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- Title: First Encounters of an Outsider with Boris: Tim Vasen, Director.
- Author : Pushkin Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 169 KB
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In the winter of 2006 Simon Morrison offered me a unique directing opportunity, perhaps the most interesting and challenging I've yet faced. The task at hand: to create a production of one of Russia's best-known plays, almost completely unknown in the U.S., in a brand-new English translation that was at once coherent for the American audience who had never seen it and provocative for the visiting Russians who could recite it from memory; one that stood on its own as a piece of theater in the spring of 2007 in Princeton and at the same time brought to fruition an unfulfilled collaboration between a great director and a great composer working together under Stalin's shadow in 1930s Moscow; to honor a nineteenth-century telling of a sixteenth-century tale with twentieth-century music and twenty-first-century stagecraft; to introduce Pushkin, Prokofiev, and Meyerhold to the undergraduate actors and singers and dancers and musicians who would make up the hundred-strong company; to create a design with a group of graduate architecture students that would allow space for this massive project, enable this complex story to be told, and echo the major contributions Meyerhold made to the art of scenic design while honoring his spirit by making something entirely new. Whew. This would require more than "hey kids, let's put on a show!" Lucky for me, I had a lot of help. The Boris Godunov Project was collaborative to its very core, and the best part of my job was that I got to work directly with everybody, including the three Russian masters whose vision and material called forth our hardest and best work. What I'm shooting for when I direct a play is that the production become a free-standing edifice that resists summation, simplification, or indeed any kind of translation into another medium. This is why I hate watching videotapes of theater. The Olympian perspective has always eluded me; the best I know how to do is approach anything as a series of small steps. Here are a few.
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