"Uncle’s Dream" director Sergei Bobrovsky turned in Lipetsk in "Dream in a Dream"

Yesterday, November 15, at the Drama Theater of the city of Lipetsk, a pre-premiere screening of the new performance by director Sergei Bobrovsky, staged by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel "Uncle’s Dream", took place. Since the staging of the story was written by the director himself, the name of the performance became different. According to Sergei Bobrovsky, giving the performance the title “Dream in a Dream”, he decided to designate the genre of the performance for the audience, turning the tragicomedy into a mixture of anecdote and vaudeville, but do it with kindness and show the sincerity of the heroes’ experiences.

“Uncle’s Dream” was written much earlier than the work of the writer on the famous “Idiot” was begun, but many thoughts of Prince Myshkin were already invested in Prince K, a guest of the provincial town of Mordasov. Dostoevsky showed the vile morals of the Russian province, the tyranny of parents towards children, a society that considers the person most adequate among them abnormal. The most important was the idea of how difficult it is for a kind person to live.

With a simple plot from the story of Dostoevsky, director Sergei Bobrovsky beat all the situations that are relevant for today. Just like in the days of the great writer, it is difficult to be different from others, to get married by calculation has become even more fashionable, and almost everyone loudly declares his religiosity.

However, in the production of Sergei Bobrovsky there is no separation of characters into heroes of positive and negative. You can understand each of his characters, sympathize with everyone. Prince K. does not seem to have survived from the mind, he is just a lonely person with his own weaknesses, which all the inhabitants of the town shamelessly use, from relatives to completely strangers.

On November 16, the official premiere of the play, there were no tickets at the box office.

Ludmila Trautmane