Tickets for the play “Moon Monster. Moon Monster "Moon Monster" at the Art Theater
Background
Historical events remain in textbooks and on the pages of encyclopedias, and the people who survived them scatter around the world, taking with them fragments of pain and unhealed wounds.
Play " Moon Monster”, a multiple nominee for various theater awards, in which there are no monsters. The title is part of the exhibition, designed to explain to the viewer the balance of power and once again remind the tragedy in Armenia at the beginning of the last century.
About the performance
These events happened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1921 to 1927.
The young photographer, Aram, fled from Ottoman genocide to America, having lost his entire family. His house contains family photo, which depicts parents surrounded by children, only instead of faces there are empty ovals. Aram dreams of a family, a wife and children who will not only fill the void in his soul, but also continue his lineage. And he, with irrepressible energy, begins to realize his ideally imagined future. To begin with, he orders a bride from Armenia. The young girl Seda, who also lost her family.
A family appears on the scene. Absolutely strangers- husband and wife. In a foreign country. Without friends, relatives and acquaintances. All that remains is to rely on each other.
Aram glues his and Seda’s photographs in place of the voids.
Time passes, but they have no children. The dream of procreation is about to be shattered, but at that moment Vincent appears. A boy from an orphanage, about eight years old, who conquered Seda’s suffering heart. She persuades her husband to adopt an orphan.
Aram faces a difficult choice: should he accept a stranger into the family or not? Morality and morality, such close concepts, come into fierce opposition.
Aram, as a person who experienced a tragedy, would seem to sympathize with the grief of others and understand how difficult it is for a lonely child. But he, Aram, really wanted his own children, and this crazy boy, who strongly resembles Huckleberry Finn, is not at all suitable to continue the family line. Seda becomes the source of his disappointment.
Not only is his wife unable to bear him a child, she brought him into the orphanage’s house without asking his, Aram’s, permission. He is alone again, but this time surrounded by “family.” It would seem that the dream has been fulfilled, but is this what he dreamed of?
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Tickets for the performance Moon Monster
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Richard Kalinoski
Dramatic story in two acts
Translation from English - Alexander Popov
Director - Alexander Grigoryan
Artist - Alexander Borovsky
Lighting designer - Maria Belozertseva
Composer - Martin Vartazaryan
Choreographer - Tatiana Marchenko
Setting: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 1921-1927.
Mister - Sergey Sosnovsky, Valery Troshin
Aram Thomasyan - Sergey Ugryumov
Seta Thomasyan - Yanina Kolesnichenko
Vincent - Arseny Gusev
Duration:2 hours 20 minutes (with intermission)
Media about the performance
“It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation to attend the premiere of Alexander Grigoryan’s production of The Moon Monster, which tells the story of how entire generations experience the consequences terrible tragedy– Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Alexander Samsonovich staged this performance not only in Armenia. For more than 8 years he has been performing on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov and at other theater venues in Russia. This means that the memory of these events is alive,” the Russian diplomat emphasized.
Oddly enough, the Armenian audience became acquainted with the play later than the Moscow audience, after the premiere on the new stage of the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov, where for more than 10 years she staged over 150 productions. It all began in 2004, when the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater Oleg Tabakov invited his Yerevan colleague Alexander Grigoryan to Moscow, inviting him to choose the repertoire at his own discretion.
“When I first read the play “The Moon Monster,” I immediately realized that it was destined for great and bright life, because the author, Richard Kalinoski, was able to surprisingly tenderly and subtly convey the entire tragedy of 1915. Perhaps thanks to his Armenian wife, whose parents experienced the horrors of that massacre,” says National artist RA, Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Grigoryan.
And although Oleg Pavlovich’s theatrical environment openly hinted at the risk: they say that the “chamber melodrama” could become another one-day affair, since it would be boring for a non-Armenian viewer, nevertheless, the master approved the choice, calling the play “highly moral, wise and completely Moscow Art Theater.” The success was truly fantastic. By the way, as the author noted then, it was perhaps the most best version from all that he saw in other countries: “The title should not deceive the viewer: there are no moons or monsters in the play. This moon eclipse, which the Armenians calmly watched as natural phenomenon, and the Turks impulsively shot into the frightening blackness. A little later, their infidel neighbors, that is, Christian Armenians, became a living target for them. Few managed to escape then: some at home, and some overseas. And yet, behind the piercing pain of memories of what they experienced, people managed to return to simple human joys in order to do good deeds.”
Of course, the Turkish media tried to add their own fly in the ointment by speaking very poorly about the play, and at the same time shaming the Moscow theater for what was, from their point of view, a biased performance. Alexander Grigoryan also suffered, who, as it was written, should not have taken on this production, because he was born and raised in “friendly and international” Baku. “In the broad sense of the word, I am truly an internationalist, but in this matter I am a nationalist, because I am an Armenian. And that's it. My parents are from Karabakh, they did not experience the horror of genocide on the territory of ancient Armenia, but they fully felt the “international” pressure of the Azerbaijani authorities,” says Alexander Grigoryan.
