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The Presnyakov Brothers, Oleg and Vladmimir, are writers, playwrights, [1] screenwriters, [2] directors, [3] theatre producers, and actors.
The sons of an Iranian mother and a Russian father, Oleg was born in 1969 and Vladimir in 1974.
Both brothers graduated from the same school: M. Gorky Urals State University in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Until recently, they were both also on the faculty of that same university: Oleg in literary theory and philology, and Vladimir in literary theory and psychology.
Together, the two founded the university's Youth Theatre, "Theatre under the name of Christina Orbakaite",an organization committed to producing experimental theatre work.
Oleg and Vladimir also write in tandem; all their plays are presented and published under their chosen joint name: The Presnyakov Brothers. [4]
Students of linguistics, the Presnyakov brothers are praised in Russia for their attention to natural-sounding speech, dialogue that sounds "overheard on the street." Their cool, sardonic wit enlivens their plays, and together, they create bitter and funny examinations of life in a post-Soviet Russian culture. [5]
"Since their first play appeared in Russia's capital city, the Brothers Presnyakov have become "something of a trademark," wrote the local English-language daily, The Moscow Times, in a review last year(2004)." The International Herald Tribune,Theater: The everyday facets of 'Terrorism', by Erin E. Arvedlund, 27 May 2005. [6]
Bed Stories (Postelnye stseny, Постельные сцены)(2005); Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Playing the victim (Izobrazhaja zhertvu, Изображая жертву)(2006); Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Europe-Asia{Европа-Азия}(2009); Directed by Ivan Dihovichnij{Иван Дыховичный} [8] [9]
Day D. {День Д}(2008) Directed by Mikhail Porechennkov {Михаил ПОРЕЧЕНКОВ} [10]
Original title{Братья Пресняковы:Убить судью}(2005) [11]
Language: Russian [12]
Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, Germany. Title in German- {Brüder Presnjakow: Töten den Schiedsrichter} [13]
Published by Gabo Kiado, Budapest, Hungary. Hungarian title- {Oleg es Vlagyimir Presznyakov: Öljük meg a bírót!} [13]
Published by Editura Art, Bucuresti. Romanian title- {Fratii Presniakov: Ucide arbitrul!} [14]
Language: Russian [16]
Published by AST{AСТ,Астрель}. Moscow, 2009. Language: [Russian]. [17]
Produced by BBC Radio 3 as part of a Drama of the Week, Fear and Loathing in Russia Today, in 2017, translated by Noah Birksted-Breen (Sputnik Theatre Company).
Nick Hern Books,London, 2003.
Language: English [18]
Nick Hern Books, London, 2003.
Language: English [18]
Published by Eksmo{Эксмо}, Moscow, 2005. [19]
Contains Playing the victim-play, Floor covering-play, Captured Spirits-play, Terrorism-play, Something about technologies of how to live life-play.
Language:Russian
Published by AST{AСТ,Астрель}.Moscow, 2008. [20]
Contains Bad bed Stories-play, Before the flood-play, Pub-play
Terrorism is the duo's best known and most widely performed play.
Synopsis: Six scenes from urban life. Delayed passengers grumble about a bomb scare at the airport. A man and a woman commit adultery. Office workers bicker while one of their number quietly exits to hang herself. Two grannies in a playground complain about their menfolk and make fun of a man seated on the next bench. Policemen in their barracks scrap amongst themselves. The passengers on the plane finally prepare for take off. By the end we realise these apparently random scenes are in fact linked by an almost invisible thread, subtly indicating that we bear responsibility for one another even in our soulless urban limbo. [21]
Playing the Victim was first staged at the Traverse Theater as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (co- produced with the Royal Court Theatre) and Told by an Idiot in 2003. Directed by Richard Wilson. [22]
Playing the Victim revolves around Valya, a student who gets a job playing the victim in police crime-scene reconstructions. Even though they are simulated, his repeated participation in one gruesome end after another highlights the violence and brutality endemic in contemporary life. Meanwhile, in a parallel plot that parodies Shakespeare, the ghost of Valya's father tells him that he was poisoned by his brother who later married Valya's mother. While the finale is inevitable – Valya takes his mother, his uncle and his girlfriend (who has become a bit too insistent regarding marriage) to a final meal – its setting is not: a Japanese restaurant where he feeds them fugu, a fish that's filled with lethal toxins unless filleted perfectly. (The film version of the play, for which they wrote the screenplay, won the Best Film prize at the Rome Film Festival 2006.)
Synopsis: A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. He has a fear from death. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat his own [21]
In the British version of Playing the Victim, for example, the police captain who reconstructs murders gets bumped off – and his murder gets reconstructed by another captain. Including their rewrites, the brothers can't recall how many plays they have penned. – Time Magazine, Two for the road, interview with the brothers Presnyakov, 2006. [33]
"A life on the go adds grist to our impression mill," says Oleg Presnyakov.
Not that any of the Presnyakovs' delicious plot twists are ever final, mind you. "We love remaking our works," says Vladimir. "Playing with our characters again and again lets us see how their situations are developing."
"We have often wondered if just one of us exists, while the other is just a figment of his imagination," says Vladimir. "Except," adds Oleg, "we never got to sort out which of us is which." [34]
"People are very informed about what's happening in the world, but it seems to us it's important that people be conscious of the idea and not fence off or partition their fears," Vladimir said.
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