Soviet Union was a huge country. “From Moscow to the very outskirts, from the southern mountains to the northern seas” there were thousands of kilometers, best performances they went only in the biggest cities, and everyone wanted to see them. Therefore, the most popular and most interesting to the viewer was filmed and shown on TV. For many, this was the only opportunity to ever "go" to the theater and see the great actors.
Titr made a selection of excellent television versions of the performances. Because our country is still huge, and many of those actors are no longer there.
Khanuma (1978)Once upon a time, matchmakers were in charge of marriage affairs. Women were indispensable, lively, they knew everything about everyone, they could arrange everything that needed to be adjusted! This performance is about the matchmaker Khanuma, her rival Kabato, a merchant who dreams of marrying off his daughter to an aged ruined prince for the sake of his title, and about a daughter in love with her teacher. And all this is happening in pre-revolutionary Tiflis-Tbilisi. With Georgian songs, markets and sulfur baths on the banks of the Kura.
Search a woman (1982)An ironic detective story based on the play by the French playwright R. Thomas. A dead man was found in the notary's office, an investigation began, and the secretary of the office, a woman of indomitable energy, is actively involved in the search for the killer. Brilliant plot, well-written dialogue. From the performance, "smiles turn on like light bulbs."
Tevye the Milkman (1985)A two-part teleplay based on one of the most poignant works of Sholom Aleichem. This is a performance in the letters that Tevye from Anatovka writes to the author. In the text, Tevye shares stories about his poor life with his huge family and what he does to make his daughters happy.
Director: Sergey Evlakhishvili. Cast: Mikhail Ulyanov, Galina Volchek, Sergei Makovetsky.
Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro (1974)
The adaptation of the classic Beaumarchais play is in many ways so great thanks to the actors who played it. The performance ran for 18 years and did not lose its popularity. On August 14, 1987, Andrei Mironov, who played Figaro, did not finish the final scene, lost consciousness and died of a stroke two days later.
Juno and Avos (1983)The great story was staged on the stage of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater in 1981 and immediately and still became a hit and an eternal work. A rock opera by composer Alexei Rybnikov based on a libretto by Andrey Voznesensky about the love of Ryazanov and Conchita has not left indifferent even the most dry and callous for 35 years.
twelfth Night (1978)The situation comedy based on Shakespeare's play of the same name was staged at the Sovremennik Theater in 1975 by the English director Peter James, and in 1978 it was adapted for television.
Strange Mrs. Savage (1975)
The performance was staged at the Mossovet Theater in 1966, and the first performer leading role was Faina Ranevskaya. Her performance was amazing, the performance was a huge success, and the role in it became one of Ranevskaya's favorite roles. In 1975, the role was given to Vera Maretskaya, and it was this version that was filmed as a film-play and became the most famous version of the play in the country. Ethel Savage is a wealthy widow whose three children learn that she has founded a foundation that spends money on people's unusual desires, making them happy. They put her in a psychiatric hospital and want to manage her money themselves. But it's not a tragedy, it's a great comedy.
Director: Leonid Varpakhovsky. Cast: Vera Maretskaya, Tatyana Bestaeva, Irina Kvitinskaya, Konstantin Mikhailov.
Big House Little Comedies (1974)
TO Screen
Five stories in one play. “Viewing Order” is about the housing issue, which, as we know from the classics, ruined Muscovites. "Robbery" - ridicules materialism, which then did not exist much, but how relevant this part is now. Moscow Serenade is a comedy musical about love. "Sound Letter" - a short story performed by Alexander Shirvindt. "Sing, swallow, sing ..." - a residential oratorio for the Housing Office with a piano, about friendship. The performance of the Moscow Theater of Satire was staged in 1973, and hit the TV screens already in 1974. So he was popular.
(3 women, 3 men)
(A play in two acts.)
Extended version of the play by Halo. The ongoing events this time are considered in two projections - male and female.
(Illusion in two acts)
Anatoly Yuryevich Mozzhukhin, a wealthy businessman, a middle-aged man in crisis inclined to reflection. He's broke. His wife leaves him. As it turned out, the only person who can support and share the bitterness of misfortune is his old friend, "drunkard and vagabond" Kamorin. But even he is unable to keep the main character from committing suicide. Fatal shot. It would seem that the point in this sad story has been put, however, it turns out that everything is just beginning. A playful, humorous play provides the actors with a wonderful opportunity to show their abilities, to show off the gift of improvisation.
(Comedy in two acts)
Famous writer, Dmitry Andreevich Koblikov invites his ex-wife, movie star, Svetlana Eduardovna Mnitskaya, to the dacha. He has a young wife, she has a young lover. A series of unexpected events, a range of new feelings. Confusion, confusion. Everything is like in the new philosophical novel of the hero, called "Anthropology".
(Etude)
An elegant philosophical miniature, made in the genre of "naive" comedy, touching on the most acute problems of our time, at the same time is filled with the highest tragedy. The etude was the basis for the creation of the play MALUM IN SE.
(Naive comedy in two acts)
With the obvious relevance of the problems raised in the "naive" comedy, a comparison with a medieval tapestry involuntarily suggests itself. Philosophers, minstrels, mysterious inhabitants of the forest, hunters and wild animals are invisibly present at this feast at dusk. Despite the supreme tragedy of the events unfolding in the play, the author managed to preserve the lightness and sharpness of the genre he designated.
(Dramatic study)
Passion and longing, love and misunderstanding, tenderness and hatred. There are so many colors and nuances in the life of every woman. Every experience is unique, every final is predetermined and inevitable. Rich material, for an actress who conceived a dramatic solo.
(A play in 2 acts)
In the sands of the Gobi (Shamo) desert lives a family of deity (ancestors of the Mongols). They have their own, ancient way of life, their own philosophy. The head of the family, Dorj, digs the sand, trying to get to the inland sea, which promises happiness to all mankind. His daughter, Moon, is maturing. Like a bolt from the blue in the life of the family, Tim, a driver who has lost his way, appears. What will his appearance bring - happiness or death?
(Performance in two acts)
Some extremely influential modern director, who claims to radically reform the theater, creates a "performance of the inexperienced", in which traditional actors try to improvise, having no idea what the idea of the production is, what its literary basis is, what the finale will be. Ultimately, it all comes down to banal bargaining. Everything is very reminiscent of the absurdity and disorder of our days. The comedy is filled with unexpected metaphors, sharp dialogues, in a word, everything that characterizes the direction of pararealism developed by the author.
