FIRST SHUKSHIN "AT THE NIKI GATES"

Mark Rozovsky:

- The story of Vasily Shukshin "Cherednichenko and the circus" seems to me a masterpiece, a kind of "brilliant" in the most difficult short genre of Russian literature. Because, probably, together with the team of our excellent actors, I made a scenic version of this story, where the living human characters, their seemingly illogical manifestation in suddenly emerged circumstances, as well as the anecdotal action sprinkled with brilliant humor - all this, taken together , And is the very theater of life, more precisely,

The theater of the truth of life, which so earnestly, so consistently served by his work, our famous author, who was also, by the way, an outstanding actor himself.

Shukshin is unforgettable. Shukshin we need today. Although the story told by the writer happened in a relatively recent Soviet past, saturated with a sinful desire to see, drink, joke, flutter and fall in love with everywhere and everywhere sounding songs by Alla Pugacheva. Shukshin theatrical, for - truthful, easy and wise.

Of course, the author teases her simple-hearted folk heroes who live unquenched Shakespearean passions in a harsh, programmed, enduring no quixotic age. Shukshin knows and loves these simple, his own in appearance, but in fact very not simple, funny people from the Russian remote places. Their charm is recognizable, their fates are intricate, their actions are tragicomic.

That's why I want so much to play with the ecstasy of Shukshin in the center of Moscow "At the Nikitsky Gate".