title: From An Optimistic Tragedy to a ‘Revolutionary Concert’: Recycling of Soviet Historical Past in Contemporary Russian Theatre
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metadata.value: Semenova, Natalia V.
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metadata.value: 2023-08-09T18:29:42Z
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metadata.value: 2023-08-09T18:29:42Z
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metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Semenova, Natalia. “From An Optimistic Tragedy to a ‘Revolutionary Concert’: Recycling of Soviet Historical Past in Contemporary Russian Theatre”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 13, no. 1 (2023): 107–127. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.105 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43654
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metadata.value: The article focuses on the recycling of Soviet culture in productions of contemporary Russian
  theatre. In 2017, Victor Ryzhakov staged at Alexandrinsky theatre An Optimistic tragedy.
  A Farewell Ball, Asya Voloshina’s remake of a play written by Vsevolod Vishnevsky in 1932–
  1933. Such directors as Alexander Tairov, Georgy Tovstonogov, Mark Zakharov, and others
  had turned to An Optimistic Tragedy during the crucial moments of Soviet theatre history.
  In the 21st century this play has become claimed again. However, the interpretation of the text
  and its theatrical language drastically changed. The issues of intergenerational relationships
  and memory of the historical past have come to the fore. The story of anarchist sailors got a
  new birth largely due to an experimental approach to music in the performance. Music and
  chorus were central components of Vishnevsky’s play. In the first edition of An Optimistic
  Tragedy, the chorus represented a metaphor of the court of history. In the following stage
  versions of An Optimistic Tragedy its role has been decreased till in Ryzhakov’s production
  the sailors that constituted the chorus became passive witnesses of history, the ghosts of the
  past. Such evolution of the chorus was accompanied by techniques of postdramatic theatre
  (cross-casting, retreat from the original play), engagement of top hits, poems, popular music,
  and rap songs, written by Voloshina specifically for A Farewell Ball. Thus, A Farewell Ball
  may be called a complicated pastiche that combines texts of different periods and genres.
  To disclose the mechanisms of cultural selection, Ryzhakov applies the method of etudes.
  Such fragmentality and polyphony embody the chaos of revolution with juxtaposed voices
  narrating its personal stories.
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metadata.value: The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 19-18-00414
  “Soviet Culture Today (Forms of Cultural Recycling in Russian Art and Aesthetics of the Everyday Life.
  1990s–2010s”).
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Optimistic tragedy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: recycling of Soviet culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: chorus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: postdramatic theatre
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Victor Ryzhakov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Vsevolod Vishnevsky
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Asya Voloshina
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alexander Tairov
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Georgy Tovstonogov
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: From An Optimistic Tragedy to a ‘Revolutionary Concert’: Recycling of Soviet Historical Past in Contemporary Russian Theatre
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metadata.value: Article
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