(Stans in two acts)
By coincidence, the names of the patients of the tenth ward of the oncology department are the same. Everyone is Pavel Andreevich. And their doctor is also Pavel Andreevich. These are people of completely different age and worldview. One day in the hospital is like a whole life - the search for joy, discovery, short happiness:
(A play in two acts)
A play reflecting on the last days of the great actress Marlene Dietrich. The material provides a unique opportunity to embody the images of Marlene and her Alter Ego Norma. Despite the obvious tragedy of the plot, the play is filled with light irony and humor.
(Unseen in two acts)
The play is an ironic fantasy based on the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea".
(Scenes from family life in two acts)
The cares of family life lie on the fragile shoulders of Vera Andreevna Valyazhina. Her loved ones are passionate, contradictory people. The husband is afraid to leave the house and collects bells. The sister is in love with the composer Verdi. Mother is going to marry an air marshal. An explosive situation can only be saved by her love.
(A play in two acts)
A timeless parable about the flight and death of the Roman Emperor Nero.
(A play in two acts)
A play about the last night in the life of Komitas, an outstanding Armenian composer, folklorist, singer and choir conductor. Well-known musicians were conquered by the art of Komitas: Vincent d "Andy, Gabriel Fauré, Camille Saint-Saens. In 1906, after one of the concerts, the outstanding French composer Claude Debussy exclaimed excitedly: "Brilliant father Komitas! I bow to your musical genius!" Surviving poverty, deprivation, the nightmare of genocide, Komitas retired from the outside world, took refuge in his gloomy and difficult thoughts. In 1916, Komitas's health deteriorated, and he was placed in a psychiatric clinic. The genius of Armenian music found his last refuge in Paris, in the suburban hospital Ville-Juif, spending almost 20 years there until his death.
(Movie script)
The writer Povalyaev, who received an order for a play about A.S. Grine, goes to work in the city of his childhood, where amazing events, memories and dreams fall upon him, dictating his metaphysical scenario, breaking his worldview and, ultimately, life itself.
(Comedy in two acts)
A fan of the immortal ideas of the great Tesla, who once dreamed of doing physics, and now a lost gambler, Igor Dmitrievich Pokatilov, goes to a hotel in order to commit suicide. His bodyguard Edward decides to save his patron at all costs. Completely unexpected characters come to his aid, including the inhabitants of the subtle worlds.
(Comedy in two acts)
Old husband, young wife and young man. At first glance, the situation is banal and clearly anecdotal. If it weren't for... There are a lot of these "if" here. Built according to the laws of pararealism, the play carries many meanings. The "theater within the theater" classic for dramaturgy also gives a polyphonic sound. Realized on stage, the play will provide the actors with an excellent opportunity for the actors to demonstrate their skills.
(Drama in two acts)
What happens when music leaves our lives? What fills the resulting void?
The story of a brilliant pianist who lost the opportunity to play, but did not waste his gift. The play is a reflection, which is both a modern dramatic material and a detailed psychological study, filled with music by S.V. Rachmaninov.
(in ten scenes)
The play is a reportage about one day in a pub. One of those that are cramped, heavy light, slippery floors and loud barmaids. Here meet the most different people. Like balls in a bowling alley, their aspirations and fate collide.
(Drama in two acts)
The artist's passion, the artist's love, the artist's life, his death - everything is unpredictable and acute. The fates of his loved ones and his characters are mixed like colors and who knows what can happen to them when this mixture is ready?
(A play in 2 acts)
The play is a fantasy about S. A. Yesenin and A. Duncan.
Vertigo - the feeling experienced by the patient that either he or the objects around him are in constant motion. Most often, this condition is accompanied by a sensation of rotation of surrounding objects, however, sometimes it may seem to a person that the earth begins to rotate under his feet.
(Hoax in two acts)
A play in which the author made an attempt to analyze the complex processes that occur in the mind (subconscious, supraconscious) of a person with schizophrenia. A peculiar appeal to the history of life and death of the great Russian psychiatrist V.Kh. Kandinsky.
(Comedy in two acts)
Once very popular, but now abandoned by everyone, the actor finds himself in an amazing company of people who seem to know how to change lives for the better. The situation, on the verge of reality and absurdity, emerging as a result of this meeting, makes the hero of the play, and with him us, reconsider their attitude to many things that seem undeniable and unambiguous. The bold twists of the plot, the paradoxical decisions made by the characters in the play, are based more on intuition than on any logic. This sharp modern comedy is fraught with a number of mysteries, in the effective search for answers to which the author sees the audience's interest.
(A play in 2 acts)
To a certain extent, the impetus for writing this play was the news of the tragic death of the famous Czech theater director P. Lebla, whose creative motto could be catchphrase Wyspiański "Everything, just don't kiss". The author tries to understand what is a scene? Together with his characters, he makes a journey through the looking glass, into the very belly of the theater. The deep psychologism of the play is combined with the grotesque, appropriate when mentioning the name of P. Lebla, who loved this genre so much.
(A play in 2 acts)
Is music always love? And if music replaces, displaces it? If music is an inspiration, a premonition of trouble? What if music is tragedy itself? Music is harmony. Music is symmetry. The same as fate. Is it possible for a person to resist her? The choice of the names of the first and second acts, coinciding with the names of the program works by G. F. Handel "Music on the Water" and "Music for Fireworks" is not accidental. The play is modern, innovative in many ways, designed for directors and actors of the psychological theater.
(In two acts)
What happens when two women, two completely different women live together? Anything can happen here. Their melodies, nebulae are intertwined, colors are mixed. The eternal struggle, more like a dance, pleasure with a touch of pain, the expectation of happiness, fantasies. Flowers. Flowers. Flowers.
The mystery of the woman will never be solved. The author does not set himself this task. He only slightly opens the veil, just enough for the viewer to physically feel the magic of love.
(Comedy in two acts)
The play, seemingly built according to the laws of comedy, replete with witty dialogues and funny situations, carries the poignant theme of female loneliness. Comedy is multi-layered and polyphonic. It is a rich material for the performer of the role of the main character.
