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Performance "Happiness"
Tolstoy Festival in Yasnaya Polyana
2025
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Director: Anna Zakusova
Stage and costume designer: Julia Vetrova
Photos: Valery Belobeev
Site-specific performance based on Leo Tolstoy's story "Family Happiness".
The inner excitement and expectation, the mental tension preceding what is to happen between the heroes, is a premonition of the fullness of life's perception that will be revealed to them in love. The landscapes of Yasnaya Polyana as an emotional accompaniment and lyrical parallel to the emotional moods and experiences of the heroes, as an orchestration of the narrative.
1. Apple orchard - as the original, initial, archetypal;
2. Veranda - as the present, real, documentary;
3. Infernal pond, as a borderline;
4. Alleys near Kliny - as an opportunity to become part of what is happening;
5. Kliny (performance) - the first explanation of Leo Tolstoy and Sofia Andreyevna. The central action, including all theatrical forms that came before.
2025
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Director: Anna Zakusova
Stage and costume designer: Julia Vetrova
Photos: Valery Belobeev
Site-specific performance based on Leo Tolstoy's story "Family Happiness".
The inner excitement and expectation, the mental tension preceding what is to happen between the heroes, is a premonition of the fullness of life's perception that will be revealed to them in love. The landscapes of Yasnaya Polyana as an emotional accompaniment and lyrical parallel to the emotional moods and experiences of the heroes, as an orchestration of the narrative.
1. Apple orchard - as the original, initial, archetypal;
2. Veranda - as the present, real, documentary;
3. Infernal pond, as a borderline;
4. Alleys near Kliny - as an opportunity to become part of what is happening;
5. Kliny (performance) - the first explanation of Leo Tolstoy and Sofia Andreyevna. The central action, including all theatrical forms that came before.
