Gorky / Tolstoy

Venue: NPAK (1/3 P. Buzand St.)
Time: 19:30
Price: 3000 AMD
Language: Russian, with Armenian subtitles

Based on Maxim Gorky’s book Reminiscences of Leo Tolstoy, this performance — created in the genre of object theatre — shifts the focus from the figure of the Author to the things we usually pass by without noticing. What if Tolstoy were remembered not by people, but by road dust and leaves, by ash and poplar fluff? Things that normally lie outside our field of attention — objects we encounter every day without considering that they might possess memory and the ability to articulate it.

If each of our actions affects them, then perhaps they also have something to say to us. Perhaps we all need to be a little more attentive to what surrounds us.

“I reached out to 23 people who have been and remain important actors in my professional life. Many of them I have recently been separated from; we can no longer work together. The merging of the voices of people dear to me — speaking on behalf of things and objects that seem insignificant but in fact constitute the very substance of our lives — became the kind of conjunction that theatre, in my understanding, requires,” — Dmitry Volkostrelov

Thus, memoirs about a great writer transform into memories of close and dear people.

Author and performer: Dmitry Volkostrelov