Claudia Vasilievna Savina lives in an old Moscow apartment. She has four children, all of whom live with her. The elder Fedor is a chemist, candidate of sciences, recently married. His wife's name is Lena. Daughter Tatyana - she is nineteen years old - is studying at the institute. Eighteen-year-old Nikolai works in repair shops. The youngest, Oleg, is fifteen.

In the morning, Lena rushes to the sale of Czech sideboards. They should soon be given a separate apartment, and therefore Lena spends all day waiting in line for beautiful, expensive furniture. The room in which the action of the play takes place is full of already bought furniture. The furniture is covered with covers and rags, and no one touches it, as Lena is afraid of “spoiling” something. She talks to her husband only about furniture and money, "grinds him and grinds him."

Ivan Nikitich Lapshin and his son Gena visit the Savins. For several years now they have been coming to Moscow to visit Ivan Nikitich's brother, who is Savin's neighbor. Lapshin came to ask for "brews". Gene is embarrassed. He is in love with Tanya and is embarrassed by his father, who would rather borrow from someone else than spend his own. Ivan Nikitich is still trying to marry his son and for this he bought an accordion for him, so that he would “lure the girls”, because with the instrument there will be “respect”. He believes that young people are growing up too smart, they began to talk a lot. At breakfast, he laughs at his son, telling everyone about him various funny and ridiculous details. Oleg sympathizes with Genya, and when Lapshin tries to lecture him too, he explodes and reprimands Lapshin. He gets offended and leaves.

Oleg apologizes to Gena and says that he cannot stand it when people are insulted. Gena says that over time Oleg will get used to it. He dispassionately talks about how his father beats him and his mother. Oleg is horrified, and Gena says that “there is no wear and tear on tanned leather,” he pulls out a hundred from his father’s jacket and hides it. Oleg is horrified again, but for Gena everything is in the order of things.

Leonid Pavlovich comes to Fyodor. He is thirty-two years old, he is a graduate student, he earns well, his parents are now in China. Leonid takes care of Tanya. Gena, seeing him, wants to leave, but Oleg stops him to look at the fish, the aquarium with which is on the window. Departing from the window, Oleg jumps over the new desk, at which Fyodor allowed Tanya to study, and knocks over the bottle of ink. Ink floods the table. Oleg is horrified. He and Gena are trying in vain to wipe the puddle. Gena is going to take the blame, but Oleg does not agree: Lena must understand that he did it by accident.

Lena brings a sideboard. She beams, admires the thing and tells what she endured because of him. Oleg tries to talk to her, but she brushes it off, starts a conversation with Tanya about Leonid, persuades her to marry him, since he is a brilliant match. Oleg finally manages to tell everything. Before that, he takes the word from Lena that she will not scold him. But Lena, as if off the chain, calls Oleg a “reptile” and a “hooligan”, and after learning that this happened because of the fish, she grabs the aquarium and throws it out the window. Oleg rushes after them into the yard, but does not have time: the cats eat the fish. Returning, weeping, he tears off the covers from the furniture, grabs the saber hanging over the sofa, and begins to cut things. Then he runs away. Gena and Kolya rush after him. Lena, like crazy, rushes from thing to thing. Fyodor, bewildered, runs after her.

Some things are taken out. Lena is bad. Uncle Vasya, the Savins' neighbor, promises to fix the damaged furniture. Claudia Vasilievna is worried that Oleg has run away from home. Leonid and Tanya are left alone. Leonid uses the moment to once again remind Tanya of his feelings. Tanya does not listen to him: she needs to speak out. She remembers how amicably and happily they once lived. Now all this has changed, as Fedor, whom everyone loved very much, has changed. Tanya is interested in how Fedor is treated at work. Leonid says that their team is an eternal squabble, a struggle. Fedor "dances at the same height, wanting to take everything from her." He became envious. According to Leonid, Fedor develops his behavior in life. Tanya is shocked and disappointed.

Fedor tries to calm Lena. She reproaches her husband that he is accustomed to living in a "bughouse with a whole kagal", that he does not care about her, that everyone insults and hates her, and that she does not want to live here for a single day. leaves. Fedor tries to justify Lena in front of his mother. But she only regrets that her son is becoming different, a tradesman, that he has long abandoned his "cherished" business and it is unlikely that he will have the strength to continue it. He says that a good wife should first of all take care of the human dignity of her husband. Fedor is calling Lena. The conversation is interrupted.

