MILES AXLE Translation. Region: Russian Federation –
Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –
Artistic director of the Moscow Oleg Tabakov Theatre and Sovremennik Vladimir Mashkov spoke about plans for the new season at a meeting of both troupes. He took up the post of director of the second theatre quite recently – in June of this year.
Premieres
In the new season, the Oleg Tabakov Theatre will return to the stage “The Elder Son” based on the play by one of the main Soviet playwrights of the 1970s, Alexander Vampilov. The plot revolves around two young people who missed the last train from an unfamiliar city. They decided to stay the night in the first house they came across and dropped in on musician Andrei Sarafanov, who was raising his son and daughter alone. One of the uninvited guests introduced himself as his illegitimate child.
“Director Alena Lapteva has begun rehearsals with new performers, and the work is progressing quite quickly. The play will return to the stage very soon,” said Vladimir Mashkov.
In the near future, they will begin rehearsing a play with the working title “Callsign Silence”. The idea for it arose during the work of the Tavrida art cluster laboratory, when the author of the play Oleg Antonov, together with the director and actor Sevastian Smyshnikov, met with participants in a special military operation.
“The performance will be staged with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives. This is the first work in which artists from two theaters will take part,” the artistic director noted.
The performance dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War will also feature actors from both troupes. They will be joined by students from the Oleg Tabakov Moscow Theatre School.
In addition, there are plans to create a performance for the 90th anniversary of Oleg Tabakov’s birth. It will be “An Ordinary Story” – in the second half of the 1960s, the production became an important cultural event in the life of Moscow. Then, Galina Volchek transferred Ivan Goncharov’s novel to the stage of “Sovremennik”, and Oleg Tabakov played one of the main roles and received the USSR State Prize for it. Later, in 1990, he himself staged this performance – already in his own theater.
“This production was the most important in Oleg Pavlovich’s life. It is brilliant, incredibly modern, endowed with feelings, energy, love, passion – everything that accompanies our life. I think it would be a good study,” Vladimir Mashkov noted.
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The Oleg Tabakov Theatre and Sovremennik are preparing other performances for the new season; they promise to announce details about them later.
Exhibitions, cinema, excursions
In December, the Sovremennik Theatre Museum, which opened this year, will open an exhibition dedicated to the showing of The Government Inspector, where Galina Volchek once shone in the role of Anna Andreyevna. On December 19, the actress would have turned 91. “Perhaps on this day, in honor of her memory, we will perform the play The Government Inspector,” said Vladimir Mashkov.
The museum will also host a series of lectures dedicated to the founders of the theater and what it is living today. The plans also include walking tours of the theater quarter on Chistye Prudy.
Already next year, several exhibitions dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Oleg Tabakov’s birth will be organized. They are expected to take place in Zaryadye Park, on Tverskoy Boulevard and in some other places. In addition, a documentary film dedicated to the life and work of the actor is being prepared.
The theatre school operating at the Oleg Tabakov Theatre will now also be at Sovremennik.
“The theatre is an organism that is constantly evolving. And its heart is the theatre school, which now exists at two theatres. The students recently staged the play ‘Guardians’ – in my opinion, it is very interesting,” said the artistic director.
It is dedicated to famous theatre figures – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Mikhail Chekhov, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Maria Knebel, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Georgy Tovstonogov and Oleg Efremov. According to Vladimir Mashkov, “The Guardians” will be shown to the audience very soon.
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