This season, the Moscow Theater-Studio directed by O. Tabakov celebrated a housewarming by opening a second stage on Sukharevskaya. And half of the repertoire safely moved to a more spacious hall, accommodating many times more spectators. The theater’s premiere, “The Nameless Star,” was also among the “lucky ones.” Whether the performance itself benefited from this is a moot point. A chamber production directed by A. Marin, the scenery is designed for a small stage. Having played the premiere in February of this year, the performance was constantly sold out. But the small hall is Chistye Prudy could not accommodate everyone. Therefore, the move to a more spacious hall “played into the hands”, first of all, of the spectators, otherwise it was not a good idea to look at the “stars” from the basement.

The action takes place in a small Romanian town. Nothing ever happened there. The main place of “attraction” for residents is the station, and an extraordinary event happened here. A girl is taken off the express train. In an expensive dress, with a chic hairstyle and at the same time absolutely no money. She captivates the poor astronomy teacher Mira, whose main meaning in life was the stars. This play was written by the Romanian writer M. Sebastian, who lived a short and tragic life. This is probably one of his most famous works. IN different times The play was staged by many theaters, but it gained particular popularity after its film adaptation in 1978 by M. Kazakov, who himself played one of the main roles there - the arrogant Grieg, and the poor astronomy teacher Mira and the stranger Mona - I. Kostolevsky and A. Vertinskaya. And this film was included in the list of our golden fund. Partly because of the film adaptation, many subsequent performances bore the imprint of this film. The characters in the film were very memorable.

In “Tabakerka” they took the path of infusing “young blood” - the main characters are played not by older artists, but by young people in the person of P. Tabakov and A. Chipovskaya. And this gave the whole performance a certain touch of drama, since before us are not people tired of life or vegetating, but a generation that is only at the beginning of its journey, not very spoiled and “stained” by the realities of life. Everything is still ahead, you can still dream and believe. That is why what is happening will be much more tragic, that during the period when we must open up, when we still have a chance to change our way of life and put life on the “right track,” we choose the path according to the principle of “least resistance.” Having been afraid of difficulties and everyday problems, having exchanged the valuable feeling that was given to us for our own prosperous existence. And it seems that with one act Mona can ruin two lives at once.

This romantic story, where the astronomer is a dreamy and naive young man, and not a wise man, as we are used to seeing before, - according to at least, this image is shown to us by Pavel Tabakov, who simply due to his age cannot play him like that. Anna Chipovskaya is 100% organic in this role. She seems more confused about life than simply calculating. And the image of Grieg (V. Chepurenko) is more reminiscent of a modern young man, wasting his life, the more mature the man, and the more cynical his behavior. The role of Mademoiselle Kuku (A. Lapteva) is done on the verge of farce. But at the same time, it was her character who was responsible for the entire comedic component of the performance.

In this production there is no need to look for similarities with the film. This performance is about something else - it’s about ours modern world, where completely different values ​​rule, and from luxurious life It’s becoming more and more difficult to refuse, especially when there are so many temptations. Mona remained an unattainable star for Mira. She turned his world upside down, but he never could. After all, a star can be seen only if it changes its course of movement, and it cannot do this.

When the sun seems to have left us, and there is endless autumn rain outside the window, we really want something bright, positive... So, it’s time to go to the theater, for example, to the play “Nameless Star”. This play by Romanian playwright Mihai Sebastian is practically never released from Russian theaters. theatrical stage and in Moscow alone it is shown on the stages of several theaters at once. Most recently she appeared at the Theater under the direction of Oleg Tabakov, in the production Alexandra Marina With Anya Chipovskaya And Pavel Tabakov starring.

It's time to look into that very “Tabakerka”, a cozy basement on Chaplygina Street, which made its presence known almost 30 years ago. The play on which the performance was based appeared much earlier. At the height of World War II, Mihai Sebastian, as if in contrast to the horrors of war, wrote a tender story of unfulfilled love. The "Nameless Star" was first presented to the public in 1944 and had resounding success. In 1956, it was “The Nameless Star” staged Georgy Tovstonogov brought Bolshoi out of a creative impasse drama theater, which was then literally on the verge of collapse.

This is a story about an unexpected meeting of an astronomy teacher in a small provincial town with a mysterious, beautiful stranger from the capital, who was dropped off at the station of this outback for traveling without a ticket. She's wearing an expensive dress, but in her purse there's only perfume and casino chips. He wears a shabby suit and ancient boots, since he spends all the money he earns on books. It's like they live in parallel worlds. Perhaps they were created for each other, but, as we know, “not a single star deviates from its path.”

“The play is written about the impossibility happy love, the kind that comes to us in dreams, that we dream about. Such love only happens in the past, in our memories, when we think that it was then that we were happy,” the production director said on the eve of the premiere Alexander Marin. Both in the play itself and in the performance, drama and comedy, dreams and disappointment coexist. Each character lives in a real, boring and monotonous world, but dreams of a different life, happy and beautiful. Isn’t this how almost every one of us lives? That is why this performance finds such a response from the audience. Everyone in the audience was involved in the action taking place on stage and reacted to the mise-en-scène so openly as is rarely the case in modern theater. Sometimes the “reaction to reaction” was funny: an “ah” that involuntarily escaped from the lips of one of the spectators - as if he had been slapped in the face by Mona (Anya Chipovskaya), and not by her friend Grig ( Vyacheslav Chepurchenko), who appeared so inopportunely for her, caused surprised and approving laughter from the entire hall. In this production it is impossible to divide the characters into “main” and “non-main” - here everyone is equal. How deliciously the artist conveys the image of his sensual hero, the station master Sergey Belyaev, and how incredibly grotesque Mademoiselle Coucou is Alena Lapteva.

