"I was a bright person, from whom no one was light."

It's hard for Ivan Petrovich ...

For twenty years he manages the estate of his deceased sister. Her adult daughter calls his uncle Vanya.

He lives fussily and joylessly, accusing others of this. He never married, he suffers from loneliness. Why did he condemn himself to such a fate?

The former husband of his deceased sister comes to the estate, a professor to whom Uncle Vanya has been helping with money for many years. Uncle Vanya falls in love with the young wife of the scientist, Elena. His neighbor, the doctor, is also fascinated by the beauty.

Passions are heating up. Elena does not like her husband. But is she able to change it?

A selfish professor proposes to sell his sister's estate and buy a dacha. For Uncle Vanya, this will be the end of his familiar life. He is so angry that he shoots a relative.

Director Andron Konchalovsky used in the play several original cinematographic techniques.

Why do people not understand and torture each other?

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A ballet with many tricks not only amuses and amuses young spectators: it teaches them how beautiful love is!

The Tin Soldier was in love with the Ballerina, but their romantic union was prevented by the evil Troll. Unsaid, reincarnated left their youthful feeling - but even so it was perfect!

To be amazed at your love and be ready to give your heart to another - only such straightforward and honest natures as the Tin Soldier are able to remain true to their great feelings!

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Each premiere in the Mayakovsky Theater is an event. And not only because this theater has long acquired a "name", but also because the choice always falls on works very unusual, and sometimes specially created for this "scene".

And the "Russian Romance" is no exception. Delivered by Mindaugas Karbauskis on the play of Marius Iwaszkiewicz, who already created for the theater of the delightful "Kant", the performance, the space of which was re-created on the stage by Sergey Barkhin, will necessarily become the pearl of the theatrical season.

So, what will the prime minister tell us about?

This time the speech with the audience will lead to literature, geniuses in literature and their lives, how written, not written, and even the works conceived by the author affect his life. And if we undertake to study the subject of such a subtle - then certainly on the example of one of the most solid, large and significant figures of Russian literature - Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

We, the submissive authorities of the director and the author of the play, will be transferred to the everyday life of the genius creator, in which the fates of fictional heroes are mixed with the fates and lives of his relatives and friends. But, maybe, they not simply mix up? Maybe they are fighting desperately with each other for the "first" place in his life? Who will win? And can there be any victory in such a battle?

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He is "part of the strength of that which does good without numbers, wishing evil to all."

Meet! The mysterious Mephistopheles is not a gloomy old man, but a handsome modern guy, elegantly dressed and attractive. He even wears a fashionable hat!

With him you can have fun chatting about the philosophy and oddities of the female soul, drinking wine.

But he has some sinister charm and magnetism ...

Mephistopheles promises to Dr. Faust unknown pleasure.

And he introduces the scientist to Margarita, a very young girl, a pure soul.

Does a depraved doctor kill her? She is so naive!

Mephistopheles dances tango and compliments Margarita. Why did he need this farce? Is it possible to behave this way?

Faust will reflect on the mystery of love. He is interested in the meaning of human life. Why is he so tormented, suffering and mad with passions? What is the tragedy of his life?

Love can destroy a person. But can you sacrifice your life for her?

Faustus vehemently accuses Mephistopheles of his vicious inclinations. An unexpected answer awaits him.

The performance is based on ancient German legends about a mysterious doctor who met the devil and sold him his soul.

Whether Doctor Faust will sacrifice himself for the sake of Margarita, who was ruined by him.

Mystical performance, colorful show.

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Is it worth sacrificing yourself for the sake of someone else's happiness?

The drama of the life of a "small man", a modest toiler.

The rural landowner Ivan Voynitsky and his niece have been working hard for many years. She calls his uncle Vanya. All the income from the estate they send to the former husband of the landlord's sister.

He seemed to them an outstanding man, a great scientist. They read his scientific works and were horrified. Just "old biscuit, learned wolf"!

A scientist is visiting the estate. With him is a beautiful young wife, in whom Voynitsky falls in love. He starts drinking for the first time.

But the scientist did not appreciate the assistance of the landlord, he plans to sell the estate and buy a dacha for himself. The fate of Uncle Vanya and his niece does not interest him.

Voinitsky is struck by ingratitude. He put his whole life on this estate! Refused from family happiness, lived in the backwater ...

Now they, former relatives, have become enemies. The bitterness of broken hopes ... Did Uncle Vanya have lived his life in vain?

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What a stupid, absurd war - neither to give nor take a cabaret.

