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You're also napping: the fabulous show "Pushkin's Dreams" was presented at the Luzhniki Stadium
The premiere of the show "Pushkin's Dreams" will take place in Moscow on May 29. The creators call it innovative, experimental, created in the format of a new circus. A performance at the intersection of genres. The audience will see not only a circus, but also a theatrical, musical multimedia show. Izvestia attended the VIP screening of the play and shares their first impressions.
They got into a fairy tale
The smell of cotton candy and popcorn wafted through the foyer. Those who wished could buy souvenirs — a snow globe for 1.5 thousand rubles, a mug with a goldfish for 1.4 thousand or a volume of Pushkin for 450 rubles.
Blogger Anna-Maria Yankovskaya (right) at the premiere of the theatrical circus show "Pushkin's Dreams" at the Universal Sports Hall Druzhba.
Upon entering the hall, the audience saw a king-size bed, a giant armchair and a desk on the stage. It's like everyone's in a fairy tale. After the third bell, Sashenka Pushkin appeared in the arena, whom the nurse lulled to the lines "Lukomorye has a green oak."
A magical dream revealed to him the heroes of fairy tales: the Knight, the Mermaid, the Goblin, Baba Yaga in a mortar, a hut on chicken legs, Chernomor, a Squirrel with golden nuts, a scientist Cat, Prince Elisha. Violated the parade-alley of Pushkin's characters Koshchei. And as you know, genius and villainy are incompatible.
Designer Maria Pogrebnyak during the premiere of the theatrical circus show "Pushkin's Dreams" at the Universal Sports Hall Druzhba
Pushkin literally flies in his sleep. The bed turns into a giant trampoline, from which the poet soars on a trapeze. The characters of Pushkin's fairy tales appear to Alexander Sergeevich at the most unexpected moments of his life. Sometimes at the moment of meeting Natalia Goncharova, and sometimes at the card table.
The battle for the Arena
Nobody in Russia needs to be told who Pushkin is. More than one generation has grown up on his fairy tales. So the directors decided to tell their body language and trick. The works "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "The Tale of the Dead Princess", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", "The Tale of the Priest and his employee Balda", "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" were chosen for the show.
"When we were writing the script, we not only studied Pushkin's diaries, and also analyzed the perception of fairy tales using artificial intelligence, but also digitized the poet's personality," said Izvestia, the general director of the New Russian Circus, the creative producer of the show "Pushkin's Dreams."
Timur Ochilov will appear in the image of Pushkin. The clown trio "Sans Socks" has been in the arena all evening. The artists — Konstantin Kopeikin, Artem Babinov, Maxim Karpov — will adopt unusual images. Their costumes will resemble the attributes from the poet's desk — a paper scroll, an inkwell and a golden pen. These are no longer just clowns, but lyrical heroes.
Pushkin himself becomes the guide and hero of these fantasy worlds, where Lukomorye, Buyan Island and underwater palaces come to life. This is not a retelling of classic plots, but a phantasmagoria born in the poet's dreams to the lullaby of the nurse: dreams where reality is intertwined with fiction. The end—to-end plot is Pushkin's fate, shown through the prism of his dreams and creativity.
Anyone could get into the show "Pushkin's Dreams" as an artist, it was only necessary to distinguish themselves by their uniqueness. More than 200 applications were received for the "Battle for the Arena" contest. This is a creative experiment of the New Russian Circus. Among the contenders are athletes, dancers, acrobats, and even Russian and world champions. It was impossible for the circus to break into a new project. As a result, the three winners joined the troupe of the show, where they became partners with 60 world-renowned artists.
Full immersion effect
The audience is also immersed in Pushkin's dreams by music. Composer Taras Demchuk combined seemingly incongruous motifs in the performance: Balkan rhythms, waltzes, folklore, rock, trap and even a DJ set will be performed. And Anna Mart, who plays the role of Pushkin's nanny, will also perform as a singer. She will accompany herself on several instruments.
The play is densely populated with fairy-tale characters. Oleg Spigin will play Prince Elisey, Alexander Kulakov will play two roles at once, a Squirrel and a Wolf. And there will also be Koshchei — Daniil Ratushev, Rusalka — Vasilisa Yarina, Shamakhan Queen — Eliza Khachatryan, Golden Cockerel — Anfisa Makarova, Swan — Elena Shipaeva, Kite and Sorcerer — Vitaly Popeta, Ruslan — Artem Mikhailov, Goldfish — Olga Nezdoliy, Baba Yaga — Artem Vasilov. Anatoly Okulov, one of the country's most famous clowns, or simply the Shark, is responsible for the villainy in the play. He will try on more than one image.
"In the play, my character is the engine of the plot, which makes Pushkin himself change," says Anatoly Okulov. — This is a collective image of everything that the poet opposed. My character will have ten exits, and each time he will exist in different forms. This is no longer just clowning, but a complex eccentric image.
The effect of total immersion in Pushkin's fabulous worlds will be created thanks to creative video content that is projected onto the most unexpected surfaces. And the central object, a mighty oak tree, will be assembled from aerial gymnasts and dynamic screens.
— We sacrificed a thousand places in order to create this backstage and stage space. More than 700 tons of decorations. It's really a very large—scale show," says Elizabeth Hamburg.
Yuri Antizersky is responsible for the decorations in the show. He had a place to turn around: the stage space occupies more than 700 square meters. m. The audience will appreciate the seriousness of the idea. The weight of the decorations is 80 tons. Plus multimedia equipment, which creates an immersion into the fabulous world of Pushkin's heroes. Artist Vadim Volya, a Golden Mask nominee for the musical All about Cinderella, created more than 200 original costumes.
From the cradle to the duel
The director of the show is the winner of the Golden Mask, Zhanna Shmakova, the author of more than 50 productions in Russia and abroad. Six more directors are working on the project, each of whom is responsible for his own direction, which underlines the scale and complexity of the production. "Pushkin's Dreams" will surprise even the most sophisticated viewers.
— Pushkin loved dreams, poems came to him in his dreams, he imagined the magnificent worlds of his characters, — said the playwright Mikhail Degtyarev. — These worlds are associated with certain elements of personality formation. For example, in the fairy tale "Ruslan and Lyudmila" we see the struggle of courage with cowardice, in "Goldfish" — labor, greed and laziness, in "The Tale of the Dead Princess" — love and envy, in "The Golden Cockerel" — passion and loyalty, in "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" — truth and It's a lie. We find these elements in Pushkin's biography and connect them. The circumstances of his fate become a cross-cutting action, within which a fairy tale is born.
Producer Ilya Bachurin (left) and director Janik Fayziev during the premiere of the theatrical circus show "Pushkin's Dreams" at the Universal Sports Hall Druzhba.
In the story, little Sasha Pushkin falls asleep to the nanny's lullaby and ends up in the Lukomorye, where he sees himself as an adult. Here he lives the fateful events of his biography. And together with a Pen, Paper and Inkwell, it helps the heroes of future fairy tales to overcome Villainy. Intrigues push the poet to a duel. But maybe it's just a dream.
And those who won't let the show go after watching it can continue their stay in the fairy tale. There is an opportunity to chat with Pushkin's digital avatar on the project's website. There you can get acquainted with the poet's biography, read his works, letters and drafts, translations into other languages, and even meditate, and then chat with Alexander Sergeevich. Well, the most curious can study the era in which the great Russian poet lived.
The show will run until September 21, 2025 at the Druzhba Universal Sports Hall in Luzhniki.
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