Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky adapted for National Television

 Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky adapted for National Television


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I have seen an adaptation of this work.
Every Monday, the National Television has the good ritual of broadcasting a play.

Last night it was Poor Folk, inspired from Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
And it was a performance from  about fifty years ago

I think so, because the actress in the lead role was really young and she would be around eighty today.
Alas, she died a few decades back.

Her acting was good, with a restrained use of gestures and lines spoken in a low tone.
This is in opposition with the trend I notice.

In fact, I am expecting the play and acting of next week to be in total contrast.
As they do with series, even if these two plays are completely different, they show a sort of trailer.

We will have The Island by Mihail Sebastian in the program for next week.
And they showed agitated, "modern", loud and exaggerated techniques of captivating or annoying the audience.

We'll see about that next Monday.

In this account, we have only two protagonists:
Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova.

Makar is firmly in love with Varvara.
Although I was thinking that his admiration and awe might be emphasized and maybe exaggerated for the purposes of the dramatization.

Varvara was more difficult to read.
As aforementioned, the actress does not use in excess gestures, loud manifestations.

And for this viewer it works better than in the productions were screaming is thought to be the key to the heart or/and mind of the audience.

There is a reason for that.
With the public's taste and habits formed in a market saturated with action packed Iron Men, Spider Men and the like, it is hard to come with soft, thoughtful and dry offerings.

But I vote for this kind of presentation.
It is better to invite to viewer to contemplate, think and guess.

Why not allow Varvara to be a mystery?

A modern actress might choose to have her hysterically address Makar and have it all in the open.

That might have the advantage that I and the public get what she feels, thinks and wants...
Loud and clear.

I would hate that role.
Like it is, I still accept Varvara even if she was finally mean to the man who loves her...


Or maybe she wasn't

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