вторник, 18 сентября 2012 г.

2. The second post or what happened past week

{What's happening, guys?! So today we're gonna start with something really simple: (1+x)^n >= 1+n*x. Try to prove it using the method of mathematical induction :D }

Hello, people! :)
Now I'm hesitating over the choice which topic I'd like to discuss here this time. Since the free choice is the hardest choice for me as inexperienced blogger the best I can do is to describe some events that happened some days ago.

Try to find me in this crowd)

Last Saturday night (for some unknown reason I've remembered Katy Perry's song Last Friday night :) I was in Gorky park (and here I recalled Scorpion's Wind of change) enjoying German street festival where everybody could help themselves with Bavarian sausages (Bayerisch Würstel) and famous german beer with pasties (с пирожками :) - this only for adults, of course, children could delight in communicating with a big yellow Haribo (registrated trademark) teddy-bear who gave them packings of fruit-jellies (that actually had the same bear-ed form) for good behaviour. The highlight of the whole evening was the show performed by german singer Jan Delay and the orchester (with an eccentric name Disco Nr. 1) which plays with him over the last few years. It was absolutely fantastic! A singing (and jumping :) with the perfect backup accompanied by trombones, piano and guitars and plenty of kinds of drums! Form time to time Jan tried to interact with us with the help of a presenter but soon we all understood that no assistance is needed, language barrier was successfully surpassed) And at the end my friend managed to catch the thrown drumstick)

The Theater, Arbat street, 26
The Building of Foreign Department,
Smolenskaya ploschchad (square)

Next day I visited The State Theater named after E. Vakhtangov (famous russian and soviet actor and director who championed Stanyslavsky's ideas) to watch the renewed version of Shakespear's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will. And though it's a comedy (the comic effect was even heightened because all female roles were performed by men - it was absolutely hilarious when Viola (played by Andrey Kuzichev) in the disguise of a male was reasoning about how cruel the love may be, and how flighty women in love may be) there are some significant and serious points to be discussed. We laugh but at the same time we start thinking about the complicasy of love (what is love? baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more :), about how our identity can dissolve in it, about the love which can bring to madness, fear and spiritual insight. In a word, I loved it. After the play I could catch glimpses of night Moscow while I was bussing to the metro station.

Farewell, guys ladies and gentlemen ;) Thank you for reading.

6 комментариев:

  1. What an interesting weekend you had! It's marvellous to have a good day off!
    And night Moscow... It seems to me, that glimpses of night Moscow are the most fascinating sight! Arbat!!! Illumination is everywhere! :)

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  3. Everything is illuminated... yeah.

    You're completely right! Once I even made an evening-trolleybus trip from Pushkinskaya square to Kitai-gorod! Sights of Tverskaya street, Bolshoi Theatre, Metropol' hotel, The Northern Insurance company were brilliant!

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  4. I've also seen "The Twelfth Night" a couple times. I like it, but I don't think it's my favorite Shakespeare play. My favorite might be "The Tempest," but I've actually only read it. I'm curious, was the play you saw in English, or do they translate Shakespeare into Russian? I might consider seeing a Shakespearean play in Russian, because at least I'd know the basic plot. Other plays would be lost on me, I'm afraid.

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  5. What a coincidence! This spring I saw *The Tempest* too, and I agree, it is much stronger than *12th Night*. This play also has an impressive concluding cue, which I still remember...

    All the plays I saw before were actually in Russian, despite the fact that many of them were directed by the British. But I think in Moscow there should be the place, where plays are in English. Also, they can be subtitled. So, you can also visit some non-Shakespear play)

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  6. You might also like this: http://www.kino35mm.ru/en/festival/98
    They transmit operas from Metropolitan Opera! I also saw *The Tempest* in the schedule: http://www.kino35mm.ru/en/film/1115
    It'll be in English with Russian subtitles)

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