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THE MALY THEATRE PRESENTS GOGOL'S «MARRIAGE»
More Gogol to enrich the Maly Theatre's repertoire! The «Marriage» returns on the theatre's stage. Director Yuri Solomin doesn't compromise the integrity of one of the oldest theatres in Russia. The classics seems to be as popular and relevant as ever.
Yuri Solomin jokingly says that staging the «Marriage» has been his childhood dream. He postponed the production several times, but finally the «Marriage» is on! «I did not want to modernize it, because it's as plain as it can be what Gogol wrote about. You can find it all in the play - the relations between people, and the relations between classes, when there's something you would like to try, but are too afraid of it», - said the Artistic Director of the Maly Theatre, People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Solomin.
Surprisingly enough Gogol's «Marriage» appeared only twice on the stage of the Maly Theatre. The first time (as Shchepkin's benefit performance) was in the XIX century. The second (on the centenary of Gogol's birth) - in 1909. The current production in the Maly is the first one in more than a hundred years.
The stars of the theatre - Muravyova, Polyakova, Afanasyev, Ermakov, Dubrovsky are playing next to yesterday's graduates and even students. Karina Sakhanenko, who plays the bride Agafya Tikhonovna was Yuri Solomin's student at the Mikhail Shchepkin Theatre school. For Grigoriy Skryapkin, who plays Podkolyosin, this role is a dream role.
The story of a picky bride and an indecisive groom has been rehearsed for a over a year. During this time the artists managed to fall in love with the performance. «I made everyone laugh, because I said that I know the concept of the play. What is the Gogol's «Marriage»? Agafya Tikhonovna herself is a young Russia, and those, who are proposing to her are the fiances», said Lyudmila Polyakova, People's Artist of Russia.
This is the second play by Gogol in the Maly Theatre's repertoire, the first one being «The Government Inspector», also staged by Yuri Solomin is highly popular with the audience.
More Gogol to enrich the Maly Theatre's repertoire! The «Marriage» returns on the theatre's stage. Director Yuri Solomin doesn't compromise the integrity of one of the oldest theatres in Russia. The classics seems to be as popular and relevant as ever.
Yuri Solomin jokingly says that staging the «Marriage» has been his childhood dream. He postponed the production several times, but finally the «Marriage» is on! «I did not want to modernize it, because it's as plain as it can be what Gogol wrote about. You can find it all in the play - the relations between people, and the relations between classes, when there's something you would like to try, but are too afraid of it», - said the Artistic Director of the Maly Theatre, People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Solomin.
Surprisingly enough Gogol's «Marriage» appeared only twice on the stage of the Maly Theatre. The first time (as Shchepkin's benefit performance) was in the XIX century. The second (on the centenary of Gogol's birth) - in 1909. The current production in the Maly is the first one in more than a hundred years.
The stars of the theatre - Muravyova, Polyakova, Afanasyev, Ermakov, Dubrovsky are playing next to yesterday's graduates and even students. Karina Sakhanenko, who plays the bride Agafya Tikhonovna was Yuri Solomin's student at the Mikhail Shchepkin Theatre school. For Grigoriy Skryapkin, who plays Podkolyosin, this role is a dream role.
The story of a picky bride and an indecisive groom has been rehearsed for a over a year. During this time the artists managed to fall in love with the performance. «I made everyone laugh, because I said that I know the concept of the play. What is the Gogol's «Marriage»? Agafya Tikhonovna herself is a young Russia, and those, who are proposing to her are the fiances», said Lyudmila Polyakova, People's Artist of Russia.
This is the second play by Gogol in the Maly Theatre's repertoire, the first one being «The Government Inspector», also staged by Yuri Solomin is highly popular with the audience.
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