Igor Drevalev - Russia

World Stage Design 2009

September 19th 2009 - September 30th 2009

Selected Juried Sound Designs

The Black Monk	by Igor Drevalev


Creative Team
Director	Igor Drevalev
Sound Designer	Igor Drevalev
Composer	Igor Drevalev
Lighting Designer	Igor Drevalev
Set Designer	Yuri Sopov
Costume Designer	Yuri Sopov


Novoshahtisk Drama Theatre Moscow Russia
Opening March 2007

Design Statement
“The Black Monk” (more correctly “The Monk in Black”) is the most mystical story of created by Anton Chekhov. The main hero, Kovrin, a philosopher, dreams about becoming equal to the most famous people of any time and nation. He dreams to point people the way to happiness. In one of the scenes he names those who disturb his imagination, who do not let him sleep and make him work day and night for many years. His brain does not survive such tension. He gets mad. And when he recovers, he suddenly realizes that he is an ordinary man. He has nothing to live for, and he dies... But before this he names these geniuses of the mankind. They are Buddha, Mohammed and Shakespeare. It means that worlds of each of these geniuses live inside our hero strangely interlinked with his own world and creating new spiritual universe. Therefore in music I united and crossed different systems and cultural traditions, I used the sounds of singing Tibetan bowls, various string and wind instruments from the Near, Middle and Far East, Russian choir singing and instruments that sounded in Europe for centuries. Igor Drevalev



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