“the unearthly evening” — one of the first performances of the theatre “Sphere” that emerged in the early 1980s. the Setting is saved in his repertoire until now — it has evolved into dedication once invented his Yekaterina Yelanskaya.
on 1 January 1981. Concert hall named after P. I. Tchaikovsky. The scene is immersed in pleasant shade, scenery no. The sounds of live organ music and poetry of the Silver age in the performance of the actors. Just a poetry evening? Those who came the first day of the new year in the hall named after Tchaikovsky as well, knew that this is a real performance.
Director Yekaterina Yelanskaya wanted to bring the viewer out of the confines of plot twists, turns and to pay attention to the beauty of the human voice. Among the actors who took part in the production, were stars such as Gennady Bortnikov Evgeny Kindinov, Lilia Tolmacheva, Alexander Lazarev and others. Then in addition to that already available to the invited artists Elanskaya will call into the show even Henrietta Egorov, Vitaly Solomin and Mikhail Kazakov. They gladly agree — “otherworldly evening” will quickly become a legend. For Evgenia Simonova invitation will be a surprise: she thought the poetry reading was not her strong suit. However, the Director managed to prove to the audience and the actress that it is not.
the play was based on the eponymous book by Marina Tsvetaeva written in 1936 in the Paris emigration. Your “otherworldly evening” yearning for the Motherland Tsvetaeva devoted writer and composer Mikhail Kuzmin. Elanskaya took from the book a story about one the poetry of 1916 in St. Petersburg, which Tsvetaeva recalled with special warmth. Along with Tsvetayeva’s prose in the play includes poems of Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Blok, Sergei Yesenin, Osip Mandelstam, Nikolai Gumilev and other poets.
Then, in 1981, the name of the theatre “Sphere” was not yet known. A small group of enthusiasts had just gathered under the leadership of Yelanskiy. The performances were played at different venues — their home, the theatre had not been the first four years. But in the same 1981 “Sphere” has received the official status after ceasing to be a Studio theater. The name is left — Elanskaya believed that it reflects the proximity to the viewer, she liked the expression “sphere of communication”.
the Building in the garden “Hermitage”, where the theater is today, he received in 1985. Ekaterina Elanskaya helped to develop the architectural project, which is able to accommodate it invented the auditorium into a circular amphitheater. No backstage, no curtain, no scenery: that there is no room anywhere else in the capital. Initially, the artists even a little embarrassed: was not the usual scenery of and surrounding the ring stage, the audience saw them from all sides.
Without decorations and borders. How does the theater “Sphere”
Catherine Ate��warriors nskaya, the daughter of the Moscow art Theater actress Claudia Yelanskaya and directed by Ilya Sudakov, the beginning of a creative way on stage. After graduating from the School-Studio of the Moscow art theatre, she served in the Maly theater. Soon I realized that she wants to put on plays, and enrolled in the graduate school GITIS in the directing Department.
She loudly declared itself in 1967, when put “the Little Prince” at the Moscow drama theater named after K. S. Stanislavsky (now “Electrotheatre Stanislavsky”). The performance so impressed the audience that the tickets were sold out immediately as soon as they got to the cash register. Elanskaya staged performances in the Theater named Yermolova, the “contemporary”. The performances were with the same house, gradually she began to think about my own theater.
After a successful start was followed by hits such “Spheres” as “Letters to the stranger” Andre Maurois, “There, far away…” Basil Shukshina, “the Seagull” by Anton Chekhov, “the Kingdom — on the table!” Ibsen and others. Elanskaya loved the creativity of Mikhail Bulgakov, therefore, could not ignore it, becoming one of the first Directors who made “the Fatal eggs”. In 1985, she moved to the stage “Theatrical novel” — the wide range of Bulgakov’s mocking legendary conflict of the founders of the Moscow art Theater Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
In 2013, the “otherworldly evening” received a second edition shortly after Catherine Yelanskaya of life. The show took up her son, the new head of the “Spheres” Alexander Korshunov. Production is now dedicated to the memory of the founder of a unique theatre.
the Performance begins before the audience go to the gym. In the foyer of sound recordings of poets of the sixties: Bulat Okudzhava, Vladimir Vysotsky, Andrei Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina.
the cast has expanded. If the earlier poems were recited no more than six to nine people, now more than 15 artists. Of legendary composition was only Eugene Kindinov. Kites also invited Valery Barinov, Anatoly Smiranin, Irina Mergenevo and others. Involved in the play and the Director.
the new version has enlarged not only participants, but also poets, whose verses are heard from the stage: together with the poetry of Akhmatova and Blok actors read the lines of poets of later generations — Boris Red, Yuri Arabov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Arseny Tarkovsky.
