In five years, he realized that the doll can be alive, and after a couple of decades has convinced everyone. His performances were applauded and home ideas that Samples arranged for the family, and in theaters around the world. The audience cried, laughed, grieved and loved regardless of age, as children. The whole point of love that began in childhood and continued throughout life.
About the artist, the Creator and permanent head of the puppet Theatre, actor, Director and educator — in the material mos.ru.
One day my mother bought five-year-old Sergey Obraztsova in the shop of the Japanese goods on Kuznetsky most funny doll: a small head with a hole at the bottom for your finger and a robe similar to a glove. She was like an ordinary toy, but it was enough to put it on your hand, how did you start magic. The toy came to life, she was able to wave, to nod, to laugh, to cry or to dance.
the Parents of Sergey Obraztsova — a railway engineer and a teacher — dreamed that my son had a serious profession. But mom and dad had to accept the son decided to become an artist. After the Real school, K. P. Voskresensky, he entered the picturesque (and then graphics) faculty of VKHUTEMAS, studied under Abram Arkhipov and Vladimir Favorsky.
And then he became an actor. First job Obraztsova became the musical Studio of the Moscow art theatre (now Moscow academic musical theatre named after K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko). There he worked for eight years. Then six years in Moscow art theater-II. The role is mainly played comic, distinguishing.
In 1923, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko has released the play “Lysistrata” in the Comedy of Aristophanes. The story — the women refuse to live with men until they stop all the wars and take power into their own hands — was on the topic of the day: the 1920s in Russia were the time when the woman found her voice. The main role is played by the prima ballerina Olga Baklanova, the artist Isaak Rabinovich has created a beautiful avant-garde scenery, Reingold Glier wrote the music… But some of the audience again and again come to the theater to see first funny the leader of the old men and listen to how he pererugivalis with women.
he played the young actor Sergey Obraztsov, already a little known in Moscow, albeit in a different capacity.
to Work with puppets he began while studying at VKHUTEMAS in 1920. It all started not very creative — simply lacked the money.
Samples and a few friends decided to start making dolls to sell them for a small price. The idea failed: toys are not in demand. But Samples made glove rag doll Negro, which remained with him for a long time. He began to think about her different stories and mixed��be small representations of others.
First it was the home productions, for which he tried to make different dolls, and then began performing recitals and concerts. Over time, the public appeared favorite — the audience invariably demanded the release of his favorite Negro.
In 1928, he made a papier-mache Tape your — favorite doll with the face of a surprised-looking baby. “The oldest living child in the world,” he said of Tape decades later. With him the Samples did not leave until the end of life: Bozo went with him on all tours.
In may 1930 in Moscow all-Russian conference of workers of puppet theater. It was accepted the decision on creation of the Main Central puppet theatre. It was assumed that it will become the basis for the organization of a network of similar theatres in the USSR. To lead the theatre offered Sergey Obraztsova, who has already become a well-known actor-puppeteer. At first the Specimens was confused: he knew nothing about how to run a theater, how much to the actors how they recruit. What to do with the financial side of the issue, also not represented.
the Theatre was established in 1931. But for four years he was the house: rehearsing in the House of artistic education of children, played at various venues using a portable screen. In 1936 the theatre was granted the building on Mayakovsky square (now the arc). The first performance on the new stage was “puss in boots”. After a year here have opened their library and the country’s first Museum of puppets. There were dolls, who played their own.
Gradually the Samples was found talented playwrights who wrote plays specifically for the new theatre. The plays had their own requirements: for example, you cannot write long monologues to play with such dolls is very difficult. Samples was very fond of humorous parodies that ridiculed the philistinism and vulgarity: “We only know how strange” “Pour a glass”, “Habanera”.
One of the most frequent guests of the theatre was Joseph Stalin. He loved the humor and quick wit is exemplary, his skill that has repeatedly invited him to the Kremlin. Once Stalin was late for the performance, and his favorite “Habanera” has already passed. Then he asked Obraztsova return to the stage and show room again. Praise and applause are not spared.
