Who is Zeinab Seyid Zadeh? Lyubimovka, its owners and guests

/ June 23, 2017

Maria Mikhailova, Teatral magazine, 22.06.17
Photo by Maria Mikhailova

A FESTIVAL WILL BE OPENED AT THE STANISLAVSKY ESTATE IN LYUBIMOVKA

From June 27 to July 7 the festival “Season of Stanislavsky. Summer festival of provincial theaters. The organizers and participants of the festival told reporters about the upcoming event.

The festival will open on June 27 at the Stanislavsky estate in Lyubimovka, where the “Cherry Quest” will take place, conceived by the artistic director of the festival Sergei Bezrukov based on Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard”.

I thought that it was worth playing at least a fragment of “The Cherry Orchard” right there, in Lyubimovka, where the idea for this amazing play was born,” says festival artistic director Sergei Bezrukov. “I simply fell in love with this house of Stanislavsky’s brother, where Chekhov was visiting. Everything came together! This is the same veranda! When in the first scene we have Lopakhin (Anton Khabarov) sitting on this veranda with Dunyasha, there is no need for scenery - it’s all living! Now the artists and I have started rehearsals there, and you can’t imagine their awe when they are there, when they walk through the cherry orchard...

I am especially happy that Lyubimovka, which was forgotten for 20 years in the Moscow region, became interested in Narmin Shiralieva, and she, with all her incredible energy, is trying to promote this project so that Lyubimovka will be noticed at the top,” says vice-president of the International Foundation K.S. . Stanislavsky Zeinab Seid-Zadeh. — Firstly, this is the history of the Moscow region, the history of Russian theater, the place where the entire theatrical culture of the twentieth century was born, where the Moscow Art Theater was born. And at the first festival we want to make these two zones - this idea was born from Sergei Bezrukov - Stanislavsky and Chekhov. The first zone is a theater pavilion, which will present an exhibition about the time of 1903 - 1908, and the second is the house where “The Cherry Orchard” was born. Sergei Vitalievich takes as a basis the house in which Chekhov lived and wrote this play. And the artists will play where we once planted a cherry orchard. Alexey Vadimovich Bartashevich remembers this action. It was during the World Theater Olympics: 150 of the world's great directors planted a tree each, and we created a garden that had previously only been in dreams and in a play. And in this garden the first act of the play will be played. This is a contact with history, and Lyubimovka, which we have been anxiously trying to restore and preserve for twenty years, will finally come to life.

Yes, I remember Lyubimovka, what it was like before Zeinab Mukhamedovna and the Stanislavsky Foundation took on it,” Alexey Bartoshevich, a member of the expert council, shares his impressions. — These were, in essence, rather pitiful semi-ruins, which over the years have turned into a wonderful cultural and theatrical center. Those who come to this festival and workshops will see an absolutely wonderful space - theatrical, vital... A space in which you understand that real art can naturally live and be born here.

Alexey Vadimovich said wonderful things about Lyubimovka,” actor and director Igor Mirkurbanov continues the topic. “I have nothing to add except words of gratitude to the people on whom what is happening there now depends, the fact that all this is alive and continues to delight and inspire. We watched a sketch of Sergei Vitalievich's play, and it was a great gift for us. When everything happens in a place directly connected with the material itself, and with Konstantin Sergeevich, and with Anton Pavlovich, it is impossible to convey in words. This is a special feeling, a special impression! It is a great honor for us to complete this festival. My musicians and I will present a musical and poetic performance about the fate of the country, the fate of the Motherland, which had different pages.

The festival will end on July 7 with the “Prodigal Son” concert by Igor Mirkurbanov together with the Red Square Band. This musical performance will be presented in an open-air format for the first time.

The festival program includes four performances: “Dream of Autumn” by Yuri Butusov (Lensovet Theatre), “Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro”, Alexander Slavutsky (Kazan Theater named after Kachalov), “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” by Oleg Zhugzhda (Puppet Theater of the Republic Karelia), “#TODASYO” by Nikita Grinshpun (Sevastopol Lunacharsky Theater). The forum venues will be the Moscow Provincial Theater and the Stanislavsky estate in the village of Lyubimovka.

As part of the festival, Lyubimovka will host master classes, lectures, seminars and laboratories of famous theater figures, including Eimuntas Nyakrosius, Yuri Butusov, Sergei Bezrukov, Kirill Krok, Alexey Bartoshevich, Olga Egoshina, Grigory Zaslavsky and Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhuravsky.

