Victor Schraiman Biography

And for this truth they went to the theater. Now, when the information field has become free when the Internet appeared, it suddenly turned out that those directors and theaters who “laid their lives” on the fight against power disappeared. The doors are open. The theater lost a monopoly on a free word. What attracts the audience today? In fact - they have a lot of problems, they are poor, their cities are talked and uncomfortable, but they need to go somewhere in the evening ...

It would seem - why? But the performance and there are many spectators in the hall. It always touches and amazes me. And especially this becomes significant if you pay attention - what the viewer came to today. This means that it is not guaranteed entertainment, but difficult work. The theater should have great courage to take such serious material for production. In addition, in a small city where you need to fill the hall, it is necessary that people come to the box office and buy a ticket.

And this feat of the theater - the fact that you took such a level of conversation with the viewer, such a level of text - causes great respect. I am a director by profession, but it so happened that the last years I have been traveling a lot around the country as a theater analyst, I see a lot of performances of various theaters, and I don’t like almost everything. According to the tastelessness, by weakness of professionalism, according to many components of what we call the theater.

So - today's performance made a very big impression on me. And this is undoubtedly pleasing. First of all, the performance is built on a wonderful tempo -rhythm. And this is not an artificial, not mechanical tempo-rhythm, but clearly captured by the director, and understood and mastered by artists. Only with age and with experience did I realize that the main skill of the director is to grab the movement of life, its pulsation.

And if there is a pulsation of life in the play, this is a sign that "the sick is alive." Here this pulsation, this movement of life is and it is it that determines the entire course of the performance. Events go logically and consistently, turning into circumstances, entailing the birth of new events. Like in life itself. The theater reflects life in her pulsation and movement.

And yet - the performance is marked with taste. High taste of directing and acting ensemble. In recent years, a real acting ensemble rarely manages to see on stage. And here he is. The amazingly united, rapidly rushing in the future and with huge energy gives his talent. This is one of the main advantages of your performance. The female group is especially strong. Of course, this does not detract from the merits of a wonderful artist playing Prince Igor Tarasov - smart, modern, expressive, subtle, intelligent, all this is.

But the female group is the benefit of the group and, of course, the benefit of the actress, playing the main role - Tatyana Orlova. This is a wonderful job. How does it attract? The actress throughout the performance, with such a calculation, with such energy holds the auditorium! And at the same time such professionalism! The performance, especially the first action, is built on a literary text.

He is rather stingy in external expressive means, here the action is not physical, but verbal. But what a verbal action it is! When you see how the actress builds the prospect of thought, what expressive speech she has, how everything is competently built, this cannot but worry. Often you have to observe on the stage of artists playing, figuratively speaking, as a “train”, and not as a fast train.

The speedy train has an ultimate goal, the end station, and the train is abundant on each half -land. But the viewer is not interested in these stops, he is interested in following where history moves. There is such a movement in this performance, it is rapidly and it is very professionally performed. It is impossible not to note the actress, playing the role of Sofia Petrovna Julia Ilyina.

A wonderful role, the sharpest sketch I love an acute character, grotesque on stage, I like it. So here - how bold everything is done, and with what truth! Zina Maria Shimanskaya is good, an accurate image, beautiful and touching. And other women - what characters, what a filling, what a courage! And what pleasure goes from the stage to the hall. I always say to the artists before the premiere: "Play not for the viewer, play for yourself." In this paradox, one of the main laws of the theater.

Here are the children play in the sandbox. They play for themselves. And if they are “in buzz”, it is impossible to break away from such a spectacle. So in the theater, you can’t deceive the viewer, and if we feel that the artist is “high”, and we have a high. This play is such a buzz, there is such a pleasure. And how all this is perfectly accepted by the viewer!

What a sensitive hall! Actors only plan some kind of event, it is not even in the text, it is only in intonation, and the viewer immediately understands and accepts. The performance is generally very smartly built. In it, in addition to a clearly built tempo rhythm, excellent humor, and humor is an important component of any performance. After all, life, it is voluminous, in it everything is nearby and at the same time, and tragdery, and farce.

As in Chaplin’s films, when the lyrical theme sounds more strongly from humoris.You have good and smart humor in your play. And yet - it is impossible not to note the beautiful literary speech. I suffer when I hear illiterate speech, deaf endings when there is no sufficient message when the sound is not formed as it is written. It's horrible. This should not be in a professional theater.

Unfortunately, the modern Russian actor often mechanically “slapped his lips” and the viewer does not understand what he says. And you have a wonderful text and excellent speech. And, of course, the final of the performance is amazing. He is very directorly invented and acting played. Very good. I rarely get such pleasure in the performances of modern Russian theaters.

Here I got a huge impression. Thank you for him. Evstigneeva, actor, teacher, critic. From the speech at the discussion of the performance of the Dzerzhinsky Drama Theater "Dyadyushkin Sleep", March G.