Eastern story
To the 200th anniversary of M. Lermontova
«The only irrelevant reality for the Demon is his skepticism, the need to question everything: “my sadness is permanently here, and there will be no end to it, like me » (…)
In Lermontov’s poem, there are two worlds that are contrasting in their essence and in their figurative embodiment: the world of the Demon – the sphere of pure knowledge, ethereal abstraction, cold infinity of cosmic spaces, and the world of Tamara – earthly nature, joy, beauty, full of living, sensual splendor. And the tragedy of the Demon is in the disunity of these two worlds, the world of «pure reason» and living, real reality. Ultimately, this disunity gives rise to the catastrophe with which the poem ends».
A.M. Pulkhritudova
The performance features excerpts from the opera «Demon» by A. Rubinshtein and Georgian folk songs.
The premiere – December 11, 2014
Duration – 1 hour 10 minutes (without interval)
Directed by Oleg Olegovich Zhyugzhda – chief director of the theater, Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus
Scenography and puppets – Larisa Mikina-Probodyak
Music – Vitaly Leonov