The audience of the theater. Mayakovsky attended a dinner at Kant

MOSCOW. Spectators who decided to spend the evening of December 15 at the Metropolitan Theater. Mayakovsky, were witnesses of a traditional dinner party of the famous German philosopher Immanuel Kant with representatives of the elite of the city of Koenigsberg. Lunch took place in the premiere performance “Kant”, staged by the theater director Mindaugas Karbauskis based on the play of the same name by his fellow countryman, Marius Ivashkevichus.

Ivashkevichus, a young but already well-known modern Lithuanian playwright, in a successful combination included elements of classical comedy, historical drama and intellectual play in his work. Despite the fact that the time when the performance takes place is two hundred years from today, the play by Marius Ivashkevichus, built on the dialogue of guests with the owner of the house, full of philosophical considerations, is a comedy. Little time is left before the New Year, so it can be imagined as a New Year’s fairy tale intended for adult viewers.

Muscovites are already familiar with the work of the playwright based on the play Madagascar, the production of which was brought to the capital by Rimas Tuminas. It was a story full of incredible absurdity and irony about how Lithuanians moved to Africa. Now on the stage of “Mayakovka” the performance “Kant” has appeared. Since the text of the play is still not simple, the director, together with stage designer Sergey Barkin, decided to place the actors and spectators in the chamber.

It was created on the main stage by placing the hexagon-amphitheater on it. There is a table in it, where there are 12 people who arrived for lunch with the philosopher, as well as 140 spectators. In the role of Kant - Mikhail Filippov. Among the participants in the play are Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Igor Kostolevsky and others, beloved by the audience, theater actors.

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