Elena Kamenskaya art critic biography

In general, for the modern museum, the use of multimedia and other modern exhibiting methods associated with performative principles using theatrical experience, especially if it is the theater museum, which is the Moscow Art Theater Museum, seems very important. This enables the audience not only to look at inanimate objects, to discover the story and the life that stands behind these objects.

Therefore, for all people who work with modern museums, it is important to understand how to work with multimedia, modern practices.

And there is always an important question where the line is located between the fact that it is appropriate and organic in the museum, which is still a museum thing associated with a certain historical reconstruction, with an understanding of a sense of time, and that is not such. I really hope that our joint work is a work that meets all these signs. The author of the idea and director Alexander Snegirev is an organic and natural version of the development of any museum exposition today.

It is not innovative, but already classic and it must be embodied. Video rethinking requires a lot. The viewer is used to perceiving many things through the video and the museum’s guests will not regret a drop if there are a video of the interpretation of certain pages from the history of the theater. The playwright was working on playwright, how the drama is arranged, what it is.

Whether it is excerpts or a whole work. The screenwriter, the editor, I had an idea that we would simply reconstruct, and then it turned out that there is the history of the theater and in it the events that took place at the 1st 30 years - they can be used as dramaturgy. Lucy Artemyev, the author of the idea and director, was conducted research work, we studied the documents related to the life of the theater during this period.

And it is known that they are all cool and committed the reform of the theater. But this was already exhaustively described and did not want to retell these events. That is why we invited the writer Snegirev to the project. Lucy Artemyev playwright to me work with the finished on the one hand, archival, on the other hand, literary, dramatic material, was very interesting for me.

Because it was possible to somehow pontilate and present in the collage version on the one hand the canonical established, and on the other, quite alive, suitable for rethinking. This is an interesting experience, because you make a squeeze from the direct speech of Stanislavsky, from the quotes of the "theater novel" by M. Bulgakov, from the memoirs of the famous directors of the theater.

This is very interesting, because quite ready -made works or completed statements turn into a working material. This has its own magic. Such a shift, when it would seem already everything, nothing can be done - but no, it turns out that it is possible. There is a little element of barbarism in this, it is like stripping gold from a coupon and melt it on other products, but there is an element of genuine, free handling of art and it seems to me that we managed to achieve some kind of alive interpretation of canonical texts.

In this sense, we did not act as the insolents who dared to intervene in the foundations, but rather as interpretations, which allowed themselves to interpret the established dogma and, perhaps, we managed to give them partly some new sound. Alexander Snegirev Andrey Silvestrov What tasks were set for the actors, what were the difficulties? During the casting period, we wondered who could be and eventually came to Brusnikin's workshop.

The heart of any work is its actors and it all depends on how they play. Therefore, casting is a very important point. A great idea was to invite a team of people who are connected with each other. These are Brusnikin's workshop, graduates of the Moscow Art Theater School, who are part of this tradition, unlike us and the audience who look at this family from the side, and they are members of this family.

And another nuance that is reflected in the drama of the project is the relationship of the new and traditional. The Moscow Art Theater came as something super new, it was a breakthrough, which later became a tradition, it only later began to bony and turn into a canon. The Moscow Art Theater invented tools that allow this tradition to update, bring it closer to reality, Brusnikin's workshop is an example of this, a bright phenomenon.

And this update of tradition is very clear for these actors. They did a great job with the tasks set in front of them. Each in his own way. I hope the audience will enjoy watching. The author of the idea and director Alexander Snegirev was present on the set and it seemed to me that the actors understood this subtle task when it was a little mockmentaries, a little joke, a little genuine drama.

This is a subtle acting task when you play, but you don’t seem to play. A special genre that was embodied and the actors very accurately felt it and handed it over with their game.