Khabensky presented his interpretation of the play "The Seagull" before its premiere

Konstantin Khabensky presented his reading of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull, a landmark for the Moscow Art Theatre. In the Green Foyer for the premiere opened an exhibition "From Konstantin to Konstantin". "Izvestia" attended the event.

In the main roles - Christina Babushkina, Igor Vernik, Anatoly Kot and gifted youth of the troupe. This is the sixth production of "The Seagull" in the Art Theater. Before Khabensky, the play was staged by Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, Stanitsyn, Livanov, Efremov, Korshunovas.

Konstantin Khabensky admits that in creativity, he is a brazen man. Change is not in his rules.

"I have not found a director who would agree to put "The Seagull". Well, I got up the nerve and went myself," he says.

In his creative biography was already this play by Chekhov. In 2011, Konstantin Bogomolov staged it at the Theater under the direction of Oleg Tabakov. For the role of Trigorin, the director invited Konstantin Khabensky. Marina Zudina played Arkadina, and Oleg Tabakov played Dorn. The play was on the Main Stage of the Moscow Art Theater. And then the audience took it in the bayonet. Bogomolov's free interpretation of Chekhov's dramaturgy was not to the taste of theatergoers. And the director remade the play, releasing an ascetic version of The Seagull three years later.

Perhaps remembering this, director Khabensky did everything with due respect for the author. Nothing was removed from the play, except for sentences that the viewer to date is incomprehensible.

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