kind of tribute to the folk theater groups of provincial cities. Amateur creativity is rarely appreciated by professional critics, although the importance of folk theaters for the cultural life of small towns can hardly be overestimated. The performance based on the documents on the construction of the Vishera Pulp and Paper Mill and the works of V. T. Shalamov was shown as part of the VII All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference "People and Construction Sites: a Socio-Cultural Portrait of the First Five-Year Plans". The conference was organized on October 28-30, 2022 by the Perm-36 Memorial Museum-Reserve of the History of Political Repressions with the support of the Administration of the Governor of the Perm Territory, the Ministry of Culture of the Perm Territory, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Perm Territory and the administration of the Krasnovishersky urban district. The work of the writer V. T. Shalamov does not often become a source of inspiration for modern theater, the writer raised too serious questions, honestly and uncompromisingly talking about the tragic events of the era of the “Great Terror”. But at the same time, Shalamov always remained a citizen of his country, a Soviet writer. Participants of the folk theater "Success" in Krasnovishersk undertook to create a performance based on documentary materials about the construction of the Vishera Pulp and Paper Mill during the first five-year plans. For them, this is not just a distant history, it is the life of their ancestors (grandparents), who built the most powerful pulp and paper mill in Europe in the conditions of the north. The documents are woven into the canvas of the memoirs of the writer Shalamov, published in the anti-novel Vishera. The performance tells about the trials that befell a very young man, about meetings with people whose fates were intertwined at the "end of the earth."The artistic lines of the writer, combined with the dry wording of the documents, give the performance a rhythm and dynamics. This technique of the screenwriter and director defines the performance as a "documentary". The theater actors are local residents, descendants of the builders of the plant. They know firsthand what a “camp” is (in the toponymy of the city of Krasnovishersk, a “camp” is the place where Vishlag was located, and now the city block), so the characters played by them are perceived as genuine people endowed with characters and destinies, which is quite possible attributed to the reception of documentary theater - verbatim. The script was written by K. A. Ostaltsev, head of the archive department of the administration of the Krasnovishersky urban district, the performance was staged by director S. A. Klementieva. After watching the performance “I was ready to live”, simple, but so important thoughts in the present period are clearly formulated: one must live, love one's Motherland, be proud of the past and remain a person in any trials. The artistic technique - combining the writer's memoirs and original documents into a single stage text, allows, in our opinion, to understand the essence of V. Shalamov's statement: "Life is a serious thing, but you should not be afraid of it." We hope that the performance of the national theater "Success" will have a long and happy creative life. |
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| ISSN: | 2949-074X |