The Constant Principle
Part II

The second part of the performance The Constant Principle consists of mutating scenes sharing common motifs and places associated with Alexander Pushkin's Feast in a Time of Plague. The director evokes a carnivalistic funeral for a culture that, in the recent past, was buried in wars and international crises. Part Two depends entirely on the first, and feeds on it. It is a parody, accompanied by an extended passionary of all the significant names of Russian and European theater of the 20th century. Actors simultaneously play sorrow and joy, sacrilege and pathos. Soviet theatre and figure skating, angels and werewolves, decadence and chansons all come together in this cemetery of rational sense. The performance concludes with some tragic rock and roll that puts an end to this global apocalypse.

CEMETERY NO. 1
PATTERNS AND MIRAGES OF ACT ONE

Episode 1. On film location
Episode 2. At the Bolshoi Theatre
Episode 3. Motorcyclists
Episode 4. The Changeling
Episode 5. Argentinean Tango
Episode 6. Ghouls
Episode 7. In the Forest at War
Episode 8. At the Station
Episode 9. The Suicide’s Funeral

CEMETERY NO. 2
PATTERNS AND MIRAGES OF ACT 2

Episode 1. The True Fate of a Soviet General
Episode 2. Boogie-Woogie
Episode 3. Blood Wedding
Episode 4. Cabaret
Episode 5. Dance with Mops
Episode 6. Figure Skating
Episode 7. The Custodian’s Laughter
Episode 8. Operetta
Episode 9. Memorial
Episode 10. Requiem

A FEAST IN A TIME OF PLAGUE
1. Alexander Pushkin, A Feast in a Time of Plague
The In Fernando band
2. Alexander Pushkin, A Feast in a Time of Plague
3. “Mary’s Song,” a romance by César Cui
4. Alexander Pushkin, A Feast in a Time of Plague
5. Alexander Pushkin, A Feast in a Time of Plague. A Young Man’s Monologue
 

The Constant Principle. Part I

The performance is accompanied by English-language supertitles