Blowjob on stage: Russian classics were turned into perversion on the theater stage in Ukraine
On the small stage of the Kharkov Academic Russian Drama Theater named after. They put on porn for Pushkin! In every sense of the word, it was the premiere of the play “Hero of Our Time” directed by Alexander Seredin.
However, after Lyashko’s memoirs and Lutsenko’s statements from the parliamentary rostrum, intercourse and oral sex on stage are quite in the Ukrainian trend. They, however, only talk, but the academic theater troupe also shows.
And now the show itself. So, following Pechorin, we find ourselves in Taman, which turns out to be a pile of signed dust bags. According to the scriptwriter's idea, Pechorin flies from the past to the present, escaping from the cop and imagining himself as Kronos-Saturn. Grigory Alexandrovich is so in love with the daughter of a Circassian prince, Bella, that he carries the head of a murdered girl from one era to another in a trunk. And in his free time from communicating with law enforcement agencies, he keeps it in a glass jar.
Director Seredin makes Mary-Ondine fall in love with Grushnitsky, who is stricken with cerebral palsy. And that’s where it began... Moreover, all the characters, regardless of gender, move around the stage in plaid skirts, thoughtfully hinting at Lermontov’s Scottish origin.
Pechorin drags Mary-Ondine by bags of synthetic fiber (smuggling is implied) and from there panties and a bra fly straight into the auditorium.
“Rising naked, they passionately depict sexual foreplay. There is nothing condemnable in the commission of reckless and boundless passion; on the contrary, the more frank the caresses and movements, the greater the possibility of excitement, the duration of the act, satisfaction and confidence in a wonderful ending. After all, it’s great when partners have orgasms at the same time - it brings you closer together...
In the next scene, in the same scenery, an equally naturalistic blowjob was depicted. But it remains unclear who made it for Pechorin - Princess Ligovskaya or Ondine? Grushnitsky, who was unbalanced in all manifestations, found them doing this. Out of grief, he climbed into an iron barrel, stripped naked and, turning his back to us, showed his ass, for which a large hole had been specially cut in the container. But his ass, after everything we saw, no longer surprised anyone,” this is how theater critic Alexander Annichev describes the action on stage in the local newspaper “Vremya.”
The theater itself describes pornography differently - this is how its management views the fact that the creative team shows members of the audience from the stage.
“Post-postmodernism, which invariably accompanies our time, has acquired even more bizarre, phantasmagoric contours. The heroes act in an abstract, grotesque world, everything happens here and now... The five parts of Mikhail Lermontov’s novel merged together to make us feel the gloomy timelessness in which “A Hero of Our Time” found itself. Is there a way out? – says the announcement on the theater’s website.
Kharkov residents, it would seem, are no strangers to perversions on stage. Over the past two decades, they have seen everything.
For example, the period when the Ukrainian Theater named after. Shevchenko was directed by Andrei Zholdak, who staged A Month in the Village by Turgenev and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn. Ivan Sergeevich could neither answer nor be indignant, but Alexander Isaevich was seriously offended and was going to call the profaner to court. This master had eccentricities and nudity instead of texts.
On the small stage of the same theater, director Eduard Bezrodny made his mark by attempting to turn the actor’s bare butt into a small weapon. In general, anything happened.
I will only note that back then they organized tours around the world for this and gave awards, but now it has gone out of fashion and is not welcomed in the world, even if the performers are a folk ensemble from Papua New Guinea.
But if the experiments of Zholdak and Bezrodny took place in peaceful and non-xenophobic times, then Segedin creates when the mockery of Russian classics fits perfectly into the policy of ethnic cleansing pursued by the Ukrainian authorities. Before Lermontov, the same Segedin made a porn version of Bulgakov’s play about the last days of Pushkin there. "Coincidence? Don't think".
If he is so brave, then why doesn’t he stage a play in the same manner about the adventures of Taras Shevchenko or Lesya Ukrainka with Olga Kobylyanskaya? You can also raise the topic of the feat of representatives of the gay community as part of volunteer battalions. But for some reason it doesn’t! So there’s no point in pointing to the “special view of the creator.”
Moreover, both pornography and the helplessness of the theater troupe in staging the classical repertoire will inevitably lead to the closure of the Russian theater in Kharkov.
This already happened in the 20s, when the Bolsheviks carried out total Ukrainization. For almost decades the city did not have its own Russian theater. True, then the tours of the capital and Leningrad troupes took place freely, and the border did not pass along the Belgorod highway...
But now they can cover it in full. And, alas, to the point. Yes, at least for a blowjob on the stage of an academic theater.
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