|Rebels|

Rebels is a new production by Alexander Molochnikov, whose directorial debut with the production of 19.14 last year earned high regards among critics and the audience.  In his new work Molochnikov is sharing his views on Russia, its culture and its heroes. All our lines of fortune – our phobias, hopes, horrors, the ways of life and problem solving by the way of blood and noose – all come together into a humongous trash. Violence, slavery, pride, meanness, treachery, the people, the heroes of Russian classics, prominent scholar Yuri Lotman, and Russian rock star Boris Grebenschikov, popular TV Show The Music Ring and Alexander Pushkin …

Alexander Molochnikov:"In our production everything is emerging from the music of different times and is coming back to it. Rebels is both the rock show and the journey into the recent history. It is a rock show, and it matters.  The music here is the driving force that glues together this patchy spectacle comprised of colorful bits and pieces that intentionally have nothing in common. Although some characters here bear famous names – Lopatin, Perovskaya, Nechaev, Pestel, Pushkin, Kakhovsky – they all are fruits of imagination that act according to the laws of slumberland. The Decembrists, the People’s Freedom, The Music Ring TV show during perestroika, Russian rock and punk culture – the idea was to bring them all together in a kind of jam session, an improv on the rebellion. The rebellion as an attitude. The rebellion that is desperate and beautiful. The rebellion that is next to betrayal. The rebellion that is coming close to a betrayal. Some rebels went reaching out to people, got disillusioned and have died in vain. That is one of our storylines.  The other has to do with the Russian rock culture. Rebels of the late 20th century, they also have vanished in vain.”