"Potudan River": the plot of the play, the creators, the viewers' feedback

The performance of the Voronezh Theater "Potudan River", which will be reviewed in this article, is based on the work of A. Platonov "In a beautiful and violent world." This is a play about love. The performance is presented in the form of an intimate conversation.

About the production

"Potudan River" is a play about what is most often not spoken about: joys and sorrows, unfulfilled family life, about lonely old people, about the hidden things in the relationship between beloved ones, about desperation that can not be hidden. The production retains the unique text of the work.

The main character Nikita returns from the war to his beloved. This is a story about how two good people just warm one another warmly and this helps them overcome all difficulties. They do not know how to express their feelings eloquently, but they do not need it.

Performance artists show at a very close distance from the audience, which makes them play the role as accurately as possible.

Designed by the artist Yuri Cooper. He is known all over the world for his works. Its decorations are made in the style of minimalism. And the production itself does not contain anything extraordinary and any stage metaphors. Everything stays on the acting game.

Plot

"Potudan River" is a story about a young man named Nikita, who returned from war to his native village. He walked along the Potudan River. The young man comes home, where his father met him, who knew nothing about the fate of his son and did not expect to see him alive. Nikita's mother had already died, without waiting for him.

The next day the guy meets his childhood friend Any. She graduated from high school and is studying for a doctor. Young people remember childhood and the way they were friends. Relations are established between them. They care about each other. Young people are not alone, and they have only one chance to survive - it's to be together. But they do not own worldly wisdom at all. Nikita never knew a woman, and it becomes for him a serious obstacle, he escapes from Lyuba. Soon the hero loses the ability to talk. Lyuba tried to drown herself in Potudani, but she was rescued. Nikita returns to her. In the finale of the play "Potudan River" the main characters gain their happiness.

The premiere of the production took place in 2009. And in 2010 this performance became the laureate of the Golden Mask.

Producer

The performance "Potudan River" was staged by Sergei Zhenovach. In 1979 he graduated from the Institute of Culture of Krasnodar, directing faculty. And in 1988 he graduated from the GITIS.

Over the years of his creative activity, Sergei has staged the following performances:

• "Winter's Tale";
• "Players";
• "Warm heart";
• "Notes of the deceased";
• "Fools from Mayo";
• "Iolanta";
• "Leshy";
• "Three years";
• "Illusion";
• "Noise and Rage";
• "Little comedies";
• "Brother Ivan Fedorovich";
• "King Lear";
• "The White Guard";
• "Christmas Eve";
• "The seedy race";
• "Pannochka";
• "Month in the village";
• "Notebooks" and others.

Repeatedly Sergei Zhenovach's performances became laureates of the Golden Mask Award.

Reviews of the audience about the production

The audience has different emotions from the play "The Potudan River". Reviews about the play can be found both positive and negative. Many people do not like that the set uses minimal decorations: a wall covered with boards, which is intersected by a hollow of the curve of the shape symbolizing the Potudan River. Other viewers, on the contrary, believe that this is an ideal design, since it does not distract from the plot and the actors.

Many write that the performance is good, but does not cause delight. And although the director claims that the author's text is preserved in the play, but in fact there is practically no it. The final is not perceived as the end of history. This opinion is expressed mainly by those who read the play.

The audience, who did not read the work, remained impressed by S. Zhenovach's production. In their opinion, a very sincere, pure love story is shown on the stage, which is not loaded with unnecessary details.

There are also those who believe that, although the performance turned out not ideal, the director is worthy of admiration, because the works of A. Platonov are not easy to stage.

An interesting move, according to the public - the creation of an atmosphere of the time in which the performance takes place, even in the foyer. There is a harmonizer playing there and everyone is treated with tea, lard, potatoes and black bread.

Feedback on the actors

The play "River Potudan" reviews viewers about the work of the actors receives mostly positive ones. Artists Zhenovach are able to speak very eloquently, expressing the feelings and emotions of their characters only with their eyes and gestures. From time to time, they roll down to "cute", but, as if recollecting, once again rise to a high level of acting skills. She admires the game of Lyuba Maria Shashlova. She shows her heroine a clean and sincere girl who is looking for her own happiness.

The artists, according to the public, a difficult task. They need to establish with the audience such contact, so that they feel the skin of each gesture and the look of the characters, understand all their experiences.