the curtain of the 1970 — Dec 30 — at theatre of a name of Mayakovsky came the play, which was destined soon to Eclipse the popularity of the loudest performances of the season. “A streetcar named Desire” by Tennessee Williams directed by Andrey Goncharov — these two conditions to the public, hurrying to the theatre of the winter evening, was enough.
the potters came in the Mayakovsky Theater in 1967 and literally breathed new life into it. “A streetcar named Desire” became the fourth of its production in this theatre and the first production of Williams in Moscow. The General public, the name of the American playwright was already familiar: regularly they wrote in the journal “Foreign literature”, and in 1967 he published a collection “”the Glass menagerie” and nine plays” in Vladica Nedelina.
One of the nine plays was “Streetcar named Desire”, a passionate, terrible and bitter history, in the spirit of southern Gothic. The story impressed the Soviet reader. One hot summer day in a small poor town somewhere in New Orleans, gave the world a particular style of jazz, on a visit to her younger sister Stella arrives, Blanche Dubois, a nervous teacher with the manners of the aristocrat. My sister is married to a simple laborer Stanley Kowalski, whom she loved despite his partying and scandals. They begin to live together, and between nerve Blanche gross and Kowalski, something runs — whether a black cat, or spark. All over bad — doom is read in the first pages of the play, and although Blanche tries to escape from the fate to escape in the arms of a simple guy Mitchell.
Andrei Goncharov was one of those who admired the work of Tennessee Williams. He certainly wanted to introduce him to the domestic audience. Before him, American playwright in our country did not put. In his book “My pageant addiction,” he described his first impression of the piece:
the potters made the brackets the fact that it occurs in the southern United States, did not delve into the socio-cultural features of New Orleans. But made some adjustments to the plot: if the original final Blanche takes called Stanley kareta psychiatric hospital, Goncharov all ended with a happy end.
the Scenery made easy — the situation is poor in the apartment. But the actors on stage were great. A lover of the beautiful life of Blanche was played by Svetlana Nemolyaeva, her soft-hearted sister — Svetlana misery, and Stanley Kowalski, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.
Audiences and critics, and the audience was delighted. Theatrical critic Vitaly Woolf in his review of the play wrote: “a Premiere in the Mayakovsky Theater was an event not only theatrical, but also the intellectual life of Moscow.”
“man of La Mancha”. Remembering the legendary performance of theatre of Mayakovsky
Pic��e productions at the Mayakovsky Theater works of Tennessee Williams began to put in other theatres. In 1974, at the Moscow youth Theatre came “the Glass menagerie” with Lydia Kniazeva in the role of Amanda in 1978 in the Theater first showed “the Sweet bird of youth”, a few years later, the Roman Viktyuk put there “Tattooed rose,” Irina Miroshnichenko. In 1981, Andrei Goncharov put at theatre of a name of Mayakovsky Williams — his “Cat on a hot tin roof” Tatiana Doronin.
“the Tram “Desire”” for a long time been associated with two names: in the role of Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski Moscow theater audience could not imagine anyone other than Svetlana Nemolyaeva and Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.
Nemolyaeva got the role in “Streetcar named Desire”, being a theatrical star. Future occupation, she decided in high school, he entered the Higher theatre school named after M. S. Schepkin, and in 1959 joined the troupe of the Mayakovsky Theater, debuting in the role of Ophelia in “hamlet”.
Her Blanche was a sensation — so Nemolyaeva got into the way and appearance, and playing style. It was the longest role in her career — partners in “the Tram “Desire”” had changed, but Blanche was the only 24 years of existence, productions. She was so used to the image of a woman who is on the verge of a nervous breakdown that Goncharov could not replace her with another actress.
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, who played Stanley, came to the Mayakovsky Theater in 1969, he was invited by Andrei Goncharov. Prior to that, served as an actor in “Lenkom”. Many viewers went to “Tram “Desire”” it is because Dzhigarkhanyan, who managed to appear in 18 movies and was a real celebrity. Behind him was already starring in the films “Hello, it’s me!”, “Operation “Trust”” and “Triangle”.
In 2016, the premiere of “Streetcar” took place in Moscow drama theatre led by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. It was a tribute to the play in hero where Armen Borisovich has reincarnated more than 20 years. In this version the role Stanley played Anatoly kot.
Tennessee Williams wrote the play in 1947, and a year later received the Pulitzer prize and worldwide fame. Three years later came the film adaptation of “Streetcar named Desire” with Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh, filmed Elia Kazan. The film won prizes at the Venice film festival, a Golden globe, an Oscar and many other awards. One of the nominations for “Oscar” went personally to the Williams, to rewrite his play into the script at the request of the cauldron.
Williams said in “Streetcar named Desire” reflected his own fears. At 24 years old, long before the writing of this play, he had a nervous breakdown, he retired from the international Shoe company. He didn’t like this work, he felt another calling. However, worst job cleaning traits one of his colleagues, the playwright has subsequently invested in the image of Stanley.
Williams said at the end of the 1930s. His plays began to receive prizes and grants, many were staged in the theaters. For example, “the Glass menagerie” showed on Broadway. The title went long with posters.
But after “Streetcar,” which was a resounding success, the playwright was afraid to write something again, and suddenly not be able to withstand the bar, suddenly the rest of the play will be much worse? Fears were unfounded: the subsequent works, including “Cat on a hot tin roof”, “Orpheus descends into hell” and “night of the iguana” only confirmed the achievements of the past.
