Comments. Schedule of the theater festival Tolstoy Weekend Theater festival in Yasnaya Polyana
On May 18, ticket sales for the international theater festival Tolstoy Weekend will start, which will take place on June 9-12, 2018 at the Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum. In the year of the 190th anniversary of L.N. Tolstoy's leading Russian and foreign theaters will show performances based on his works, as well as the works of other writers. Tolstoy Weekend is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the government of the Tula region and the state corporation Rostec.
The festival will be opened by Kolyada-Theater from Yekaterinburg - the most famous private theater in Russia, tickets for performances of which, if shown in Moscow, are sold out in a few days. Nikolai Kolyada puts on the “Fake Coupon” story, which is rarely seen in the theater, - a play about personal choice, responsibility for actions and the mechanism of evil.
The Moscow Theater of Oleg Tabakov will also present a very rare story for the stage "The Devil" - the main role in the play is played by Maxim Matveev. Together with the Kreutzer Sonata, which will be shown at the festival by two theaters - the Valmiera Drama Theater from Latvia and the Ballet Moscow Theater - these works represent Leo Tolstoy's reflections on the themes of gender and marriage. Two versions of "Boyhood" are presented by two renowned regional theaters of Russia - the Perm and Saratov Youth Theaters.
All performances for Tolstoy Weekend were selected by the program director, theater critic Pavel Rudnev. According to him, performances of different genres and styles await spectators: here both classical traditional theater and experimental laboratory performances: “It is fundamentally important that this year the geography of the festival has been expanded, much more regional performances take part in it. In addition to communication with the audience, any festival is also communication with each other. For example, sketches made by theaters from Yelets, Kaluga and Ryazan will be seen by other theaters - and I am sure this will spur them on to create Tolstoy's ideas. The short plays "Peter Khlebnik", "The First Distiller" and "All the Qualities From Her" are excellent literature, but recently they have not been shown at all on the Russian stage. There is a lot of simplicity and naivety in them. But this is not only a spectacle, but also an acquaintance with the material that is rarely played on stage. "
The audioplay-walk "War and Peace", which is being done by the young Tula director Yevgeny Malenchev, is of particular importance. The play based on eight volumes of Leo Tolstoy's diaries was written by the young playwright Yulia Pospelova, and the composer was Grigory Polukhutenko. Also, especially for the festival, the independent Moscow theater Le Cirque De Charles La Tannes prepared a storytelling "Who Killed Anna".
Among the foreign productions of the festival are the synthesis of drama and puppet theater “Kholstomer” from Slovenian Maribor and the aforementioned performance from Valmiera.
On the closing day of the festival, June 12, at the Yasnaya Polyana House of Culture, a meeting will take place with the creators of the film "The Story of a Purpose", which tells about a little-known episode from the life of Leo Tolstoy. Its premiere will take place in early June at the Kinotavr festival. In Yasnaya Polyana, film excerpts will be presented by director Avdotya Smirnova, scriptwriter Pavel Basinsky and the performer of the role of the young Tolstoy Evgeny Kharitonov.
Traditionally, the Tolstoy Weekend will feature children's performances based on the stories of Tolstoy and contemporary authors. Especially for the festival, the Moscow Storytelling Workshop, beloved by children, has prepared its own versions of Tolstoy's children's stories.
For the first time, Tolstoy Weekend was held in 2016. The idea of the festival belongs to the governor of the Tula region Alexei Dyumin. In 2017, the festival acquired an international status. The festival site was attended by over 5,000 guests, including over 100 representatives of federal and regional media, who named Tolstoy Weekend the main summer theater event of the year.
This year marks the 190th anniversary of the birth of Leo Tolstoy, so everything that happens in Yasnaya Polyana takes on special significance.
For four days, June 9-12, 2018, the guests of the Tolstoy estate were witnesses and participants in a grandiose holiday -. Russian and foreign theaters showed fifteen performances based on the works of L.N. Tolstoy and other authors. The action took place in the open air at several venues.
It is noteworthy that this year the main stage was located in the very place where the Tolstoys loved to play with the whole family. The first to enter it was the private theater "Kolyada-Theater" from Yekaterinburg with a performance based on the unfinished work of Leo Tolstoy . Director Nikolai Kolyada unfolded an action in front of the viewer, depressing the number of sins. Almost all characters do them. A coupon is only a catalyst for a chain reaction of evil.