(Comedy in two acts)
In the life of every person there happens a "moment of truth", a rehearsal of the Supreme Court, when sins that were forgotten, old dreams and lost illusions arise from non-existence and acquire quite tangible features. A play about a "mid-life crisis", made in the style of pararealism characteristic of the author.
(Comedy in two acts)
Recently, the famous scientist Sergei Petrovich Tomilin with his two daughters, not accepting the changes, decides to settle in a secluded place, far from people. Once the serene life of the hermits is disturbed by the arrival of the third, younger sister and her friend. These are people of a new time, new values. Together with the uninvited guest, anxiety, doubts, and love enter the Tomilins' house.
(Scenes from family life in 2 acts)
This play is all about family life with tragedies and secrets, laughter and magic, transformations and death beyond the threshold, birds and children. The look is new, non-standard. As if some photographer, balancing on the verge of genius and madness, to the amazement of the household, at the most unexpected moment, took a series of pictures and changed their fate.
(A play in 2 acts)
The play is a scenic interpretation of the biblical story about Jonah, the prophet sent by Yahweh to announce the near death to the sinful inhabitants of Nineveh, but who ended up in the belly of a sea monster, performed in the manner characteristic of the author.
(Night rehearsal of "Kashtanka" by A.P. Chekhov in the Theater-house of S.O. Zelinsky in 2 acts)
(Playing with light in two acts.)
Retired actors who have long since left the theater are gathering at their dacha to make a benefit performance for their "prima", the terminally ill actress Trukhanova, who once brilliantly rehearsed the role of Arkadina. an old house, a landscape with a "witch's lake", even the coincidence of the name of the actor for the role of Treplev with the name of the character, as it were, interweaves the threads of Chekhov's "The Seagull" and the unfolding action. The metaphysical laws of the theater are turned on, directing events in their own direction.
The play is intended mainly for performers of the older generation. A special role in the production, according to the author's intention, is given to stage lighting.
(A play in two acts)
A very rich person, faced with an incurable disease, tries to look into himself, rethink his life, correct something, repent. As in a cracked mirror, the familiar, serene reality suddenly transforms, the funny becomes tragic, the sad suddenly acquires shades of laughter, miracles and chimeras appear from the hero's subconscious. Many unexpected, unpredictable, paradoxical.
(A play in 4 acts)
The play is a detailed analysis of the motives for the war. The famous writer Samson Levin, whose play takes place in Gomel in 1942, together with his characters, tries to model the psychology of a person in the occupation.
(Study in one act)
A theatrical parable about the immortality of the Great Utopia, its leaders and its victims.
(Drama in two acts)
Reflections on who we are, what is our vain life, what is the end of the world in the perception of Russian people. Today and always.
(A play in 4 acts)
The well-known metropolitan theater director Korsak, who has planned to stage a play about Mussorgsky, arrives in a provincial town in order to invite his old friend, the once brilliant but drunk actor Dronov, to play the main role. The fates of the characters are closely intertwined with the fates of Mussorgsky and his contemporaries. The events of the play, sometimes funny, sometimes full of drama, receive an unexpected existential development.
(Drama in two acts)
Moira is destiny. Moira is a metaphysical space where, according to the aging and drunkard "minion of fate", the writer Agrov, the threads of life are concentrated. How to restore people's faith, how to make sure that life, obviously reminiscent of clowning, does not remain nonsense, so that the "era of oblivion" does not become familiar and comfortable for people? He tries to answer these questions in a rather strange way, in a way that causes misunderstanding, bewilderment, and laughter among the people around him.
(Comedy in two acts in the space of classical poetry and prose of Korea.)
A bewitching, full of magic and irony action, combined with fragments of classical prose and poetry of Korea, inspired by an exquisite floral aroma.
(Drama at the auction in two acts)
A dynamic comedy about women, men, people, birds, people - birds, clouds and snares, ornithology and taxidermy.
(Criminal chronicle in two acts)
A detective in love, Aristarkh Petrovich Kreschenov, is investigating the most famous crime in the history of mankind. The play, designated as a crime chronicle, is in fact a comedy, performed according to all the canons of pararealism, where light irony can turn into a musical phrase, sharp dialogue acquires graphic features, and tense story line turns the viewer into a participant in the events taking place on the stage.
(Tragedy with disguises in two acts)
A theatrical story about how an actor is saturated with the smells of a character, how his fate changes and how a play, at times, turns out to be much more real than life itself.
(In two acts)
The plays "Satire", "Tea Ceremony" and "Divertissement" are combined by the author into a single dramatic cycle "Dances". Indeed, these plays, each of which is a dialogue, are unusually plastic. Their main task is to "voice the silence of the sexes." "Satire" is a play on two men. The keynote is the relationship between fathers and children. Is it possible to bridge the gap between generations? What is the masculine principle - is it only destruction and death? What is male loneliness? What lies ahead for all of us? The author and his characters are trying to answer these questions.
(Mobile games for adults in two acts)
The play takes place in new year's eve. Old friends spend time arranging fun games and contests. One of the games started by women is swing, the exchange of husbands. At a certain stage, events unfold in a completely unexpected perspective. In ironic, sometimes grotesque dialogues, signs of our ambiguous, full of drama time are guessed.
(Elegy for Andrei Tarkovsky in two acts)
Death carries out the final montage of our life. After death, after the expiration of the stream of life, the meaning of this stream appears. (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
(Comedy in two acts)
Television journalist Inessa Kruglova manages to track down the bard Kirill, famous in Soviet times, whose death was officially announced in the press. In the fifteen years that had passed since his death, he had become a homeless vagabond. Veronica makes an attempt to return it to society.
(Comedy in 2 acts with variations)
Doctor Vasily Ilyich Kovrogov is not ready for the change of epochs, which changed the country and society beyond recognition, overturned the usual ideas about values and the meaning of life, and distorted the way of his family. The painful analysis of what is happening for the hero is more than a "midlife crisis", it is a resection of the soul. His salvation is in irony, the elixir from death and madness at all times.
