"The war is Already in Progress, and I Still here ..." or a Picture of Everyday Military rear Life Through the eyes of the Contemporary Theater

Abstract

The article analyzes the performance "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin" on the novel by Vladimir Voinovich, staged by Academic Russian Drama Theatre in Yakutia. This performance is not only about Chonkin. It is about a young man lost in thesea ofstarted war, about his duty and honor. About funny as selectionist Gladyshev, successful, honest, naive, cruel people. About good and evil, the spiritual ideals and about one of the main human values - love. This, at first glance, strange, funny love softens drama ofgoing on, illuminates the real human faces with their fates, pains, joys. It becomes one hallmarkthat makes the director's conception in a bright, full, with a fine sense of humor, laughter through the tears performance with naturalistic rural life of the first days of war. In short, about those paradoxes, which has been mixed up lives of ordinary people, and that with a bit of humor so significantly been implementedon the stage.

Keywords

• War
• rear daily
• human values
• theater
• performance
• V. Voinovich
• Russian Drama Theatre in Yakutia
• directorial concept
• Stage image
• ordinary soldier big war