One of the most "delicious" events of the second day was the performance of the Theater of Oleg Tabakov based on the story of the same name by Leo Tolstoy, largely autobiographical. The main role (landowner Yevgeny Irtenev) in it was played by the actor of the Moscow Art Theater Maxim Matveev.
In addition, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Boris Plotnikov and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Roza Khairullina, who amazingly played the role of Irteniev's mother-in-law, were involved in the play.
The debut directorial work of Mikhail Stankevich, a student of Sergei Zhenovach, was highly appreciated by the Minister of Culture of the Tula Region Tatyana Rybkina.
Also on the main stage was shown on the plot of the story of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. She was brought to the festival by the Ballet Moscow Theater.
According to experts, the Ballet Moscow Theater is a unique troupe that combines the best traditions of classical Russian ballet with modern trends in choreography. These opportunities were used to the maximum by the Canadian choreographer Robert Binet.
The ballet "Kreutzer Sonata" was first presented to the capital's public exactly one year ago - in June 2017. The conditions of the Yasnaya Polyana festival, which were not adapted for ballet, became another baptism of fire for the production. One can only admire the dancers who agreed to perform on the open stage.
Regular guests of the festival noted the unique opportunity to observe the development of the theatrical storytelling genre, which is new for Russia.
The storytelling performance based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina", created especially for the festival, was brought to Yasnaya Polyana by director Alexei Rozin, a member of Le Cirque De Charles La Tannes. The 700-page novel was told and acted out at arm's length by Marina Vasilieva, the actress of Brusnikina's Workshop. She named her story (premiere from the cycle "In a nutshell").
The famous Tolstoy story gave one more reason to talk about this brilliant work.
The kindest performance was brought to the festival by guests from Slovenia. - this is how the name of Tolstoy's story about the old gelding Kholstomer sounds in Slovenian.
Of course, in their homeland, Sebastian Horvath and Andreja Kopach play in Slovenian, and in Yasnaya Polyana they presented the performance as bilingual. The audience heard that the Slovene and Russian languages are very close to each other. They are similar as siblings, and in some places they completely coincide, because the Slovenian language is involved in the most ancient layers of Russian culture.
Every year the Tolstoy Weekend festival prepares a special project, which, upon its completion, continues to live in the estate. In 2018, it was Tula director Evgeny Malenchev. Its action is based on diaries, letters, memoirs of Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sofya Andreevna, as well as fragments of the novel "War and Peace".
The exhibition features works by nineteen contemporary Greek painters. Especially for this exhibition, for two years, the artists re-read the works of Leo Tolstoy in order to show their completely non-standard view, first of all, at the female images he created.
On the veranda of the Tolstoy House there was an exhibition of costumes that were used in the film "The Story of a Single Destination". The meeting with its creators was the final event of Tolstoy's weekend.
The director Avdotya Smirnova, the author of the original source and co-author of the script for the film Pavel Basinsky, as well as the leading actor Alexei Smirnov, came to Yasnaya Polyana.
Film at the Kinotavr festival already managed to take two prizes, but the start of wide distribution in Russia is scheduled only for September 6, 2018. Therefore, at the meeting in the Yasnaya Polyana recreation center, only episodes allowed by the distributor were shown. In general terms, they opened the storyline and made it possible to evaluate a number of techniques used in the film. It also became clear that the story of how Leo Tolstoy defended a military clerk sentenced to death in court and lost, carries a very important public message.
“It's sad to say that the festival is closing. It became a bright and big event not only in the life of the Tula region, but throughout Russia ", - says the director of the Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate Yekaterina Tolstaya.
Tolstoy Weekend has already been named the cult event of the year and a significant event in the theater world.
“This is the realization of the idea of a 'fair for the future' - directors and artists stay, as a rule, for all three days and watch the rest of the work. Perhaps the sketches made for the festival will not be able to be realized specifically in these theaters, but someone else can look at the sketch and take it to another theater.
In the theatrical arsenal, 6-8 Tolstoyan works are constantly being played. The purpose of the festival is to draw attention, to show that this list can be expanded. I believe that Tolstoy has a lot to go on stage.
By the way, we have very few named festivals in Russia. And when it appears, it creates an infinite number of motivations for theaters. ", - told our correspondent .
"It is very important that modernity meets the tasks that Tolstoy set for art, that in modern culture there is a response to Tolstoy's word", - also noted the theater critic.
It is impossible to cover the entire festival and retell it! Yasnaya Polyana is amazing, both on weekends and on weekdays. At any time of the year and in any weather, you want to come back here again and again.
