Kamal Theater will participate in the first festival of Yun Fosse
From April 6 to 9, 2018, in Moscow and St. Petersburg the first Festival of Jon Fosse will take place . Within the framework of the festival on April 7, at the School of Dramatic Art, the Tatar State Academic Theater named after G. Kamal will play "One Day in Summer" in the production by Farid Bikchantaev. Performances on the plays of the most popular playwright of Northern Europe will also be presented by Russian directors Yury Butusov, Alexander Ogarev and Yoel Lehtonen.
The program of the festival will be supplemented by lectures and master classes at the Russian Institute of Theatrical Art (GITIS), creative meetings at the theater "School of Dramatic Art" and the Central House of Actor, a presentation of a new collection of plays by the playwright at the Stanislavsky Electrotheater. Yun Fosse will personally open the festival during a teleconference that will connect his residence in Oslo and the Moscow Meyerhold Center. The organizers of the festival are the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in Russia and the production company "Team + 1".
We remind that the premiere of the performance "One Day in Summer" in Kazan was held on February 8, 2013. It is important to note that the Kamal Theater is the first theater to stage a play based on the play of a Norwegian playwright in Russia. In 2014, Yun Fosse personally arrived in Budapest for the festival named after Madacha specially to watch the performance "One day in summer." After the show, Fosse went behind the scenes and shared his impressions: "I went in just to say thank you and hug you all. I liked the performance. "
About the play:
In the life of every person, situations occur that alter his destiny, forcing him to return to his reasons again and again, to analyze the past, to find an answer to a question that lays a heavy burden on the soul and pulls to the bottom into the pool of memories. The plot of the play by the Norwegian avant-gardist Yun Fosse is unpretentious - the heroine again experiences the events of youth, trying to understand what prompted her husband to disappear, to leave her life. However, the form of the play dictates the laws of perusal, and the meaning is not exhausted by the plot. It is set in the transitions-moods of rhythmic prose, in endless returns to what has been said, in the metaphysics of cognition of the meaning of the life of heroines, in endless self-torture that imparts vitality. For the composition and artistic image of the play, the leitmotif is the clash of temporary layers of existence - eternally perpetually and dynamically changing. In the fate of the heroine, in the mirror, the peripeteias of other characters are accurately reflected, her dialogues with her friend take the form of internal monologues, and monologues turn into polemics with themselves. In the director's decision, the poetics of Fosse finds his reflection in the art of ornamentation, where the topic is more important and more meaningful than the plot, and the process of seeking truth is hardly less important than the answer to the question that tormented the heroine.
The play is a participant of festivals:
Russian National Theater Festival "Golden Mask"
International Theater Festival after Madach International Theater Meeting (Budapest)
International Shanghai Modern Theater Festival
International Theater Festival "Rainbow".
About the playwright:
Jon Fosse is a Norwegian writer, poet and playwright, winner of dozens of prestigious awards, including the Literary Prize of the Northern Council and the theater analogue of the Nobel Prize - the Ibsen International Prize. His novels have been translated into the main languages of the world, the plays were staged by Thomas Ostermayer, Claude Régie and Falk Richter, and the British edition of The Daily Telegraph in 2007 awarded the title of "living genius."