(Dream in two acts)
How many oddities and mysteries, rustles and melodies, warmth and despair are hidden in the ghostly space of love! Sometimes it seems that the characters of the play are in this space of the century, and sometimes they behave as if they are seeing each other for the first time. The world they created is capable of emitting light, but it is dangerous and unpredictable when this light fades. What is the connection between a man and a woman? Holiday? Execution? A game? Hard to say. One way or another, everything is very similar to an Eastern ceremony, a lifetime.
(Control prints in two steps)
Time conflict. The tragedy of an elderly photographer against the backdrop of the emerging millennium. The play is written in an unusual manner of "control prints", which allows to give the events taking place in it an original analytical series, a special rhythm and additional volume.
(Etude in the genre of dramatic clowning)
A study-parable made in a grotesque manner about the search for truth in the blind space of lost harmony.
(Metamorphoses of modern times in two acts.)
The play is a construction of the world in which we live, in the perception of a person who thinks in terms of chess categories of eternity, a person who is in a state of shaky balance between life and death, norm and pathology, who is in that substance where youth and old age, mimicking each other, emit the sounds of chaos, called music.
(Fantasy based on the fairy tale by E. T. A. Hoffmann in two acts with outlandish mechanisms, miraculous transformations, music by Gluck's cavalier and an angel in two acts.)
New reading famous fairy tale E. T. A. Hoffman, proposed by the author, fills the play with a special atmosphere. Accurate psychological portraits of the characters give the plot features of reality. The virtuoso metamorphoses of magical action coexist with the concentration of analysis. Philosophical sounding is harmoniously combined with light irony and mischief. The play is of interest to both children and adults.
(A play in 2 acts)
The Hermitage is interpreted as a hermit's cell, solitude. The hero of the play, no longer young, a lonely man, whose name is Absinthe, finds solitude in a somewhat unusual space, a cafe. Watching the events taking place around him, for a long time he remains indifferent. However, fate inexorably makes adjustments to his serene existence. Love, confusion, conflict of generations, anxiety for the future radically change and fill his life with new meaning. Sharp, modern, imbued with irony and illuminated by a special melody peculiar to the author, the play is both a kaleidoscope of bright characters and a philosophical parable.
(Comedy in 2 acts)
The action of the comedy takes place in a hotel cafe. Visitors, men and women of different ages, with different fate united eternal theme failure of love. Loneliness generated by the illusion of unfreedom. The eccentric waiter strange name Eros, sincerely trying to help the characters understand everyday conflicts, in fact turns out to be a hostage to their passions.
(Drama in two acts)
A fantasy play about the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin and his student Camille Claudel.
(Idylls in 2 acts)
Two elderly people, husband and wife, Yakut and Mura, who have suffered a great tragedy, decide to radically change their lives. They leave people in search of an idyll. The place that accepted them is Yakutia, Paradise, as it seems to them at first. But in their serene existence, changes begin to occur ...
(Love story in two acts)
Replete with comedic and dramatic situations, full of tenderness, a play about the love of older people. Benefit roles for older actors.
How many girls, looking at the beauties that our cinema is so rich in, dreamed of at least a little bit like them. They fell in love with them, worshiped them, idolized them! However, in life everything is more difficult ... And although now all the actresses say that they are satisfied with their fate, their happiness is very different. And this is not always the happiness of a family hearth. We decided to see how the first beauties of our cinema live today ...
Irina Alferova: "There is no need for sacrifices!"
Main role: Constance in the film "D" Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. 
What today: she became the president of the Faithful Heart family festival, does charity work. Plays in performances. 10 years married to actor Sergei Martynov. There is a daughter Xenia and a grandson. 
- Irina, did you have a desire to devote yourself completely to your family? I asked the actress.
- No, it's very boring. I would not give this advice to any woman. Even children are proud of you and are drawn to you when you show yourself!
Then if you do not have time to do something, you will be forgiven. The main thing is that you don't have to sacrifice anything. We have to agree. Otherwise, you will suffer, and the children, because you will take out the negative on them. 
- And the husband is not jealous of work?
- The first husband (Alexander Abdulov. - Ed.) was very jealous of me, although he did not always behave exemplarily. With my second husband, we agreed that there is no jealousy in our family. Well sometimes he misses me...
But you still return home, and on this free day you can make up for everything! It is better to live a full life and grab onto everything that is interesting.
Elena Proklova: "I live in harmony"
Main role: Larisa Ivanovna from "Mimino". 
What today: art director of the Hermitage, was a member of the working group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. TV presenter. Starring in serials. 
About personal: 19 years married to businessman Andrey. She gave birth to a daughter. In her youth, there was the first fleeting marriage in which she gave birth to a daughter. 
The second attempt at marriage was also unsuccessful. Proklova's twin sons died immediately after birth, and grief separated the spouses. “Meeting Andrey changed everything in my life... I need a partnership. And I have it,” says the actress.
Natalya Andreichenko - Mary Poppins in the film "Mary Poppins, goodbye!", participates in charity, travels to film festivals. Her first husband is the composer Maxim Dunayevsky, the second is the actor Maximilian Schell, with whom she is divorced today. There are two children.
Natalya Andreichenko: “You can’t fool yourself”
Main role: Mary Poppins in "Mary Poppins Goodbye!" 
Participates in charity, travels to film festivals. Her first husband is the composer Maxim Dunayevsky, the second is the actor Maximilian Schell, with whom she is divorced today. There are two children. 
Andreichenko in real life never aspired to be like perfect woman:
- You can deceive everyone around - both children and colleagues. But sooner or later you will still become yourself. And here lies are unacceptable. You can't fool yourself. I already went through something similar in the USA, when they tried to convince me that I needed to change - to speak without an accent, to play American roles. But then I will be different! Not an American - Broken Natasha. And suddenly it dawned on me that this is not worth doing. I am Natasha, Russian. Like it - good, don't like it - sorry. I decided that I would stay with myself.
Natalya Varley
Main role: Nina in the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus" 
In recent years, Natalya Varley left work in the cinema - her last film in 2006 was Wolfhound of the Gray Dogs. 
Today he plays in an enterprise, goes on tour. She has not been married for the last six years. The first husband was the actor Burlyaev. Natalya was courted by the son of Belgian Defense Minister Lucien Harmegins. But she chose another - the son of Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Nonna Mordyukova (she gave birth to her eldest son from this marriage). The name of the father of the second child hides. 
