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19:00 | A Russian on a Rendezvous |
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Theatre production. After Ivan Turgenev’s novella “Spring Freshets.” 160 min. Stage Designer: Vladimir Maximov. Subtitles available in English, French, German and Russian. The play based on Ivan Turgenev’s novella “Spring Freshets” was undertaken by the second generation of theater interns on suggestion from Pyotr Fomenko. Gradually, from the fragments that were shown during traditional “Evenings of trial and error,” a whole play had emerged. Production was directed by Evgeny Kamenkovich. A Russian man is weak and inert, and even when he’s on a rendezvous with life itself, when his own fate is being decided, he’s unable to make a decision, unable to make his own step. He’s only going with a flow, gazing around, without looking back, but also not wanting to look too far ahead. This was how critic Nikolai Chernyshevsky articulated the dreadful diagnosis given to the Russian society by Turgenev in his famous article, which gave the name to the stage play.
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