Uncle's dream performance. Uncle's dream

And a dramatization of the story of the same name by F.M. Dostoevsky. The premiere was played at the Modern Theater at the end of 2007, but by that time Boris Shchedrin’s plan had already Long story. The director walked with him different theaters, and everywhere circumstances did not allow the performance to happen. The artistic director of Moderna, Svetlana Vragova, hospitably accepted the project under the roof of her theater - and this despite the fact that the main roles in the play are not played by her actors. True, “strangers” are such that they will be welcome everywhere! The old prince is played by Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin, patriarch acting workshop, employed at the Theater Russian army. In the role of Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva - Natalya Tenyakova (Chekhov Moscow Art Theater). Mozglyakov was played by Andrey Barillo, star of the Satire Theater. Contribution of "Modern" - Maria Orlova in the role of Zinochka Moskaleva, Elena Starodub in the role of a provincial "secular" lady and other actors in cameo roles. “The ensemble came out to the envy of commercial entrepreneurs,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta columnist Grigory Zaslavsky rightly noted.

This story by Dostoevsky has long been beckoning theater people. The characters' characters are bright, giving scope for "tasty" acting. “Uncle’s Dream” exists in parallel with the works of Gogol and Ostrovsky; it also sharply depicts morals and atmosphere provincial Russia. The plot is replete with comic intricacies, but the result, like Gogol’s, is a tragicomedy... “Director Boris Shchedrin and artist Maria Rybasova almost completely abandoned vaudeville lightness, proving that Dostoevsky is a gloomy writer,” writes critic Olga Fuks (Kultura newspaper "). “It will unsettle your soul, disturb your conscience, and won’t even let you out of vaudeville without a feeling of guilt.”

So, the beautiful Zina refused to marry her lover, a poor provincial teacher. Her mother is local socialite Marya Aleksandrovna Moskaleva has enormous ambitions and a very modest income, even by provincial standards. Only a profitable marriage for her daughter can help her rise to the heights of the capital. Now the groom has appeared - the quick Mozglyakov. He doesn’t have enough stars in the sky, but he is eager to go to St. Petersburg - and thus instills crazy hope in the bride’s mother. But Mozglyakov’s candidacy fades at the moment of the appearance of the old, rich and noble Prince K! He is a distant relative of Mozglyakov, and therefore the cunning young man calls him uncle. The prince hears poorly, sees poorly, forgets names and events own life, but is actively getting younger. And of course, he is fascinated by Zinochka. Mother Moskaleva rushes at the new groom like a kite. She convinces her daughter to marry the prince, become the owner of his wealth, and after his imminent death, to reunite with at least the same poor teacher who was recently refused. Mozglyakov is offended by Marya Alexandrovna’s treachery and, in retaliation, convinces his uncle that he didn’t really make any proposal, that it was all just a dream.

Critics rightly note that the role of Prince K was so chosen by Vladimir Zeldin not because of the actor’s venerable age, but precisely because in any role he demonstrates a clear irony towards the character. So in this performance he charmingly plays up the prince’s obsessive fear of giving away his terrible secret. God forbid someone finds out that such a prominent gentleman wears a wig...

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Parterre row 1-6: 5500-4500 rub.
Parterre row 12-18: 2000-2700 rub.
Grounds row 7-11: 4500-3500 rub.
Amphitheater, mezzanine: 1500-2000 rub.

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The production of “Uncle’s Dream” has been sold out at the Vakhtangov Theater for several years now. Director Vladimir Ivanov, with his work based on the play, once again confirmed that the classics are always relevant.

The play "Uncle's Dream" was first published in 1859. Comedy, comedy, images of the main characters, the sharpness of their remarks - the work has all the necessary set of characteristics for staging theater stage. “Uncle's Dream” is included in the repertoire of most leading theaters.

The plot of the play tells about Everyday life Maria Moskaleva. Through the image of this woman, the viewer perceives the traditions and life of all the inhabitants of the provincial town of Mordasov. Here intrigues, gossip and vulgar antics are perceived as heroism and replace true values life. The influence of such an environment is detrimental to people. Human values overshadows the passion for luxury and wealth.

Much in the image of Moskaleva, who can “execute or pardon,” command or convince, is close to her contemporaries and their views on life. The production on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater is a new interpretation of the classics, revealing to the audience the still unknown Dostoevsky. Bright makeup, great game cast captivate the audience from the first minutes of the performance.

Duration of the performance: 3 hours 25 minutes.

Characters and performers:

Prince K.
God knows what kind of old man yet, and yet, looking at him, the thought involuntarily comes to mind that he has become dilapidated, or, better to say, worn out -
Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva
of course, the first lady in Mordasov
Afanasy Matveevich
Marya Alexandrovna’s husband, in critical cases, somehow gets lost and looks like a ram who has seen a new gate
Zinaida Afanasyevna
only daughter Marya Alexandrovna and Afanasy Matveevich is undoubtedly a beauty, excellently brought up, but she is twenty-three years old, and she is still not married -
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mozglyakov
young, handsome, dandy, one and a half hundred unmarried souls, from St. Petersburg. Not everything is at home in the head - Oleg Makarov
Nastasya Petrovna Zyablova
a widow living in Marya Alexandrovna's house as a distant relative. She would really like to get married again -
Sofya Petrovna Farpukhina
certainly the most eccentric lady in Mordasov. Obsessed with the fact that she is a colonel -
Anna Nikolaevna Antipova
prosecutor. The sworn enemy of Marya Alexandrovna, although in appearance her sincere friend and follower is Marina Esipenko,
Natalya Dmitrievna Paskudina
nicknamed "tub". For three weeks now she has been Anna Nikolaevna’s most sincere friend,
Solemn choir of Mordasov ladies
Felisata Mikhailovna
a big laugher, quite cunning, of course - a gossip, Natalya Moleva
Luiza Karlovna
German by origin, but Russian by mentality and heart -

In relationships between people, tenderness and lies are worth thousands of truths.

