Thespis - Schauspielhaus (Studio) THE BEAR - Slovenia
A.P.Cehov - Zijah A.Sokolovic - Lolita : Medved / The Bear
(Festival awards / Nagrade )
sala za jazz kvartet in igralca / a humoresque for jazz quartet and an actor
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Natasa Fabjancic - Zijah-Lolita Ohrid, Jul 2003
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foto dokumentacija / photo documents
(eng) Anton P. Chehov: The Bear - A ten-scene jest for a jazz quartet and an actor
During the first scene of the performance, it is the musical instruments that define the characters - saxophone as Elena Ivanova Popova and bass guitar as the servant Luca - , and they start a dialogue based of Chehov's text. Every instrument takes on the integral text of its respective character, transforming it into music with which it communicates. Elena Ivanova Popova is a widow "who has buries herself within the walls of her house, who has been mourning her husband for four months, while her servant - old man Luca - keeps telling her to take off her mourning clothes 'since beauty does not last forever and she is young and beautiful, blood and milk' ". Someone is at the door and Luca, the bass guitar, leaves. In the second scene Elena, the saxophone, stays alone and speaks - plays - a monologue of her loneliness, sorrow and her husband's infidelity. The third scene shows Luca returning and telling her "that a cursing forest spirit demands to see her ", but Elena declines. In the fourth scene, an actor as Gregory S. Smirnoff comes on stage, bringing in the elements of theatre. The actor has a dialogue with his imaginary acting partners, Chechov's characters, actually played by the saxophone and the bass guitar.
Smirnoff comes to collect the money that "Elena's deceased husband owed for the oat he purchased form him" and which he urgently needed.
Elena is "not able to pay him the money owed, because the bookkeeper is not at home" and leaves, insulted by Smirnoff's rudeness. In the fifth, sixth and seventh scene, Smirnoff "angry, and even uneasy" remains alone in the room while waiting to receive his money and a violin plays a melody, symbolic of the emerging romantic feelings between him and Elena. The final three scenes show the conflict developing between Smirnoff and Elena, which comes to a happy ending, while the sound of the drums comments on the situation, the personalities of the two characters and their relationship. In this manner the musical instruments play the roles of Chechov's characters with music and become actors, while the actors become instruments with their acting.
By intertwining and merging of these two kinds of artistic expression - music and acting, the theatrical illusion gains an audacious, peculiar and unusually interesting dimension. It is a continuation of the quest for new artistic dimensions...
: : Zijah A. Sokolovic
Grigorie Stepanovich Smirnoff - cast: Zijah A. Sokolovic
Elena Ivanova Popova - Saxophone: Primoz Simoncic
Servant Luca - bass guitar: Iztok Vladimir
Violin - Jelena Zdrale
Drums - Marjan Stancic
Director - Zijah A. Sokolovic
(russian) (deutsch)
(yu) Anton Pavlovic Cehov: Medved - šala za džez kvartet i jednog glumca u deset slika
U prvoj slici predstave instrumenti se izdvajaju kao likovi, saksofon kao Jelena Ivanova Popova, a bas gitara kao sluga Luka, i zapocinju dijalog na osnovu Cehovljevog teksta. Svaki instrument uzima integralni tekst svoga lika, pretvara ga u muziku i pomocu nje vodi dijalog. Jelena Ivanova Popova je udovica "koja se živa zatvorila izmedu cetiri zida i vec sedam meseci žali za svojim mužem", a sluga, starac Luka joj govori da skine crninu "jer lepota ne traje do veka, a ona je mlada, lepa, krv sa mlekom". Neko kuca na vrata kuce i Luka, bas gitara odlazi. U drugoj slici Jelena, saksofon, ostaje sama i govori, svira monolog o svojoj usamljenosti, tuzi i muževljevom neverstvu. U trecoj slici sluga Luka se vraca i govori da "je došao neki šumski duh koji psuje i koji želi da je vidi", ali Jelena to odbija. U cetvrtoj slici se pojavljuje glumac kao Grigorij Stepanovic Smirnov koji na scenu donosi elemente teatra. Glumac vodi dijalog kao da su mu na sceni partneri glumci, Cehovljevi likovi, a u stvari su saksofon i bas gitara. Smirnov dolazi po novac koji mu je ostao dužan Jelenin "pokojni suprug jer je kupovao ovas od njega", a koji mu je hitno potreban. Jelena "ne može odmah da mu vrati novac, jer poslovoda nije kod kuce" i uvredena Smirnovljevom grubošcu odlazi. U petoj, šestoj i sedmoj slici Smirnov "ljut, jer mu cak postaje teško" ostaje sam u sobi i ceka da dobije novac, a muzika violine oznacava i razvija temu ljubavi koja se rada izmedu njega i Jelene. Osma, deveta i deseta slika razvijaju sukob Smirnova i Jelene koji se srecno završava, a muzika bubnjeva je komentar za situacije, za karaktere likova i za njihove odnose. Tako instrumenti muzikom glume Cehovljeve likove i postaju glumci, a glumac glumom postaje instrument. Preplitanjem i spajanjem ova dva umetnicka nacina izražavanja, muzike i glume, teatarska iluzija dobija hrabru i neobicnu, retko interesantnu dimenziju. To je nastavak traganja za novim prostorima u umetnosti…
: : Zijah A. Sokolovic
Grigorije Stepanovic Smirnov - glumac / Zijah A. Sokolovic
Jelena Ivanova Popova - saksofon / Primož Simoncic
Luka, sluga - bas gitara / Iztok Vidmar
violina / Jelena Ždrale
bubnjevi / Marjan Stanic
Režija : Zijah A. Sokolovic
Press
Mostar: 'Medvjed' na Zijahov nacin - www.bljesak.info 30.08.2004
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10 th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND NEW THEATRE - I N F A N T..2004
(english info page)
(croatian info page)
Helena Braut: Cehov kao glazbeni predložak, Vjesnik, Zagreb, Ponedjeljak, 6. kolovoza 2001 (text)
Zijah A. Sokolović in jazz kvartet Lolita, Kult99 - brežiški kulturni dnevi, Brežice 1999 (text)
... An other discovery of the festival was Chekhov’s “Bear” presented by Slovenian actor Zijah Sokolovic under the accompaniment of jazz quartet, in jazz rhythms, with some unexpected inner feelings of the character, the mode of scenic existence unbelievable for a drama performance, very fresh, with dramatic discoveries so well motivated, with turns of the plot so naturally developed in such paradoxical unrealistic circumstances.
(from ITI One Man Show Forum board meeting report)
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