"Lord of the Flies" - a performance of the Academic Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe , staged by director Lev Dodin based on the novel of the same name by William Golding . The performance was created with the support of the General Partner of the theater: the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation for Cultural Initiatives.
| Lord of the Flies | |
|---|---|
| Genre | novel |
| Author | William Golding |
| Producer | Leo Dodin |
| Company | Academic Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe |
| A country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Content
- 1 About the play
- 2 Creators of the play
- 3 Actors and performers
- 4 performance reviews
- 5 Press about the play
- 6 References
About the performance
For the first time, Lev Dodin turned to the novel " Lord of the Flies " in 1986. The play warning about how children, having fallen on a desert island, become savages and murderers, quickly became a cult. The premiere took place on July 24, 1986. In 1989, the performance toured in Tokyo (Japan). The performance went on stage for about ten years, in the mid-1990s the performance was forced to be removed from the repertoire in connection with the theft from the scenery warehouse.
In 2009, Lev Dodin resumed the legendary performance with a new cast of young actors and a new look at the novel. The premiere of the performance took place on June 4, 2009.
The creators of the play
- Staged by Lev Dodin
- Staging Nigel Williams
- Scenography and costumes by David Borovsky
- Scenography by Alexei Porai-Kosits
- Assistant Director - Valery Galendeev
- Assistant directors - Natalya Kolotova, Oleg Dmitriev, Vladimir Seleznev
- Tutoring - Mikhail Alexandrov, Yuri Khamutyansky
The performance uses spiritual chants of the XIII-XVI centuries and a melody composed by Dmitry Pokrovsky.
Actors and Performers
| Role | Composition of the 1986 edition | Editorial staff of 2009 |
|---|---|---|
| Ralph | Peter Semak | Danila Kozlovsky Evgeny Sannikov |
| Jack | Vladimir Osipchuk Igor Sklyar | Vladimir Seleznev |
| Pig | Grigory Dityatkovsky | Alexander Bykovsky |
| Simon | Sergey Bekhterev Igor Sklyar | Stanislav Nikolsky |
| Roger | Vladimir Zakharyev | Alexey Morozov Arthur Kozin |
| Robert | Mikhail Samochko | |
| Eric | Sergey Vlasov | Oleg Ryazantsev Sergey Seregin Evgeny Serzin |
| Sam | Sergey Bekhterev | Dmitry Lugovkin Andrey Kondratiev |
| Wilfried | Arkady Koval Roman Smirnov | |
| Maurice | Igor Ivanov | Danila Shevchenko Leonid Lutsenko |
| Stanley | Arkady Koval Nikolay Pavlov | Pavel Gryaznov Evgeny Zarubin |
| Bill | Sergey Kozyrev Nikolay Pavlov | Stanislav Tkachenko Ivan Chepura |
| Walter | Vladimir Artyomov | |
| Percival | Maxim Pavlenko Nikita Vasiliev | |
| Harold | Oleg Dmitriev | Nikita Sidorov |
| Island sounds | Boris Babintsev | Mikhail Alexandrov |
Reviews of the performance
- The theme of the new "Lord of the Flies" in the MDT can be called the theme of triumphant infantilism - one of the most relevant topics of today. Children who stubbornly do not want to grow up, take responsibility for their actions and decisions, are the main characters of the beginning of the XXI century. (Olga Egoshina)
- Together with them, Dodin also fell into "unprecedented simplicity." And not by chance. In the new "Lord of the Flies" he does not investigate, does not have compassion. He works in the genre of disaster prevention, and this requires not subtle psychological, but grossly agitational forms. Otherwise, they will not hear. (Alena Karas)
- Today, according to Dodin, the dangerous line beyond which people turn into animals has been successfully passed. To warn too late - it is time to expose. (Dmitry Renansky)
- Dodin in this performance is not interested in a private fate. He thinks bigger, in the format of the whole world. In the world, in his opinion, there is no tendency to improve. Most likely, an abyss lies ahead. These are the results that must be acknowledged to have great courage. Leo Dodin has it. (Pavlyuchenko Katerina)
- In the second Dodina version there are no children, there are small adults, there are dazzling glare of dozens of spotlights (obviously, reflections of a distant atomic war), and there is a director’s confidence that the victims of the catastrophe can only produce a new catastrophe. (Zhanna Zaretskaya)
Performance Press
- Pronin. “Not good and not evil” Kommersant, 06/08/2009
- Olga Egoshina. “The Savior will not come” New news 09.06.2009
- Alena Karas. “The Lord of the Flies was again staged at the MDT Theater of Europe” Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 07/03/2009
- Dmitry Renansky. "Lord of the Flies" by Lev Dodin at MDT OPENSPACE.RU, 07/15/2009
- Tatyana Dzhurova. Separation from cutlets . Kommersant.ru. 05/29/2009
- Kateryna Pavlyuchenko. Saint Petersburg / In Russia . 10 Strastnoy Boulevard, Issue No. 5-125 / 2010
- Eugene Avramenko. “Distilled Tragedy” PTZ, 2009, N 3 (57)
- Egor Korolev. "" Lord of the Flies "MDT // Lev Dodin" Political Literacy, 12/20/2011
- Elena Bachmanova. Each has its own Beelzebub . musecube, 03/14/2014
- Anna Korotina, "Lord of the Flies" in the MDT "The neva", 01/04/2015
- Katerina Voskresenskaya. "Lord of the Flies: There is no Salvation" Portal "Subculture", 05/27/2016