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At the Theater of Nations, the audience is invited to reflect on the price of a successful life. Here, in February 2014, the premiere of the tragicomedy of the young playwright Yaroslava Pulinovich Zhanna took place on the small stage. The performance is a story of a woman with an iron character. The main role was played by Ingeborga Dapkunaite.
"Jeanne", performance. Theater of Nations
Staging was carried out by a recent graduate of GITIS Ilya Rotenberg. "Jeanne" is a performance that continues the experimental work of the theater with young directors and new dramaturgy. Ilya Rotenberg in 2011 headed the Lysvensky Drama Theater, where he staged Gogol's "Players". The production received the Grand Prix at the Festival of Theaters of Small Towns. "Jeanne" is the play, which is the second work of the director with the dramaturgy of Pulinovich. The first was the play "How I became …" (Tomsk Theater for Young Spectators) staged by him.
The play "Jeanne" involved actors: Ingeborga Dapkunaite (starring), Ekaterina Shchankina, Alexander Novin, Anna Gusarova, Andrey Fomin,Nadezhda Lumpova.
About Eternity: A Woman's Story
According to the director, "Jeanne" is a performance whose genre should be defined as a psychological drama, going back to the epic. The director considers the main character of the play Pulinovich to be an absolutely epic character. Her story concerns eternal things that have been worrying many for centuries - love, family, jealousy, revenge, envy. “Zhanna is a performance that represents the story of a woman. Every woman has a certain secret that would be interesting to understand,” the director shared with reporters. Such an attempt is presented in the play. The director tried to retell the story of Jeanne as he understands it.
A successful business woman has, at first glance, all the benefits that many only dream of. The viewer is invited to think: at what cost was it mined? What did you have to sacrifice for this? What does she end up with?
Storyline
The genre of the play by Yaroslava Pulinovich, which formed the basis of the performance ("Then there will be a new day"), is defined as a melodrama with elements of farce. It tells about a certain lonely and determined businesswoman Zhanna, who managed to break through from "rags to riches": she built her life from scratch, achieved a lot, but never found her happiness. For five years, her relationship with the infantile Andrei, who is almost half her age, continues. The heroine takes care of him jealously. At some point, the notorious young man decides to start an independent life. He runs away from Jeanne to the negligent and funny student Katya. But for the young it ends sadly - theyare thrown into the street. Zhanna finds no one to replace her.
About the author
Yaroslava Pulinovich, despite her young age (she is under 30), is one of the most famous and sought-after Russian playwrights. Graduate of the Yekaterinburg Theater Institute. The first plays - "Chemistry Teacher", "Carnival of Cherished Desires", "Washers" - are on the shortlists of the Eurasia Drama Festival, are winners of the "Debut" and "Voice of a Generation" awards. Pulinovich is also a regular participant in the Lyubimovka and New Drama festivals. The playwright's plays are staged in theaters in England, Poland, Estonia, the USA, Ukraine and more than 40 theaters in Russia.
According to critics, Pulinovich's plays differ from many other Russian dramas of the latest generation in that they are built in perfect accordance with theatrical canons. They certainly contain the psychological quality of images, the rapid development of intrigue, a serious and understandable meaning to the viewer. Perhaps these features are the secret of her success.
Direction
Experts believe that in the performance of the young director Ilya Rotenberg, everything is thought out perfectly and works like clockwork. The artist Polina Grishina, a student of the famous Dmitry Krymov, conceptually divides the space into black and white. The viewer is offered a world without halftones.
The foreground is Jeanne's luxurious apartment: marble floor, large bed and jacuzzi. The second is occupied by Andrey and Katya's rented closet with its miserable furnishings. The action moves from episode to episode, all solutions work, nothing remains unused. The metaphors are biting and laconic: for example, when the bed is removed from the bed, it turns into the grave of Jeanne's father. The action is built by the director, like a clip montage, the frames in it change quite quickly, new episodes naturally grow from the previous ones.
Changed ending
At the end of the play, Andrei with his wife and child, left without money, housing and work, come to Zhanna. At the sight of the baby, the heroine's heart melts. She leaves the young at her place to spend the night. The reader is left with the hope that "a new day" awaits the farthest.
But for the production of the Theater of Nations, the playwright rewrote the ending, its meaning was radically changed. In the performance, Zhanna asks her acquaintance, a powerful deputy, how to quickly deprive someone of parental rights. And he gets the answer that there is nothing complicated about it.
She decides to steal the baby. This step becomes for her the pinnacle of all her ambitions, the last wish to be realized. Jeanne acts with all the uncompromising character of an ancient heroine. Surviving the death of female love, she strives for revenge in maternal love. With a new finale, Pulinovich's play is taken to the global level. Her heroine gets to match the scale of the actress playing the lead role.
Dapkunayte: external fragility combined with internal strength
Of the several plays offered by the director, we decided to stage the play "Jeanne". The Theater of Nations settled on this option. IngeborgDapkunaite for the main role was invited by Evgeny Mironov, artistic director of the theater.
This choice, according to the director, is very accurate. The participation of this wonderful actress gives the play a special new flavor.
Dramaturg Y. Pulinovich believes that Dapkunaite has what is necessary for her image: she combines external fragility with internal pressure and strength.
Actress and audience
Film actress Dapkunaite needs no introduction to both domestic and world audiences. It would be useful for theater-goers to know that a movie star has been playing in the theater for a long time and a lot. In the 1980s, she worked with the famous E. Nyakroshyus, a Lithuanian director who founded the Meno Fortas Theater. She has performed on the stages of European theaters, as well as in Britain and America.
Actress and role
According to critics, Ingeborga Dapkunaite acts clearly and swiftly in this performance: she does not allow any extra gesture, or unplayed details, or random intonations.
Her heroine combines tenderness and predatory grip, openness to the world and severity, iron rigidity and vulnerability. She is truly charming, resourceful, cunning, graceful. It combines acting mischief and female coquetry with depth and careful psychologism. As a result, her Zhanna is not just a character or an actress. This is a real live person whom the viewer believes from the first to the last word.
Performance "Jeanne": reviews
The work of the creative team of the theater did not leave the audienceindifferent. In their reviews, they call the performance amazing. Acting in it makes the audience live with the characters moving through life like a knife blade, all the vicissitudes of their fate. The audience is grateful to Ingeborga Dapkunaite for her piercing, amazing game. The subtle and frank transmission by the actress of the emotional experiences of a lonely woman evokes a gamut of feelings in many: admiration, pity, contempt and condemnation. In their reviews, the audience thanked the actors for their convincing and truthful work, noted the good direction and, in their opinion, the successful solution of the stage space.
Conclusion
The production of the Theater of Nations is a strong, solid performance that can make anyone worry. A creative viewer will also appreciate the fresh and at the same time accessible form. The only ones who should not recommend this performance are connoisseurs of dubious, risky experiments. There is no such thing in this work.
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