For some time she worked at the O'Key Theater. 3 CDs with her songs, two collections of poems were released. She dubbed and dubbed foreign films and television series. She hosted the program "Home Troubles" on the RTR TV channel. 
In the spring of 2009, in a duet with Nikolai Gnatyuk, she took part in the TV project "Two Stars".
Elina Bystritskaya: "You shouldn't grieve because of a man"
Main role: Aksinya in " Quiet Don" Gerasimov. 
What is busy today: playing at the Maly Theater. Engaged in social work.
Personal life: divorced after 27 years of marriage and has been living alone since the late 90s. Have no children.
What gave the appearance?
Alas, beauty is not always a guarantee of good luck in the profession and personal life. For example, in her youth, Elina Bystritskaya was proud of her fragile figure. But it was her slenderness that became an obstacle in approving the role of Aksinya. The actress had to recover as much as 15 kg. 
In life, her bewitching beauty created many problems for her. For example, she was expelled from the Komsomol... for refusing to dance with a young man. Bystritskaya said that "he smells like a village." Later, not reciprocating the director of the Vilnius Theater, she was forced to leave the troupe. 
When she gave a rebuke to a state official who was in love with her, she was banned from traveling abroad for a long time. Bystritskaya always had a lot of admirers, but she married only at the end of the 60s for an employee of the translation department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. After 27 years of married life, she decided to divorce after learning about her husband's infidelity, and since then she has been alone. 
“I realized that the divorce began to mature when Nikolai Ivanovich began to actively interfere in my work. I could not allow myself to be commanded ... He was no longer interested in everything, except that he was the husband of “the same Bystritskaya,” the actress recalled. 
- Elina Avraamovna, do you want to arrange your personal life today? I asked the actress.
- I have male friends with whom I communicate. But I don't want a man in my house. It happens so: a man has disappeared from life, and often a woman begins to think that she needs to find happiness sooner. Some other guy, right? 
There is no need to grieve over a lost man. So, your skill, your work, your actions are not for him ... You have to work hard to get distracted after a divorce. It is necessary to realize what is given by nature, God. 
For me, the main thing is to be in demand. I am always in the fight. My fate is not easy, but she succeeded and will continue to succeed. I also have strength and desire! My life motto: don't cheat on yourself.
Margarita Terekhova: "Happiness in children"
Main role: Milady in the film "D" Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. 
What is she doing today: she puts on performances at her native Mayakovsky Theater.
Personal life: not married for the last 20 years. Two children. 
What gave the appearance?
Beauty helped to become one of the favorite actresses of the cult director Andrei Tarkovsky - when he accidentally saw Terekhova for the first time, he exclaimed: “What beautiful hair you have, how beautiful you are!” And he invited her to his film "Mirror". 
But personal life did not work out. Men appeared in her life and quickly disappeared. “There was only one use for men - they gave children,” Terekhova once said. 
She gave birth to the eldest daughter Anna from the Bulgarian actor Savva Khishimov, after which she broke up with him. She gave the surname Turaev to her son, whom she gave birth to without a husband, and said that his father was a certain prosperous Tajik Turaev.
Journalists found director Georgy Gavrilov, who called himself the true father of the actress's son. As a result, the son took the surname Terekhov, and the actress cryptically answers the questions of journalists that this is their family secret, the main thing is that the son knows who his mother is! 
"Be happy! Give birth to children, this is the meaning of a woman's life! And men come and go - God bless them, ”Terekhova says.
Natalya Kustinskaya: "Love gives me strength"
Main role: Natasha in the film "Three plus two". 
What today: he does not act in films, he is retired.
Personal life: not married.
What gave the appearance?
Kustinskaya always drove men crazy and lived in a seething passion. In her youth, actor Nikolai Gritsenko and director Roshal courted her. Student director Yuri Chulyukin, having fallen in love with a blonde, tried to seduce her with an invitation to the role. 
- On the third day of dating, Chulyukin called me to marry, - said Kustinskaya
- In general, all my husbands proposed to me on the third day of our acquaintance! But I never got the role from Chulyukin. In the comedy "Girls" I wanted to play the cook Tosya. But the artistic council decided that my appearance was too spectacular for the role of a cook. 
On the set of "Three Plus Two", Kustinskaya's nascent romance with partner Yevgeny Zharikov was "put out" by the actor's wife, who arrived at the shooting on time. The scriptwriter of the film, Sergei Mikhalkov, also had views of Kustinskaya, came to her for four days to shoot and immediately showed up in her room. But the actress refused the master, who left with the words: "Change your mind - call." 
- Beauty is both happiness and a test. Men betrayed me, - says Kustinskaya. - After the betrayal of my first husband, I immediately filed for divorce. The state of love gave me the strength to live. Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Vladimir Naumov, Muslim Magomaev, Alexei Batalov looked after me. But I married Oleg, an employee of Vneshtorg. 
Much has been written about how Kustinskaya stole her husband, cosmonaut Yegorov, from her friend Fateeva.
“Again, already on the third day of our acquaintance, Yegorov proposed marriage to me,” emphasizes Kustinskaya. - But then I was married to Oleg, who, having learned about my novel, tried to poison himself, but the doctors left him. 
However, the marriage of Natalia and Oleg broke up. Kustinskaya married an astronaut, whose first betrayal put an end to their marriage. 
- I have difficult fate, - says Kustinskaya. - I buried first my grandson, then my son. Ex-husband Yegorov is dead. I thought I'd go crazy with the pain. But she managed, found the strength to live on.
And, although the years take their toll, I feel attractive. I still have a man today who gives me the strength to live.
Svetlana Svetlichnaya: I never knew how to shoot with my eyes ...
Main role: Anna Sergeevna in the comedy "The Diamond Arm" 
What today: Filmed in documentaries, in photo shoots for glossy magazines. More than 10 years unmarried. 
- You were always surrounded by handsome men. Is there any secret how to attract the attention of the opposite sex?
- I love handsome men. I loved and will love. But this does not mean at all that if I see a handsome man, I will immediately hang myself on his neck. My eye can see beauty. But in all my life I have never used female tricks so that a man pays attention to me. I never knew how to shoot with my eyes. 
She was the first of the Soviet actresses to be naked on the screen. Shamefully covering her chest with her hand, Svetlana Svetlichnaya shouted: "It's not my fault!", And all the men believed her unconditionally. 
