I'm lucky. I worked at the Moscow Art Theater School for 8½ years (almost Fellini). Over the years, she taught at the gold courses of Igor Zolotovitsky, Kirill Serebrennikov, Dmitry Brusnikin and Viktor Ryzhakov. It so happened that the courses of the last three named teachers became theaters - the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth studios of the Moscow Art Theater. Very well deserved. And although our times are difficult, and the life of young actors is not easy, and my soul hurts for the wounds they receive from a rotten environment, I am a happy viewer. I like everything that is done at the Gogol Center, at the Brusnikin Workshop and now at the new theater “Julyansemble”. And I even allow myself the audacity to mentally appropriate my yesterday’s students, who are growing up in an accelerated program.

“Modern Concert” is a series of songs that, according to Viktor Ryzhakov, will change because the actors have 50 musical numbers in stock. In the performance that I watched on September 4, 2016, there were more American actors, but there were also Russian, Italian, French...

Chanson, rock, folk, popular... - i.e. sounds of the century. The audience happily recognized the performers and texts; they could download the program onto their gadget and follow the actors; unfortunately, I couldn’t do it.

But there are two characters whose presence in the play does not depend on what melodies will sound, because the plot rests on this pair: a soldier and a bride.

Faces flash on the screen - from the crowd that has not yet experienced the First World War - right up to the present day, expressed literally: on the screen there are silhouettes of actors and the audience in the hall. The image is moving, the frames jump staggered, one image overlaps another, but suddenly you can clearly see Stalin, Molotov, Mikoyan, Beria, marching fascists, Brezhnev, helicopters from Coppola’s “Apocalypse”, flying in the film to the sounds of Wagner’s Valkyries, and in “Modern concert" soundtracked with completely different melodies.

The actors create a masterful caricature of famous songs and their performers, but if the main metaphor is translated into the text, it will be sad: no matter what is sung, no matter what is sung about, the soldier has always “got ready to go on a campaign,” but the girl is always the same life remains a bride. She will express despair only once - she will scream and rush across the stage, unattractively lifting up her innocent snow-white dress, designed for a completely different ending. And the words of Viktor Tsoi, “War is a matter for the young, a cure for wrinkles,” cheerfully performed by an actor who looks like BG, will reveal their main meaning.

And when - at the end of the performance - the actor who played the soldier changes into a civilian dress and brings flowers to the girls singing the Tattoo song “They Will Not Catch Up with Us,” they will run away from him, as they run away from a terrible time, they will run away together, because the women have lost all hope of waiting her man from the war.

And he will throw away the bouquet. And it will be superficially funny, but essentially very sad. But the play courageously hides this “wrong side”, because the young actors hope that they “will not be caught up.” This is what I wish for them with all my heart.
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P.S. I also want to say that the performance is very beautiful and that the stylist, Anna Khrustaleva, dressed all the actors wonderfully. Hooray!

Center named after Meyerhold will present the audience with many interesting performances in the new season. For example, the bright production of director Viktor Ryzhakov and his student course will surprise you with the heady nostalgia of the past, as well as the psychology and life of elderly people. The performance is made in the “verbatim” genre - that is, it contains monologues and recordings of conversations of real people, as well as observations of their lives.

Play " Outdated concert"is staged quite easily and at the same time colorfully - it is woven from many emotions that move from one to another, and all this change of experiences occurs incredibly quickly. There is no plot in the production - the performance consists of memories, snatches of phrases, dialogues, and revelations of experienced and experienced people who do not waste words, and if they say something, it becomes a real treasure and wisdom for the audience who came. Life sketches also cannot be called such - these are stories about life, various transitions into student youth, which cannot remain indifferent.

By the way, the play contains many melodies from the early 20th century, exactly those songs that our grandparents loved to listen to and sing. This production can be called bright, light, and incredibly witty - the artists show the funniest situations from the lives of their heroes, while , without slipping into farce and grotesque, and balancing on the brink of the most amazing feelings. The actors tried to find intonation in this work and show old age through the eyes of the young, trying to penetrate into the very essence of this process.

The play “Uncontemporary Concert” at the Theater Center named after. Meyerhold - a musical verbatim, during which young actors try on old age. First-year students from Viktor Ryzhakov’s Workshop (now known as the June Ensemble team) interacted with older people. Preparation for the performance took almost three years, and experienced teachers, playwrights and actors also had a hand in it.

Organizational details

Those wishing to buy tickets to the performance “Unmodern Concert” in Moscow can choose seats in the Great Hall. The performance will last 1 hour 45 minutes. It is intended for viewers over 12 years of age.

More about the production

As director Viktor Ryzhakov notes, he and his team tried to understand old age not only as a state of the body, but also of the soul. They tried to find out which values ​​remain relevant in old age, and which ones lose their significance over time.

The performance consists of the image of many people. All these heroes are very different: someone’s story tells about war, someone’s about love. Each has its own joys and sorrows, there is also despair and humility. The production recreates not only the main line of the heroes’ destinies, but also the attributes of their time: these are songs, films, dances and even television programs that appeared in the youth of the people who became the heroes of the play.

This theatrical work is an attempt to catch time, remember it, preserve it. An attempt to take a closer look at the older generation. Understand the features of their time, which was completely different. Understand the features of their lives, which were also strikingly different from modern ones.

