the Marathon starts at 12:00 on the portal www.bdtdigital.ru. It will involve actors from the theatre, among them Alisa Freundlich, Oleg Basilashvili, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Nina Usatova, Georgy Shtil, as well as performers of other theatres.
the Artists will read documentary texts written by the medical staff (the surgeons, therapists, nurses, intensive care…), which are now in the midst of the struggle with the coronavirus. The motto of the marathon: “We are helping the Institute of Emergency care named. I. I. Dzhanelidze. And you?”
the Marathon is to collect donations in support of the doctors in St. Petersburg. The whole day the audience through SMS-messages or on the website https://defeatcovid.ru can send any amount to the Foundation for cancer prevention “is Not in vain” to support the Fund created by the movement “What to do”, which brings together nonprofit organizations, businesses, the media and ordinary people in a single line of defense against coronavirus infection.
the Baton BDT pass on to other theatres. Therefore, each acceding theatre (both St. Petersburg, in any country) will help to medical institutions.
Also in the social program of the day:
From 12:00 to 14:00 portal БДТdigital will host a live interview with Director Boris Pavlovich, Mikhail Patlasov, Ada Mukhina, playwright Natalia Burenko and curated by Alexios Platinovym that tells how the project began “New people in the BDT” will show documentary footage from the archive of the project, and will also give the students that five years ago, I participated in theatre lab theatre.
16:00 will meet live with the Love of Arkus, the founder of the center “Anton near here”, by Mary Jarovoy, a student center, and Director Boris Pavlovich. They talk about the project “Meeting” and how as a result of this experimental theatrical laboratory in the BDT came the play “Language of birds”, which is attended by theatre artists and students of the center “Anton near here”. After the meeting the live broadcast of this production.
19:00 viewers of the portal БДТdigital waiting for the live broadcast of the play of Andrei Mighty “What to do”. This is a performance seminar performance debate: the pit theatre transformed in an amphitheatre, the stage, the pulpit, the audience – in the audience. The protagonist of the novel – the woman, the main theme is freedom.
Immediately after the performance live will be a discussion of “New time – New people,” a continuation of the famous “Dialogues” held in the theatre in 2015. It was a discussion between the creators of the show, the audience and the “opinion leaders” – well-known journalists, cultural experts, politicians, historians – on themes provoked by the play “What to do” and the novel by Chernyshevsky.
Viewers can connect to the dialogue in public chat through the portal.