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"TolstoyWeekend»: Detailed poster of the theater festival
Museum-Estate "Yasnaya Polyana" is preparing to hold a theater festival for the second timeWeekend". This year, at the request of Tula and artists, it will be held from 9 to 11 June. Moreover, the event will be timed to coincide with the 96th anniversary of the museum's creation, which will be celebrated on June 10. According to preliminary estimates of the organizers, the festival will be attended by 4-5 thousand people from the Tula and Moscow regions. IA TSN24 presents a detailed poster of the upcoming event.
Main stage
Musical and dramatic composition "War and Peace"
Moscow Academic Musical Theater. K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko
Moscow city
Year of production: 2012
The opera was written in the mid-1940s, but until the last years of his life, the composer continued to work on his most ambitious work. The Moscow premiere of "War and Peace" took place in 1957 on the stage of the Musical Theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. This was the first stage incarnation of all 13 pictures of the opera. In the year of the 200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812, the theater again turned to Prokofiev's masterpiece. The production was staged by the theater's chief conductor Felix Korobov, artistic director of the opera troupe Alexander Titel and chief artist Vladimir Arefiev.
Performance "Fathers and Sons"
Moscow Academic Theater. Vl. Mayakovsky
Moscow city
A play in two acts (based on the novel by IS Turgenev "Fathers and Sons").
Year of production: 2014
Spectators will be seated on a wooden veranda, where the summer sun will peep through the linen curtains. Turgenev's young ladies will flee from the scorching sun with graceful hats with wide brim, lace umbrellas, homemade ice cream and cold water from a stream flowing right in the middle of the stage. The song of the birds will be accompanied by Beethoven's romances. It was to this Russian oasis that Arkady Kirsanov arrived in May 1859 with his friend Bazarov.
The play "Family"
Theater-festival "Baltic House"
City: Saint Petersburg
Staging based on the story of L.N. Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata"
Year of production: 2016
The chamber performance is based on a play by the young Petersburg playwright Yuri Uryupinsky, based on Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata". Director Anatoly Praudin staged the second part of the trilogy, dedicated to the main stages of human life. If in the first part - the dramatic improvisation "School" - the hero is just beginning his acquaintance with the world and himself, then in the second part he is already an adult, leading a family life.
Performance "Anna Karenina"
Sevastopol Academic Russian Drama Theater. A.V. Lunacharsky
City: Sevastopol
Year of production: 2016
Duration: 3 hours with intermission
Anna's unhappy love develops against the background of the happy family life of Konstantin Levin and Kitty Shtcherbatskaya, in the novel there is another not entirely prosperous family of Anna's brother - Steva Oblonsky and his wife Dolly. Thus, the great writer gives his reader a three-dimensional picture of contemporary society, exploring the most intimate aspects of the Russian character, which has hardly undergone major changes over the past century and a half.
The play "Dark Alleys" based on the stories of Ivan Bunin
Daugavpils Theater (Latvia)
Main stage
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
In the play, in the words of the great Russian writer, we will tell about what we often mistakenly call love - about pride, the desire to possess, the inability to forgive ... With love we justify broken lives, destinies, cities. It is also used by the heroes when they take out a pistol and shoot someone in the head. But love is not the cause of their suffering, they perish because no one loves them. Therefore, it is quite possible that these stories are about dislike.
People die when they are not loved.
The territory of the estate
Performance-journey through the estate "Green stick"
Liquid theater
Moscow city
Contemporary staging
Immersive theater (play-journey through the estate)
Liquid theater will prepare a performance-journey around the estate with the involvement of actors from the Tula theater and children from the circle of the Yasnaya Polyana House of Culture.
Liquid theater is the only theater in Russia that works in the site-specific genre. The theater performances are structured in this way. That the action involves the territory in which the actors are here and now, be it a factory, a park, a courtyard of a residential building, a railway station or a theater staircase.
Apple orchard
Storytelling "Stories about history"
Dmitry Brusnikin's workshop and Le Cirque Charles La Tannes
Moscow city
Year of production: 2016
Duration: 3 hours with intermission
The performance is a joint initiative of the Brusnikin Workshop actors and their teachers, “senior cownickers”, who have been working for many years as an independent theater group Le Cirque Charles La Tannes (“Cops on Fire”, “Normansk”, “Middle Age”, etc.)
The actors take classic sources and retell them in a fun, playful way. The result is fascinating stories about the great people of Russian history, from Ancient Russia to the 20th century inclusive.