Concerning theatrical life performance, then Muscovites more than once took him on tour to St. Petersburg, to the cities of Siberia, and even came with him to Yerevan twice, where he was awarded the Artavazd Prize. The Armenian production also enjoys great success not only in its homeland, but also outside of Armenia, collecting full houses in St. Petersburg and Belarus. By the way, at the Brest Festival, after the award was presented, the performance was announced twice more - in Brest itself and in Minsk. And not so long ago, the performance of the Yerevan theater received first prize and was named the best performance of the “Meetings in Odessa” theater festival. Moreover, Alexander Grigoryan Jr., who then played the main character, teenager Vincent, was nominated for the title of best artist. The festival became another starting point in the production history of “Moon Monster”. New offers poured in from Riga, Irkutsk, Yakutsk, Chita, Blagoveshchensk...
“The topic of the terrible catastrophe of the Armenian people, when one and a half million Armenians were killed on the territory of Ottoman Turkey, cannot but excite normal people. And I wanted to express in the play that state when, after everything they have experienced, people are freed from mental heaviness, return to simple human joys and do good deeds. Kalinoski managed to find such common ground as mercy, compassion, humanism, understandable to any person. This is a play about great mercy,” says Alexander Grigoryan. – Human tragedy has no nationality. It turned out that the Armenian play about Armenian pain touched the hearts of millions of people from America, Europe, Russia...”
Despite the name, the play “The Moon Monster”, staged on the stage of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, is not a “horror story” at all, but a very touching story. Its special value lies in the fact that it tells not just about a historical event, but also about those people who had to endure a lot of grief, suffering, and the loss of loved ones. Despite everything, they found the strength to live on and try to find simple human happiness.
Human values are paramount
Spectators who wish to buy tickets to “The Moon Monster” at the Moscow Art Theater are transported to the small town of Milwaukee. This is where photographer Aram lives. He is the only one from a large Armenian family who managed to survive the monstrous genocide perpetrated by the Turks. He leaves for America and meets Seda there, whose family suffered the same tragic fate. It is she who will have to continue the Armenian family. But, unfortunately, the girl cannot have children.
Raised in patriarchal Armenian traditions main character is confused. He has already become attached to his companion, but, on the other hand, he does not want to compromise his convictions.
It would seem that Aram’s dream is not destined to come true, but then Seda brings an orphan boy from the orphanage into the house. Vincent becomes the family's real salvation. And everyone who came to the Moscow Art Theater to watch the play “The Moon Monster” begins to think about the fact that human values should always mean much more than tradition. Even if they are millennial.
I need to move on with my life
Despite all the drama of the plot, the director sought to make his production easy to understand. And he succeeded. The performance “Moon Monster” is watched in one breath. Viewers like everything:
- wonderful acting;
- touching scenes;
- corresponding emotional background.
Those who decide to buy tickets to the Moscow Art Theater and come to the performance will not regret the time spent. “Moon Monster” makes you understand that you need to live, no matter what. Even if it is very difficult.
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Ticket prices for the play The Moon Monster at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater:
Parterre: 2000-3000 rub.
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Duration of the performance The Moon Monster: 2 hours 20 minutes with 1 intermission.
There is no point in retelling the plot of Richard Kalinoski’s play “The Moon Monster” in detail. This performance is a must see. If only for the reason that later you will understand: you should never give up, you must fight - and the light at the end of the tunnel will certainly appear.
The characters in Moon Monster are the ones who managed to survive. And the word “survival,” you see, has a fairly broad meaning, and is not necessarily limited to a purely physical aspect. Survive in modern world- this often means preserving one’s identity, not losing one’s moral principles, not exchanging freedom for a “long ruble”...
Some may notice that the game is not worth the candle, and the efforts made to “rescue” do not pay off with results, and sometimes even bring a lot of difficulties and new problems. However, the heroes of “Moon Monster” do not think like that. Although in no case can it be said that they do not think about the meaning and consequences of their actions - quite the opposite.
According to the author of the play, it is worth making efforts to survive if only so that those around you have hope. After all, perhaps someone next to you is in even more difficult situation than the one you managed to get out of.
Characters and performers:
Mister -
Aram Thomasyan -
Seta Thomasyan -
Vincent - Yaroslav Leonov
Performance Moon Monster at Chekhov's Moscow Art Theater - video
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26th lunar day with the element Wood. Moon Day.
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Hair cutting - fortunately, to achieving your plans.
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27th lunar day with the element Wind. Mars Day.
A day marked “Dashinima” is a “day of happiness and good luck”, favorable for any endeavors.
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Hair cutting - to conflicts and disputes.