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A.N. Ostrovsky
Comedy of obsession
Staging - Anatoly Shuliev
Artist - Marius Yatsovskis
Composer - Polina Akulova
Lighting designer - Maxim Biryukov
Another performance based on the playwrights of Alexander Ostrovsky has appeared in the repertoire of the Mayakovsky Theater. This time the comedy "Mad Money". The premiere was dedicated to the anniversary of the People's Artist of the RSFSR Svetlana Nemolyaeva.
There is no need to talk about the relevance of the play - money, like the thirst for a beautiful life, has always been one of the main motivators. Most of the heroes of the play are representatives of the ruined Moscow nobility: they still ride in carriages, drink champagne, keep servants, but all this is in debt. Whereas the nascent bourgeois, on the contrary, are thinking about "how not to get out of the budget." All of them live at a time when sudden ruins and elevations occur, unexpected sources of income are born when they sell everything, even beauty.
The heroine Lydia is young and ambitious, she is admired by the entire Moscow elite: from high school students to government representatives. She is used to living in a big way and is in search of the only one who "both in sorrow and in joy" would ensure her comfortable existence. Hearing about the fabulous wealth of one provincial entrepreneur, the beauty makes her choice, but she makes a little mistake in her calculations ... In the performance of the Mayakovsky Theater there is no didactics and no moralizing whatsoever - here they try to show real people on stage and try to understand their human essence.
Actors and performers:
Nadezhda Antonovna Cheboksarova - Svetlana Nemolyaeva
Lydia - Polina Lazareva
Savva Gennadich Vasilkov - Alexey Dyakin
Ivan Petrovich Telyatev - Vitaly Lensky
Grigory Borisovich Kuchumov - Alexander Andrienko
Egor Dmitrich Glumov - Konstantin Konstantinov
Basil - Yury Nikulin
Premiere: April 7, 2017.
Duration: 3 hours 20 minutes (with intermission).
The theater reserves the right not to let people who have not reached the specified return.
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On the occasion of the Anniversary of the national favorite, People's Artist of the RSFSR Svetlana Nemolyaeva, the Mayakovsky Theater releases a performance based on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky "Mad Money". It is curious that for the young director Anatoly Shuliev this is the first work on the main stage of the Mayakovsky Theater and the first serious appeal to the domestic classical dramaturgy. According to Shuliev, he had previously dealt with dramaturgy, in which there are absurd themes, in particular, we are talking about the production of “I was in the house and I was waiting ...” based on the play by J.-L. Lagarsa Shulyeva on the small stage of Mayakovka last season. The student of Rimas Tuminas - Shuliev received an excellent directing school, which is felt from the first minutes of watching his new performance. Also pleasing is the ability of the young director to create a single ensemble of actors on stage, where each of the actors plays a classic play by Ostrovsky, as it is traditionally laid down - tasty, juicy, bright. A beautiful trinity of faces close to the Cheboksarovs' house - Telyatev, Kuchumov and Glumov - performed (in turn) by Vitaly Grebennikov, Alexander Andrienko and Konstantin Konstantinov - three completely different images, while rejoicing at the colors found by each actor. Each image is filled with irony and self-irony.
Anatoly Shuliev called his production of the play "Mad Money" a comedy of obsession. After all, modern people are sometimes obsessed with the desire to get rich, to have material wealth. The heroes of Ostrovsky's play are also obsessed with this. The main character of the play, Lydia Cheboksarova (the exact work of Polina Lazareva), wants (but rather demands from life and fate) big money, wants everything in life to be easy and simple for her. According to the People's Artist of the RSFSR Svetlana Nemolyaeva, at the time when she began her acting career, people were much less interested in material wealth, the spiritual life was still the basis. Today, Ostrovsky's play has become even more relevant and its appearance on the stage of Mayakovka is just in time. Nemolyaeva herself got the role of Nadezhda Antonovna Cheboksarova, the mother of the main character. Performed by Nemolyaeva, the heroine is endowed with cunning, cunning, her main goal is the happiness of her own daughter, and for this, a loving mother will do anything. The family duet of Svetlana Nemolyaeva and Polina Lazareva, who play mother and daughter, respectively, attracts attention. In the role of Savva Vasilkov - actor Alexei Dyakin, one of the leaders of his generation in the Mayakovka troupe. The actor, who has already given the audience a number of the brightest roles, for the third time in Mayakovka, he meets with the dramaturgy of Ostrovsky. Also, the viewer can see Dyakin in performances based on Ostrovsky's plays "In a Busy Place" and "Dowry".
We bring to your attention a photo of Ilya Zolkin from the performance:
People's Artist of the RSFSR Svetlana Nemolyaeva as Nadezhda Antonovna Cheboksarova
actress Polina Lazareva as Lydia Cheboksarova
actor Alexei Dyakin as Savva Gennadyevich Vasilkov
actor Vitaly Grebennikov as Ivan Petrovich Telyatev
Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Andrienko as Grigory Borisovich Kuchumov
actor Konstantin Konstantinov as Yegor Dmitrich Glumov
actor Yuri Nikulin as Vasily
In which the actress has been serving for more than 50 years, staged a performance based on the play Alexander Ostrovsky "Mad Money"(I advise all fans of the work of the playwright Ostrovsky to visit).
Ostrovsky is relevant even a century and a half later, so the play looks in one breath.
Plot:
The heroine Lydia is young and ambitious, she is admired by the entire Moscow elite. She is used to living in a big way and is in search of the only one who would ensure her comfortable existence. Hearing about the fabulous wealth of a provincial entrepreneur, the beauty makes her choice, but makes a mistake in her calculations.
