Director David Bobe transferred Ovid’s poem on stage to the modern world

In the last days of October, students of the Seventh Studio, Kirill Serebrennikov, showed the audience their work - the performance of Metamorphoses. The show took place at the Platform’s experimental stage venue, which opened last year in Moscow, which was created to present a variety of stage projects of various genres.

The play “Metamorphoses” was staged by a young French director, David Bobe, who is working with students of Kirill Serebrennikov for the second time. The play is based on Ovid’s poem, the plot of which is compared with modernity. The play was written by the playwright Valery Pecheikin, turning the classic hexameter into an accessible modern language, adding to it the realities inherent in our days.

For example, Orpheus after the death of his beloved Eurydice can continue to communicate with her on Facebook (продукт Meta Platforms Inc., компания признана экстремистской организацией, деятельность на территории РФ запрещена). Ovid, outwardly resembling a very modern homeless person, wanders thoughtfully among the characters. A new character, invented by the playwright, appeared in the play. He, guilty before the gods, had to turn into an animal, but the liquid intended for this procedure was stolen, and its divorced remains left the character in a borderline state. Judges did not hear a call for mercy. Then the half-man repeats his crime - in despair, again offends the gods.

The fearless directorial work of David Bobe, connected in the play almost all genres of art that can be perceived from the stage. The text of the play intersects with choreography and acrobatics. The music of the performance performed by the Africans is complemented by a video that is constantly present on the backdrop of the scene. Only now the plot of the stories remains the same - the love of Orpheus and Eurydice, the tragedy of Icarus, the greed of King Midas

Ludmila Trautmane