the Play “Adrienne Lecouvreur” of the French actress and friend of Voltaire marked a new period in the Chamber theatre. He was the first premiere after the return of the troupe in the old mansion on Tverskoy Boulevard. 30 years later the same production, the theatre of Alexander Tairov will finish his story.
in 1918, summer, Smolensk. On tour from Moscow there comes a troupe of young performers, headed by Director Alexander Tairov. Brought a few performances — “Salome”, “the Blue carpet”, “toy Box” and “King Arlekin”. The tour was planned a long — from mid-June to late July, a fashion model and soon realized that the four performances are not enough.
the Poster was diluted by several names. Along with “Pavel I” Dmitry Merezhkovsky, “Professor Storitsyn” by Leonid Andreev, “Trivial Comedy” by Oscar Wilde and others appeared in a play by Eugene scribe and Ernest Legouve “Adrienne Lecouvreur.” It was based on real events, told the story of a famous French actress who became a victim of envy and jealousy. Many critics have called “Adrienne Lecouvreur” best premiere of the season, although the setting was made literally on the move.
Costumes for actors rented a local theater and scenery-the screen, indicating the luxurious French interiors, from materials created by the artist Boris ferdinandov. The main role Tairov was appointed the favourite of the audience (and his wife) Alisa Koonen. Beauty for UNC, and an eccentric on stage and in private life, this role has become one of the most important.
the Approach Tairov was avant-garde for his time: he demanded from the actors, besides the actual game, the ability to sing, dance, perform acrobatic stunts and engage in pantomime. Today the name Tairova is on a par with the names of Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Yevgeny Vakhtangov.
After returning from a tour of Alexander Tairov thought a lot about the fate of this play. In the end, he decided to take it thoroughly — where-to Refine, to change. The current composition added and other actors. But the fact that Adrienne will continue to play UNC, was not even discussed. The actress connected with her character, identifying himself with it.
“I Understand that I am not able to turn away from a lifetime of revelry and worldly pleasures. And so ever going to pay for everything. And suffer a lot. I don’t Yermolov, not Rachel. I — modern Adrienne Lecouvreur. I’m too woman for life. Art does not tolerate this”, she wrote in her diary on 4 January 1924.
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In Moscow, the Prime Minister was played on 25 November 1919 in the newly renovated mansion on Tverskoy ��the ul’var (today it is the Moscow drama theatre named after A. S. Pushkin). This building was linked to another story. In 1914 in search of space for his theater Tairov we stopped at a house owned by three brothers Parsinen — students of Moscow University. The house was built a small auditorium and a stage. But the income of the theatre brought modest, and before the revolution of 1917 Parshina kicked out tenants. Temporary accommodation was found on Bolshaya Nikitskaya street, but in practice it was only possible in the evenings. There, the artists have staged “Salome”, who liked to Anatoly Lunacharsky (the first people’s Commissar of education of RSFSR). He helped Tairov to return the mansion on Tverskoy. The building repairs have begun, the company tried a lot of time on the road in rural areas for the work was provided.
triumphant “Adrienne Lecouvreur” theatre really celebrated back home. The show played for 30 years, and then, in 1949, it was his last show before closing the Chamber theatre. In 1950, he became the Pushkin Theatre under the direction of people’s artist of the USSR Vasily Vanina. The era of romanticism has ended and figuratively, and literally — he died in the same 1950.
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If we talk about the play “Adrienne Lecouvreur”, here Alexander Tairov was primarily concerned with the confrontation of unconditional talent and mediocre companies — mostly envious. He wanted to look at the situation in minute detail. It was not enough to show just a gifted woman, had to reflect her loneliness, burdened with love and passion.
in General, Tairov always been pleased with the work of UNC, and then pampering its main roles. He liked the ease with which she tries new roles, experiments, which could not be said about some of her colleagues in the troupe. Tairov used to call them indecisive, often asked to follow the example of Alice Koonen. He believed that the craft of acting rests largely on how the person is able to forget the past experience that is entirely immersed in the new.
With this performance attribute the onset of a new period in the work of Tairov, when he took the trouble to search on the stage the truth of life, real characters and true stories. The first in the USSR, he staged “the Opera of beggars” at the “Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt Brecht. German Creator of didactic theatre, by the way, was very pleased with the performance.
Tairov said that his productions are not for everyone, but for a native audience that understands him, therefore, and a theater called the Chamber. It is the quality and not quantity was important to him even in those difficult circumstances that prevailed in the country in the early ��Of the tenth century.
“Adrienne Lecouvreur” (1849) — the first of three plays jointly written by the French playwrights eugène Scriba and Ernest Legouve. Based on the history of the famous actress of the eighteenth century, played in the prestigious theater “comédie française”. Loved her realistic for the game and a rare beauty, the best role Directors invariably gave her. Her doors were open all the literary salons of Paris. Over time, she created and own, it was visited by dignitaries like Marshal Richelieu, Marquise de Lambert, and Voltaire. The last was her lover.
But the love of her life, she was called count Maurice de Saxe, which fully answered her affection. They have a daughter is the third child of the actress. Life Adrienne was broken in 1730 when she was only 37. Poisoned her 23-year-old Duchess of Bouillon, otdyhatelnoe graph, which are unable to cope with jealousy.
the Tragic story has inspired not only scribe and Legouve. Voltaire wrote in honor of the deceased actress’s ode “On the death of Mademoiselle Lecouvreur”, by the Italian composer Francesco Cilea Opera, and the Director Marcel L Ratio in 1938 made the film. By the way, the first picture of Adrienne was established in 1913, starring Sarah Bernhardt. Tape to the present day has not been preserved.
