They were not born soldiers": Premiere at the "Pyotr Fomenko Workshop".
On December 5, "The Living and the Dead. "They were not born soldiers" - a performance by the director Polina Agoreva, a member of our project.
This is her first collaboration with the chamber ensemble "Moscow Soloists" under the direction of Yuri Bashmet. It is based on a novel by Konstantin Simonov about Stalingrad, January 1943.
Simonov was a war correspondent and wrote about what he saw up close, point by point. Behind each of his heroes stands a real person from the front line - the one he met among the ruins and trenches. His book is about strong and questionable people, angry and wrong; about a war that subdues thoughts, feelings and destinies, and never ceases to be a tragedy; About how, in the midst of this tragedy, people manage to preserve the person inside them.
For us, this issue is not an abstraction. Today the war has become everyday life again, and the reports have become everyday life. That is why Simonov's prose is read differently: in it you hear not only the past, but also the present. History does not literally repeat itself, but it brings us back to the same questions - about price, about duty, about the sense of homeland, about what remains of a person when everything else is taken away. Agoriba's performance gives an opportunity not only to remember, but to rethink and perhaps understand something new about yourself and our time. This topic is more important today than ever - and that's why we invite you to this show.
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