Bertolt Brecht
The Good Person of Szechwan
Добрый человек из Сезуана
Yuri Butusov, having staged one of the most complex plays by Bertolt Brecht in a new translation by Egor Peregudov, seemed to return it to the roots: moving away from both the socialist pathos of the 40s and the dissident rebellion of the Taganka production of the 60s, he rediscovered a dramatic parable about the essence of man.
An emotional, passionate story about the exploitation of man by man with the wonderful music of Paul Dessau performed live. Alexandra Ursulyak plays a woman and a man, sings in German, dances, and her heroine tries her best to remain a kind person in the embittered and indifferent world of people and gods.
Actors
Yang Sun
Old Woman
Crew
Choreography
Nikolai Reutov
Poor prostitute Shen Te unexpectedly receives a gift from the gods for her kind heart. But the more good she does to people, the more troubles fall on her head. Even her lover, pilot Yang Sun, takes advantage of the girl’s innocence. Until suddenly her cousin Shui Ta appears, who is great at saying “no”...
The performance is devoid of signs of time and place - this is not Chinese Szechwan, but simply a god-forsaken village on the edge of the Universe, possible in any country and in any century, and maybe at the very end of time...
The performance is devoid of signs of time and place - this is not Chinese Szechwan, but simply a god-forsaken village on the edge of the Universe, possible in any country and in any century, and maybe at the very end of time...