Only thanks to her, or rather, her heroine, did the fashion for black arrows and Chanel perfumes appear. Today Svetlana Svetlichnaya comes out with a young stylist Ruslan Tatyanin. According to her, it was he who helped her to believe in herself again. 
- Svetlana Afanasievna, you are called the first Soviet sex symbol. Are you flattered by this title?
- I take it easy on him. Well, someone wanted to call me that, and for God's sake. Previously, even such a word - "sex symbol" - was not known. Today, alas, everything has become so.
Sex symbol is such a shabby concept! It makes me neither hot nor cold. It was much more pleasant to hear that my soul was without wrinkles. This I am proud of and will be proud of until the end of my days. And all because I'm not evil, I forgive everyone.
She forgave her offenders from the bottom of her heart a long time ago. I can't hold a grudge against someone for long. I always feel sorry for everyone. Once, in Epiphany frosts, I went to the temple to take holy water. There was a middle-aged man sitting there, he was shaking all over from the cold. I got water, and on the way home I thought that this poor fellow should at least bring hot tea. And I did it!
I am still proud of what I did. When he saw me, he cried and said: "I remember you by your hat." The poor man could not believe for a long time, he kept asking: "Is it you who came back because of me?"
Personal life was not happy. Buried in 1995 famous husband- Vladimir Ivashov. She experienced lack of money, severe depression. 
Helped her to cope with the difficulties of two sons and friends-actors. Unfortunately, last year the actress buried one of her sons. Despite all the hardships of life, do not lose heart
Evgenia Simonova - “I sacrificed little for the sake of work”
Main role: Princess in the film "Ordinary Miracle" 
What today:
Acts in films, plays at the Mayakovsky Theater. She admits: she found female happiness with her second husband, director Andrei Eshpay. There is a daughter from his first marriage with Kaidanovsky, a grandson. 
“Well, what should I tell about this? I’m not a vamp. I’ve never been elected a sex symbol, even our entrance, not to mention other scales,” Evgenia Simonova once answered a question about the fact that the public wants to know the secrets of her personal life. 
In fact, I don’t want to find out any “secrets”, but there are enough “vamps” in Russian cinema, moreover, almost every representative of this class voluntarily or involuntarily evokes associations with Teffi’s famous story “Demonic Woman”.
But who is truly feminine is the heroine Simonova from the legendary film by Mark Zakharov "An Ordinary Miracle". 
Evgenia Simonova, who was born on June 1, 1955 in Leningrad, unlike many colleagues in the acting department, is calm about her age.
“Why hide it if the pictures, by which, I hope, the audience remembers me, came out more than thirty years ago. So, how old I am, everyone guesses,” says Evgenia Simonova. “As for appearance ... I never I was insanely good, so I don’t really worry about the wrinkles that appear.
Yevgenia Simonova became famous all over the country after the film "Afonya" (1975) by George Danelia was released. Nurse Katya, who sincerely fell in love with the unlucky locksmith Borshchov, was for many a symbol real woman, which, for all its "quietness", has great inner strength.
The success of the film was huge. Fans literally bombarded Evgenia Pavlovna with letters. They admired her, confessed their love, offered her hand and heart.
It would seem that Yevgenia Simonova should have been dizzy from the all-Union glory that had fallen on her. It wasn't there.
“I never harbored illusions about myself,” says the actress. “Now I’m reviewing my old films, it seems that I didn’t play so badly. And then it seemed to me that I did everything badly, worried, cried. : "Yes, you need to go to a psychiatrist!" Apparently, all these experiences associated with low self-esteem have become a good vaccine against "star fever". 
Evgenia Simonova does not like big words. You won’t hear from her: “I left everything for the sake of the profession!” On the contrary, she claims: “To be honest, I didn’t sacrifice much for the sake of work. 
Most importantly, she gave birth and raised two daughters (the eldest daughter Zoya - from Simonova's first husband - actor and director Alexander Kaidanovsky). And for me, that has always come first."
Galina Belyaeva: All my children are from loved ones...
Main role: Olenka in the film "My sweet and gentle beast" 
What today:
She plays in an enterprise, does yoga to maintain her figure.
She has been happily married for 15 years to businessman Sergei, who is five years younger than her. From him gave birth to a daughter, Anna. (There is a son from the first marriage with director Loteanu and a son from the second civil marriage with a doctor.) 
Few of the actresses dare to have a maximum of two children. Three is a feat that only Demi Moore is capable of with Bruce Willis.
So, our Russian actress Galina Belyaeva, who played the main roles in the films “My sweet and gentle beast”, “Ah, vaudeville, vaudeville ...”, “Anna Pavlova”, imagine four children! For this alone, you can give the State Prize. 
- Usually actresses sacrifice their personal lives in favor of a career ...
- When I want a child, I have it. I don't even think about my profession. Children are treasures. The more there are, the more you want.
- But it is important that they were from a loved one.
- Certainly. Children should only be from loved ones.
Ah, those "roe deer" eyes...
Emil Lotyanu was looking for an actress for the role of Olenka Skvortsova in the film "My Sweet and Gentle Beast":
- I need a Russian type of girl. Something between Savelyeva and Samoilova.
Assistants found a 15-year-old dancer at the Voronezh Choreographic School. Lotyanu saw her “roe deer” eyes in a black and white photo ... and immediately called the girl to Moscow.
Gali Belyaeva's screen tests came out terrible. Next to Oleg Yankovsky in front of the camera, she was terribly shy. But the artistic council still approved it. 
After the release of the film on the screens, Belyaeva woke up famous. Her Olenka Skvortsova loved on the screen as if it was all real.
“At the age of fifteen, I still had no men with whom I would kiss so frankly,” recalls the actress.
In fact, she was in love then. Only not in Oleg Yankovsky, but in director Emil Lotyanu.
It was a beautiful romance. They soon got married. Galya moved into his one-room Moscow apartment, where their son was born. He was named after his father - Emil. 
- Galina, why did you break up with Loteanu?
- When you get married for the first time, you think that forever. Lotyanu is my first man. I met interesting person, loved. For me, the divorce was a real tragedy. Moreover, a common child ... And Emil Vladimirovich did not want to get a divorce. Rather, I lacked worldly wisdom. 