Oleg and Gennady arrive, who hid Oleg in his room until the scandal subsided. Gena is taken away by his father to go home. Fyodor and Lena enter. Lena tries to beat Oleg. Fedor separates them. When Lena leaves, Oleg says that he will give all the money for the furniture when he grows up, and notices that Fyodor is crying. Gena comes and gives Oleg a new aquarium. Oleg at first rejoices, but, remembering that the fish were bought for the stolen hundred, he refuses the gift.

Lena asks Leonid to let them live with Fedor until the fall. Leonidas agrees. Fedor is not happy about the move. Gena asks Fyodor for a loan of one hundred rubles. Lena refuses him, but under the persuasion of her husband, she still gives money. Gena brings her an accordion as a pledge.

When Gena and Tanya are left alone, he gives Tanya perfume and confesses his love. Tanya is surprised by Gena's eloquence. She invites him and her father to have tea before leaving. Unexpectedly, Gena confesses to his father that he stole money from him, and gives him a hundred. Oleg runs into the corridor and brings the aquarium donated by Gena, puts it in its place. There is another argument at the table. Claudia Vasilievna is sure that Lena sells the best human qualities for things, that life is too short to leave everything you strive for just to furnish an apartment. Tanya calls Lena a breakthrough. Lena says that they will never understand her and that it is better for them to live apart. Claudia Vasilievna against Fedya's move. Fedor hesitates, but under pressure from Lena and Leonid, he succumbs to them. He gives his mother his main manuscript and asks her to keep it.

Lapshin, in anger that Gena confessed about the money in front of everyone, wants to beat him, but for the first time, he resists him. Gena is stronger than his father and from that moment forbids him to beat himself and his mother. Lapshin is surprised and very proud of his son's behavior. Tanya invites Gena to Moscow next year and promises to write. Leonid, Fedor and Lena leave.

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Klavdia Vasilievna Savina lives in an old Moscow apartment. She has four children, all live with her. The elder Fedor is a chemist, candidate of sciences, recently married. His wife's name is Lena. Daughter Tatyana - she is nineteen years old - is studying at the institute. Eighteen-year-old Nikolai works in repair shops. The youngest, Oleg, is fifteen.

In the morning, Lena rushes to the sale of Czech sideboards. They should soon be given a separate apartment, and therefore Lena spends all day waiting in line for beautiful, expensive furniture. The room in which the action of the play takes place is full of already bought furniture. The furniture is covered with covers and rags, and no one touches it, as Lena is afraid of “spoiling” something. She talks to her husband only about furniture and money, "grinds him and grinds him."

Ivan Nikitich Lapshin and his son Gena visit the Savins. For several years now they have been coming to Moscow to visit Ivan Nikitich's brother, who is Savin's neighbor. Lapshin came to ask for "brews". Gene is embarrassed. He is in love with Tanya and is shy of his father, who would rather borrow from someone else than spend his own. Ivan Nikitich is still trying to marry his son and for this he bought an accordion for him, so that he would “lure the girls”, because with the instrument there will be “respect”. He believes that young people are growing up too smart, they began to talk a lot. At breakfast, he laughs at his son, telling everyone about him various funny and ridiculous details. Oleg sympathizes with Genya, and when Lapshin tries to lecture him too, he explodes and reprimands Lapshin. He gets offended and leaves.

Oleg apologizes to Gena and says that he cannot stand it when people are insulted. Gena says that over time Oleg will get used to it. He dispassionately talks about how his father beats him and his mother. Oleg is horrified, and Gena says that “there is no wear and tear on tanned leather,” he pulls out a hundred from his father’s jacket and hides it. Oleg is horrified again, but for Gena everything is in the order of things.

Leonid Pavlovich comes to Fyodor. He is thirty-two years old, he is a graduate student, he earns well, his parents are now in China. Leonid takes care of Tanya. Gena, seeing him, wants to leave, but Oleg stops him to look at the fish, the aquarium with which is on the window. Departing from the window, Oleg jumps over the new desk, at which Fyodor allowed Tanya to study, and knocks over the bottle of ink. Ink floods the table. Oleg is horrified. He and Gena are trying in vain to wipe the puddle. Gena is going to take the blame, but Oleg does not agree: Lena must understand that he did it by accident.