The press conference was attended by the artistic director of the Moscow Provincial Theater Sergei Bezrukov, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhuravsky, Advisor to the Governor of the Moscow Region on Culture Narmin Shiralieva, Vice-President of the International Foundation K.S. Stanislavsky Zeinab Seid-Zadeh, member of the expert council of the K.S. Foundation Stanislavsky Alexey Bartoshevich, actor and director Igor Mirkurbanov, professor at the Moscow Art Theater School Olga Egoshina.

MOSCOW, September 13 – RIA Novosti, Natalia Kurova. International Foundation K.S. Stanislavsky, in the year of the 150th anniversary of the great director and reformer of the theater, is starting a new project called “The Cherry Orchard” - in the Lyubimovka estate near Moscow on Saturday there will be a presentation of the project, which will become a kind of OFF program of the international theater festival “Stanislavsky’s Season,” RIA Novosti reported in the press. - the fund service.

The Lyubimovka estate, located on the banks of the Klyazma River in Korolev, Moscow Region, occupies a special place in Russian theatrical culture - it was here in the home theater that Stanislavsky made his acting and director's tests. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov stayed here with Olga Leonardovna in 1902 and began writing his last play. The inhabitants, guests and neighbors of Lyubimovka became the prototypes of the characters in The Cherry Orchard. And now the revived estate will become a space where a new generation of theater will take their first steps in the profession.

“We have long dreamed of turning Lyubimovka into an international cultural center,” Zeinab Seid-Zadeh, vice-president of the Stanislavsky Foundation, told RIA Novosti. “And now here, in the newly equipped Theater Pavilion and in the Home Theater, the works of young Russian artists will be constantly shown. directors, produced by the Stanislavsky Foundation, and there will also be creative laboratories, master classes, and trainings for leading foreign directors."

According to Seid-Zade, the first international laboratory in Lyubimovka was held in 2011 by the outstanding Lithuanian director Eimuntas Nekrosius, as a result of which a stage duology based on Dante’s “Divine Comedy” was born. This year, at the presentation of “The Cherry Orchard,” the results of the director’s laboratory of the English director and head of the Vanishing Point theater company Matthew Lenton, a participant in many European festivals, will be presented. For a week, he, together with the actors of his company, students of the National Academy of Theater Arts in Beijing, as well as graduates of Russian theater universities, worked on sketches based on ancient Chinese short stories.

“The new project involves Great Britain, China and Russia - three countries with rich cultural traditions. The theme of their joint work is caring for elders, to whom we pay so little attention today. This is a serious ethical and moral problem. Today the ecology of consciousness is very important, a return to eternal values, reliance on age-old traditions that do not become obsolete as long as a person exists,” says Seyid-Zadeh.

As part of the project, on September 21, the municipal drama theater "Our House" (Khimki) will show the play "Doctor. The First Year" by actor and director Sergei Metelkin, based on Mikhail Bulgakov's early stories "Notes of a Young Doctor." This production became a laureate of the Festival of Theaters of Small Towns of Russia.

“The Cherry Orchard” will continue with a performance by GITIS graduate Kirill Vytoptov (workshop of Oleg Kudryashov), a young director who has already managed to create several notable productions on the capital’s stage. Together with GITIS students, he will present on September 27 his play “Judas Iscariot” based on the story of the same name by Leonid Andreev.

An exhibition of graduates of the VGIK art department, “A View from the Outside. Film Artist in the Theater,” will open at the “Home Theater” in Lyubimovka, where sketches of scenery and costumes will be presented.

The ninth International Theater Festival "Stanislavsky's Season" will be held this year from October 26 to November 13. Theater groups from Austria, Germany, Lithuania, and Russia will take part in it.

On October 25, a press conference dedicated to the 12th International Theater Festival “Stanislavsky Season” was held at the Russian Academic Youth Theater.

The press conference was attended by jury members and festival organizers: Alexey Borodin, Lyudmila Maksakova, Sergey Zhenovach, Alexey Bartoshevich, Vidmantas Silyunas, Zeinab Seid-Zade.

