Screening of the Play “Marble” Based on the Play by Joseph Brodsky

Screening of the Play “Marble”
Based on the Play by Joseph Brodsky

In 1984, Joseph Brodsky wrote a play titled Marble. The action unfolds in the second century AD, inside a prison cell — “an ideal room for two” — where the main characters, Tullius and Publius, are serving life sentences. They are constantly observed by hidden cameras.

Marble has been staged many times in theaters, including during Brodsky’s lifetime — in Hamburg in 1987. For the creators of the most recent production, it was essential to stage the play not on a traditional stage, but directly in the “One and a Half Rooms” where Joseph Brodsky lived from 1955 to 1972, until his emigration. Following Brodsky’s concept, the prisoners were left completely alone in the cell — observed only by hidden cameras — while the audience could watch the performance exclusively on screens.