In 1940, the theater staged a legendary performance of “the Magic lamp of Aladdin” on the play by Nina Gernet. It is the first in the country used kinds of doll — a real innovation. Three-meter Genie Cashcash is the largest puppet theatre. Together with a Model worked as chief designer Boris Tuzlukov. They thought long how to run the Genie to make it look magical and mysterious. There were a lot of options, it is constantly discussed, ideas changed, until one day Tuzlukov did not bring the doll, which m��Steril secretly.
the head of the Genie, he was placed at the Central three-meter stick-cane, two other walking stick was a hand. His body illuminated from the purple fabric was governed by three actors. In the head of a doll made mechanism that allows it to move a mustache and ears, open and close eyes and mouth, lowered eyebrows.
Soon, the doll, and the statement became famous throughout the country. The play was designed more for Teens and adults — the kids were afraid of the terrible Genie.
In 1941 in a theater building in Moscow was bombed. Needed urgent evacuation. Most of the actors went to Novosibirsk. There is a base where soldiers were trained to make dolls and to cope with them. In addition, the city held the premiere of “the King stag” on the story by Carlo Gozzi.
during the great Patriotic war Sergei Obraztsov created 16 concert brigades who were on the front. The soldiers showed “Sleeping Hitler”, “the roof of Berlin” and other productions. He Samples in costume Piero played with a doll “Mussolini”. Presentation organized for the civilians in the Volga region, Siberia, Kazakhstan. In 1946 Sergey Obraztsova was awarded the Stalin prize and the medal “For valiant labor in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945.”
the post-war period was marked by theatre new play-the legend, a Model conceived before the war. We are talking about the burlesque Revue “special concert” (1946), which entered the Guinness Book of records as the most popular performance. He played over 10 thousand times in different countries.
the Main character — a peerless entertainer Eduard Aplombov. Without raising his languid eyelids at the audience, he makes her cry from laughter. The first performer of this role was Zinovy Gerdt — he did Aplombov unforgettable.
was this character almost by accident. Working on “the Unusual concert”, Samples jokingly thought, “why don’t we make a doll-entertainer?” Supported him. The prototype of the hero became the most famous entertainer ever, Michael harkavy.
As with any parody, not without resentment: many artists began to learn the characters themselves. The Ministry of culture of the USSR did not want to have the performance shown is that he belittles the Soviet stage. Had nothing to do, Samples redid a few rooms. The name, incidentally, was also changed: it was “an Ordinary concert” and “Concert of the dolls.”
In 1968 the play was published in a new edition. “Unusual concert” — still business card and one of the most popular productions of the puppet Theatre named after Sergei Obraztsov.
In 1955, Sergey became a member-correspondent of the Berlin Academy of the arts, then tried himself as a screenwriter and Director documentalof covered films and dramas. One of his most famous works — “heavenly creatures”, made at the Studio “Soyuzmultfilm”.
He continued to produce plays and conduct teaching — to work in the Theatre began in 1935 (in 1973 he became a Professor of the Institute).
meanwhile, his theatre began to look at Europe, and then USA — performances were shown there. Foreign audiences in the first place bribed way of communicating with the audience is exemplary.
In 1970, the Theater was given a new building on the Sadovaya-Samotechnaya street. I must say, the artists, and their leader was a pity to leave the old house, but had no choice: we must expand. In addition, the building required thorough repair. New purpose-built theatre to house the Samples were asked to decorate unusual clockwork mechanism: every hour it screams cock, and from the house facade to the tune of “In the garden, in the garden” leaves a figure of fairy-tale character. In the afternoon of their doors at the same time out of 12 dolls.
in 1976, Obraztsova was invited to be the President of the International Union of puppeteers and of the Council of this organization. In this position, he spent eight years, and then became honorary President.
the Title of academic theatre received in 1981. By that time, and he and doll have turned into stars, which applauded Sophia Loren, Indira Gandhi, Yves Montand and many other famous personalities.
And Sergei Vladimirovich wrote the book. He talked about directing and acting work, the skill with the dolls and the secrets of their manufacture. He painstakingly researched his own luck and defeat.
“the Book the film Director as the air, without them I cannot deliver any performance. These are the biggest helpers in the work, best friends,” he said.
He wrote the book “On the steps of memory”, “My Cabinet of curiosities,” “that I saw, learned and understood during two visits to London”, “Actor with puppet”, “My profession”, “Marathon of art” and other. In the latter, he reflects on how all the arts blend together and complement each other.
a Large place in his thought took the doll and the attitude towards them. That’s how he wrote in the introduction to the book “My profession”