- How do you manage with so many children?
- Sometimes I am in despair that I do not know how to educate them. They all have character.
- Have you ever wanted to change something in your life?
- No. In the play "The Islander" one heroine says: "I was married three times. But I don't regret anything. You have to live in order to survive everything. If I didn't have past life, would not have been real. I really appreciate what I have. And I don't wish for anything else.
Anastasia Vertinskaya: Laziness is a companion of talented people 
What today:
Anastasia Vertinskaya has not acted in films or played in the theater for several years. The actress unexpectedly began to cook in the restaurants of her son, Stepan Mikhalkov. It happens at international forums of the restaurant business, adopts experience. 
By the way, she stopped filming when the viewer did not see the film "Master and Margarita" with her in the title role. The actress starred in this film naked, after filming she was sick and then left the movie altogether. 
- Behind last years actress Vertinskaya made a few gifts to the public - "Imago", "The Bremen Town Musicians", "Mirage, or the Road of the Russian Pierrot". But the audience's interest in you does not disappear ...
- I no longer want to work in the theater as a structure, this stage has been passed. It is interesting to play non-repertory performances if there is a worthy play. But, as a rule, Western plays, written about twenty years ago, are taken for entreprise: people not from our life discuss their life. It's not something you want to play. I have no creative plans. I would be glad to name, but there is nothing. 
- I will never play the mother of a killer and the like. I am not interested in sitting in the frame as a grandmother and knitting. As I was whimsical in the choice of roles, I remained. But I don't see any drama in it. Rather, I see the drama in the fact that Marina Neelova, Lena Koreneva are not filmed - actresses of this level.
In 1966, Vertinskaya married Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov, later an outstanding actor and film director. In the same year, their son Stepan was born. Their marriage lasted less than four years. Subsequently, Anastasia married a second time - to the singer Alexander Gradsky. But this marriage suffered the same fate. Not married since 1980.
- I think the Lord has completely deprived me of this joy - to be happy in marriage. In fact, there are women who are born for marriage. They cannot do without it. I love silence, solitude... If I'm not married, it doesn't mean anything. Loneliness is the highest spiritual state."
- Do you spend a lot of time in the restaurant business?
- My son Stepan is engaged in the interior and everything else. I am primarily passionate about the art of cuisine. Especially Russian cuisine, which I remember from my family and from the Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky family. Natalya Petrovna Konchalovskaya cooked brilliantly. I am learning all the time, it is very interesting for me.
- Having overcome the age limit, when a lot has been learned and passed, did you begin to rush to live? Or, on the contrary, do you exist more measuredly?
- Oddly enough, my activity has increased. In my youth, sleep meant a lot to me. In general, I think that a companion of talented people is laziness. Since I used to work very hard, for me any day of doing nothing was a colossal happiness. And now I hate these days, so I load myself from morning to evening. 
I would like to see my family at the table. For grandchildren to run around. This is the end of life, when those who remain come to you. Over time, the circle changes. 
Friends leave, loved ones - too. Life filters the environment very much, although I cannot say that there are few people around me. And I really want to see those who surround me at my birthday, so that they all feel comfortable and cheerful.
Pieces for private projects
Plays for entreprise and private theaters should not differ in their artistic merit from plays played in repertory and any other theaters. However, the specifics of their distribution require that they also meet some technical requirements: a limited number of characters, convenience and portability of scenery, and attractiveness for a wide range of viewers (usually a comedy or lyrical drama). Below is a list of plays that, in the author's opinion, are most suitable for performance in private projects. Annotations of these plays are also given. By clicking on the name of the play, you can see its full text on the Internet.
Two characters
Modern commedia dell'arte in the genre of a merry farce. Two clowns and a clown perform a play that is born right before the eyes of the public. Pantomime, acrobatics, circus tricks, music, singing, dance, words merge into a single action. Comedy implies the ability of actors to improvise, buffoonery and live contact with the public. Performance based on the play "Balagan" (" Balciul » ) performed by the Theater Group of the National College of Arts Octav Bancila (Iasi, Iasi, Romania) received the "Grand Prix" at the fourth National Comedy Competition in Romania in 2013. 2 male roles, 1 female role, interior.
This work combines dramatic, melodramatic and comedic motifs. The bride and groom, successful business people, are prompted by the will of circumstances to offer a random counter - no longer a young man of strange behavior - to be a witness at their wedding. To make fun of the man and have fun at the same time, a young couple asks him to talk about the women he loved. The result of the entertainment is quite unexpected. This meeting decisively changes the fate of each of the heroes. Purity of soul, intellect, sensitivity, the ability to deep feelings triumph over rationalism and dry practicality.2 male roles, 1 female, interior.
Three friends - single women of the "golden age" - decide to change their fate and find their life partners. This warm comedy convinces the viewer that the years are not an obstacle to the search for love and happiness. 3 age female roles. Interior.
.There are 3 characters in the play: a man, a woman and ... a dog (which should be played by a child or an actress).
A lonely man, a railroad worker by profession, finds a puppy, and very quickly this little faithful dog becomes his only joy and consolation. She responds to this care with selfless love and fidelity.
There comes a day when Mikhail has to make a choice: either quit his job or get rid of the dog. After painful hesitation, Michael decides to kill his friend. A woman is engaged in the killing of animals at the veterinary station. She is trying to save the dog, and with it, the soul of its owner. The clash of two truths of the characters, their dissimilar views on the true meaning of life creates a spring of conflict. The character of a woman - prickly and at times aggressive, but disinterested, ready to love and help, gave the name to the play. The play has been translated into English language staged in New York.
Director Howard Fishman: The American Theater Company is proud to present itself in New York with Valentin Krasnogorov's The Dog, the first production of this unique and challenging play on the American stage.
What I admire most about her is her nobility of spirit, and the heart that pulsates so vulnerable in her. Without a doubt, this is a difficult piece - prickly and subtle, frightening and ambiguous. But she is courageous enough to admit it all and bring it to the stage where we can all get to know the sides of ourselves that we try so hard to hide."
