Premiere of "Kind Man from Cezuan" directed by Yuri Butusov

MOSCOW. The Pushkin Theater today, on February 1, will present to the theater public the premiere performance staged by Yuri Butusov based on a play written by Brecht about a good man from Cezuan. This is his second work with Brecht’s dramaturgy; earlier, the play “Man = Man” was staged at the Alexandrinsky Theater by Yuri Butusov.

The play "Good man…" appears on the Moscow stage for the second time. The first production of the play, which took place in 1963, marked the beginning of the story of Taganka by Yuri Lyubimov. This performance has remained in the repertoire of the theater for almost fifty years.

In the premiere, which today will be presented by Yuri Butusov at the theater. Pushkin, the text of the play received a new sound, since Yegor Peregudov translated the play again. The main motive of the play is the eternal struggle between good and evil, transmitted through the fate of the courtesan Shen Te.

The gods sent to the earth in search of a good man, in the person of Shen Te find the embodiment of the highest kindness, only now the more good deeds she does in life, the more misfortune falls on her head, the more unbearable the girl’s life becomes. The mysteriously appeared brother Shui Ta helped to cope with the problems, in the guise of which the girl began to act by more stringent methods.

In the role of Shen Te, Alexandra Ursulyak will appear on the stage, Alexander Arsentiev will become the unemployed pilot Young Sun. All the actors involved in the play talk about working on roles as a difficult but interesting process.

A lot of music sounds in the performance, the ensemble “Pure Music” takes part, the zongs are in two languages performed by theatrical actors. The main thing that Yuri Butusov saw in this play was human relations, so the costumes of the characters emphasize the characters of the heroes, because each person has its ambiguous shades.

Ludmila Trautmane