With a fan: Pushkin Theater celebrated its anniversary with the premiere of "Bad Good"

Wednesday, December 25, marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Chamber Theater, which has been named after Pushkin since 1950. A gift for the audience will be the premiere on the main stage. The play "Bad Good" on the comedy of manners by English playwright Oscar Wilde "Lady Windermere's Fan" with Victoria Isakova in one of the main roles put Evgeny Pisarev. "Izvestia" watched a beautiful, made with great taste production and congratulated the theater on the anniversary.

Restoration of justice

The mansion on Tverskoy Boulevard keeps many legends. Some old-timers are sure that it is still inhabited by the spirit of the creator of the theater Alexander Tairov and his muse, the great actress Alice Koonen. Alexander Yakovlevich was a man of extraordinary energy and productivity. Each new production of the Chamber Theater was an experiment, expanding the possibilities of stage art.

The theater survived the war, playing performances in evacuation on the tiny stage of the club in the town of Balkhash, and then in Barnaul. In 1945, widely celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Chamber Theater, Tairov was awarded the Order of Lenin. And August 20, 1946 issued a decree of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b), banning foreign dramaturgy. In 1949, the theater was closed. In 1950, after several months of major repairs, the Chamber was renamed in honor of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.

Nowadays, for the 15th year the troupe is headed by director Evgeny Pisarev. Khudruk Pushkin Theater decided to restore justice. By the anniversary of the theater Evgeny Pisarev returned to the playbill comedy of manners by English playwright Oscar Wilde "Lady Windermere's Fan". This is the last unplayed performance of Alexander Tairov. In 1948, he reached the dress rehearsal, but never saw the audience. Did not manage to play in the production and Alice Koonen. The role of Mrs. Erlin was the last in her biography. From that tragic story remained sketches of costumes and scenery. After studying the artifacts, the director and his team began their own reading of Wilde. The director ordered a new translation of the play to Sergei Plotov. "Lady Windermere's Fan" received a kind of free reading. The translator and the director made their own contribution to the stage version. They added some passages from the playwright's other works - "An Ideal Husband", "How Important It Is to Be Serious" and even the fairy tale "The Ghost of Canterville". It turned out to be a fantasy for a versatile theater company.

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High-class intriguers

Married couple Arthur and Margaret Windermere are a beautiful couple, the envy of many. They have a six-month-old son. And everything is going their way, until the gossipy cougar gossipers bring on the tail that the husband is not so devoted to his beautiful wife. There's a certain Mrs. Erlin, to whom Arthur has rented a house, bought a baby carriage. But that's not enough, the lady wants to attend Margaret's birthday party. Giving in to gossip, Lady Windermere begins to suspect her husband of adultery.

The classic of English literature ridicules the mores of secular society, in which under the mask of virtue hides vanity, where the art of gossip is highly valued, and feelings are a bargaining chip. The role of Mrs. Erlin Evgeny Pisarev offered the star of Pushkin Victoria Isakova. Well, who, if not her, will cope with the role of a high society schemer? The playwright called his work a play about a good woman.

Margaret plays a graduate of GITIS Eugenia Leonova, who since this season became an actress of the Pushkin Theater. She, like her heroine, is 21 years old. Margaret is pure and trusting. And in these qualities fall in love with the men around her. One of them is Lord Edwin Darlington (Kirill Chernyshenko). The Duchess of Berwick (Irina Byakova) calls him the standard of an elegant boor. Edwin compliments people by dunking them in a bucket of slop. Agatha (Lyalya Anpilogova), the Duchess's daughter, who sings falsely for him, advises him to go to the London Opera House, but not to shine, but to go and listen to how one should really sing. At the same time, his modest income allows him to give girls only compliments.

The Duchess is also sharp-tongued. Her tirades are uttered with a sweet smile. Irina Byakova is another decoration of the performance. Her Duchess Berwick is confident, cunning, calculating, like a virtuoso chess player, calculating every move she makes. But not everyone can outplay Mrs. Erlin's strategy.

The butler Patrick is a godsend for the play. Mark Kondratiev keeps the attention on himself from the beginning to the very end. He is a tapper, a storyteller, and simply handsome. The actor sings, accompanying himself on the piano. Mark Kondratyev as a composer and sound director has created musical design for the projects of MTS Live, NMG, Channel One, and the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.

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Black and white frame

Scenographer Maxim Obrezkov and costume designer Viktoria Sevryukova were responsible for the design of the performance. The stage framed by a black and white giant baguette is built like a staircase with steps leading up to high society. The structural elements are also in black and white colors. The colors appear with the light. The work of Alexander Sivaev, who paints the space in the colors of the characters' outfits: purple, deep blue, emerald. And the finale of the play is made without bright colors. This is a hint that in every person there is black and white, bad and good.

Victoria Sevryukova dressed the artists in outfits created in accordance with the era. Each heroine not only has a dress elaborated, but also accessories. In their hands they hold handbags. Like a hint of a purse. After all, the weaker sex is not so weak if they can manage the finances in their family. The minute details of the outfits are a tribute to Oscar Wilde. The writer himself was seriously into fashion, even publishing a magazine in which he dictated his clothing trends. It was important to him that there was no vulgarity in costume.

As Lord Arthur Windermere (Dmitry Vlaskin) says, there are no bad and good people, there are bad and good deeds. And this is the leitmotif of the whole play.

On the day of the 110th anniversary of the theater, December 25, the ninth solemn ceremony of awarding commemorative signs "For the continuation of the traditions of the Chamber Theater" will be held. The award is given to outstanding cultural figures whose work is marked by exceptional taste, style and talent in the spirit of the traditions of Alexander Tairov's theater.

This year the following persons will be honored: director and artist Nikolai Roshchin, artist Maria Danilova, actress Vera Voronkova. The award is made by the jewelry studio "Maisel" according to the sketch of artist Pavel Orinyansky of brass with silver plating and patination.

By the way, another hint at the 110-year legacy of Alexander Tairov in today's theater - the fight of his clock. This is a real chronometer, which is more than 150 years old. The clock was in the building before the theater started working here. And now it calls the audience into the hall. The house, where they treat their history with such love, will always be attractive for theatergoers.