Lena brings a sideboard. She beams, admires the thing and tells what she endured because of him. Oleg tries to talk to her, but she brushes it off, starts a conversation with Tanya about Leonid, persuades her to marry him, since he is a brilliant match. Oleg finally manages to tell everything. Before that, he takes the word from Lena that she will not scold him. But Lena, as if off the chain, calls Oleg a “reptile” and a “hooligan”, and after learning that this happened because of the fish, she grabs the aquarium and throws it out the window. Oleg rushes after them into the yard, but does not have time: the cats eat the fish. Returning, weeping, he tears off the covers from the furniture, grabs the saber hanging over the sofa, and begins to cut things. Then he runs away. Gena and Kolya rush after him. Lena, like crazy, rushes from thing to thing. Fyodor, bewildered, runs after her.

Some things are taken out. Lena is bad. Uncle Vasya, the Savins' neighbor, promises to fix the damaged furniture. Claudia Vasilievna is worried that Oleg has run away from home. Leonid and Tanya are left alone. Leonid uses the moment to once again remind Tanya of his feelings. Tanya does not listen to him: she needs to speak out. She remembers how amicably and happily they once lived. Now all this has changed, as Fedor, whom everyone loved very much, has changed. Tanya is interested in how Fedor is treated at work. Leonid says that their team is an eternal squabble, a struggle. Fedor "dances at the same height, wanting to take everything from her." He became envious. According to Leonid, Fedor develops his behavior in life. Tanya is shocked and disappointed.

Fedor tries to calm Lena. She reproaches her husband that he is accustomed to living in a "bughouse with a whole kagal", that he does not give a damn about her, that everyone insults and hates her, and that she does not want to live here for a single day anymore. leaves. Fedor tries to justify Lena in front of his mother. But she only regrets that her son is becoming different, a tradesman, that he has long abandoned his "cherished" business and it is unlikely that he will have the strength to continue it. He says that a good wife should first of all take care of the human dignity of her husband. Fyodor's name is Lena. The conversation is interrupted.

Oleg and Gennady arrive, who hid Oleg in his room until the scandal subsided. Gena is taken away by his father to go home. Fyodor and Lena enter. Lena tries to beat Oleg. Fedor separates them. When Lena leaves, Oleg says that he will give all the money for the furniture when he grows up, and notices that Fyodor is crying. Gena comes and gives Oleg a new aquarium. Oleg at first rejoices, but, remembering that the fish were bought for the stolen hundred, he refuses the gift.

Lena asks Leonid to let them live with Fedor until the fall. Leonidas agrees. Fedor is not happy about the move. Gena asks Fyodor for a loan of one hundred rubles. Lena refuses him, but under the persuasion of her husband, she still gives money. Gena brings her an accordion as a pledge.

When Gena and Tanya are left alone, he gives Tanya perfume and confesses his love. Tanya is surprised by Gena's eloquence. She invites him to have tea with his father before leaving. Unexpectedly, Gena confesses to his father that he stole money from him, and gives him a hundred. Oleg runs into the corridor and brings the aquarium donated by Gena, puts it in its place. There is another argument at the table. Claudia Vasilievna is sure that Lena sells the best human qualities for things, that life is too short to leave everything you strive for just to furnish an apartment. Tanya calls Lena a breakthrough. Lena says that they will never understand her and that it is better for them to live apart. Claudia Vasilievna against Fedya's move. Fedor hesitates, but under pressure from Lena and Leonid, he succumbs to them. He gives his mother his master manuscript and asks her to keep it.

Lapshin, in anger that Gena confessed about the money in front of everyone, wants to beat him, but for the first time, he resists him. Gena is stronger than his father and from that moment forbids him to beat himself and his mother. Lapshin is surprised and very proud of his son's behavior. Tanya calls Gena to Moscow next year and promises to write. Leonid, Fedor and Lena leave.

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V. Rozov's play "In Search of Joy" at the Central Children's Theatre.

Playwright Viktor Rozov is invariably true to his perception of people, the main theme of his work. How to relate to life: creative or consumer? What is the purpose of a person: is it to create material and spiritual values, or is it only to use the benefits they bring dependently? Rozov gives a direct answer to this in all his plays.