. An evening of three one-act comedies of different genres, paradoxically interpreting the problems of modern marriage. These theatrical short stories can be presented both separately and together. 1. " " . The wife stubbornly challenges her husband to a frank conversation. 2 male roles, 1 female. Interior.2.« ». Husband is looking for the best way parting with his wife. 2 male roles, 1 female. Interior " ". An ironic presentation of a version of the ideal family, consisting of a classic triangle. 2 female roles.
. (see above)
4 characters
. An exploration of modern marriage in the form of a brilliant comedy, bittersweet and very funny. Critics from Poland, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic noted "the deep meaning and wit of this cheerful, but wise and cautionary play", its "splendid structure and sparkling dialogue". A. Shirvindt concluded the preface to this play, published in "Modern Dramaturgy", with the following words: "If you are not afraid of a mirror, hurry to look into it. In Bulgaria, a performance based on this play received a prize" ». " Plot: A husband and wife invite two of their friends (a man and a woman) to a party. All four are interconnected by complex relationships, and each is waiting for the decision of his fate: today or never. 2 men and 2 women. Interior.
By the beginning of the performance based on the classical play of the 15th-3rd century, the performer of one of the main roles is not in the theater. He is urgently replaced by another actor who does not know the role, which leads to numerous tragicomic situations. They are complicated by the difficult personal relationships of the participants in the performance. Love, hate, envy, jealousy, flirting bring additional colors to the comic plot. Each participant in the performance simultaneously plays both the character and the actor who performs it. 1 female, 3 male roles.
. (see above)
. Strange, funny and gloomy, a nightly rehearsal of an unusual performance with an unexpected denouement. 2 male roles, 2 female roles, interior.
. An evening of three one-act comedies of different genres, paradoxically interpreting the problems of modern marriage. These theatrical short stories can be presented both separately and together. 1. " " . The wife stubbornly challenges her husband to a frank conversation. 2 male roles, 1 female. Interior.2.« ». The husband is looking for the best way to leave his wife. 2 male roles, 1 female. Interior " ". An ironic presentation of a version of the ideal family, consisting of a classic triangle. 2 female roles.
5 characters
. Comedy. A man suffering from memory loss comes to the doctor's office asking for help. The doctor tries to find out the symptoms and causes of the disease, but to no avail: the patient's answers are so contradictory that it is impossible to get something worthwhile from him. Fortunately, it is possible to call the patient's wife. She answers all questions clearly and confidently, but from her statements it follows that the doctor also suffers from memory loss. The situation becomes even more confusing when another woman unexpectedly arrives and also claims that she is the wife of the sick person. The situation becomes completely absurd. The Doctor goes almost insane. This dynamic and funny comedy develops rapidly and lively, ending with an unexpected denouement. 3 men, 2 women. Interior.
6 characters
. Farcical sitcom in the style of the French la piece bien fatale “a well-done play.” Intricate adultery situations are intertwined with the passionate desire of the characters to make a career. The play is a great success. 3 men, 3 women, interior.
An excerpt from a review of the performance: "This is a wonderful gift to the audience - a balm of humor, smiles, laughter, excellent remedy from bad mood, blues, pessimism."
(THIS WEAK GENTLE SEX.) . An evening of two one-act musical comedies: « » . And « ». These very dynamic farces take us back to the times of Lesage and Rabelais. The play has not left the theater repertoire for many years in a row. True farce, frivolous, dynamic, grotesque, hilarious, has become a rare genre. He enjoys the greater success with the public. The music for the play was written by Victor Pleshak. Plot: 1. " ». The old doctor's wife falls in love with a young man. She finds a way to deceive her strict husband. 2. " ». The husband invites a doctor to cure his young and obedient wife of dumbness. In vain the doctor tries to dissuade her husband from this intention. In the end, the doctor returns the speech to his wife, and she begins to talk incessantly until she drives her husband crazy.
From the theater review: The events unfolding on the stage, although they take place as if in the 17th century, are very attractive today with their daring humor, wit, and unpredictability of plot twists.
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7 characters
The characters of this paradoxical comedy - women who do not know each other, different in age and dissimilar in character, by chance find themselves in one place. In their conversations, disputes, conflicts, the influence of our critical era on the fates, views and moral values of the heroines of the play becomes obvious. 6 female, 1 male role. Interior.
"Black comedy. The theater has just played the long-awaited premiere - Shakespeare's "Othello". Actors - performers of the main roles remain after the performance in order to celebrate this event in a friendly circle. Unfortunately, the holiday is overshadowed by the mysterious death of one of the characters, and there is a suspicion that one of the participants in the performance may be involved in this. Either dark or cheerful humor, detective intrigue, sharp plot twists and an unexpected ending capture the viewer's attention until the very last line. 4 male roles, 3 female.
. Comedy. A producer and a group of actors are preparing a private production of an Italian play.3 male, 4 female roles. Interior.
.Comedy with elements of the grotesque. Her characters of different ages and characters hope to find their personal happiness in a successful marriage, but the realities of a hurried business and practical life XXI centuries make them say goodbye to the ideals of the past. As a result, they find something completely different from what they expected. The driving force behind the action is the central heroine, an energetic middle-aged business woman. Funny and, at times, sad, this by no means everyday intellectual comedy provides excellent material for performers of all roles. 2 men, 5 (3) women (three roles out of five can be played by one actress).
.This play is a 2017 “remake” of the comedy with the same name, first staged in the 1980s in Leningrad, where it ran for 400 performances, then in another 40 theaters in Russia, as well as in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. At the festival in the Czech Republic, the play received three prizes, including the "Prize for the best dramaturgy" and the "Audience Prize". 4 male roles, 3 female roles, interior.
. Synthesis of melodrama and ironic paradoxical comedy. The play develops two lines of action. chief actor one of them is a director who is looking for a way out of a creative crisis and recruiting actresses for his new play in a strange way. The leading character in another line of action is a famous artist who is experiencing her last love. The heroes of the play are in that period of life when it is time to take stock. Despite the sad ending, the play is funny. Lively dialogue, unusual construction and variety of colors make this comedy very theatrical. It contains a dozen "solo" roles for actresses of all ages and roles. 2 male roles, 10 female roles, interior.
The main characters of the play (2 men and 1 woman) are approximately 55-60 years old, female characters are 25 to 55 years old. If necessary, female roles can be played by fewer actresses.
Translation from French of three very unusual one-act comedies with elements of the grotesque and absurd.4-13 characters.
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