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Something went wrong from the very beginning. First, the St. Petersburg near -cultural public added to the compounded performance “BDT. Return ”is a hysterical introduction, the general meaning of which was summarized by the difficult desire to teach Andrei the mighty to love the theater entrusted to him and his subordinates. Everyone who listened to this clicious overture (her echoes continue to sound until now) immediately and unconditionally wanted to guess, one - to accept with a bang everything that the mighty with the comrades did at the opening of the updated BDT. Moreover, nothing, as they say, did not bode. The ocular structure of the festive ceremonial looked spectacular: last Friday, an Open-Air world was planned, on Sunday-a quiet evening in a home circle for the troupe and friends of the theater. The background of the mighty, back in the nineties of street performances, and by the end of the zero, who had made the chief specialist in Russia in Russia, forcoming all stripes and calibers, forced to wait for both parts of the project, if not with a stinking, then at least with confidence that everything would be held at the level.

Perhaps too high expectations are to blame, perhaps the monstrous stress was affected by the entire BDT body today, but one way or another, a series of events dedicated to the completion of the three -year reconstruction of the theater turned out to be a grandiose embarrassment for his new leadership. The parade-alle of the troupe on one day turned into a large dramatic street to Leshtukov Bridge neither logistics nor the genre reminded of a noisy carnival that had shown in his dreams: to watch this, in essence, for a single viewer, was conveniently convenient from the prime minister of the Russian Federation, his little retinue and a few retinue and his little retinue and a few retin The journalists who joined them - the other inappropriate, so to speak, the organizers of the procession simply did not take into account. Having worked out a mandatory program on Friday, Sunday evening it would be logical to abandon any officialdom - but, as luck would have it, broadcast on the gigantic screen of the video chronicle met BDT guests with close plans for the ceremonial smiles of Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev and Andrei Anatolyevich Mogeliy.

The opening ceremony of the History BDT building once again shook the fragmentation and the confusion that own its leadership today.

Further - more: dull speeches, rubber timing, not even trying to pretend to be a set of inserting numbers. Once, it was possible to discharge the atmosphere only in the vice-governor Vasily Kichadzhi, who had shone with the first-glass meme, who ranked the BDT to the number of the same symbols of St. Petersburg as a copper rider and a shot column. The culmination of the evening - and its justification - could become, in theory, crowning the opening ceremony of a half -hour performance, which at the same time presented the public, the unique capabilities of the reconstructed scene of the BDT and ritually collecting the illustrious troupe on its renewed stages, led by Oleg Basilashvili and Alice Freindlich. However, the fantasies of the authors were enough only to warm up the on -duty dish from the roughly covered Chekhovsky Beaux Mots, which was being served on every first student cabbage: Anton Pavlovich, of course, is our everything, and his plays are a metatex of Russian life, but the habit of decorating the festive theater table with this specialty became at least a bad tone for already a certain amount years ago.

The point, of course, is by no means in the private failure of Andrei Mogeliy and his team, but in the indicative inc ray of this faux PAS . When last summer the BDT announced his plans for the coming season, it was difficult not to marvel at how weakly they, frankly random and optional, are knitting with the progressive program declarations of the head of the great dramatic: engaged by the theater Andrzej Buben, Elmo Nyugan and Viktor Kramer - directors of yesterday, if not for the day, the agenda, and their invitation to the day It is difficult not to perceive cooperation as evidence of confusion and the lack of a clear strategic line of development of the theater among the current BDT. Starging between officialdom and routine, the opening ceremony of the historical building of the Bolshoi Drama once again shook the fragmentation and the confusion that the leadership of the theater today. Perhaps the answers to the accumulated questions to the BDT artistic director will be contained in the play based on Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s novel “What to do?” - Andrei Mogeliy plans to release him in the coming November, - but for the eighteen months that have past since his appointment, there were too many of them in any case.