“At the beginning and at the end of time” - a performance based on the play of the same name by Pavel Arie , which premiered on October 27, 2014 at the Roman Viktyuk Theater.
| At the beginning and at the end of time | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Author | Pavel Arie |
| Producer | Andrey Borovikov |
| Actors | Oleg Isaev Igor Nevedrov Lyudmila Pogorelova Alexander Dzyuba Alexander Semenov Roman Viktyuk |
| Company | Roman Viktyuk Theater |
| Duration | 2 hours without intermission |
| A country | Russia |
| Tongue | Russian language |
| Year | 2014 |
Content
About the performance
“At the beginning and at the end of time” - a window of a madhouse with a view of crazy reality - Roman Viktyuk |
30-kilometer exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant . For many years, a family of three has lived on a farm abandoned among forests and swamps. Baba Frosya is an eccentric old woman who speaks on surzhik , sometimes flavored with a sharp word, and did not leave her home even after the accident, a little witch doctor, a little sorcerer, leading friendship with Mavki, Mermaids and talking catfish. Her daughter Slava, an unhealthy woman clogged by life circumstances, fled here from her alcoholic husband several years after moving out of the Chernobyl zone with her sick son Vovchik, whom she is trying to protect from the world of cruel people. The three of them are fighting not with radiation, which they have long been accustomed to, but for survival - with the district police officer, who regularly come supposedly demanding to leave the zone, with poachers and with themselves. Communication with the outside world is only radio, with its broadcasts adding more and more negativity to “civilization” and further strengthening the desire to be away from it. There is no help from anywhere, for bread you have to go to the village outside the zone, and the three of them were outlawed. Hopelessness and hopelessness lead to a tragic ending.
Russian case Golden Mask Program
On April 4, 2016, on the MTYUZ stage, the Roman Viktyuk Theater, as part of the Russian case program of the Golden Mask theater prize, played the play “At the Beginning and at the End of Times” based on the play by the young playwright Pavel Arie .
Critics noted that the acting in the play “At the Beginning and at the End of Times” is powerful and expressive. Artists play piercingly, to break, causing either bouts of laughter by the sharply presented worldly truth, or an inner stupor by the confession of their monologues, bright and tragic at the same time.
Roman Viktyuk puts on a play about today's experience of the Chernobyl disaster: the heroes live in the exclusion zone, in Polesie near Pripyat, wild, but not wishing to contact with civilization. We are talking about the existential existence of the post-Soviet space in general: what is the very drama of the existence of fragments of the empire. The zone of the post-Soviet space is again the site of a potential explosion, hallucination, zeroing of ties between people. The entire former Soviet civilization failed in a hole in history, where the idea of a person as a core value is lost, where time has stopped and communication between people has been reset. Urban civilization still lives on the logic of the hecatomb. From civilization devouring people is absolutely impossible to escape. Even if you choose the path of self-destruction. - Theater critic Pavel Rudnev |
Actors
| Character | Actor |
|---|---|
| Baba Frosya | Oleg Isaev |
| Vovik | Igor Nevedrov |
| Glory | Lyudmila Pogorelova |
| The precinct | Alexander Dzyuba |
| Father | Alexander Semenov |
| From the author | Roman Viktyuk |
The creators of the play
| Playwright | Pavel Arie |
| Production, directing and musical arrangement | Roman Viktyuk |
| Set design | Vladimir Boer |
| Costumes | Elena Predvoditeleva |
| Producer | Andrey Borovikov |
| Assistant director | Lyudmila Isakovich |
| Sound engineer | Lyudmila Platonova |
| Shine | Andrey Demin |