Everyone will die

When the performances of the Nyakroshus come to Moscow, the hall is stuffed tightly by celebrities: writers and film experts come, usually the scene who does not complain, directors who do not want to know anyone but themselves in the theater. Famous actors agree to modestly sit on the bail rooms, and students are in the aisles and clusters hang from the tiers. When the nyakroshus brings performances to St. Petersburg, a crowd of students blows doors to the theater, and the night trains of Moscow Piter are scored by Moscow theateraries. In Little Lithuania on the premieres of Nyakroshus, Bomond is present in full force, including ministers and president. Of course: a genius.

He himself does not get to the bow, he does not accept bouquets, and at the receptions in his honor he does not speak speeches and tries to go somewhere in a corner, away from the cameras. The light did not see such a non -public person in this public profession. Journalists know that it is unbearable to interview him: you are herself to kiss, and he is only “yes”, “no”, or “I don’t know”. Now, under the pressure of the producers, even though he began to come at a press conference, but before. However, there is the same: he refuses to explain his directorial position, he believes that this is ugly. He does not want to argue with opponents. He shocks the admirers with the words that “the theater in life is not the most important”, that if he could earn something else, he would stop doing this, and, for example, would plant the forest.

Three days - February 17, 19 and 21 - on the stage of the Mossovet Theater as part of the anniversary touring program "Golden Mask" will be shown to us the Shakespearean performances of Aimuntas Nyakroshus. Three tragedies-the “ Hamlet ” of 1997, the “Macbeth” of 1999 and the “ Othello ” of the 2000, which have already taken their place in a certain imaginary anthology of the best performances of the past century. All three performances of Nyakroshus were already in Moscow, and for most theaters they will not become such a shock as it was the first time. Nevertheless, the ticket cashiers "Golden Masks" say that theater -goers grab tickets very quickly, many buy all over the trilogy at once.

Once a young graduate student Alexei Bartoshevich talked about Shakespeare to the student of the GITISS director's course Goncharov - Nyakroshyus. By the current arrival of the trilogy, the best domestic Shakespeared Bartoshevich will give two lectures on the topic "Shakespearean tragedies in the modern theater" and show on video performances with ingenious English actors, which will confirm the scale of the event.

Those who saw these performances will come to them again. They will come to see how the disheveled Hamlet in a paper shirt stands under a huge chandelier, hung with ice garlands. And ice water drips on his head and chest, a wet blunder breaks, crawling off his boyish shoulders, and he mutters in a fever for revenge: "It is or not to be?" The nyakroshus acts on what is certainly on the first signaling system: we all feel pain, cold and heat. This is not a movie, you won’t grin when Hamlet, listening to his father, stands on an icy block - and she melts under his warm legs, or when, letting himself take revenge, he holds his hand over the fire for a long time.

They will come a second time on McBet, which turned into a inexorable and hopeless tragedy of rock. They will come to see the terrible hallucinations of Macbet, a former soldier -worship and hero, smiling dead with axes in the backs who run around the yard with a “goose step” and get bitten. And among them - the best friend who saved more than once in battle - a ridiculous Banko, also killed by McBet, who followed a terrible prophecy. They will come to hear how all the characters of the performance, in the finale, laying down on the ground, as if covering the battlefield with bodies, Miserera is being made. As young witches begin with high voices, then the rest join, music enters, and the memorial sounds in a powerful choir: “Have mercy on him, Lord,” pray for forgiveness to Macbeta.

They will come for the second time to Othello to see the ship's pitch again. When again and again, not believing the accusations of a harsh, middle -aged Othello, a thin desademona played by ballerina Egle Spark, rushes on his chest. And he, at first, is not able to cope with him, clasps her neck, presses, and then throws it away from himself. She falls and again rushes to him. So they are non -resistant throughout the scene among the soldiers and households under the pipe and piano, under the wars of Faustas Latenas, exhausting the soul.

More recently - in November - Nyakroshus brought to Moscow " The Seasons Donelatisa " according to Lithuanian classics Christionas Donelachitis. This dilogy, as was already twice with the production of a nyakoshus, was recognized as the best foreign performance last year in Russia. "Seasons" will also be brought to the "mask", only in April, to the final. It is in this “peasant” performance, where there is not a single Lithuanian star, but only unknown youth, in action similar to the Bess -Messed series of fresh inclined sketches, which are often made in theater universities, the “farm” roots of all the productions of the nyakroshus became so obvious. His direct connection was opened with the archaic thoroughness, stability of life "on Earth", where there is no place for ambiguity and there is nothing more important than love, family, home and simple labor associated with nature. In essence, he always staged performances about it.

