Video: Sand on stage
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
I love this material, it gives the opportunity for the birth of many images and associations. I used sand in the performances "Good Night, Mom" at the Ermolovsky Theater and "Ivanov" at the Russian Theater in Estonia. In one of the theaters near Moscow, I was told that it cannot be used on stage, because this is dust and dirt, and a theater is a temple. In my opinion, this is not an argument.
And I began to use bulk material in the work "Two in the Dark" (RAMT), but there were colored sawdust, like ashes on the ruins of a house. In "Good Night, Mom", in the middle of the stage there was a glass pillar with whatnots, and during the entire performance, sand fell from above. It turned out to be a big hourglass, like time that inexorably moves towards the denouement, to the moment when the heroine, a sick and unhappy person, will go and shoot herself. We didn’t take a shot, I suggested going to the symbolic finale in order to rise above everyday life, because the plot is not so important. The main meaning is what we are doing the performance for. In the finale, a sand curtain appears, which cuts off the heroine from the auditorium, from the mother holding her. We made a special structure under the ceiling, and at the right moment the stage worker behind the curtains pulled the rope, and what happened to which we went throughout the performance.
In "Ivanovo" there was also a sandy rain at key moments, when the "park" came out and a dry (twin - Ivanov and Sarah) tree with roots flew away in the final. Here sand is like an image of both time and unfulfilled hopes, hopelessness and finiteness of the path, when there is no strength and source of inspiration. It was a desert, the end of the earth and the end of hope.
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