Royal District Theatre Closing Season with “Fewer Emergencies. Far Away”
By Mariam Chanishvili
Wednesday, July 24
The Royal District Theater closed its 21st season with a new performance “Fewer Emergencies. Far Away” directed by Data Tavadze, which took place on July 19-20.
The premiere, which was held at the end of the season, was a blast.
Tavadze is a Georgian theatre director, actor, and playwright at Royal District Theatre. He has achieved great success within the frames of international festivals as well as in Georgia.
The idea came from two British playwrights: Martin Crimp and Caryl Churchill.
Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies is a curious, tongue-twisting, and lyrical piece of writing. It thunders between middle-class life, imagined situations, and the dark psyche of the human mind. Fewer Emergencies premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on September 2005.
Caryl Churchill's Far Away is a play that looks at conflict and its unsettling effect on our lives, and our humanity. It was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London, on November 24, 2000.
Director of the play, Data Tavadze paints a picture of the world full of chaos and dangers in two plays. The routine reality hits every step of the characters. The narrators are constantly "correcting" the characters’ lives in their desired direction, but irrational brutality still cuts in.
Churchill's fantasy in the mystical war tells us about the world where people, things, natural events are fighting each other, and no one knows who they are against in the fight.
The music composed and arranged by Nika Pasuri created a great synthesis. The performance was designed by Keti Nadibaidze.
The actors starring in the play are as follows: Nata Murvanidze, Kato Kalatozishvili, Tornike Gogrichiani.
Royal District Theatre was founded in 1997 by a prominent Georgian actress Iza Gigoshvili. Since its establishment, RDT has been supporting innovative and free theatrical experiments, popularization of new plays, thus contributing to widening the perspective of Georgian theatre. Since 2008, a young group has been active at RDT that made the theatre popular abroad with its innovative forms and acutely up-to-date performances.
The theatre will be back with this and other plays from September 1.
Tickets are on sale on biletebi.ge