Does the writer talk about the choice of a profession, as in the work “Good Hour”, about fidelity in friendship and love, like “Forever Living”, does he oppose the wealth of thoughts of feelings of worthy members of socialist society to the acquisitiveness of petty greedy people, as in the play “In Search of Joy ”, - always and everywhere he solves exactly this topic. That is why the youth is in the focus of his author's attention.

With kind concern, Rozov asks the boys and girls: “What is the road you are walking?”. It is no coincidence that this is the second and more accurate title of his new play. But the choice of a life path, the search for joy on it, the realization of what is true joy and what is imaginary, are inextricably linked by the upbringing of feelings, thoughts, and will. The pedagogical sounding of Rozov's plays explains the naturalness of the playwright's creative friendship with the Central Children's Theatre. It was here that the director was found, close in his stage style to the literary style of Rozov. This director is A. Efrose. He, like Rozov, understands and feels the psychology of a Soviet young man and strives to reproduce the truth of life in its everyday everyday process.

This time, the “everyday life”, in which the plot of the play is revealed, is also emphasized by the choice of an ordinary family and a short period of time of action, when, in essence, only one event has time to take place: a break (moreover, apparently temporary) with the relatives of the young scientist Fyodor Savina, who moves from his home to another apartment at the request of his selfish and greedy wife.

And although during one spring day in a small old house located in a quiet Moscow lane, nothing happens that would go beyond the limits of family life and could seem to excite us socially - the play and performance are not only watched with attention, but and passionately excite, captivate the audience.

What explains this? Obviously, the fact that the truth of life, when it is revealed not in a straightforward way, but in genuine movement, in true contradictions, in a clash of living characters, cannot leave the audience indifferent. This is where the seriousness with which the performance looks, the life-affirming laughter and applause that flare up during the action, the sense of moral satisfaction experienced by the viewer comes from.

Together with Klavdia Vasilievna Savina, we believe in her younger children, when at the end of the performance Oleg reassures her, upset, offended by Fyodor's move: “We love you. Don't be afraid for us..." Together with Oleg, comforting his mother, Rozov, as it were, tells us that only good, honest, noble people are now left in the house. Good triumphs over evil, truth conquers falsehood, the lofty principles of our Soviet morality triumph.

In the early spring morning, life awakens in the Savin family, and the production designer M. Kurilko actively helps the director and actors to transfer us to the atmosphere of an old Moscow house, where timid rays of the sun break through thick curtains. The action begins with the conversation of the younger sons, and Rozov’s ability to penetrate into the youthful soul, to find exact and subtle words for its expression immediately causes a good audience to weaken, and this is a considerable merit of both Rozov and Efros, and many performers.

Oleg becomes for us the main character of the play, and his future fate is the most dear and close to us. The image of Oleg finds such a reliable and charming embodiment in the game of K. Ustyugov that it seems that this romantic and pure, poetic and courageous teenager cannot look like it. And next to him is Gennady in a very sensitive, convincing performance by A. Shmakov: a hunted wolf cub, taught by a bastard father that “people are animals and one must have anger at them”, and calling for moral freedom, guessing the truth of good people - Oleg, his sister Tanya (Nadezhdina plays her cleverly and pleasantly), their mother Claudia Vasilievna. V. Sperantova draws the image of this selfless Russian woman with mean and strong strokes, calling our love and respect to the smart, kind, noble Savina.

E. Perov paints the image of Lapshin, the father of Gennady, with a multicolored, and therefore so expressive artistic brush. The performer helps us to guess the biography of this "cool", as he recommends himself, cruel and greedy Tyrant, on whom it is difficult to discern the birthmarks of capitalism only because he is entirely a solid dark spot.

There is another character in Rozov's play that he succeeded in. This is Lenochka, Fyodor's wife. Her “sober view of life”, her confidence that the main thing is “not to yawn in life”, her all-consuming passion for foreign furniture, for foreign things, her desire to turn her husband into a cash cow - this is what we call philistinism and with what else is there to fight. And the performer of the role of M. Kupriyanov reflects all this in her game, in stage means,. with which she achieves this, are sometimes too straightforward, too satirically naked. Such Lenochka, which Kupriyanova creates, could not be loved even by the weak-willed Fyodor. By the way, what, besides weak will and falling in love with his wife, did the author endow Fedor with? Nothing! The images of Nikolai, Taisiya, Marina, Leonid, Vasily Ippolitovich were even less successful in the play. Let's not blame the actors for not bringing these characters to life, but we'll regret that the theater didn't help the playwright complete them.

