Video: Apartment overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"My dear Matilda" Moscow Art Theater
In the finale of the play, Horowitz Matilda leaves for the Luxembourg Gardens. I decided to develop this idea. A garden in culture is a very full image, it is an archetype that combines many meanings: the Garden of Eden, and bliss, and temptation, and knowledge, and truth.
I made two gardens on the stage. One is imaginary, the other is genuine. The first is a house filled with garden signs. There are sculptures, and garden wrought-iron furniture, fruits and flowers. But this paradise only seems to be paradise: Madame Gifard was busy with herself all her life, sacrificing loved ones to her happiness. That is why the sculptures on the stage are symbolic: a stork that will not bring children; the head, which I call myself "the head of Matthias" - as a sacrifice to Matilda; "Kiss" as an image of Matilda's desire, etc.
The second garden is symbolized by J. van Kessel's painting "In Paradise". It goes through the entire fabric of the performance. It appears even before the start of the action in the form of a curtain. Then the viewer sees her in the interior. In the center of the apartment there is a fireplace, on either side of it there are two symmetrical "exits": a real exit into the back of the stage, into the garden; and a symbolic exit - a painting above the bookshelves. The same image appears as a projection, filling the entire space of the scene.
Why did I choose a painting by van Kessel? With its special atmosphere, it creates a counterpoint to what is happening, recalling the authentic, eternal. There - in the depth of the projection - and Matilda leaves in the finale. This is the end, the end of her human history. She walks away freeing herself, releasing Matthias and Chloe. They remain, but will not young children become happy anymore?
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