“Thunderstorm” Ostrovsky in a new reading: the premiere of the play took place in the Drama Theater of the Belarusian Army

In the Drama Theater of the Belarusian Army today, September 23, the premiere of the tragicomedy “Thunderstorm” based on the play of the same name by the classic of Russian drama Alexander Ostrovsky in the production of the artistic director of the theater Artem Pinchuk took place. The end-to-end motif of the paradoxical production was the theme of the struggle between light and darkness. But sometimes it seemed that the benevolent thesis about “a ray of light in the dark kingdom” the director understood too literally.

The play has a lot of humor, emotional outbursts, light impulsive eroticism, understandable to buzzers, especially in the second act. According to the director, familiar from school years, the play in the new play became an occasion to talk not so much about the conflict between man and the environment, but about the turning point when a person ceases to hide behind the usual rules and remains alone with the need to choose.

Kalinov at Ostrovsky is a city with a stable coordinate system, the director of the play told on the eve of the premiere. They know who to fear, what to consider decent and how far you can afford to retreat from the established order.

The genre of tragicomedy allowed the director and actors to move away from the textbook template and offer a non-standard reading of famous images. Many familiar things and stereotypes in the premiere “Thunderstorm” the audience did not see. For example, the water element - the Volga River in the premiere was found its unexpected visual equivalent. His fresh look at the Ostrovsky premiere will be interesting to the viewer, gravitating to discover new layers in the known material.