Direction of Efros is strong where Rozov is strong. The director and actors saw the truth of life through the “magic crystal” of dramaturgy. This is how this simultaneously modest and significant performance was born, causing the younger generation to think about human dignity, about love for people, about honesty and purity of feelings, about hatred of petty-bourgeois selfishness and selfishness; to bright thoughts about the fact that in our society every person should go to the big goal of his life on a straight and true path.

Rozov V.S., In search of joy.
Klavdia Vasilievna Savina lives in an old Moscow apartment. She has four children, all live with her. The elder Fedor is a chemist, candidate of sciences, recently married. His wife's name is Lena. Daughter Tatyana - she is nineteen years old - is studying at the institute. Eighteen-year-old Nikolai works in repair shops. The youngest, Oleg, is fifteen.
In the morning, Lena rushes to the sale of Czech sideboards. They should soon be given a separate apartment, and therefore Lena spends all day waiting in line for beautiful, expensive furniture. The room in which the action of the play takes place is full of already bought furniture. The furniture is covered with covers and rags, and no one touches it, as Lena is afraid of "spoiling" something. She talks to her husband only about furniture and money, "grinds him and grinds him."
Ivan Nikitich Lapshin and his son Gena visit the Savins. For several years now they have been coming to Moscow to visit Ivan Nikitich's brother, who is Savin's neighbor. Lapshin came to ask for "brews". Gene is embarrassed. He is in love with Tanya and is shy of his father, who would rather borrow from someone else than spend his own. Ivan Nikitich is still trying to marry his son and for this he bought an accordion for him, so that he would "lure the girls", because with the instrument "there will be respect." He believes that young people are growing up too smart, they began to talk a lot. At breakfast, he laughs at his son, telling everyone about him various funny and ridiculous details. Oleg sympathizes with Genya, and when Lapshin tries to lecture him too, he explodes and reprimands Lapshin. He gets offended and leaves.
Oleg apologizes to Gena and says that he cannot stand it when people are insulted. Gena says that over time Oleg will get used to it. He dispassionately talks about how his father beats him and his mother. Oleg is horrified, and Gena says that "there is no wear and tear on tanned leather," he pulls out a hundred from his father's jacket and hides it. Oleg is horrified again, but for Gena everything is in the order of things.
Leonid Pavlovich comes to Fyodor. He is thirty-two years old, he is a graduate student, he earns well, his parents are now in China. Leonid takes care of Tanya. Gena, seeing him, wants to leave, but Oleg stops him to look at the fish, the aquarium with which is on the window. Departing from the window, Oleg jumps over the new desk, at which Fyodor allowed Tanya to study, and knocks over the bottle of ink. Ink floods the table. Oleg is horrified. He and Gena are trying in vain to wipe the puddle. Gena is going to take the blame, but Oleg does not agree: Lena must understand that he did it by accident.
Lena brings a sideboard. She beams, admires the thing and tells what she endured because of him. Oleg tries to talk to her, but she brushes it off, starts a conversation with Tanya about Leonid, persuades her to marry him, since he is a brilliant match. Oleg finally manages to tell everything. Before that, he takes the word from Lena that she will not scold him. But Lena, as if off the chain, calls Oleg a "reptile" and a "hooligan", and after learning that this happened because of the fish, she grabs the aquarium and throws it out the window. Oleg rushes after them into the yard, but does not have time: the cats eat the fish. Returning, weeping, he tears off the covers from the furniture, grabs the saber hanging over the sofa, and begins to cut things. Then he runs away. Gena and Kolya rush after him. Lena, like crazy, rushes from thing to thing. Fyodor, bewildered, runs after her.
Some things are taken out. Lena is bad. Uncle Vasya, the Savins' neighbor, promises to fix the damaged furniture. Claudia Vasilievna is worried that Oleg has run away from home. Leonid and Tanya are left alone. Leonid uses the moment to once again remind Tanya of his feelings. Tanya does not listen to him: she needs to speak out. She remembers how amicably and happily they once lived. Now all this has changed, as Fedor, whom everyone loved very much, has changed. Tanya is interested in how Fedor is treated at work. Leonid says that their team is an eternal squabble, a struggle. Fedor "dances at the same height, wanting to take everything from her." He became envious. According to Leonid, Fedor develops his behavior in life. Tanya is shocked and disappointed.
Fedor tries to calm Lena. She reproaches her husband that he is accustomed to living in a "bughouse with a whole kahal", that he does not care about her, that everyone insults and hates her, and that she does not want to live here for a single day. leaves. Fedor tries to justify Lena in front of his mother. But she only regrets that her son is becoming different, a tradesman, that he has long abandoned his "cherished" business and it is unlikely that he will have the strength to continue it. He says that a good wife should first of all take care of the human dignity of her husband. Fyodor's name is Lena. The conversation is interrupted.
Oleg and Gennady arrive, who hid Oleg in his room until the scandal subsided. Gena is taken away by his father to go home. Fyodor and Lena enter. Lena tries to beat Oleg. Fedor separates them. When Lena leaves, Oleg says that he will give all the money for the furniture when he grows up, and notices that Fyodor is crying. Gena comes and gives Oleg a new aquarium. Oleg at first rejoices, but, remembering that the fish were bought for the stolen hundred, he refuses the gift.
Lena asks Leonid to let them live with Fedor until the fall. Leonidas agrees. Fedor is not happy about the move. Gena asks Fyodor for a loan of one hundred rubles. Lena refuses him, but under the persuasion of her husband, she still gives money. Gena brings her an accordion as a pledge.
When Gena and Tanya are left alone, he gives Tanya perfume and confesses his love. Tanya is surprised by Gena's eloquence. She invites him to have tea with his father before leaving. Unexpectedly, Gena confesses to his father that he stole money from him, and gives him a hundred. Oleg runs into the corridor and brings the aquarium donated by Gena, puts it in its place. There is another argument at the table. Claudia Vasilievna is sure that Lena sells the best human qualities for things, that life is too short to leave everything you strive for just to furnish an apartment. Tanya calls Lena a breakthrough. Lena says that they will never understand her and that it is better for them to live apart. Claudia Vasilievna against Fedya's move. Fedor hesitates, but under pressure from Lena and Leonid, he succumbs to them. He gives his mother his master manuscript and asks her to keep it.
Lapshin, in anger that Gena confessed about the money in front of everyone, wants to beat him, but for the first time, he resists him. Gena is stronger than his father and from that moment forbids him to beat himself and his mother. Lapshin is surprised and very proud of his son's behavior. Tanya calls Gena to Moscow next year and promises to write. Leonid, Fedor and Lena leave.

