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- Author:
Tatiana A. Kasatkina
- Information about the author:
DSc in Philology, Director of Research, Head of the Research Centre “Dostoevsky and World Culture,” A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
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- For citation:
Kasatkina, T.A. “Mikhail Mokeev. Demons: Translating Dostoevsky into the Language of Modernity.” Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological journal, no. 1 (21), 2023, pp. 261–275. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2023-1-261-275
- Received:
10 Feb. 2023
- Published:
25 March 2023
- Issue:
2023 no. 1 (21)
- Department:
DOSTOEVSKY ON STAGE
- Pages:
261-275
- DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2023-1-261-275
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https://elibrary.ru/ELYSCS
- UDK:
821.161.1.0
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83.3(2=411.2)+85.334
- Keywords:
Dostoevsky, Demons, staging, New Drama, Brusnikin’s Workshop, Mikhail Mokeev.
- Abstract:
The article discusses the staging of Fedor Dostoevsky’s novel Demons in Brusnikin workshop (Directors: Dmitry Brusnikin, Mikhail Mokeev, Mikhail Rakhlin). The play, staged by the final year of the Moscow Art Theater School in 2013, was played until the end of May 2021, and after that was not removed from the repertoire, but replaced by the play “Demons. The Night.” The performance is staged in the style of the New Russian Drama, which includes a large amount of improvisation, the involvement of the audience in the course of the performance, the fact of rethinking and refining key points right during the performance. Essentially, the production itself is existential, and requires from the actors to experience situations that reveal them to themselves in a new form and quality during each performance. In the article we will talk about the philosophy involved in the symbolic level of the performance.
References
1. Dostoevskii, F.M. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii: v 30 tomakh [Complete Works: in 30 vols]. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1972–1990. (In Russ.)
Reference list of video sources
1. “Besy. Spektakl’” [“Demons. A Play”]. YouTube, 27 March 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-or4A0VsanM (Accessed 10 Feb. 2023) (In Russ.)