Despite the obviously difficult financial situation, the Stanislavsky Season festival and its director Zeinab Seyid-Zadeh continue to keep their mark to the delight of all theater audiences and professionals. This year, the festival’s poster includes premieres of the best Russian directors of the past and new seasons, as well as three performances by foreign guests - the play “Master of Hunger” by Franz Kafka, directed by Eimuntas Nyakrosius, Theater “Meno Fortas” (Vilnius, Lithuania) (27,28.10 on stage RAMTA), “The Prompter” author and performer Andreas T. Olsson, director of the production Gösta Ekman, Theater “Dramaten” (Stockholm, Sweden) (3.4.11 on the stage of MTYUZ), “The Year of Cancer” by Hugo Klaus directed by Luc Perceval, Theater “ Toneelgroep Amsterdam" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) (16.17.11 on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theater).

The festival marathon will be completed by the traditional presentation of the Stanislavsky Prize within the walls of the Baltschug Kempinski Hotel, which will be held in December. This year, the Baltschug Kempinski Hotel received an honorary award for its long-term partnership with the festival. However, there are quite a few award winners (which they will receive directly at the ceremony) this year. The list includes the best of the best: Sergei Bezrukov, Igor Kostolevsky (“for contribution to the profession”), Igor Gordin, Ilya Isaev, Natalya Zvereva (“For contribution to the development of theater pedagogy”), Inna Solovyova, Mikhail Shvydkoy, Andrey Vorobyov (Governor of the Moscow Region for support for theater business).

Alexey Borodin: “We argued for a long time about the selection criteria for the festival. Should this be a purely psychological theater festival? However, all the performances presented at the festival in one way or another inherit Stanislavsky’s ideas.”

The festival opened on the evening of October 25 on the RAMTA stage with the performance of the Yaroslavl State Academic Theater named after Volkov “The Seagull. Sketch” directed by the Honored Artist of Russia Evgeniy Marcelli.

We bring to your attention a photo of Ilya Zolkin from the press conference:

People's Artist of the RSFSR Alexey Borodin

People's Artist of the RSFSR Lyudmila Maksakova

Honored Artist of Russia Evgeniy Marcelli

theater critic, professor Alexey Bartoshevich

theater critic, professor Vidmantas Siliunas

Honored Artist of Russia Sergei Zhenovach

Director of the Stanislavsky Season festival Zeinab Said-Zade

Yesterday at the Baltschug Kempinski Hotel the winners of the Stanislavski Theater Prize for the 2004-2005 season were announced.

The presentation of the Stanislavsky Prize, established more than ten years ago by the foundation of the same name, has today become as much a sign of the approaching winter as the first snow. Every year, the jury, which includes Mark Zakharov, Pyotr Fomenko, Oleg Tabakov, Lyudmila Maksakova, Evgeny Mironov, Alexey Bartoshevich, Vidmantas Silyunas, Nina Agisheva, Roman Dolzhansky and Zeinab Seid-zade, selects directors, actors, theater teachers and researchers, worthy of being named after the founder of the Art Theater. The rules of the award are well known to everyone: the list of nominees is kept secret, and the names of the laureates are announced several days before the ceremony, the prize is a facsimile of Stanislavsky and $3 thousand. Therefore, the chairman of this year’s jury, Oleg Tabakov, without further ado, immediately got down to business and told the assembled journalists the names of the current triumphants.

In the nomination “For Contribution to the Development of Theater Pedagogy” the long-term artistic director of the Youth Theater Alexei Borodin and Sergei Zhenovach, who opened his own Dramatic Art Studio this year, were awarded. The prize for contribution to the development of theatrical art went to art critic Alla Mikhailova - for books on set design and participation in the creation of the magazine "Scene" and director Adolf Shapiro - for productions of Russian classics. The productions of the Hungarian director Arpad Schilling (his “The Seagull” was shown here at the NET festival) and the Canadian Robert Lepage (the performances of this director, the author of many hours of sagas and epics, have never been brought to Moscow, but The Chekhov Festival promises to do this in the near future).

The award for best actor will be given to Alexander Zbruev, who played the merchant Pribytkov in the Lenkoma play "All-In." Journalists extorted from the jury members that he won in a fair fight with Boris Plotnikov, who performed the same role at the Maly Theater. But Natalya Tenyakova, who brilliantly played the landowner Gurmyzhskaya in Kirill Serebrennikov’s “The Forest,” seemed to have no real competitors.

