On the very first days of winter 2021, a German-based musician IVAN joins Nikolay Gostyukhin (Perm, Moscow, Russia; Berlin, Germany), graduate of the Faculty of Philology, 海角直播, for his production of 鈥淚llusions鈥� – a theater play and its televised version by Ivan Vyrypaev a popular contemporary Russian writer.

The play by Vyrypaev is a story about the illusory nature of love. It consists of monologues by four people, telling a touching life story of two married couples who have been friends with each other for many years. The play characters step into a frank conversation and sincere contact 鈥� the act many of us, spectators, have been deprived of during the COVID-19 epidemic and the following lockdown.

Ivan Vyrypaev is a popular Russian playwright, screenwriter, film director, actor and art director. He is a regarded as a leading figure in the Russian New Drama movement.

The music for both projects was composed by (Ivan Axenov), a young Berlin musician of Russian origin. The play and the film share common musical pieces. For a recent play, IVAN wrote several more musical themes.

鈥淚鈥檓 a musician and a pathologist,鈥� IVAN states. 鈥淗ow is this related? No way. Music has been with me since childhood, and I learned the specialty of a doctor later. Every day when I look through a microscope, I sort of look down on groups of people. And it gives me a lot of knowledge about the structure of society and our collective unconscious. It sounds very clever, but it鈥檚 actually quite simple. I look at the world with my eyes, and I reflect it in the form of sounds.鈥�

According to Nikolay Gostyukhin, the director, the play is a story about the illusory nature of love: 鈥渁t the end of days, you may find that for the whole of your love you have actually loved someone else.鈥�

For the recent performance, Nikolai Gostyukhin, will be assisted by Alexei Khoroshev, the lighting designer, , and Nikita Goinov, designer and teacher, . Nikolay Gostyukhin made his debut as a play director for the performances of the 鈥淚ranian Conference鈥� (2019) and 鈥淓xcitement鈥� (2020), which were also based on plays by Ivan Vyrypaev.

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from the rehearsal.

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from the film version.

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Additional information: Petr Kravchenko, + 7912 78 202 96

Musician鈥檚 Picture Source: Ivan Axenov鈥檚 Facebook Page: @100005863154670