"The best performance of Siberia-2016" - "Frontovichka"

November 15, 2016 at 19.00 on the stage of the theater-festival "Baltic House" will be the only screening of "The Best Performance of Siberia-2016" - "Frontovichka". Directed by the director Sergei Levitsky based on the play by Anna Baturina, in March in Moscow opened the out-of-competition program of the Russian National Theater Festival “Golden Mask” - “Mask Plus”, and in May in Novosibirsk won the nomination “Best Performance of the Big Form” at the IV Interregional Theater Festival and Competition "New Siberian transit-2016". The performance will be presented by the State Russian Drama Theater. N. A. Bestuzhev from Ulan-Ude (Republic of Buryatia) as part of the "Days of Ulan-Ude Culture in Moscow and St. Petersburg."

“Frontovichka” is a performance dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory, devoid of all cliches and cliches related to the theme of the war on the stage. This is a story told by the vocabulary of those years, but a new theatrical language, where the viewer is invited to act as a co-author of the play, taking advantage of personal sensory experience, his imagination and imagination.

At the center of history is the fate of a 24-year-old front-line girl who returned victorious, along with the Soviet people, from the war in which she found her love. But a personal battle with the seal of war, betrayal, fear, loneliness is yet to come, and, oddly enough, it is in peacetime - a battle in the name of life, youth and that same love.

Director Sergei Levitsky presents a fundamentally new theater format, a new theatrical style. For this performance at the Novo-Siberian Transit 2016, he was awarded the diploma of the Theater Critics Association “For the bold and original genre solution of the play“ Frontovich ”based on the play by A. Baturina.” The leading actor - Honored Artist of Buryatia Svetlana Polyanskaya was awarded the diploma "For Best Actress".

Sergei Levitsky’s “front-line player” has more than once become the object of attention of famous theater critics:

Tatyana Dzhurova, member of the Expert Council of the Golden Mask Prize, editor of the St. Petersburg Theater Journal online blog: “Sergei Levitsky takes Baturina’s play out of the historical and“ Danish ”context into which she was immersed in anniversary, victorious dates. The remaining tool is also plastic. The focus is not on war, but on the heroine’s post-traumatic syndrome, whose consciousness is shoveled by the war, focused on waiting for a meeting with a loved one. ”

Anna Stepanova, theater expert, professor of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts GITIS: “Sergey Levitsky staged this powerful and tragic performance from himself as an absolutely author’s directorial statement about the bitter victory and the exorbitant price paid for it. The image of an eternally living war invented by him, raging behind a thin iron wall, is terrible ” (Petersburg Theater Journal, 2015, No. 2 (80).

Vladimir Speshkov, member of the Expert Council of the Golden Mask Prize, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper Chelyabinskiy Rabochiy: “The vast stage has been mastered from time to time, eccentric everyday sketches of the post-war communal life are organic inside a completely non-everyday, lyrical and dramatic musical element (the whole performance on the stage is the group “Crabs” with frontman Maxim Filinov). Actors (the ensemble of different generations works very harmoniously) play a story from the past, seen through the eyes of today’s people who are trying on this situation for themselves: could I?… This Frontovichka has the strongest emotional ending ”

The performance “Frontovichka” will be shown as part of the “Days of Culture of Ulan-Ude in Moscow and St. Petersburg”, dedicated to the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the founding of the capital of Buryatia. This will be the first tour in the city on the Neva River for the entire almost 90-year history of the Ulan-Ude Russian Drama Theater.

Sergey Levitsky - Artistic Director of the GRDT named after N. A. Bestuzheva, director, graduate of the East Siberian Academy of Culture and Arts (Ulan-Ude, 2008), majoring in theater, Moscow directing magistracy at the Moscow Art Theater School and TsIM at the Theater and Cultural Center named after Sun Meyerhold (2014), was trained in the summer "School of theatrical leader" (Moscow, 2016). In addition to performances in the Ulan-Ude theater, Sergey Levitsky staged performances in Moscow: “Grace” based on the play by Arthur Solomonov (Boyarsky chambers, 2014), “Inside” according to his own original script (Theater named after M. A. Bulgakov, 2014 g); in Khabarovsk: “The Secret of Mysterious Writing” based on the novel by J. Rodari in his own re-enactment (Theater of the Young Spectator), “Until the Last Man” based on the play by Elena Erpylova (Theater of the Young Spectator, 2011). Since 2012, consultant to the Youth Council of the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation.

The State Russian Drama Theater named after N. A. Bestuzhev is the first professional theater in Buryatia, it dates back to December 22, 1928, when the Moscow Bolshoi Organ Theater opened the first winter season in Verkhneudinsk (now Ulan-Ude). An important role in the formation of the theater was played by exiled Decembrists, who became the vehicles of enlightenment and Russian culture. The contribution of Nikolai Bestuzhev, whose name is the Russian Theater of Ulan-Ude since 1991, is especially significant. Today GRDT them. Bestuzheva is a theater with a rich history, beloved by the theater audience of Buryatia, not deprived of the attention of theater critics and members of the Expert Councils of the Golden Mask and New Siberian Transit festivals. The team participates in the festival movement of Russia, the touring card covers a wide territory - in the cities of the country and in the national republics, in the countries of the near abroad - Ukraine, Belarus, Mongolia, and, of course, in native Buryatia.

Photo by Sergey Primakov