«Rayok» («Peanut gallery») -trailer
«Rayok» («Peanut gallery») - fantasy, music drama about Dmitri Shostakovich. Scriptwriter and director - Aleksey Kolomiytsev In the play there were used musical compositions of Dmitri Shostakovich, such as «Antiformalist Rayok» («The Little Antiformalistic Paradise»), the stringed quartet № 8 andothers. Slogan: «Stalin was. Stalin is. Will he be?» Part 1 The scene is laid in 1948. Joseph Stalinwants to listen to the music of Shostakovichfor himself. In order to pull this off four musicians are brought under escort. The musicians play the stringed quartet № 8 of Shostakovich. Each of the four is guarded by the officer of NKVD. During the performing of the quartet, the officers suddenly lose control of their actions and change into zombies. In horror Stalin orders to end the performing of the quartet. He immediately commands Andrei Zhdanovto condemn the creative work of Shostakovich and set a note of infamy on him. All the notes are immediately arrested and are sentenced to the supreme penalty - firing squad. Part 2 In the Soviet culture centre musical figures meet together to discuss such a musical concept as formalism (modernism, avant-gardism, etc.). Three speakers (Bronze bust, Phallus-penciland conductor of All Russia),one by one, presentindisputable evidences ofharmfulness of all musical styles apart from realism. The musical figuresdecide «to condemn formalism in music»by the general voting. The meeting lasts for 50 years. Gradually the musical figures get older and turn into statues. A small boy comes into the culture centre. He returns the musical figuresto life and informs them that nothing has changed during 50 years. The musical figures joyfully dance the cancan, showing their red pants. About the play: «The theatre of Aleksey Kolomiytsev is a surgical table, where the consciousness of audience is laid bare, cynically, dispassionately and without anesthesia. You need to be a masochist in some ways, in order to watch the shows of Kolomiytsev. So you might say that for those who got used to musicals, ballet and opera his experiments are dangerous…» («Yellow continent» portal) Hanna Antonovich, a journalist: «I haven’t felt such pain after watching a play in a long time. In fact, Kolomiytsev tells the truth - there are still tryings to make Ukraine a garbage dump, where «red (communistic) pants» don’t want to give its place to the new day.» Трагифарс, по мотивам сатирической оперы Дмитрия Шостаковича «Антиформалистический раёк». Постановка и сценическое пространство – Алексей Коломийцев.
«Rayok» («Peanut gallery») - fantasy, music drama about Dmitri Shostakovich. Scriptwriter and director - Aleksey Kolomiytsev In the play there were used musical compositions of Dmitri Shostakovich, such as «Antiformalist Rayok» («The Little Antiformalistic Paradise»), the stringed quartet № 8 andothers. Slogan: «Stalin was. Stalin is. Will he be?» Part 1 The scene is laid in 1948. Joseph Stalinwants to listen to the music of Shostakovichfor himself. In order to pull this off four musicians are brought under escort. The musicians play the stringed quartet № 8 of Shostakovich. Each of the four is guarded by the officer of NKVD. During the performing of the quartet, the officers suddenly lose control of their actions and change into zombies. In horror Stalin orders to end the performing of the quartet. He immediately commands Andrei Zhdanovto condemn the creative work of Shostakovich and set a note of infamy on him. All the notes are immediately arrested and are sentenced to the supreme penalty - firing squad. Part 2 In the Soviet culture centre musical figures meet together to discuss such a musical concept as formalism (modernism, avant-gardism, etc.). Three speakers (Bronze bust, Phallus-penciland conductor of All Russia),one by one, presentindisputable evidences ofharmfulness of all musical styles apart from realism. The musical figuresdecide «to condemn formalism in music»by the general voting. The meeting lasts for 50 years. Gradually the musical figures get older and turn into statues. A small boy comes into the culture centre. He returns the musical figuresto life and informs them that nothing has changed during 50 years. The musical figures joyfully dance the cancan, showing their red pants. About the play: «The theatre of Aleksey Kolomiytsev is a surgical table, where the consciousness of audience is laid bare, cynically, dispassionately and without anesthesia. You need to be a masochist in some ways, in order to watch the shows of Kolomiytsev. So you might say that for those who got used to musicals, ballet and opera his experiments are dangerous…» («Yellow continent» portal) Hanna Antonovich, a journalist: «I haven’t felt such pain after watching a play in a long time. In fact, Kolomiytsev tells the truth - there are still tryings to make Ukraine a garbage dump, where «red (communistic) pants» don’t want to give its place to the new day.» Трагифарс, по мотивам сатирической оперы Дмитрия Шостаковича «Антиформалистический раёк». Постановка и сценическое пространство – Алексей Коломийцев.