Not everyone knows that in recent years it pays a stipend to students of GITIS, for which he said thanks and students, and me – where I can, and am grateful forever. The man who gives his money to someone who is not his relative nor friend, pays for only one talent has the right to say what he thinks about the future of this student, and those who have not yet received. That is right, no one would have taken without it. But agree (I agree), with all of the above, including scholarships, with the plays (which someone needs to play), with the Director’s experiments (he, and this requires the actors), the word Andrei Maximov takes on a different, more value, more weight. I don’t write plays, not stage plays, I just run the GITIS. Because my word, I understand, is not so weighty. And still, gaining a deep breath, saying, “I disagree!”
Andrey Maksimov ahead of time was sure a clear answer will not be. As best I can, I will try to answer. In order. Why do we accept this year the actors in the drama College? asked Maximov. Why, if circumstances do not favor, and follow the published regulations, the universities of art together with the rest invites you to plunge into the murky waters of online? Take actors online is nonsense, says Maksimov.
Brad – and I agree. And all who agree to an online consultation and online first round, all and everywhere, even in Moscow, at least in Sofia, Tbilisi and London, add: but the contest itself needs to conduct in person, live. That is, without living contact, entering the host and in the acting Department (and the departments where they teach Directors, set designers, choreographers, pianists, violinists, trumpeters, etc.) a good set will not work. Then why agree to a compromise, which, it appears, do not solve the problem? (Note: I still agree with Maximov!)
Online administration is not possible in GITIS, impossible VGIK, in Moscow Conservatory, in the “Sliver”, in the “Pike” at School-Studio of MKHAT… (all other conservatories online is also impossible, although some of the rectors said that they are ready to try). If we want the graduates were worthy successors of the best traditions of our theatre, film and performance schools, as they returned with prizes from Cannes, Venice, Berlin, San Sebastian (more elsewhere) is nonsense. Then the video will not work.
In Moscow, there is a “big five”. In order of birth: “Sliver”, GITIS, “Pike”, VGIK, School-Studio of the Moscow art theatre. One of these every year, though not hundreds-hundreds, and about two hundred artists, and in the two hundreds and includes dramatic actors, singers, and those who were trained under contracts with the regions, and upon graduation go to Kalmykia, Buryatia – in all corners of our vast country. This is important: we are preparing cadres not��Ko for Moscow, we try for the whole of Russia.
Leading universities, the Russian Academy of theatre arts including, every year, report on employment of graduates, and I mistrust treating these cheerful figures in GITIS monitoring of employment not only graduated from College this year, but added two – and three-year step. You know – work! Someone, of course, leaves the profession. For example, Sergei Zhenovach two years ago took to the Studio of theatrical art, if I’m not mistaken, 11 graduates of his viciously workshop. Of the remaining employed not all, but one, for example, went from theatre to music. Would not go away, as I understand it, it would have taken to the theatre.
Not all graduates of the acting Department of 2020 will find work in the theater, the movies. But in past years have been employed not all. And not all medical school graduates remain in the profession: I studied in the First I. M. Sechenov, from our course in the profession has only half. And there is no influence of the coronavirus. For the sake of interest opened the lists of our graduates. The directing Department. 1978 – Nyakroshus, 1979 – Tuminas and Cove… This is the most well-known and graduates are more. It is necessary to think about the benefits set to calculate how much is left in the profession, how much there is, if in issue, 1978, Nyakroshus was?! And the list of graduates of Director’s faculty 1981 – Artsybashev, Belyakovich, Joffe, Sarkisov, our outstanding teacher Olga Yakushkina and, sorry, the Russian oligarch Gusinsky. From classmates Kostolevsky all know Fatyushina, in the Mayakovsky Theater still playing a lot a wonderful actress Ivanilova, 47 years died most talented Alexander Soloviev… Suppose that it so happens, we’d know a year of their receipt, whether it was necessary to tell Mr. Kostalevskaya: “Come a year from now, we need more talents to save up”?
Andrey Maksimov writes: “a Huge number of chubrukov intelligent lie: “We need fresh blood in young talent.” Don’t need”. My opinion: need, and how! Every year call creative Director, Director of the theatres, asking who the heroine, who is the characteristic performer. And suddenly you realize: the concept of role is still alive, not lost in eternity. Mark Zakharov called. Asked one. Sent to him at once five. Took one, and then another, and took of the actor.
a Surplus of actors – a very, by the way, hypothetical – does not mean that today we have a surplus of geniuses. In 1993 he graduated from GITIS, the famous Petr Fomenko’s workshop, from which “hatched” his “Workshop…” Looking back, we can say, in 1994 it was possible for a nobody to release, to relax, but on this course he studied Spivakovsky and Ardova! Whether it was necessary to tell them at admission: guys, already seen, you are geniuses, come back next year! Would come?
What to do? Do only accept managers (who are really drawbacks��et), to, waiting, when will the period of initial accumulation of the managers back to the set of actors? Funny.
about the critics, I again agree with Andrew Maximov. But since he himself wrote that he thinks more about the artists, back to him. Reading respected Andrew Markovic, he remembered an old issue, according to legend, given by a French Abbe: “will you lighter, if you will hang me from a lamppost?” Write this joke saved his life. Refusing reception, we will not make a single person happier today or through the years. And unhappy – many of them right now. And people have troubles and we have enough.