The beginning of the First World War. The Germans want to fight, for them the war is a valorous adventure, a heroic adventure. The French are also ready. For them, military actions are a series of romantic feats and beautiful victories.

What neither those nor the others expected was the long, painfully prolonged hell in which they walked. The pernicious days of shooting, when those who yesterday played together in football today are mercilessly killing each other. Terrible days of trench wait, when you have to lie in the mud, tolerate lice and diseases and reap, wait, wait ... When is the end?

It is not for nothing that it is said that at the end of the war soldiers often do not remember why they went to her at first. War erases all human, including memory, leaving only a raid of inhuman breath of bloodshed.

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In the children's tale, the most ridiculous absurdities are possible! If only good conquered evil!

Baba Yaga lives in a dark forest. And she has a loyal friend, a boy named Broom. He's been taking care of the old lady for three hundred years!

Once Baba Yaga and a broom found a cabbage on the bed of a baby. They called him Vanya. And the baby turned out to be a girl!

But they decided not to change their good name. And here runs a small mischievous Vanya in the woods in bast shoes and sarafan.

Once the hut on the chicken legs took down a large egg. Baba Yaga hopes that a little bathhouse will hatch from him.

She really wants to wash often, not once a year. Parry with a spruce broom!

The whole forest brothers gathered to see the miracle-egg. And someone stole it ...

Which of the intruders could take him? Crafty Koshchei immortal or wily Watery? Or the resolute Serpent Gorynych? Sassy Goblin and funny Kikimora also behave suspiciously.

Baba Yaga will whisper spells and cook a decoction of herbs.

Everything will end well! The loss will be discovered. Bathhouse all will enjoy a light steam.

An entertaining fairy story, a gay children's detective.

All the roles are performed by talented children-artists who are trying very hard.

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"He who has a soul is not like the others."

The young Frenchman is in a panic. All his friends and neighbors are ready to turn into rhinoceroses!

It's amazing that they do not even think about where these huge and thick-skinned animals suddenly appeared in their small provincial town.

People continue to go to the service and shopping, discuss news in the cafe, fall in love and marry. Only from time to time one of them grows a horn on his forehead and joins a herd of animals.

Why do these people do not want to argue, do not try to protest? Is it possible to blindly obey something that is completely absurd?

The only hope for a simple guy is his favorite girl. He is not a hero at all, but I am sure that she will defend her right to be a man with him. Is he wrong?

How dangerous and unpredictable is the massive madness!

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"Today I am very willing to dispose of my Sabbath. And, if Ninka is not capricious, I will dispose of my life. "

Girls loved foreigners.

She sells love for money, better - for currency. He knows all the entrances and exits to hotels where Europeans settle. He is afraid of the police persecution ...

And she connected her life with a real bandit. She fell in love with an "adult and tall man with two golden teeth, a dreamer and a criminal".

In the difficult post-war years in Moscow there were so many. They lived in communal apartments, drank, but hoped for a better life.

"First, they were playing candy wrappers in a parlor with chimneys. And then the romance left the podvoroten thieves. "

The story of love of one of them was told in his play by Vladimir Vysotsky.

"Well, and the trouble with this Ninkoy, she slept with the whole of the Horde!" With such sleep, who would want? And I do not care, I really want to! "

The country heals wounds, exhausted people return from the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War. Those who did not wait for the father or son from the war were burning.

There are a lot of Vysotsky's songs in the play.

"They looked around, woke up, drank, then sobered up. And those who waited, those who did not want to cry, wept. "

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And who just does not call the hotline!

Someone lost himself and the meaning of life - he urgently needs to be assured that there is a meaning, otherwise the unfortunate person will impose himself on himself.

But the lady: everything measures and measures outfits, but no one calls her and no one comes to her. How to convince her that she still needs someone?

And where to call those who sit on the phone of trust and help people? Maybe these people have their own problems, and their troubles and misfortunes happen. Maybe they themselves are waiting for someone to help them, will heal them, comfort them. Yes, only they have one concern: others to comfort and calm, not think about oneself.

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Sretenka is a nice street. How many fates are here! Who lives around the corner? What are you doing?

Vaughn, the fucking actress fell into hysterics: she does not want to perform on Saturday, dismiss!

Here interrogate the woman.

And here once a hot guy killed a man. But he did not do anything to him, only stepped on his foot.

So, according to the grains, from small and large stories, the history of the street develops.

And stories are made up of human passions, small sins, desire to joke, gossip, cash in on.

So the theme of street (and theater) space grows into a theme of the commandments and ten deadly sins, becoming the place where you can come and think what all these ten "Do not ..." mean.

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