Director, Stage: Engineering Theatre AKHE
Sound: Denis Antonov
Lighting: Alexandr Kurganskiy
Organizational support: Vadim Gololobov, Maria Tavapova
Cast: Maxim Isaev, Pavel Semchenko, Nik Khamov
Genre: Industrial Saga
Premiere: 2018
Duration: 60 minutes
The dictatorship of art! – No dictator knows its secrets. But suggestions can be found here: fire and water, litres of bubble bath, a giant pentagram-like wooden construction and throbbing music samples give birth to a wonderful new world. No need to crack tough nuts; instead break down their resistance. Burning chairs instead of blazing speeches, retreats from excessive demands instead of bloody tribunals, and healing mud instead of promises of salvation. Megalomania, frenzied movement and the attempt to appease the new gods of the virtual world with pure, unprotected sensuality.
Music & Sound: Denis Antonov
Lighting: Vadim Gololobov, Aleksandr Golubev
Organizational support: Vadim Gololobov, Maria Tavapova
Actors: Maxim Isaev, Pavel Semchenko, Nick Khamov
Production: Engineering Theatre AKHE
Genre: Industrial poem
Premiere: 2017
Duration: 50 min
AKHE’s art-reflection to the world order.
The variety of information and money wars have generated a worldwide flood of terms, new concepts and memes. Democracy is a victorious slogan of the 20th century, in the 21st century acquired an estimated meaning equivalent to an export, a barrel, the profits.
Theater AKHE using the law of Archimedes examines the transformation of the term and, according to the law of time, spreads the puzzle of art objects into an understandable evaluative symbol of modern Plutosses.
Perfromance act of Engeneering theatre AKHE ” DEMOCRACY” – get the price of democracy first-ever!
The group was founded by three members of Boris Ponizovski theatre “Yes – No” (Maksim Isaev, Pavel Semtchenko, Vadim Vasiliev) in 1989. Immediately the group announced itself as independent (in term of styles and forms) and started their activity in a performance, cinema, fineart’s fields. From 1996 they count themselves more like theatre collective, created for the normal (in classical means) stage the performance “Cataloque of the Hero”. Since that time the group is permanent participant of theatre festivals in Russia and abroad. Without ignorance of the real Theatre laws, but admiring its Signs, AKHE substitutes with desire: dramatic art ( drama ) by logic development of images and situations, rehearsals by zombeing themselves and psychological play by ependence on elementary physical laws.