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Set in Windsor during the reign of Henry IV.
Act one
Scene one
Doctor Caius bursts into the Garter tavern: Falstaff’s friends, Bardolph and Pistol, robbed him clean the day before. Having escorted the deceived doctor out, Falstaff inspires his friends that it is necessary to steal skillfully and on time. The affairs of Sir John himself are unimportant: the purse is empty, there is nothing to pay the bill. The situation can be improved by the goodwill of two Windsor ladies, wives of wealthy husbands. He just prepared love letters for both and is now asking friends to deliver messages. Bardolph and Pistol pompously refuse, stating that it is not in keeping with the rules of honor. Falstaff loses his temper and, having sent letters with a page, pours out his indignation in a contemptuous monologue about honor, at the end of which he grabs a broom and drives the scoundrel away.
Picture Two
In the garden near Ford’s house, the merry Windsor gossips Alice Ford and Meg Page meet, along with them the neighbor Mrs. Quickly and the Fords’ daughter Nannetta. Reading the confessions of Falstaff, who did not even bother to change the text and sent the same letters to women, everyone is indignant and thinks of giving him a good lesson.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the garden, the men are discussing their plan of revenge. Bardolph and Pistol retaliate by warning Ford of the old rake’s plans. Here, along with them, Dr. Caius and young Fenton, who joined the company to meet his beloved Nannetta. While ladies and gentlemen confer, lovers can spend a few moments alone. Ford decides to befriend Falstaff in order to find out his plans.
Act two
Scene one
Falstaff condescendingly accepts the repentance of Bardolph and Pistol, who appeared at the Garter allegedly with confession. However, it turns out that they not only came to confess, but brought Mrs. Quickly with them with answers from Meg Page and Alice Ford. Quickly reports that both ladies are crazy about Falstaff, and Mrs. Ford even made an appointment for him.
Before Quickley has time to leave, Bardolph brings Ford in disguise to Falstaff. Calling himself the name of Fountain, he hands Sir John a full purse, persuading him to help him seduce Alice. Falstaff assures a new acquaintance of the success of the intrigue: just now Alice’s husband is absent and the fat man is going to go to her. Ford is furious. He burns with jealousy and represents the reprisal that he will inflict on an unfaithful wife. Having dealt with his feelings, Ford leaves the tavern with dressed-up Falstaff.
Scene 2
In Ford’s house, the merry gossips are getting ready for the arrival of Falstaff: they bring in a laundry basket, open the screens. A well-dressed gentleman finds Alice alone. As soon as he manages to declare his love, Quickly comes running and warns the couple about the arrival of Meg. Falstaff hides behind the screens. When Meg, feigning fright, informs Alice of the imaginary appearance of her husband, an enraged Ford with a crowd of witnesses really breaks into the room. He is looking for a seducer everywhere, even in a large laundry basket. Not finding it, the jealous rushes to other rooms. Meanwhile, the women push Falstaff into a basket, and Nannetta and Fenton, taking advantage of the general turmoil, take cover behind the screens. Soon the sounds of kisses reach the hearing of the returned Ford. He brings down the screen in anger – and everyone sees the embarrassed lovers. An angry Ford again hurries to search. Alice orders the servants to throw the basket with all its contents out the window, into the ditch, and invites her husband to look at Sir John’s whereabouts.
Act three
Scene one
At the Garter tavern, Falstaff indulges in gloomy reflections. Old John is as lonely as ever: his hair is turning gray – his hour will soon come. The tavern owner brings hot wine, and Falstaff’s spirits rise. When Quickly arrives with a new letter from Alice, he is going to drive the intriguer away, but she assures that the lady in love is not to blame for anything. On the contrary, she wants to meet him again and invites the hero at midnight to Windsor Park, to Gern’s oak, the legendary Black Hunter, who once hanged himself on this tree. Falstaff must disguise himself as Gern, who, according to legend, wanders around his grave just at midnight. “Cupid loves mystery,” Quickly explains. The entire Ford family, Meg, Fenton and Caius watch the scene from afar. Convinced of Falstaff’s innocence, the conspirators are preparing for a nightly joke: they will disguise themselves as fairies, elves, witches and other evil spirits in order to teach the lover of love adventures a lesson. Ford promises Caius to betroth him to his daughter that very night: he will bless the disguised couple – the monk and the fairy queen. Quickly accidentally overhears the conversation and decides to thwart this plan.