Storytelling “Stories for Children by L.N. Tolstoy "
Center them. Sun. Meyerhold
Moscow city
Year of production: 2016
Duration: 2 hours
The play will be based on nine stories by Tolstoy: "Filippok", "Father and Sons", "Bone", "The Old Day and Granddaughters", "Liar", "How a Boy Told About His Thunderstorm Outpost in the Forest", "Bird "," Shark "," Jump ".
You will see an hour and a half storytelling performance. Storytelling is the art of telling stories in a lively, engaging way. This is a play theater, theater at arm's length. This is where direct contact arises between the actors and the audience. In the Storytelling Workshop, actors are taught to transfer myths and legends, Russian folk and modern fairy tales, funny and scary stories.
The play "How happiness was to a man"
Theater of the Young Spectator (Nizhny Novgorod)
City: Nizhny Novgorod
Contemporary performance
Year of production: 2015
Duration: 45 minutes
The play "How happiness was for a peasant ..." includes five fairy tales by L. Tolstoy. The traditional story about an intelligent and cunning Russian man who knows how to get out of the water is played out by the actors recklessly and cheerfully. A virtuoso game with objects, a bright pantomime - and on the stage a light, ironic and funny performance. This is a good reason to remember the classic of Russian literature and look at him in a completely new way.
Solo show "Sevastopol in the month of December"
Anastasia Boshenkova
Moscow city
Contemporary performance
Year of production: 2014
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
The solo performance by Anastasia Boshenkova presents a peacemaking, mesmerizing artistic statement based on the text of Leo Tolstoy. In the modern consciousness of man, war is like something distant and fake. Meanwhile, she is constantly present nearby. Being at war. A person tries in every possible way not to notice this, hoping that by doing so he will drive her away and remain a person.
The play "Boyhood"
Drama Theater "Wheel" named after G.B. Drozdova
City: Togliatti
Contemporary performance
Year of production: 2015
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
The play-sketch "Boyhood" is a stage version of the contemporary Russian playwright Yaroslav Pulinovich based on the story of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The sketch was directed by a young bright director Yevgenia Berkovich. The action of the play takes up not only the entire space of the large stage, but the heroes from time to time appear in the hall, between the rows, frighteningly close to the viewer.
The play "No Tolstoy"
Active theater
Moscow city
Year of production: 2014
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
The basis for the play was documentary material - memoirs of contemporaries, letters, diary entries - at the same time, the author does not try to accurately recreate the events preceding the departure of the writer from Yasnaya Polyana. The experiences and feelings of family members who, voluntarily or forcibly, are forced to serve the interests and goals of a great person with their whole lives - this is the thread on which the events of history are strung, which is unique in its own way and at the same time typical.
Screening of the video recording of the play "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"
Polish theater
Country: Poland
Contemporary performance
Year of production: 2010
Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes
Within the framework of the event, it is planned to discuss the topic "The influence of Russian culture on the Polish theater".
Public discussion with Armin Petras
Public discussion of the works of the German playwright and director Armin Petras, who created stage versions of the works of L.N. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
The answer to the question why these novels are in demand on the European theater scene. " It is proposed to be carried out in conjunction with the Goethe Institute.
The festival will be held for the third time. This year, guests will find an expanded program, which will include not only Russian and foreign performances, selected by theater critic Pavel Rudnev, but also exhibitions, film screenings and lectures. The events will take place on the territory of the Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum and the official partner of the Oktava Creative Industrial Cluster Festival.
You can register and purchase tickets for all events on the official website of the festival.
