The most controversial, mysterious and poetic part of the Old Testament is not a staged retelling of the story of King Solomon and his beloved. Rather it is a study in metaphysics of love in which we intuitively follow the path of two people who create each other out of their love, becoming Adam and Eve, Romeo and Juliette, or Pierrot and Colombina along the way. This «sequence of dreams» about love becomes the stuff of flesh and blood on stage with the help of movements and visions, people, objects and puppets. It is designed for an associative, sensual perception of a viewer prepared to open up to an irrational flow of images and feelings.
The performance was inspired by the movie «The colour of pomegranate» by Sergey Paradzhanov.
“We don’t give you any interpretation of the understanding of “The Song of Songs”. Our work may be characterized as an attempt to “translate” this greatest composition about love. The aim of our research was not so much edification, preaching, following the story, it is not a search of expressive images and languages, but an attempt to become a part of the comprehensive qualities of love: from the rampant human’s passion to the universal and creative of worlds. We create our own unique mythology which is based at the level of personal intrusion of authors. Perhaps, it is disputable, but it belongs to the performance this time and this place only. This work got out of the control and it began to form authors and the law for itself”
Director
A. Gushin, D. Kazachuk, V. Ruchimska, V. Korotkova
Directing Dept.
Marina Zavyalova
Designer
Larisa Novikova
Light designer
Vladimir Bichkovsky, Anatoly Gonye
Sound Designer
Cast:
She
Anna Donchenko
Gardener
Roman Dadaev
Love
Vasilisa Ruchimskaya
Crone
Maria Batrasova/ Nadezhda Moshkina
Shepherd
Denis Kazachuk
Readers
Ales Snopkovsky, Ivan Solntsev
Weavers
Anastassia Gritsay, Mikhail Lozhkin
Dmitry Chupakhin, Ekaterina Lozhkina
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