Scene 2
At night in Windsor Park, Fenton looks for Nannetta, who, hearing his voice, hurries to meet him. The date is interrupted by Alice, she convinces the lovers to follow her instructions for a successful outcome. Midnight strikes. Falstaff appears disguised as a hunter Gern. Seeing Alice, he rushes to her, passionately showing his love. Cries for help are heard from afar, and the coquette, pretending to be frightened, slips away. The adorer himself, in fear, falls prone to the ground. And then “supernatural beings” surround him from all sides. Nannetta says a spell. The masked company rushes at the old knight, pinching him, whipping him with nettles, rolling him on the ground, showering him with curses and ridicule until he repents of his sins. Then everyone takes off their masks, and Falstaff realizes that he has been fooled. But this is not the only exposure of the magical night. The engagement of Nannetta and Caius, conceived by Ford, fails: by Alice’s cunning, Nannetta is married to Fenton, and Caius is married to Bardolph dressed as a fairy. Sir John rejoices that he is not the only one in trouble, and concludes:
Everything in the world is a joke!
Man is born a joker,
And seriousness only clouds the mind.
Everyone is fooled!
Everyone is glad to make fun of another,
But he laughs well,
Who laughs last.
Verdi hatched the idea of a comic opera for about forty years. Creating masterpieces in the dramatic genre, the maestro seemed to avoid the sphere of musical humor. Contemporaries believed that Verdi was deprived of a comedic gift, especially since the only experience of the composer at the dawn of his creative path – the now forgotten opera “King for an Hour” – ended in complete failure.
Before the premiere of Falstaff, in the words and letters of the composer, from time to time there are echoes of that mental trauma – the “great sentence”, as Verdi called it for himself. And yet, after the successful premiere of Othello in 1887, knowing about Verdi’s innermost dream, his librettist and friend Arrigo Boito finally created a script discussed for decades based on The Merry Wives of Windsor and the comic interludes of Shakespeare’s Henry IV chronicle. Verdi took a chance and composed something completely unusual, unexpected. At the enchanting premiere of Falstaff in Milan in 1893, another Verdi appeared before the public.
“Falstaff” is a great musical-theatrical cocktail. It has ingredients of Italian musical situation comedy (opera buffa), French comic opera and German fairy tale, she plays with the speed and colors of Mozart’s dynamic finale of Le nozze di Figaro, and the kind light of Rossini’s style warms her.
Elements of high genres are mercilessly woven into the fabric of Falstaff: love madrigal, ancient church and “serious” instrumental music – which is worth only the mocking “Amen” from the first picture, performed by the servants of the canon, or the fugue in the finale – a rare guest on the opera stage ( they say that Verdi overheard her somewhat angular theme from a humming child).
But Verdi’s Falstaff also has sad undertones. In the midst of the fun, a sensitive ear will catch a barely noticeable haze of melancholy. This sadness appears openly only once, at the beginning of the third act, for a short time, when it turns out that Falstaff is suffering. The point is not even that he is lonely, but that his time has passed. This idea is also embedded in Shakespeare: no matter how scoundrel Falstaff may be, he is a nobleman and in “Henry IV” he acts on a corresponding scale. In The Merry Wives of Windsor, he finds himself in a new and alien environment for himself: the new masters of society, mediocre bourgeois like Ford. And here Falstaff is ridiculed, trampled into the mud. He, like a big child, plays with the world, but the world no longer needs him. Maybe this makes Verdi related to his hero? Maybe Falstaff is a farewell to the theater, because the aged Verdi should have understood that he would hardly be able to carry out another grandiose opera project. And maybe this explains so many hidden quotes and half-allusions to the music of the past, especially the theatrical past, and especially Verdi himself?
Daniil Shutko
World premiere: 9 February 1893, La Scala Theatre, Milan
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 17 January 1894 (in Russian, translated by Nikolai Spassky)
Premiere of the production: 23 May 2018
2 Performance duration 2 hours 40 minutes
The performance comes with one intermission
Theater is about love.
About love…
Theater is about love. About love…
No matter what they write or think, theater is about love. Happy or unhappy. Short or for life. Written in airy rhymes or nasty details. In unbearable noise or deafening silence. About love. For all that is and is worth living for is love. “Beauty Queen” based on the play by McDonagh in the debut production of Sergei Vinogradov at the Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Theater is no exception to the rule.
There is no graceful dramaturgy or clever dialogues in Beauty Queen. But it contains more than psychological studies and hints for reflection. Martin McDonagh, like Vampilov, who wrote stories with a plot, tells us about Maureen and Meg Folin, who live in a godforsaken Irish town. Meg is already over 70 and she is desperately afraid of being alone and does not let her daughter go a single step. Maureen is in her 40s and desperately trying to find her happiness, for which she needs to get rid of her mother. Maureen connects her hopes for a new life with her former neighbor Pato Dooley, with whom she has been in love for many years. Pato has returned home and invites Maureen to leave for America. Together. Without Meg.