Directed by Anatoly Shuliev, a graduate of the directing department of the course of Rimas Tuminas. In the theater. Mayakovsky "Big Money" is the second performance of the young director.
The main character - Lydia Cheboksarova, who is accustomed to squandering her parents' money without looking back and not thinking about anything but her own pleasure, plays Polina Lazareva, the granddaughter of Svetlana Vladimirovna Nemolyaeva, which you can see, for example, in Talents and Admirers or All My Sons. Plays interesting, you certainly believe her. And looking around you notice young people and girls similar to her. Very indicative of the concept of her essence is their dialogue with her mother:
Nadezhda Antonovna (sniffing alcohol). Husband writes that he has money
no, that he himself needs thirty thousand, otherwise they will sell the estate; and the estate
this is the last one.
L and d and I. It's a pity! But you must admit, maman, that after all I could not
to know that you could take pity on me and not tell me about your ruin.
Nadezhda Ant o n o v n a. But anyway, you'd know later.
L and d and I. Why should I find out later? (Almost with tears.) After all, you
find means to get out of this situation, because you will certainly find it, so
you can't stay. After all, we will not leave Moscow, we will not leave for the village; and in
Moscow, we cannot live like beggars! One way or another, you must arrange for nothing to change in our life. I have to get married this winter
make a good match. You are a mother, don't you know that? Can't you figure out, if you haven't already figured out how to live one winter without dropping
your dignity? You think you! Why are you telling me about
what I shouldn't know? You take away my peace, you take away
me of carelessness, which is the best ornament of a girl. You would think, maman, you are alone, and you would cry alone if you need to cry.
Other actors are very good too.
Alexey Dyakin in the role Savva Gennadich Vasilkov, a provincial entrepreneur, a man of the "new era", who believes that it is quite possible to get rich at the present time and is making certain efforts in this direction. Vasilkov in love is emotional, it may even seem stupid, but his mind does not completely leave him:
Vasilkov: So my heart noted; I suddenly fell in love
as a minor, fell in love to the point that he is ready to do stupid things. It’s good that I have a strong will and no matter how I get carried away, I won’t get out of the budget. Not my God! This strict subordination once to a certain budget has saved me more than once in my life.
Ostrovsky shows that the future belongs to such people, but do they have enough kindness and mercy, or is everything subordinated only to the goal of profit?
Vitaly Grebennikov in the role Ivan Petrovich Telyatev, a ruined nobleman, living from loan to loan, for which the debt hole is "crying". Grebennikov managed to create a charming image, on the one hand, of a jester, easily fluttering through life, on the other hand, as always, such a character understands life deeper and has no illusions about himself and the world around him, but evaluates everything very soberly. From his own lips comes a phrase explaining the meaning of the title of the play:
T e l i a t e v. Now money has become smarter, everything to
business people go, not to us. And before the money was stupid. That's it
that's the kind of money you need.
L and d and I. Which?
T e l i a t e v. Rabid. So I got all the mad ones, no way
you can't keep it in your pocket. Do you know, I recently guessed why we have crazy money? Because we didn't make them ourselves. Hard money is smart money. They lie still. We beckon them to us, but they won't; they say: "We know what kind of money you need, we will not go to you." And no matter how you ask them, they will not go. What a shame, they don’t want to have acquaintances with us.
Konstantin Konstantinov in the role Egor Dmitritch Glumov, an intriguer and a lover of barbs is also good. This is such an "evil genius" play.
Alexander Andrienko as a baron Grigory Borisovich Kuchumov who tries to appear rich and generous, but in fact lives only on the money of his wife and relatives.
All three: Kuchumov, Glumov and Telyatev are one and the same, have no means and are trying in one way or another to get settled in life at someone's expense. They look after Cheboksarova a little, without any serious intentions.
And the last character of the play is a servant Gregory, performed Yuri Nikulin. He serves at Vasilkov's (in this there are some differences from the play) and is quite modern, like the owner. He masters the car and stands guard over the business interests of Savva Gennadich.
Summary. The performance is classic, suitable for family viewing (you can go with parents or teenage children), there are funny moments that make the viewer smile.
My reviews on performances of other theatres:
"Idiot" theatre. Moscow City Council
"Sea Voyage of 1933" Theater. Moscow City Council
"The Cherry Orchard" Lenkom Theater
"School of Wives" theater under the direction of O. Tabakov
The performance Mad Money is a new meeting with the famous and eternal classics. It tells about a man who strove for wealth, while not shunning any means of gaining it. At the same time, he was ready even for deceit and forgery in order to achieve his goal. But are these voiced coins really so important? And what is more important - love or money?
The plot of this comedy play by the classic of Russian dramaturgy Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky is well known to almost every one of us. It does not need retelling, since it has long become a recognized domestic and world classic. This work is distinguished by rapid turns of events and wonderful humor. But in fact, the story presented here cannot be called too funny. And this will become clear to each of those who wish to order tickets for the performance Mad Money. Indeed, in this masterpiece, the brilliant author skillfully ridicules many vices and shortcomings known to mankind since ancient times. Sometimes, in reality, the passion for money and easy money becomes more important than anything else. But that can never make a person truly happy. Therefore, real and sincere feelings should be put in the first place. And wealth is a thing that will come and go. This is what the great playwright tells us about.
For more than a century, this wonderful performance has been in no hurry to leave the Russian and world stage. Also, this wonderful comedy more than once found a worthy application in cinematic art. But even now it is impossible to doubt its modernity. And this show is proof of that. Its premiere took place in 1998. And today it occupies an honorable place in the repertoire of this illustrious metropolitan theater. This stage work was created in full accordance with the author's text and intention. She is famous for her dynamism and brilliant acting work.