The world in the nyakoshusa stands on a man, father, husband. On the worker and the defender. That was Macbeth - a happy soldier who returned home with a victory, carrying, like a trophy, a tree of desires decorated with bright paper lanterns and notes -wishes. Macbeth - strong, conscientious and clean, and failed to overcome the witch curse, but went his terrible way to the end with his eyes open, took out his wife’s body from the “battlefield” and himself appeared for execution. This was also Othello, who was played by the chief actor of the nyakroshus - the restrained and powerful Vladas Bagdonas, - a middle -aged general, a gray -bearded healthy sinewood worker, for whom war and sea are real and familiar work. The Shakespearean “Hamlet” Nyakroshus put as a story about his father and son, and the same Bagdonas played Hamlet -father - strong, power, laconic. He came from the afterlife not for the sake of revenge, but for the sake of his son, in order to raise him as a man.

In the noisy, crowded scenes of the “seasons”, where young people fall out into the street under the first cold sun, where one of the boys breaks their heads on a rink or all over the spill along a thin bridge, where they listen to a whistle -salt, they quarrel and eat Shrovetide pancakes, one of the heroes also acquires the archetypal features of the father - it turns out to be an eldest and protector, a teacher, a teacher, a teacher, a teacher, a teacher. and pastor. The strongest, the most strict, smartest, the most kind. The head and support are a real man.

A woman in the performances of a nanny is always almost a girl. Tall, thin, flexible: runs, laughs, naughty and wraps a man, like a branch - a powerful barrel. Shakespearean Desdemona and Ophelia, Chekhovsky Irina and Anya are gentle and defenseless, which make up the joy of a man’s life and die without him. They speak with high voices and walk somehow especially - on socks - very light and some kind of childish, bouncing step. Nyakroshus loves when there are a lot of girls on the stage - their grimaces and coquetry, their brush, similar to the bribberry of birds, their crunning and running around. The laughing desrademona is worn with friends, saddling the submissive pure of Cassio, jumping, spinning, bursting with Macbetes, fooling around and teasing the sisters of the Prozorovs, rummaging and playing a hide and seek funny girls from the dying "cherry garden", inflaming bridegrooms by brisk and sculpture baptismal Girls from the "Seasons".

Even in the universe of the Nyakroshus there is a teenage son. Cheerful and impudent, cocky like a rooster, fearless and stubborn. And adoring his father, like God. This is Hamlet, who was played by the Lithuanian rock singer Andryus Mamontov - a boy in an elongated sweater, with Pankovsky hedgehog and earring in his ear. However, as the nyakroshus says, the point is not that he is a teenager by year: "A man under 35 is still a child, he has not yet developed." He knows - he has two sons.

But the most important thing for a nyakoshus is a house, a family. A house with your way of way, with the usual rituals, old nicknames, games, roles. With a warm atmosphere of universal support and friendliness. In all Chekhov’s productions of Nyakroshus - the Lithuanian “three sisters”, the Russian “Cherry Garden”, the Italian “Seagull” - the hospitable and love house attracts to itself. When Gayev seats a bunch of sweets from his pockets in the “Cherry Garden” in the “cherry garden” of Gayev and begins old home games - with bulleting candy and gluing candy wrappers, the hall comes in with delight. In the warm and cheerful house of the “three sisters” of the Prozorov, abandoned by one, - there is immediately picked up by the other, in which everyone participates with the most serious mines, up to the old nanny, discharged with common laughter and do not offend anyone.

The house is the foundation of the world, and - according to the nanny - there is nothing worse than the destruction of the house, the breakdown of family ties. In the terrible Shakespearean performances, heroes, destroying the house, die themselves. Wanting to take revenge for his father, a teenager-maximalist Hamlet is filled with destruction, like a bullet, destroying both his mother and his favorite stupid offeree and himself. Othello, who dreamed about the family, cannot reconcile with the fact that his young wife is more fun with young friends. Both will die. Damned Macbeth cannot protect the fragile wife from Rock, who hurts her with his wing. And after her death he himself goes to execution. The house will disappear, everyone will die: a man - father and husband, a defenseless woman and a naughty son.

And if it also happens in our theater "Cleansing through suffering", which is called catharsis, then it is here, in the performances of the nanny. In Shakespearean performances.