АЛВИС ХЕРМАНИС: о «новой этике», Горбачёве и Барышникове

https://go.skyeng.ru/webinar-sobchak - Register for the online broadcast: Ksenia Sobchak on Skyeng, May 26th at 7:00 PM https://go.skyeng.ru/ksenia_sobchak - Start learning English on Skyeng, promo code SOBCHAK gets you two extra lessons on your first payment $10 deposit on the TimeX exchange with promo code SOBCHAK after verification https://timex.io/ru/?utm_source=Youtu... 00:00 What's the episode about? 00:55 Sobchak in Riga, visiting Alvis Harmanis, director of the New Riga Theater. Rehearsals for a play with Mikhail Baryshnikov 01:40 "I'm Not Hermanis" 03:44 A time capsule under the new theater building: it contains the play's text, ethical rules, and a pack of cigarettes 04:19 "In 100 years, when they dig up the capsule, people will be shot for smoking" 05:22 Seven Rules of Theater: Against the New Ethics, Political Correctness, and MeToo 06:00 "You can joke about the Holocaust and Stalin's repressions, because the art zone is a dream zone; you can't control your sleep" 08:37 "Art is a minefield." "Whoever is brave is welcome." 08:46 Advertisement 11:49 Harassment accusations as an effective way to fight competitors 13:41 "Art is historically a *** territory." 14:29 Dilemma: who will Harmanis fire – Plácido Domingo or the cleaning lady who accused him of harassment? 17:02 "Now, in the era of new ethics, neither Diaghilev nor Brodsky could work." 17:48 Advertisement 19:23 Latvian nationalist Harmanis on Russia and Russian civilization. 21:10 Why did Harmanis, who announced after Crimea that he would not return to Russia, reconsider his views? 23:08 Who got Harmanis removed from the blacklist of people banned from entering Russia? 24:03 "After my parents, Gorbachev is the third person who influenced my life." On the play "Gorbachev" with Yevgeny Mironov and Chulpan Khamatova 32:38 On Russian female archetypes and Raisa Gorbacheva, who doesn't fit into any of them 36:42 "Give me your finger and they'll bite your elbow off": Does Harmanis think Putin has learned the lessons of perestroika very well? 37:30 "I don't understand why Putin is afraid of his opponents on television" 40:07 "To pass a resolution, you need people willing to die for an idea." And this idea can't be the fight against corruption." 42:30 On the play "White Helicopter" with Mikhail Baryshnikov: the abdication of the Pope and the death of European civilization 44:12 "Europeans prefer to live with cats and dogs, not with children" 46:28 "My latest plays - about Benedict and Gorbachev - are training for death" 48:05 On leftist ideas that have triumphed in the art world: Harmanis's European actors consider Sharikov a positive character 51:33 "Life consists of winners and victims": on the laws of nature that no one has repealed, the weak point of Christianity, and Nietzsche 57:40 "Equality leads to totalitarianism" 59:12 "From Russophobes to vatniks": How does Harmanis respond to accusations of changing his tune, and what is "package thinking"? 01:02:30 Isn't Mikhail Baryshnikov afraid that his friendship with Harmanis will make him a toxic person? 01:03:35 Why doesn't Baryshnikov travel to Russia? 01:05:48 Makovetsky, Rappoport, Sukhanov, and – surprisingly – Urgant: Which Russian actors would Harmanis work with? 01:08:40 Blitz 01:13:03 About God, the sad cosmos, and death Director - Sergey Erzhenkov #KseniaSobchak #BewareSobchak Become a sponsor of "Beware: Sobchak":    / @sobchak   Instagram:   / xenia_sobchak   Facebook:   / sob4ak   VKontakte: https://vk.com/sobchak Odnoklassniki: https://ok.ru/sobchak