A new reading of the story "And the dawns here are quiet..." was presented on the Melnikov Stage

In Moscow, a play based on Boris Vasiliev's novel "And the Dawns Here are Quiet..." was presented on the Melnikov Stage, in which military classics were combined with audiovisual technologies and documentary chronicles.

Ilya Anikeev, a correspondent for Izvestia, said that the play begins in the genre of a documentary investigation: the search for an old grave, the memories of a veteran soldier and the words of the author from the mouth of a man in civilian clothes. The action takes place in May 1942 in Karelia, where a Red Army sergeant major and five anti-aircraft gunners confront 16 fascists.

The production is as close as possible to the text of the story, director Anton Okoneshnikov did not overstep the boundaries of the literary source. The stage is a hexagonal arena, where each corner represents the character of the heroine and the fate of Sergeant Vaskov. Okoneshnikov noted that the production combines documentary films and theatrical spectacle.

"It's like we're in a documentary, if you look at the screens through the cameras, but at the same time it's absolutely theatrical, and at the same time we see the kitchen, how it all happens," he said.

Everything that happened on stage was recorded by a military camera operator, and the newsreel was animated with the help of chromakey. The correspondent noted that Lisa Brichkina, unable to reach "our people," drowned in a blanket of chromakey.

"I didn't need to dive specifically at that time, because I grew up in St. Petersburg. Since childhood, it was customary for us to know everything about the besieged Leningrad, to study," said Yana Stavorzhinskaya, the performer of the role of Rita Osyanina.

Konstantin Bogomolov, the artistic director of the Melnikov Stage Theater, said that the play was created by young guys, and they wanted to make a lively and modern production.

"They created it informally. We wanted this performance to be out of the ordinary. We managed to create it alive and modern," he said.

Viewers Natalia Borodina and Anastasia Pushkareva shared that each story is different in its own way, but despite their fears, the fragile girls are desperately fighting for the honor of the Fatherland. Spectator Viktor Zverev noted that he really liked how everything was done: beautifully, original, new ideas, and this is not just a theater. Portraits of five female faces of the war could be viewed on the screen even from the last row. Those who marched among the first from 1941 to 1945, giving their lives for their Homeland, will forever remain in the memory of the victorious people.

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The young team staged Boris Vasiliev's novel in a documentary way

Bogomolov, in an interview with Izvestia on June 18, told about a new reading of Boris Vasiliev's novel "And the Dawns are Quiet Here" at the Theater on Bronnaya, where theatrical and film art were combined on one stage. Cinematographic techniques, according to the director, made it possible to convey the emotions of the actors as closely as possible and immerse the audience in the atmosphere of wartime. The performance was shown on June 22, the Day of Remembrance and Mourning.