Marius Ivaškevičius „RUSIŠKAS ROMANAS“ (Rež. Oskaras Koršunovas)

Two -part drama performance The play of playwright Marius Ivaškevičius tells the drama of writer Lev Tolstoy a few months before the writer's death. But L. Tolstoy is not in the play or in the performance. Sofja Andrejevna, the wife of L. Tolstoy, became the main axis of this drama. In the play, the love of a woman is passionate, reckless, inhumane, all creative and all destructive. The playwright and director, L. Tolstoy's wife, saw and concentrated the features of many writer's female characters (especially Anna Karenina). One of the main characters is Certkov, who is a real historical person who has become a friend of L. Tolstoy's family, gaining unconditional confidence of the writer, becoming his "man - secret weapon" and turning the writer's family life into a hell in his last years of life. On the train of the train, and indeed the tracks of history, which become a fundamental image, metaphor, cultural stereotypes, illusions, jealousy, genius, Russian myth, which are crushed by history and today's locomotive. According to Koršunov, the "Russian novel" is a multi -layered play that opens up many themes to explore the fabric and real life of the briefing that talks about femininity and what a woman means to live with the genius and a genius with a woman analyzing political topics that become particularly relevant when It is necessary to add, and when today's Russia becomes a fascist state. This is particularly affected by the context of the performance. In the context of geopolitical, political shifts of the Russian war against Ukraine, the performance has gained new meanings, became even more relevant and controversial. M. Ivaškevičius wrote this play in Russian for the first time in 2017. At the Moscow V. Majakovsky Theater, awarded the Golden Mask as the best dramaturgical work in Russia that year. Now it sounds almost ironic. Oscar Koršunov (2018):
"With this play, it happened as always happens to Ivaškevičius 'dramaturgy: what a good play he created, you start to understand only when it builds it on the theater stage. This happened to his' out of it," so now. After all, modern drama is not only what the playwright is creating now. A true modern drama is the one that is created now and which gives the impulse, dictates the example of a new stage language for our entire theater. It really exists in this play of Ivaškevičius. ”
Marius Ivaškevičius (March 2025):
"The time of the" Russian novel "idea coincided with the beginning of the Maidan Revolution in Kiev. Shortly afterwards, the annexation of Crimea took place, Russia began a unpublished war in the Donbass and I was dilemmas or really want to write this play. After about half a year of reflection, I decided that such a work could still make sense. That the late Lev Tolstoy - the pacifist and the opponent of any imperialism - could be a symbol of a different Russia. If the monuments of Russian city squares were built for him, not Stalin and Kalashnikov, Russia would be different today. While writing this play, I put a number of political references to the authoritarian Putin Russia, and being sure that the viewer would easily break them. One of them is about Moscow, where someone is killed every day, came as a reaction to the murder of Boris Nemtsov. On that deep night, I wrote a play finale in the basement. After that, I turned on the internet and saw what had just happened on the bridge at the Kremlin. For a couple of hours, I watched a live broadcast on how people in Moscow gather at the Russian opposition leader killed. After that, I went down to the basement again and wrote that phrase mentioned above. I watched with amazement how the many reviews of the premiere in Moscow have no one notices those political allusions. Until one Russian theater blogger collected all of them in a pile and declared it on his platform. I thanked him, saying he was the only one noticed them. To this, he said to me, "Believe me, everyone sees and hears, just scared to write about it." Certainly today, seeing the fascism in Russia, my hopes that the play about L. Tolstoy can change something there seems to be naive. And if I asked me today if I would write it differently, I would say, no. I would not write her at all. And not just her. 2022 The broad -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the meaning of many my political plays written before. And not just mine. Unfortunately, we are only writers, not prophets. We live and act in real time, not knowing what the time is preparing for us. ”
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We warn that the performance is smoking on stage.
Premiere of the performance - 2018 September 15
Photo by Laura Vanseviciene

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