My "Contemporary" Ivanova Lyudmila Ivanovna

"In Search of Joy"

"In Search of Joy"

In 1958, the play "In Search of Joy" based on the play by Viktor Rozov was released on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater branch. They didn’t want to give us this play, because they needed permission to stage it from the Ministry of Culture, and the right of the first performance belonged to the Central Children’s Theater, with which Rozov was closely connected, his plays were already on there. The director of the theater, Shakhazizov, did not want anyone else to stage this play, and asked Rozov not to give it to us under any circumstances. Rozov had a very difficult situation, but we still persuaded him.

I hope that many have seen the film "A Noisy Day" based on this play, in which two artists from Sovremennik, Oleg Tabakov and Lilia Tolmacheva, play. Their heroes came from our performance, and it was not Efros, who directed the film, who made them - this is the work of Oleg Efremov.

For him, the struggle of the hero with lack of spirituality, with philistinism, with "materialism" was very important. Nowadays, it even sounds kind of wild. But he did not want Oleg to cut furniture out of revenge - no, the whole life of Lenochka, who thinks only about material well-being, was incomprehensible and unnatural to him. But when she threw a jar of his favorite fish out the window, it was a tragedy for him: how can living beings be compared with a thing? "They're alive!" he shouted, and in despair he clutched at his grandfather's saber. This is the pinnacle of the show.

Now on television all you hear is: “I love money!”, “Who wants to be a millionaire?” I wish that sometime in our lives some boy would also grab his saber - against glamorous parties, against untold riches, accumulated for no reason. But this is my personal digression...