The creators of the play hope that the discoveries made with the help of this performance will help both the audience and the actors themselves to keep something very important and timeless in their hearts.

The theatrical performance “Uncontemporary Concert” took place at the Meyerhold Center on September 14, 2018.

UNMODERN CONCERT
Julyansemble

Director - Viktor Ryzhakov
The concert was prepared by: Ilya Bocharnikov, Alexey Varushchenko, Vladimir Gusev, Sasha Denisova, Marina Drovosekova, Sergey Zemtsov, Svetlana Ivanova-Sergeeva, Kazimir Liske, Renat Mamin, Olga Nikitina, Tatyana Pykhonina, Andrey Stadnikov, Olga Topunova.
Prepared and performed by: Stepan Azaryan, Roman Vasiliev, Artem Dubra, Alexey Ermoshkin, Alexey Kamanin, Sergey Novosad, Irina Obruchkova, Ronald Pelin, Alevtina Tukan, Varvara Feofanova, Jordan Fry, Sergey Shadrin, Varvara Shmykova, Nikita Yuskov.

“Uncontemporary Concert” - verbatim in the genre of a concert about old age. Very young people are trying to try on “old age” for themselves. In the first year, students of Viktor Ryzhakov’s Workshop at the Moscow Art Theater School (now the “July Ensemble”) received an assignment: to meet a previously unknown very old man and try to research and understand him as much as possible. Tools: interviews and observation, attention and questions. The concert was prepared for almost three years. Young and more experienced playwrights and mentors, artists of the Art Theater and teachers took part in the preparation.

Victor Ryzhakov: “ We wanted to dissect old age as a category not only of time and body, but also of the soul. Understand which values ​​remain forever in a person and which disappear. Many portraits of people of the passing generation were formed. Different destinies, with war and love, illness and joy, despair and humility. We tried to find and prolong this “endless youth” in ourselves. The attributes of the past tense were treated in the same way, what constituted the habitat of our “old people”: music, songs, films, dances, the first television. After all, something from the past remains with us, something remains important today, young, forever young. And something disappeared without a trace. By what laws all this happens is unknown. This is an attempt to capture the passing, slipping time. A time when the rhythms were completely different, when the hours were longer, and “the trees were big,” and the people themselves, it would seem, lived completely differently. The look of today's generation at the generation of fathers and mothers, grandmothers and “when they were like us, like me.” Maybe we will be able to preserve something most important within ourselves. Ask why? Maybe so that the connection between times is not interrupted?!”

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About the performance

The play “Uncontemporary Concert” at the Theater Center named after. Meyerhold is a musical verbatim, during which young actors try on old age. First-year students from Viktor Ryzhakov’s Workshop (now known as the June Ensemble team) interacted with older people. Preparation for the performance took almost three years, and experienced teachers, playwrights and actors also had a hand in it.

Organizational details

Those wishing to buy tickets to the performance “Unmodern Concert” in Moscow can choose seats in the Great Hall. The performance will last 1 hour 45 minutes. It is intended for viewers over 12 years of age.

More about the production

As director Viktor Ryzhakov notes, he and his team tried to understand old age not only as a state of the body, but also of the soul. They tried to find out which values ​​remain relevant in old age, and which ones lose their significance over time.

The performance consists of the image of many people. All these heroes are very different: someone’s story tells about war, someone’s about love. Each has its own joys and sorrows, there is also despair and humility. The production recreates not only the main line of the heroes’ destinies, but also the attributes of their time: these are songs, films, dances and even television programs that appeared in the youth of the people who became the heroes of the play.

This theatrical work is an attempt to capture time, remember it, preserve it. An attempt to take a closer look at the older generation. Understand the features of their time, which was completely different. Understand the features of their lives, which were also strikingly different from modern ones.

The creators of the play hope that the discoveries made with the help of this performance will help both the audience and the actors themselves to keep something very important and timeless in their hearts.

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Theater address: Novoslobodskaya metro station, Novoslobodskaya st., building 23

• Novoslobodskaya
• Belarusian
• Mendeleevskaya

Meyerhold Theater Center (CIM)

Center named after Sun. Meyerhold one of the most high-tech and developing cultural platforms in Moscow. The unique hall of the venue is transformed in accordance with the director’s plans, both for large-scale productions and for intimate performances. The stage can be raised and lowered, and the auditorium is equipped with removable rows of seats. It is known that Meyerhold came up with exactly this design in the 1930s, bringing it to life together with the architects right up to the day of his arrest.

Although Center named after Sun. Meyerhold There is no own troupe, theater life is in full swing there. Modern experimental productions, premieres and tours of not only metropolitan and foreign directors take place here. For several years now, there has been a theatrical residence here, in which current directors from all over Russia work. Master classes are held here, prominent contemporary experts give lectures, contemporary art exhibitions and concerts are held. An important part of the site's activities is, of course, children's events. A storytelling workshop is constantly running, and master classes and reading clubs are held for the little ones.

How to get to the Center. Sun. Meyerhold

This theatrical and cultural venue can be easily found not far from the Garden Ring. You can get to the metro to this center in two ways. Either take the Circle Line to get to the Novoslobodskaya station, then turn left from it, after three minutes on the other side of the road you will see a large dark gray building - you need to go there. You can also get to the Mendeleevskaya station on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line. Required building Center named after Sun. Meyerhold is located directly opposite the entrance.

Photo - official website of CIM.