Mayakovsky. Tragedy - the premiere of the performance at the Gogol Center

MOSCOW. On Monday, January 15, at the Gogol Center, the premiere of the play Mayakovsky. Tragedy ”, which completed the cycle“ Star ”. The performances of this cycle were devoted to the five most important figures of Russian poetry, who worked in the twentieth century. The main character of the play was Vladimir Mayakovsky. This is not Mayakovsky, about whom articles are written in the encyclopedia.

This is an invented character created by Vladimir Mayakovsky. In 1913, the poet wrote an early futuristic text “Vladimir Mayakovsky. Tragedy". His name appeared by chance. However, after the text got to the censor, the poet decided to put his "Tragedy", the author was not allowed to change the name.

This play was well known in the literary world, but after its first production in the author’s direction and in the sets made by Filonov and Shkolnik, Tragedy was not perceived as a stage text that can be staged today.

Philip Grigoryan decided to restore her in theatrical rights. He became both a director and a production designer dedicated to Vladimir Mayakovsky. According to the director, in 1913 there were no such opportunities for working on the stage as today.

In the work on this performance, he became assistants with new technologies for working with sound, the ability to use video materials. But the main thing that allowed this unique production to appear was a unique group of actors working in the Gogol Center.

Fans of the theater have already become acquainted with productions that have become dedications to Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, St. Petersburg poet Mikhail Kuzmin. Now they have to plunge into the world of Vladimir Mayakovsky, revived on the stage of the Gogol Center by director Philip Grigoryan and a talented team of actors.

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