A little intrigue has developed around the “Directing Art” nomination. It first featured Dmitry Bertman, noted for his modern interpretations of classical operas at the Helikon Theater, and Adolf Shapiro. But at the last moment the jury realized that the list of laureates lacked actual actors in the theatrical process. And Adolf Shapiro “moved” to the honorary nomination “for contribution,” and next to Dmitry Bertman appeared the name of Kirill Serebrennikov, the director who worked most interestingly and fruitfully last season. The fact that the theater process today cannot do without Mr. Serebrennikov is indirectly evidenced by the reservation of Zeinab Seyidzade, who said that he would also direct the award ceremony. In fact, the director of this year’s ceremony will be Viktor Ryzhakov, the director of “Oxygen” and “Genesis #2.” And it will take place on December 2 in the Balchug atrium.

MARINA Kommersant-SHIMADINA

Stanislavsky's Lyubimovka estate near Moscow is now actively preparing to welcome its first guests. Lighting equipment is being installed in a spacious two-level rehearsal hall. Mirrors are hung in the men's and women's dressing rooms. The finishing touches are being put on the guest house, where Eimuntas Nekrosius and young directors, recent graduates, will stay with his troupe. During the week, a master class will be held here, which, according to the festival organizers, should set the bar for the future. As festival director Zeinab Seidzade explains, “the best theatrical forces in the world, masters who continue his work, should gather on Stanislavsky’s estate.”

For fifteen years, the Stanislavsky Foundation carried out the reconstruction of the Moscow estate of the great theater reformer, which had suffered greatly from time and neglect. Everything had to be done practically from scratch: to revive the surviving buildings from a “ruined” state, install sewerage, heating, etc. Moreover, it is characteristic that everything was done without any state support or public funds, solely with the money of sponsors and proceeds from the sale of festival tickets "Seasons of Stanislavsky". The director of the foundation, Zeinab Seid-zade, tells the construction chronicle of Lyubimovka in the manner of the heroic Icelandic sagas, where a priori there are no trifles: the struggle for every meter of cultivated area is worth a truly titanic effort. The subject of special pride is the fruit-bearing cherry orchard (cherries are exactly as the classic says, juicy and fragrant) and the summer theater area under spreading trees, where Pyotr Fomenko has been rehearsing for several years in a row with his actors, who come to live and work in Lyubimovka for a week or two .

On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the Stanislavsky Foundation, his name was finally promised state assistance in the construction of a special room with an equipped stage on the site of the unpreserved main house, where festival performances, meetings with world stars, etc. could take place. The director of the foundation dreams of opening this hall with the world premiere of “Meno Fortas,” the main headliner of the Stanislavsky Seasons festival.

This year the festival program includes the grandiose “Hamlet” by Eimuntas Nekrosius (see “NI” dated February 20, 2004). Due to the large number of applicants who sold out tickets for Hamlet at the box office within a few days, the organizing committee decided to stage an additional performance (so talk about the fact that Muscovites love mainly entertainment genres).

Next to him is the recent premiere of 2011 New Theater Reality winner Katie Mitchell. The British director, who works a lot in Germany, Katie Mitchell comes to Moscow for the first time, where she will show her recent Cologne premiere, “Waves” based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. And her fellow countryman Tim Crouch will show a performance based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - I, Malvolio.

Latvian director Alvis Hermanis, who has become a regular participant in Stanislavski’s Seasons, will show his premiere of “The Young Lady from Vilko” based on the short story by Jaroslav Iwaszkiewicz (filmed in the early 1970s by Andrzej Wajda). The play is staged with young Italian actors, and we are promised that we will see a completely “new Hermanis”.

Belgian director Jan Lauers will present his production on the stage of the Vienna Burgtheater - “The Art of Entertainment: Needcompany plays the death of King Michael.” The genre of the new production is defined in the program as “black cynical comedy,” but the director himself insists that his performance does not fit into certain genre boundaries. As Lauers assures, “this performance has no specific genre.” “The Art of Entertainment” is a synthesis of different genres and types of art. Lauers's production is structured like an unfolding television show, with all the genre's vulgar elements, glitches, musical interruptions and all sorts of "entertainment": from the clownish antics of the chef and his assistant to the well-planned surprise - the nervous breakdown of the killer doctor. And the most important sacrament of life - the meeting with death - is turned into another theatrical trick and macabre joke.

The festival opens on October 17 with the production of the foundation’s president, Mark Zakharov, “Peer Gynt” (see “NI” dated March 29, 2011).