I want a child - a play in 14 episodes of 1926 by the playwright and poet Sergei Tretyakov .
Story
Agronomist Milda Grignau wants to give birth to a child without marriage. Milda is on the side of the new morality of the idealized proletarian communist society. She wants to give birth to the ideal person and contribute to the social education of this new person. Her ideas are devoid of the prejudices of the pre-revolutionary past and are still free from the approaching ideology of the “Soviet family” of Stalin’s family reforms. In the final, the dream of the main character is fulfilled.
Incarnation
The play was conceived in 1925 and written in 1926, it is divided into 14 episodes.
The ideology of the play undoubtedly relied on the suggestions of A. Kollontai already heard at this point, in particular, in her book of 1919 “New morality and working class” .
November 2, 1926 the newspaper "Evening Moscow" wrote after reading the play in the Theater. Meyerhold: “The play is written on the topic of the problem of sex and marriage in the conditions of a new life, and the author interprets the new life as a forecast for the future.” The play went through a series of censorship changes, was criticized as too radical, physiological, the public was recognized not ready for this play.
The right to stage Vsevolod Meyerhold challenged Igor Terentyev . After numerous discussions, it was banned by the Central Repertoire Committee for staging by all theaters except GOSTIM on Triumfalnaya Square, which was never opened as a result of a political campaign.
The stage model for the play “I Want a Child” was developed by El Lissitzky . The production was conceived by the director Vs. Meyerhold as a “performance-discussion”. S.M.Tretyakov, after the performance was closed, still made plans “If my play will be in aid of what the People's Commissariat of Health is doing, I will consider myself one hundred percent satisfied”.
In 1989, the comedy was staged at the St. Petersburg theater "Comedians".
In 2018, as part of the festival and exhibition dedicated to the legacy of El Lissitzky, a two-day show of the play based on the play “I Want a Child” took place at the Tchaikovsky Center. Meyerhold. The director of the production is Sasha Denisova [1] [2] .
Links
- I want a child excerpts from the play.
- The invention of the theater Rozovsky Mark G.
- Breed of new people . Marco Binetti electronic library.
- I want a little bit of a North American premiere at Swarthmore College directed by Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer, designed by William Marshall, original music by Ralph Denzer.
- [3] Theater "Comedians"
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