Graham Greene

I love this state: living a different life. Because you are thinking about your own. In the bustle of the metropolis, no one will stop you, no one will say: “I absolutely don’t understand why I lived this life...” And we need to say this now - to us, young people, so that this does not happen to us later.

I love it when in front of me talented person, whom God kissed on the top of his head. Because you understand the immensity of God’s love for all things.

I love it when the audience holds their loved ones, their unique ones, under the spotlights with a long ovation. And the hall falls silent, and great artist in silence he takes another step towards his viewer: “Thank you... We can now for you - all over again.”

I love it when the viewer doesn’t rush to the wardrobe, doesn’t turn his back to the stage while the curtain is open, pulling out his bags and running away as if the last train in the world is about to break, and he definitely won’t make it on time for his coveted flight. No, the audience gives a standing ovation, knowing the value of time, talent, and tonight. And the actors also stand on stage for a long time.

I love all this very much.

Because these are Vakhtangovites.

The special spirit and special world of the Vakhtangov Theater. In another theater this may or may not be the case. But in this - there is always.

Actor's talent. They say the ability to play as if you were living. They say the ability to go a way that no one has gone before. They say, A New Look on a well-worn topic. Or talent is the perfection of a craft: to play a tragedy before dry eyes, when the audience sheds bitter tears. Do you know what talent is? What is fire? What is snow?

I saw in the theater how an elderly respectable man was wiping away tears from the tragedy of Cyrano-Domogarov, but they did not listen and endlessly rolled down his cheeks. Or how a young girl, twisting her fingers, looked at Danny Oleg Menshikov with huge starry eyes. I don't know what talent is. But I am sure of one thing: the measure of an actor’s talent is the face and soul of the viewer. Konstantin Raikin is right a thousand times when he says that the theater of even the most bad person makes you, even if only for a couple of hours, kinder and cleaner. Because any person, if he is not a complete bastard, for these couple of hours has compassion for good and hates evil. And even if - it only gets better for a couple of hours. “And then, then, then... God will dim the fire under his frying pan a little.”

I watched “Uncle’s Dream,” a comedy by the unsurpassed Fyodor Mikhailovich at the Vakhtangov Theater. And everything is so clear and understandable: the ridiculously stupid old prince, the greedy mother, the honest, pure-hearted Zina with her unhappy love, a pack of shrill aunties of various stripes, stupid and cruel, a village husband who was pulled out to the city for one day to complete the picture - fool-fool - a sort of nineteenth-century society. The plot is not worth the pen of our great classic. So, take a short walk. Everything is funny, everything is funny. Really funny. Ridiculous. Bad ones. We're not like that. Not about us.

How bright she is, Maria Aronova... Marya Aleksandrovna Moskaleva, “the first lady in Mordasov.” What a hot charm! Vortex. Don't look away.

God, she’s just like my mother! He also loves, he also suffers, more than me, whatever happens. He speaks the same words to me. And the look is always sweet, loving. “We’re fighting with you... but who’s closer...” These are the kind of mothers. That's how prickly and dissatisfied we are. We always have tragedies on a global scale, everything is always on the very edge, the limit of suffering, inner honesty, oh, I almost forgot - it’s true! “This is honest, mummy, noble, but this is baseness and meanness!..” And mummy looks like that - yes! with such huge eyes - and he knows everything about this pain, and the truth, and the dream... Oh, how difficult it is for them to reach us. We come to an agreement, quarrel again, and cry again. Mothers are exactly like her. Her character may be different here, and her dream is unique, extinguished since her youth, but suddenly! — distant Spain, castanets, lords will flare up with subtle piercing colors and inviting flamenco. All the gift of imagination is Spain! And another inescapable symbol of the enemy is the damned Shakespeare, who sticks his nose into everything he doesn’t understand and poisons the life of her beloved Zina. If only I could throw all Shakespeare's nonsense out of my daughter's head, it would become easier for everyone... With raven feathers in high hairstyle, stormy, bright, lush, cheerful. What a beauty Maria Alexandrovna is! Funny, noisy. With the warmth of mother's eyes.

So he says: “I don’t need anything myself!” But really, it’s not necessary - she’s like that. This is not what Dostoevsky wrote about his mother’s greed.

The audience almost stands up when Vladimir Etush comes out. So what is talent? This is the soul of the viewer. From the enthusiastic peals of laughter at the ridiculous old eccentric, stupid, stupid prince who mixed up everything in the world, was it in a dream... “it was in reality, but I dreamed it all...”. Out of intense joy, the viewer quietly falls silent, because to kiss his hand like this: “I would become your friend and nurse...”, to surround him with simple, human, grateful love. So touch his shoulder with your heated forehead. And there is no dividing line here - these are the heroes or the actors themselves, here is the same story for the whole world of loneliness, tenderness and such possible human - if not always happiness, then peace and harmony.

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