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Rimas Tuminas (center) with artists at rehearsal

In the photo: At rehearsal: Efraim Dudak (Sergei Makovetsky) and Shmule-Sender Lazarek (Evgeniy Knyazev)

In the photo: At the rehearsals: Avner Rosenthal (Victor Sukhorukov)

Before our eyes, from baskets, boxes, bags, suitcases, chairs, stools and cabinets, a convoy grows on stage - as huge as a mountain or like the Tower of Babel

At the Theater. Vakhtangov's play " Smile on Us, Lord"

The new work of Rimas Tuminas will definitely attract everyone's attention: after all, the previous big premiere of the Theater named after. Vakhtangov, " Eugene Onegin", a year ago became one of the main events of the season. And a real audience hit: tickets for the next five performances in March and April are already completely sold out. And if “ Eugene Onegin” turned out to be a large-scale canvas, where the black mirror - the main detail of the scenography - reflected the huge vanished world of Russian life, then the new performance should become a picture of Jewish life.

The play is based on a duology by Grigory Kanovich, an 84-year-old Russian-Jewish writer born in Lithuania and now living in Israel. It consists of the novels “ A Little Goat for Two Pennies” and “ Smile on Us, Lord” and tells about the life of the inhabitant of the town of the stonemason Ephraim and his children, and through them - about the history of Lithuanian Jewry in the first half of the 20th century. Tuminas already staged a play with the same name - “ Smile on us, Lord” in 1994 at the Maly Theater in Vilnius , but twenty years have passed since then, and today this story will probably sound different. However, at the center of it will be the same plot: the journey of 80-year-old Ephraim from the town to Vilna, where one of his four children, son Hirsh, is to stand trial for the attempt on the life of the governor-general. And the main theme, judging by the rehearsal I attended, will be the theme of fatherhood ( “The most unfortunate creatures on earth are parents,” Ephraim sighs in the play), the long path that must be taken to understand your child.

Grigory Kanovich's language is aphoristic, his stories are almost parables, although there is a lot of irony in them. One of the most powerful moments will probably be the scene in which the whole town gathers Ephraim and his friends on the road. Before our eyes, in a matter of minutes, a convoy grows on stage from baskets, boxes, bags, suitcases, chairs, stools and cabinets - as huge as a mountain or like the Tower of Babel, where there is everything you need for life. The music of composer Faustas Latenas, powerful, alarming, growing, only emphasizes the scope of this image: the convoy is like a whole world that the Jew carries with him everywhere.

The play has a strong cast. The main role in different casts is played by two stars of the Theater. Vakhtangov - Sergei Makovetsky and Vladimir Simonov . In addition to old Ephraim, his fellow countrymen will also set off on the same cart. The role of one of them, Shmule-Sender Lazarek, will be performed in turn by Evgeny Knyazev and Alexey Guskov . The second fellow countryman, Avner Rosenthal, will be played by Viktor Sukhorukov , who was specially invited to this performance . Tuminas would not be Tuminas without its “ trademark” ironic-grotesque intonation: these elderly inhabitants of the town are caricatures, but at the same time touching.

“Lord Smile on Us” is a predominantly male story. There are few female roles here, but among them there is a special character - the Goat. This is the only living creature that lives in the old man’s house ( however, when getting ready for the journey, Ephraim also says goodbye to spiders and mice) and is very attached to him. The goat is played by Yulia Rutberg : in white clothes and white boots, with a bell around her neck, she dances melancholy and quietly freezes, hugging Ephraim before parting. And it becomes clear that this Goat is not an animal, but also not a person, but a certain feminine essence: submissive, faithful, yearning for affection.

March 7, 8, vakhtangov.ru .

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