20.00 - opening of an exhibition with paintings by Greek artists based on the works of Leo Tolstoy "Аξιος Εστι - It is worthy to be." The exhibition is organized by the Yasnaya Polyana Museum, the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Athens and the MaLou Art Consulting & Gallery. House of Volkonsky. 0+
21.00 - spectacle "Fake Coupon"... Nikolai Kolyada will present a story rarely seen in the theater - a play about personal choice, responsibility for actions and the mechanism of evil. Kolyada Theater from Yekaterinburg. Main stage. 18+
11.00, 13.00, 15.00, 17.00, 19.00 - audio performance-walk "War and Peace" based on the diaries, letters, memoirs of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and his wife Sofya Andreevna, as well as on fragments of the novel "War and Peace". The play based on eight volumes of Leo Tolstoy's diaries was written by the young playwright Yulia Pospelova, and the composer was Grigory Polukhutenko. The territory of the estate. 12+
12.00 - storytelling "Stories for Children of Leo Tolstoy"... The play was based on the fairy tales “Worker Emelyan and the Empty Drum”, “The Righteous Judge”, “How Much Land Does a Man Need”, “Turtle and Eagle”, “Hares and Frogs”, “Squirrel and Wolf”. Storytelling workshop. On a hill. 7+
16.00 — "Who Killed Anna"- the world premiere from the cycle "In a Brief" based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina". Independent Moscow theater Le Cirque De Charles La Tannes and actors from Dmitry Brusnikin's workshop. Apple orchard. 12+
13.00 - spectacle "Son of a Giant"... Children's play based on the story of the English storyteller Elinor Farjon. SNARK Theater. Volkonsky House 6+
14.00 - sketch "The first distiller"... Production based on the play by Leo Tolstoy "The First Distiller, or How the Devil Deserved the Edge". The sketch was directed by Konstantin Soldatov. Kaluga Drama Theater. On a hill. 12+
14.00 — Fyokla Tolstaya... Lecture "Classics in the Digital Age". Fyokla Tolstaya will talk about the existence of classics in the digital age using the example of a mobile application « Live Pages ". Creative industrial cluster "Octava". 12+
14.00 — "Two"- an experimental performance, a search for a new theatrical language, an attempt to build communication with the help of modern technologies and with the help of the audience. The production is based on the classic Russian play Woe from Wit and the biography of its author, Alexander Griboyedov. Independent theater project "Two" (Moscow). Apple orchard. 12+
17.00 - sketch "All the qualities from her" based on Leo Tolstoy's 1910 moralizing comedy of the same name. Ryazan Theater for Children and Youth. On a hill. 12+
18.00 - spectacle "Boyhood" based on the trilogy of L. N. Tolstoy “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth". Youth Theater Perm. Small stage. 14+
21.00 - spectacle "Devil" based on the story of the same name by Leo Tolstoy - the debut directorial work of Sergei Zhenovach's student Mikhail Stankevich. Starring Maxim Matveev. Moscow Theater of Oleg Tabakov. Main stage. 16+
22.00 - Norwegian film "Karenina and I"... The main role is the star of the Norwegian theater Gerild Mouset, the narrator is Liam Neeson. Italian director Tommaso Mottola made a film about the artistic quest of the actress, who went on a journey to the homeland of the author of the novel and learned Russian for the role. Orto Polare AS (Oslo, Norway). Apple Orchard 12+
11.00, 15.00 — “Responsible child. Part 1"... This performance is a gratitude to our children for the fact that they do not allow us to get used to the world, stop loving inventing and stop noticing magic. Independent theater project. House of Volkonsky. 3+
13.00 - spectacle "Kholstomer"... Synthesis of drama and puppet theater from Slovenian Maribor. The protagonist of Tolstoy in the story "Kholstomer" is a horse. Theater Association BUFETO INSTITUTE / CANKARJEV DOM LJUBLJANA, PUPPET THEATER MARIBOR (Slovenia). Apple orchard. 12+
15.00 - sketch "Peter Khlebnik"... The sketch for the performance is based on Leo Tolstoy's unfinished play "Peter the Khlebnik", which is based on "The Lay of the Christian Saint Peter the Publican" by the Alexandrian Patriarch John the Merciful. Eletsk Drama Theater "Benefis". On a hill. 12+
17.30 - spectacle "Boyhood" based on the trilogy of L. N. Tolstoy “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth". Saratov Academic Theater of Young Spectators. Small stage. 14+
20.00 - spectacle "Why did I kill my wife" based on the story of L.N. Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata". Meeting with a killer who will leave indifferent only asleep. A provocative conversation will make married, lovers and connoisseurs of personal independence argue. The viewer is assigned the role of a judge, a lawyer and an accomplice. Valmiera Drama Theater (Latvia). Apple orchard. 16+
21.00 - spectacle "The Kreutzer Sonata"... Based on the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy, the writer's reflections on the themes of gender and marriage. Theater "Ballet Moscow". Main stage. 12+
18.00 - meeting with the creators of the film "The Story of One Destination". Excerpts from the film will be presented by director Avdotya Smirnova, scriptwriter Pavel Basinsky and one of the main actors Alexei Smirnov. A poignant story about the complexity of choice and loyalty to one's own ideals is based on real events from the life of the great writer. House of Culture "Yasnaya Polyana". 6+