Efremov worked in detail on negative characters. In the play "In Search of Joy" there was a difficult work on the image of Lenochka. Lilia Tolmacheva, a positive heroine, after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, played Juliet in the Saratov Youth Theater, then she was invited to the Mossovet Theater for the role of Nina in Masquerade - and suddenly the petty bourgeois Lenochka! Efremov told her: “Everyone has their own truth, and you must defend yours! Property, furniture - this is your passion, your love! You are ready to put your life on a polished table!” Lily was afraid to look ugly in this role, she was used to being charming on stage. And Efremov said: “Yes, she is charming, but she has the soul of a predator!” Tolmacheva argued with Oleg, but truth was born in disputes: she played brilliantly.

From the play "In Search of Joy" my acting life in "Sovremennik" began - I was given a small role (Marina's mother, a manicurist).

Oleg Tabakov immediately became famous and one of the brightest young artists in our country - a very young hero! Perhaps this was not the case in any theater.

In the summer we went on tour to Kazakhstan with this performance. Svetlana Mizeri could not go, and I got the role of Tatyana, and Evstigneev, who had previously played a plumber, suddenly got the role of a prosperous young handsome man who courted Tatyana. He played in a wig to hide his early bald head, but he didn’t like the role - you can’t play hooligans! Efremov scolded him ...

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From the book Ivan Shmelev. Life and art. Biography author Solntseva Natalya Mikhailovna

I Ancestors Joys and fears of family life Joys and fears of a schoolboy First attempts at writing

From Mammoth's book [Book of Essays] author Rekemchuk Alexander Evseevich

Grandmother's joys One-year-old yet, they took me to Kharkov to show my grandmother. There is a photograph where I - all in curls, freckles, cheeky, very pleased with myself - sit on her lap and eat a French bun, whole, my appetite was enviable even then. However, no, I

From the book Self-Portrait: The Novel of My Life author Voinovich Vladimir Nikolaevich

Joys and hopes In early 1988, a letter arrived from Moscow from an unexpected sender: “Hello, Volodya! I don't know if you remember me - we were once, a thousand years ago, introduced by K. Voinov. I had one idea. I am a longtime fan of your book "The Adventures of Ivan

From the book Triumvirate. Creative biographies of science fiction writers Henry Lyon Oldie, Andrey Valentinov, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko author Andreeva Julia

Joys and Sorrows In the House of Film Veterans, I met Ales Adamovich, who temporarily lived there with his wife, Irina Komarova. Together we went to some grand rally in Luzhniki. I was surprised not by the rallies themselves, but by the folk art that accompanied them. slogans,

From the book Diary Sheets. Volume 2 author Roerich Nicholas Konstantinovich

The Child of Joy Joy wants and can make friends with each of us. O'Sanchez A faithful friend of childhood - the most beautiful of cities - Kyiv, a city of parks that keep their history of ancient monuments: St. Sophia Cathedral, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, St. Michael and St. Vladimir Cathedrals,

From the book Hockey. Ancestors and newcomers author Tarasov Anatoly Vladimirovich

More joy More joy. If the world is now stingy with joy, if the world has now plunged into ugly misanthropy, then all the more I want to remember the true joys that made up enthusiasm. Here I recall the beautiful "The Prince and the Pauper" by Mark Twain, who

From the book Notes from the Sleeve author Voznesenskaya Julia

From Sophia Loren's book author Nadezhdin Nikolay Yakovlevich

Postal joys In the morning I get up and immediately run to the post office. - You have nothing. The second time I go after twelve. - You have nothing. The third and last entry is in the evening, just before closing. Why do you run all day, interfere with work? Once

From the book of Simenon and Denise Huime author Boyadzhieva Ludmila Grigorievna

25. Both in joy and in sorrow How many difficulties Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti had to go through ... And do not think that these wealthy people managed to avoid mortal dangers and real dramas. In 1975, they tried to kidnap Ponti twice. Both times managed to escape, although in

From the author's book

PART 5 IN SEARCH OF JOY. 1Returning to America, they rushed west in two cars. Arizona impresses Simenon with exoticism: the streets are crammed with cars, and riders make their way between them - solid cowboys in decorated saddles and boots trimmed with silver.