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MOSCOW. PSYCHO - Russia
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| Time : |
Nov 9(Mon) 20:00
Nov 10(Tue) 16:00 [CA]
Nov 11(Wed) 20:00 |
| Venue : |
Daehangro Arts Theater Main Hall |
| Ticket Price : |
General R : 50,000 won S : 40,000 won
Y/S R : 30,000 won S : 20,000 won |
| Director : |
Andrei Zholdak |
| Company : |
School of Modern Drama |
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Invited to the Golden Mask Awards in Moscow in 2009! Medea, the most vicious murderess in drama moves to Moscow! Her instability, fear and madness are delivered with more power along the lines of Alfred Hitchcock's film of Psycho. A work by Andrei Zholdak, the Ukranian director and award winner of a citation from UNESCO for his contribution to the development of world drama in 2004. |
"Come and Encounter Andrei Zholdak at the End of a Breathless Pursuit of
Shock and Provocation!"
Awarded by UNESCO for his contribution to the development of the world of drama in 2004 and nominated for the New Reality Award 2009, Andrei Zholdak has worked with the School of Modern Drama in Moscow, known for its experimentations, on Moscow, Psycho. The collaboration interweaves between the classic and the avant-garde. Numerous writers from Euripides to Heine Müller have interpreted Medea, one of the Greek myths. In Moscow, Psycho, the text has been combined with Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho (1960) to expose the violence and madness of modern society. The audience will be haunted by moments of déja-vue throughout the piece. The stage consists of two separate rooms, which contrast starkly with each other through the use of different primary colors. The optical stimulus is compounded by stark black and white images on screen. The actors and incidents taking place on stage are simultaneously being filmed close-up by cameramen in real-time. The harmony achieved among the images, music, dance, and performances has turned Moscow, Psycho into an unsettling piece that has set the world of international drama upside-down.
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The theme of love, passion and betrayal has been repeatedly addressed in myths, novels, drama and film. The genre-breaking theme has been revamped in Moscow, Psycho. The instability, fear, and madness of wife and mother, Medea, in modern society, slowly grow to the point where her presence overshadows the stage. Scenes in the drama are closely intertwined with scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's film, Psycho. Combined, they form a focal point that allows the director, Andrei Zholdak, to employ an effective use of stage techniques that creates a concentrated relay of information. Through the private space offered on stage by the cameramen and the close-up shots of the actors relayed in real-time, the audience is given vast amounts of information compared to other existing forms of drama.
The emotions of each individual are expressed powerfully through the interaction with various objects. In the scene where the abandoned and fearful Medea is left trembling, she is holding a glass chandelier. The clinging sounds of that moving chandelier serve to accentuate her sense of despair as it reaches a climax. Paper dolls instead of real children, real snakes, and the poisoned cake delivered to the wedding all coincide with the desperate motions of Medea ensnared by a sense of insufferable revenge and madness.
The avant-garde director, Andrei Zholdak, transforms a mythical space of tragedy into an ordinary space in contemporary Moscow. He has narrowed the psychological distance with the audience by both reducing the inherent message embedded in the mythical text and composing a drama about a tragic incident-taking place within a modern household. The passionate performances by actors including the Russian actress, Elena Korneva, along with the sensational music, lighting and sound effects, and action-packed drama are more than enough to set the hearts of the audience on fire.
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| Director |
- Andrei Zholdak
Born in 1962, Andrei Zholdak studied at the Arts Academy in what was previously known as the Ukraine in the USSR period. In 1989, he studied at the A. Vasiliev's Class at the Russian Academy of Drama in Moscow. He also underwent the Kushishitov Janus Course in Warsaw, Poland. His graduate piece, The Moment in the Life of Vladimir Vinichenko, was his first piece to be performed abroad in München. From 2002 until 2005, he was the artistic director and director of theater at the Kharikov State Academic Theatre of T.Shevchenko. During that period, the theatre flourished under his directorship and gained a leading presence in the world of arts in the Ukraine as well as in Europe. His works have consistently proven to be successful and have attracted a growing popularity at international drama festivals in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Bosnia, Spain, Rumania, Russia, and Japan. In 2004, he was awarded the UNESCO Award for Best Director for his adoption of The Idiot by Russian novelist, F.M. Dostoveski. Artistic directors and producers taking part at the SIBIU highly acclaimed his piece. His other works include Ultra Passion (performed in Paris), Carmen (Kiev), The Three Sisters (Kiev), Taras Bulba (St. Petersburg), Hamlet (Moscow), Experiment: The Seagull according to the Stanislavsky System (Moscow), The Idiot (Moscow), Othello (Rumania), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Harikov), and Pheadre: Golden Ear (Moscow National Theater), among others. |
| Company |
- School of Modern Drama
The current artistic director, Josif Raykhelgauz, established the School of Modern Drama in the midst of the Perestroika Movement in 1989. During that period, Russian intellectuals were yearning for freedom of expression and diversity in culture. This yearning led to the large-scale emergence of experimental underground drama studios in the Russian world of performance arts. While most of these efforts remained short-lived, the School of Modern Drama continued to develop and has led in a new area of contemporary drama, thus growing into a major presence on par with drama theaters with illustrious history and prestige. Although choosing to refer to the theatre as a "school" may incur some perceived difficulties on the commercial side, it was specifically chosen since it is the clearest way of explaining the sense of community among the professional people involved in performance arts as well as the objectives and direction of the theater. Based on the tradition of the Russian repertoire theaters, the School of Modern Drama has premiered forty works with critical acclaim over the past two decades including At Traveler, a creation by Josif Raykhelgauz, In his Words, a play by Ludmilla Ulitskaya's The Russian Jam, Anton Chekhov's trilogy of Chaika, and Moscow, Psycho directed by Andrei Zholdak.
The School is well known for its experimentation, ingenuity, new actors and unique projects.
http://neglinka29.ru/ |
| Staff |
Set Designer : Andrei Zholdak, Tita Dimova
Light Designer : Andrey Smirnov
Costume Designer : Tita Dimova
Sound/Video Designer : Vladimir Klikov
Photographer : Vladimir Lupovskoy
Chief administrator : Mikhail Kunin |
| Cast |
Elena Koreneva, Ekaterina Direktorenko, Albert Filozov, Ivan Mamonov, Vladimir Shulga, Tatiana Tsirenina, Aleksey Gnilitsky, Nikolay Golubev, Dmitry Sotiriadi, Julietta Kazakevitch, Marina Sukontseva |
Reviews
"The production Moscow. Psycho is developed using the same formula as Zholdak's previous Moscow plays: Phedre. The Golden Collossus, and Carmen. The Outcome. The universal plot - in this case the ancient Greek myth Medea – is taken in its archetypical composition. The central heroine carries a vital, barbarian emotion and destructive energy, enchanting and subordinating everyone at the same time. Deliberate quotations, the interpenetration of different cultural epochs and the eclectic style are characteristic features of Zholdak's directorial thinking."
- Olga Roginskaya, Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Awards received by Andrei Zholdak
- 2009 Nominated for New Reality Award
- 2004 Awarded by UNESCO for contribution to the world of drama
- 2002 Gala Prize for Othello in Rumania
- 2002 Critics' Award for Excellent Performance based on the 'Kiev Report' -
- 2002 Award for Best Director at the SIBIU in Rumania – ,,, Turgenev
- 2002 MOT Festival Critics' Award, Scholie, Macedonia – W. Shakeapeare's
- 2002 - Награда им Марека Окопиского, Torun Festival, Poland – A. Chekhov CHAIKA
- 2000 BITEF Festival Critics' Award, Belgrade, former Yugoslavia
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