"One absolutly happy village" by Fomenko

"One absolutly happy village" is the name of a play which was written about 50 years ago by one Russian author who is not well-known. However, Petr Fomenko liked his works and wanted to do a performance based on his play. He tried to do it in the 70th, but USSR censure blocked his intention. About 12 years ago, he finally directed it.
Now, people have to wait for 5 years in order to get tickets for this performance. Fortunatly, Fomenko's theatre gives to ths students an opportunity to visit their performances for free. I had to wake up early and to go their in order to sign up to the list of students who want to go. However, when I came to the theatre on 18-30, I've realized that the list I was signed up in disappeared (somebody stole it with the view of having more chances to see the performance. What a nonsense! Despite it, finally I could get into the building and see the performance.
It was great. Surely, one of the best performances I've ever seen. It tells us a regular story of a man who loved a woman, but had to leave her because of the war. During it, he died because of stupid orders of the headquarters. The woman had 2 twin brothers and couldn't earn enough money, so she married with a captive German soldier which lived in her village.
However, the plot in nothing in this performance. It tells us about our life and about the fact that "our" deads do not leave us and want us to be happy.
This performance is considered one of the best ones not only in Fomenko's theatre, but also in Moscow.

"As you like it", Krimov's performance

Yesterday I've gone to the theatre. I haven't watched anything before on this stage, but that didn't matter as the most important was the performance itself.
The plot was not really related to Shakspeare's play; it was mostly about contemporary public.
The performance is called "As you like it" and it's only 1.5 hours long.




The performance started in a very original way. Some people dressed as workpeople carried a big artificial tree with a living dog on it throw the hall, by the way jogging and striking spectators with it. That was a shock! But then... they carried a woking fountain! Most people sitting in the stalls became wet (the hall was quite little). However, they were given towels then. After it, half-naked actors appeared on the scene and started to dress themselves. We felt like being behind the curtain,  and it was really so in some way, as a couple of minutes after the actors put on all the wearing, "audience" appeared. They were chatting, talking on the phone, lauphing, and drinking. When the actors started to play for this "audience", they maintained the same behaviour. They commented different actions, their telephones were ringing all the time; every time they said something, the performance stopped. The play itself consisted in a love story of Piram and Fisba, which was represented in quite a funny way, with tricks and sleights of hands in order to entertain the "audience". It would be to difficult to explaint the final part of the performance, as it had too many details and metaphorical meanings. I believe you should watch it yourself, it is brilliant.

Our argumentative essay

During the previous week, we've started to write our argumentative essay. It seems to be the most difficult work in all our english-advanced-201 course. We have to use a lot of sources which should be in English; and we have to quotate, summarize and paraphraze them according to a system of rules that is called MLA and that is quite different from the one I'm used to. We also have to write Work Citeld list on the last page. Furthermore, this essay is the biggest - 2 pages at least.
In my opinion, my essay is not brilliant (and even not finished now: I'm still checking it). The worst part for me is that one of sources, as all I know about the economy of Russia is reflected in Russian books, which were not translated into English. I can't really say that one part of my essay is the best; maybe the ideas are not the worst - everything I can say about my work.
What about the ways to improve my essay, i have only one idea: to spend more time on it. Because of to hw of maths I was very short of free time this week, so I couldn't do my agrumentative essay as well as I wanted. I hope my last draft would be better^^.
P.S It is 2:30 now. I've recently finished re-doing my essay. I am ill and I feel very tired as I haven't sleeped for more then 7 hours for week and a half. Tomorrow I'll wake up at 7 o'clock, and it will be one more zombie-day. That is the negative part of education: even if the work you have to do damages more then benefits, it must be done.

Ken Kesey: one of the most important writers of XX century

Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is well-known all over the world, mainly because of his first novel, which is "One flew over the cuckoo's nest". This author is considered to be one of the best American writers.
However, Cuckoo's nest is not his only book. He wrote a couple of novels with other authors, many stories and essays and two original novels which are less famous by public, but well-appreciated by critics. They are Sailor Song and Sometimes a great notion.
Surprisely, all Kesey's original novels are based on his own experience, in spite of the fact that they touch upon different topics: One flew over the cuckoo's nest is about insane (the author has worked in the night shift of a madhouse for some years, and he talked with the patients), Sailor Song is about sailing and fishermen, Sometimes a great notion - about family interrelations. This last one, which is less known then Cuckoo's Nest, is considered Kesey's masterpiece. It tells us about a family which consists of dad, two brothers, and wife of one of them, and their relations. This book is the best psycological work I've ever read.
Sailor Song is Kesey's hardest to understand book, so on the grounds that I do not have enough life experience to be sure that I understood clearly the book, I won't write my ideas about it; however, it doesn't matter that I advice you not to read it.
All in all, Kesey's books merit your attention, but they require the reader to think, just as Dostoyevski's novels.