Stage: Yelizaveta Bam

Chronos Theatre Group stages the United States premiere of Daniil Kharms's "darkly comic whodunit" in which games and jokes take on layers of meaning. Daniil Kharms (1905 - 1941), a self-styled aristocrat and avant-garde poet, a writer of verse, drama, and fantastic, absurd stories and stories for children. He was a member of the Russian avant-garde circle. He collaborated with a number of writers as well as with other leading artists: Alexander Vvedensky (writer), Kasimir Malevich (painter), Vladimir Tatlin (illustrator, designer and architect) Shostakovich (music) and many others. In 1928 they founded a new theater movement called OBERIU or Union of Real Art. Kharms? poetics is described in terms of a collision of words and objects. He works out in experimental, painful, black-humor situations, what might happen if certain kinds of continuities and links between items of experience (memory, for example, in ?A Sonnet ?) vanished and disappeared. The mechanical and basically vaudevillian circular structure of ?The Carpenter Kushakov? ends in a complete loss of identity, when the carpenter?s neighbors fail to recognize him and refuse to let him into his apartment. Often, he takes an ordinary situation (?A Letter?) and reduces it to absurdity by one or more pseudo - endings or anti - endings and repetitions. (Description from Chronos Theater website) Ivan Rupnik directs.

Admission: $15 regular, $13 seniors and military and $10 students

Location:
Swedenborg Hall
1531 Tyler Avenue
San Diego, CA 92103

Show dates and times
Saturday, March 5 - 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 6 - 7:00 PM
Friday, March 11 - 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 12 - 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 13 - 7:00 PM

For more information, please visit: www.chronostheatre.com