{"id":1164,"date":"2015-11-20T13:08:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T11:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yanaross.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2017-04-22T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T09:42:09","slug":"mikhail-durnenkov-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yanaross.com\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Mikhail Durnenkow “The Lake”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yana Ross\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The play is a casual daily apocalypse of the Eastern European middle class. This work leaves you stunned and thinking about the responsibility of our passive-aggressive, disengaged society. Durnenkov managed to grasp the casual despair, escalating violence and panic of a disappearing ghost of Europe.<\/p>\n

The Lake is clearly in dialogue with Chekhov’s oeuvre. People eat, drink and talk over a weekend on the lake, seemingly nothing happens but you feel the world is spiraling into an abyss at a supersonic speed. Our morals and ethics are tested. Hypocrisy and complacency, pseudo-intellectual superiority and fear of the muscle in the lower classes.<\/p>\n

On the surface three couples battle daily issues of betrayal, child rearing and soul searching. Underneath the murky waters of their psyche lie enormous breach of ethics, guilt and fear of a neighboring war.<\/p>\n

“Where are you now? And where would you like to be during the apocalypse? I wouldn’t want to be caught in the shopping center, or while eating, on the toilet, dreaming, riding an escalator or sneezing. I wouldn’t want to miss the end of the world while entering a tunnel, diving or making a wish. I wouldn’t want to be brushing my teeth either, to stand in front of the mirror just a second before starting to kiss.”<\/p>\n

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