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The Beginners Walk Always SlowlyDostoyevsky Trip starts from the Baltic Circle –festival.The director Andrei Mogutshi has arrived last night from Nizza and gathers his group for a short hearing before the work begins. The stage of the theatre Takomo is about to be the starting point of a trip, which destination nobody knows yet. -The map of the trip is Vladimir Sorokin’s new play Dostoyevsky Trip, which is being produced together with Formalnyi Theatre and Baltic Circle. Its premier is next year, probably in St Petersburg. - We are absolutely in the beginning. The steps we are going to take here in Helsinki are the very first ones with this play, I’m very glad we are taking them here at the Baltic Circle Festival, says the artistic director of the Formalnyi Theatre and the director of the play, Andrei Mogutshi. The speed isn’t fast in Takomo: the director, nine actors, a disc-jockey and a videodirector are going to walk. In a metaphorical sense. - The main thing is that we are on the move. And who says the destination is the most important thing of the trip, Mogutshi asks. Andrei Mogutshi and his group haven’t yet decided, what the idea and the meaning of the play is but they do know, that it depends on themselves. - Some might even think that there’s no idea in the play at all. Sorokin himself has got deep into basic questions of the human life and is ironic. We’re weighing and orientating the text and we’ll see what is going to happen to it at our hands, Mogutshi says. On Wednesday, 26th of November at the open rehearsals of the Formalnyi Theatre can be seen, what the group has achieved in one day. The rehearsal starts in Takomo at 11 o’clock and after that will be held the discussion of the festival. The whole play of Sorokin’s can be heard in Finnish at the Public Reading on Friday the 28th at Puoli-Q. The translation is Jukka Mallinen’s. Festival after festivalAndrei Mogutshi has to struggle hard with his memory in order to remember all the festivals he has been with this year. At least he remembers Austria, Moscow, Hungary, Poland and France. - It’s quite hard to be on the road all the time, but then again you get to see theatre from all over the world, and it’s very refreshing, Andrei Mogutshi says. Seeing that much foreign theatre influences naturally his own work. The influence can be positive or negative, but it never transfers directly to his own works. Adaptation is what can be found between seeing and doing. - As important as is to see foreign theatre is to know and have networks. Formalnyi Theatre is an independent theatre and doesn’t get any financial support from the state or the sponsors so all the foreign networks are most welcome, Andrei Mogutshi says.
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Andrei Mogutshi didn’t know on Tuesday morning, if he has the time to see much other theatre than his own. But maybe some Danish would fit into the programme after the rehearsal [Photo: Yehia Eweis] |
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