cekoni wrote:....
Actually, for me never been clear Mishin's metaphor with Shakespeare
- I think he could find a better comparison, for example with some Renaissance artist - Da Vinci
If I were to interpret it, I would say that Shakespeare was both an actor (performer) and playwright (creator). One of the most famous descriptions of him was "myriad-minded"--that he created all these incredibly different and vivid characters, yet they all came out of his mind. Perhaps what Mishin meant was that with Evgeni, he also gave many (not nearly as many as Shakespeare, of course!) vivid and different images, "characters", in his different programs. He had this very wide range, but there is something that is "from him" in all of them. I think Evgeni is able to do this because he is also multi-faceted within, that he has all these different aspects within him.
So with this new LP--it's possible that one can say there is now no other character, so to speak, except Plushenko himself. He's taking off the paint and the masks, in a way--there's no longer anything else, any "character" or theme that comes from the outside (I mean like Nijinsky, the Godfather, Tosca, the spirit that was in Adagio, the spirit that was in Storm) between him and the audience. Well, again, my tendency toward wild romantic imaginings--in a way I could almost say this is somewhat of a "Shakespearean" way to end things, kind of like Prospero at the end of The Tempest, Shakespeare's last play: "this rough magic I here abjure". In the play, Prospero was talking about the illusions of his magical powers, but it is generally interpreted that Shakespeare was also speaking through him, and talking about the magic of his dramatic art. When the play is done, the star comes forward and takes a bow--as himself.
I've seen some people criticizing Mishin's aesthetic "taste", but I'm more and more feeling a personal agreement with (what little I can guess of) Mishin's aesthetic taste and understanding, and this is something I can somewhat imagine from him. It is also an incredibly--
shockingly bold solution, because it is very, very contrary to the way people are accustomed to think, especially in figure skating. Imagine, hypothetically, that something vaguely related to this is the "idea" of this program. It's Evgeni and his team's responsibility to sell it to the audience, of course, and my worry, in this case, would be that frankly I am not convinced that it is actually possible to get such notions across. There are huge obstacles.
Sorry, of course, I am not saying this is what the actual program is going to be like, or anything close to it. I am merely talking about the
concept. I'm not even saying that this babbling is anything close to what Mishin and Evgeni have in mind. It's basically an abstract exercise: one way in which I imagine the very basic and vague concept of a "Best of Plushenko" program possibly
could hypothetically work. There may very well be many other ways in which it can work. I guess I just want to say that I don't think the concept itself is intrinsically a bad, or a shallow one...
Who is Japanese? And who is an expert? The person you are referring to is an Irish gay living in the middle of nowhere, who btw has the marvelous collection of anti-Plu posts on FSU full of bitterness and hatred.
Don't insult Japan and expertise, if you please.
С Шекспиром уже сравнивали.
... anyway, "she" was good toward Plushy on twitter and blog 