Maureen and Meg Folin live in front of the audience a story in which it is impossible to find the truth. The line between happiness and selfishness, vulnerability and vindictiveness is so thin that it is sometimes invisible. Mother and daughter are desperately fighting each other for their “happiness” – capriciously, vindictively, sometimes mercilessly. But everyone understands “happiness” in their own way, and the methods of struggle can surprise an inexperienced viewer. And the more you get involved in the production, the harder it is to understand Who’s right and who’s wrong
However, at McDonagh everyone is guilty and innocent. Tatyana Mukhina (Maureen) and Maria Solovieva (Meg) will lead us from mise-en-scene to mise-en-scene, as if through a labyrinth, showing new facets of truth. Or lies. But, alas, we will never reach the truth. Meg’s “truth” and Maureen’s “truth” will never converge.
The performance spring is compressed gradually to straighten out in an instant. The rigidity of MakhDonakh can shock, cause disgust for the characters played by Mukhina and Solovieva with talent. The red-hot oil spilled on the hands of the mother by the “caring” daughter instantly turns the daughter-victim of the executioner, and again you don’t understand who in this story to sympathize with more. At the end of the play, musical greetings from Anette and Margo Folin, congratulations to Maggie’s mother on her birthday, will be woven into the accompaniment of rain. A congratulation that never reached the addressee – driven to despair, Maureen will kill her hated mother. Whether this will bring her happiness, or finally lead to madness, is up to the viewer to decide. McDonagh is merciless, but leaves a chance for the characters at the last minute, a second before imminent disaster, to prove themselves as a person.
I was lucky with the seats on the play: the relationship between Meg and Maureen must be examined in detail, in detail. The everyday story of mother and daughter appears gradually – from an old closet, from a TV set with eternal Australian serials, from porridge with lumps, from a bag of soup, from a heavy poker. And if Maureen at the beginning of the production is sympathetic, then Meg is charming in her disgust.
The role of elderly Meg Folin is given to the young and pretty Maria Solovieva, who is hardly recognizable in makeup and baggy clothes. Meg Folin with cookie crumbs on her blouse, with a disgusting champ while eating, with droplets of tears on the tip of her nose and a humiliatingly disgusting “cook porridge, or at least soup” – you want to beat it right away and preferably quickly. In general, it seemed to me that Maria Solovieva is having fun in this role as she can, truly masterfully. One of the great scenes in the production is the mise-en-scene between Meg and Pato’s brother Ray at the end of the performance, which can be shown as a separate number. And do not rush to run away after the performance, the final bows of Maria Solovieva will not disappoint!
Tatyana Mukhina (Maureen Folan) is a bright, sharp-witted actress. Her Maureen is like a tight string, ready to snap at any second. Tatyana is magnificent in short moments of happiness with Pato, and in desperate hopelessness in scenes with matter, and in the growing madness that splashes in her eyes in the final scenes.
Absolutely unforgettable in the role of Ray Dooley Mikhail Zheleznov. The incredible plasticity of Mikhail is worthy of all praise. Lanky red-haired Irish teenager Ray, involved in the madness of the Folan family, surprisingly does not notice this very madness. He worries about the long-lost tennis ball and the strange spelling of Pato’s fiancee’s name. Bravo, Michael!
“The Queen of Beauty” by Sergei Vinogradov is an undoubted success of the theatre. But behind the curtain of the production, the question remained – why was this play written? Moreover, in the theater of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, the audience was spared, McDonagh wrote “The Queen” much tougher, more cynical and disgusting. I could not resist after the performance and read the play. Remember, we started with the fact that theater is love? But how difficult it is to find this love in the “Queen of Beauty”!
Vinogradov, together with McDonagh, show us the end of a story that began many years ago. Today’s Maureen would not have won the title of “beauty queen”, but young Maureen bore this nickname with pride. Sisters Anette and Margo have been married for a long time, and Maureen lives with her mother until the age of 40 and keeps love for Pato in her heart. Pato went to England twenty years ago and got lost there. And Maureen, with a nervous breakdown, ended up in a psychiatric clinic, from where Meg took her. Many years ago, Maureen already lost Pato, and it ended tragically. Years later, Pato reappears on the doorstep of Folin’s house…
Maybe Meg was scared for Maureen. Perhaps she knows that Maureen’s illness may return if things don’t work out with Pato again. Yes, this is love, which, at first glance, destroys the daughter’s desire to be with her loved one. But only for the first. Meg doesn’t trust Pato anymore. And Dooley’s letters fly into the fire of the furnace. Meg’s physical infirmity, pissing down the sink, moodiness are the fetters with which she binds Maureen to herself, to the house. Tie to keep. Save. Meg reminds me a little of Amanda Winfried from Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Meg, like Amanda, protects her child, clumsily putting it in the vice of love. The tragedy of Meg and Maureen is that they have forgotten how to give love and love themselves. We have lost the line between selfishness and happiness, which we also sometimes do not see. And if we kill love, love kills us.
Martin McDonagh no longer writes plays. But behind the cruelty and unsightly inner essence of the playwright’s heroes, there is a great love and faith in them.
Faith that there is Light in each of us.
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