The Trap: The last performance of M. A. Zakharov

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the stage poetics of the play The Trap by M. A. Zakharov (Lenkom, 2019). The subject of the research is the components of Zakharov’s directorial methodology: director’s plot and its structure; the principles of the decoration of the performance; genre of staging; action composition; other. In addition, the task is to determine the place and role performance The Trap in the work of Zakharov. The sources of the research were reviews of the premiere and video recording of the performance, kindly provided to the author of the article by the directorate of the Lenkom Mark Zakharov Theater. The director stage studies the situation, artificially created according to the laws of intellectual drama, when modern heroes find themselves in the Stalin era, which is represented by the means of absurd drama. The play has an episodic structure, the pace of development of the action is provided by a single stage setting and the possibilities of its partial transformation, the rhythm is set by music and attractions. The production of the plot continues the line of Lenkom’s performances of the second half of the 2010s, it is about the nature of power and the peculiarities of the national mentality, which, according to Zakharov, determine the fate of Russia.