Bridge builds a bridge

On September 2, 2016, a bridge will grow from the Garden Ring to the MOST Theater building! A real bridge leading through the window to the stage of the Theater will be erected by spectators and artists at the building on Bolshaya Sadovaya 6. The art object “The Bridge between Stage and Life” will unite the audience and art in a single creative impulse and will become a symbol of the beginning of a long journey 17- th theater season.

“MOST has always lived by the formula of an open theater. Open new dramaturgy, for young actors, for a young audience, ”says the artistic director of the Theater, Evgeny Slavutin, and cuts a window on the opening day of the season… No, not to Europe, but directly to the stage. Only on this day it will be possible to get to the performance not through the front door, but through the window, climbing the newly built bridge.

And unhurried Chekhov’s tea party is called to inspire a creative "building site". On the conditional pavement in front of the Theater that evening, a feast will unfold with characters from the play by Chekhov by Georgy Dolmazyan. While a small Jewish orchestra is playing on the roof of the theater building, the Prozorov sisters will invite all passers-by to the samovar and treat them to Old Russian Ivan tea. Salty, perhaps, will offer something stronger, and the old Firs will open the “way” and finally pat the people who gathered the same dried cherry, which “used to be sent by carts to Moscow and Kharkov… And it was then soft, juicy, fragrant… ". Each guest will be able to personally open the "new season" in the literal sense, picking up a jar of cherry jam with the Theater logo on the lid.

But not only spectators with tickets will become participants in the opening of the season. Theatrical happening of the MOST will capture this evening the entire area of the Patriarch’s Ponds and Mayakovsky Square. A few hours before the play, the beginning playwright Kostya Treplev, with posters and banners in support of new forms of art, will go demarche along the banks of the Patriarchs in search of the treasured gull, and Ranevskaya’s retinue will meet a windy hostess from Paris on a swing at the Mayakovsky monument.

You can take a breath before the start of the performance in the theater foyer. By candlelight, to the sounds of live music, guests of the evening will be able to recall the main Chekhov testament: “Everything should be fine in a person…”, and set yourself up for a direct meeting with this most beautiful. The performance "Chekhov" by Georgy Dolmazyan, whose premiere marked last season, has already become a laureate of the Moskovsky Komsomolets Theater Prize in his short life and has been included in the list of nominees for the Independent Theater Audience Award nominees.