The initially ridiculous music teacher and symphony author Udrya commands respect Fedora Lavrova, which no one needs in this musty town. All the actors involved in the play seem to have been created for their roles. In this situation, it is difficult to evaluate the performance of the leading actors - they were absolutely adequate to their characters. The irresistible Anya Chipovskaya (Mona) in a silver dress seemed to have descended from heaven into that provincial town. “And the shoulders are bare, and the arms are bare, and the back is bare,” the station chief kept repeating, looking at this marvelous thing. And Pavel Tabakov (Miroyu), with his gentle youthful oval face, fits the role like no one else pure in heart astronomy teacher. I couldn’t help but remember our old film based on this play, made Mikhail Kozakov in 1978. Then in “The Nameless Star” the main roles were played Igor Kostolevsky And Anastasia Vertinskaya. It seemed that few people would be able to compete with them from Tabakerka, but Anna Chipovskaya and Pavel Tabakov did it.

On the approaches to the theater on Chaplygina Street, bright posters announce the main event of the new season - the opening of the new stage of the “Tabakerka” on Sukharevskaya Square: “Happy new home, Oleg Pavlovich!” There, the audience will be delighted by new productions, and, of course, new names will shine. But the play “Nameless Star” is undoubtedly destined long life. Not all theatergoers strive to participate in the “mind games” of fashionable directors. For the most part, the public prefers the good old theater, where the main thing is good drama and acting.

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The play “Nameless Star” at the Oleg Tabakov Theater

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Mihai Sebastian is a Romanian novelist and playwright. His most famous play, The Nameless Star, was written at the height of the war, in 1942. An amazing passenger arrives in a tiny Romanian town by courier: gorgeous dress, expensive perfume, exquisite cosmetics - and not a penny in your pocket. What brought her here, where ducks wander right through the station, and local schoolchildren come running to look at the fast train as if it were an unprecedented miracle? This is the question asked by a young astronomy teacher at a local school.

Full of surprises, the story of sudden love balances between comedy and drama, between lyricism and farce, laughter and tears. The heroes of the play “Nameless Star” are trying to resolve simple and at the same time unusual difficult questions: Is happiness possible without money? Is it possible to dramatically change the usual way of social life for the sake of love?

The Moscow theater-studio under the direction of Oleg Tabakov opened a second stage on Sukhorevskaya. This theater is striking in its modernity and is truly very beautiful. Particularly worth noting is the convenient auditorium, in which, however, there were some oddities with the first five rows, which were made without lifting, as a result, those sitting in front do not allow those sitting behind to look...

Our choice fell on the play “Nameless Star”.

For those who have never seen the film, I will quote the summary.

An amazing passenger arrives in a tiny Romanian town on a courier (author's note: you have to understand, a train): a chic dress, expensive perfume, exquisite cosmetics - and not a penny in her pocket. What brought her here, where ducks wander right through the station, and local schoolchildren come running to look at the fast train as if it were an unprecedented miracle? This is the question asked by a young astronomy teacher at a local school.
Full of surprises, the story of sudden love balances between comedy and drama, between lyricism and farce, laughter and tears. The heroes are trying to resolve simple and at the same time unusually complex questions: is happiness possible without money, is it possible for the sake of love to dramatically change the usual way of social life.

Having read all this and watched the trailer, only one desire arises - to see the play as soon as possible, especially in one of the reviews, it was written that “In “Snuffbox” they took the path of infusion of “young blood” - the main characters are played not by aged actors, but youth represented by Pavel Tabakov and Anna Chipovskaya. And this gave the whole performance a certain touch of drama, since before us are not people tired of life or vegetating, but a generation that is only at the beginning of its journey...”

“How original!” we thought and... bought tickets. But the performance was a failure. It all started with the scenery, which, as it turned out, was transported from the first small theater and are completely unadapted to a stage that is twice as large. As a result, the action takes place in the center, and on the sides, about five meters to the left and right, a space covered with curtains. No, it may well be very original from the point of view of some artistic vision, but it is very bad for the audience sitting on the edges. Luckily we were sitting in the middle...

And then discussions begin on the topic that nature rests on the children of geniuses. I’m not trying to compare Pavel and Oleg Tabakov at all. But to be honest, I really feel sorry for this guy who was forced by his family to become an actor. He is 22 years old. He has very good acting technique, which is not surprising given such heredity. But by himself he is completely devoid of theatrical charisma, if not faceless, and on stage he appears as something cold, sucking the light out of the surrounding actors. He could probably become a good director, I don’t know. Rest characters they play well. The performance begins to sparkle when Pavel Tabakov is not on stage, and in his presence everything somehow fades, as if for some reason they are afraid of the son of the theater director... Anna Chipovskaya, unfortunately, is not as good in this role as they attribute it to her, portraying it on stage, a person not so much aristocratic as vulgar. I'm not even trying to compare the show and the movie because I was never a big fan. But ultimately the story is about one very strange great love, turns into a story of seduction of a high school student who was accidentally named an astronomy teacher. I don’t understand how it could have occurred to anyone to bet on main role a “baby” who, it seems to me, doesn’t really want all this.

It's a pity that there are no theaters feedback with the audience. Nowadays they don’t throw rotten vegetables at actors. All halls are full. No vacant tables. True, this is not an indicator of the quality of the performance, but an indicator of how big Moscow is and how much the theater itself is now in demand. Honestly, it’s sad, and it’s just right to stage a play about how children are doomed to inherit the professions of their parents and what comes of it.