We created a performance in which the audience travels through the space of THE CUBE at the Flacon Design Factory together with the performers and musicians. The assembly of scenes is free from linear narrative. The directors developed a specific system of signs, movements, and compositions by which the actors exist on stage.
The scenography was meant to fully immerse the viewer in another planet, where everything seems familiar, yet subtly off — not quite as usual. At the same time, each artistic set was designed to function as an independent statement, like an art object, provoking an emotional or physical response.
The space of THE CUBE is, by its structure, a kind of “matryoshka”: it is based on a high industrial hall with a fully autonomous three-level cube placed inside it. On the ground floor, the cube’s walls are mobile panels that can move up and down, creating various layout configurations. The opera-teleportation FLUTE3 was created specifically for this building. It was born within its environment, which lends the performance a unique sense of intimacy and site-specificity.
Each part represents a distinct emotion, sensation, and mood. The spectator is as if thrown from heat into cold, transformed into vapor when passing into a new space. The audience moves sequentially, without haste, following the flutist-guide.
The first floor — “Tears” — is an intimate space, a zone of our childhood memories, our cozy country home. It is the world within us: personal and emotional, something that is not spoken aloud and into which no one is allowed. This is why the audience perceives everything as if through fog, through curtains, even through an iron curtain in the literal sense. They are merely accidental observers, watching from the outside.
