The ark saves everyone

A movie about the theater was shown on the new scene of Vakhtangovsky

On the new stage of the Vakhtangov Theater, the film was held. They showed two films just shot: “Rimas's Ark” and “Oedipus in the Epidaurus”. Both of them are about Rimas Tuminas and his way to live in art.

The first film was made by Omichi: Elena Mamontova and Igor Vakhitov went with Tuminas to the homeland of Yevgeny Vakhtangov, walked together and drove through the places of his childhood and youth, took a long interview from Tuminas, saturated the film with discussions about the highest purpose of the artist. But Tuminas destroys this attempt on the front portrait “against the background” itself, simply being inside the events: it opposes any plan, except its own, grows from any framework except the chosen by himself. He sits at the table and simply talks - and at the same time is so natural and reliable, so simple and essential in his attempts to formulate unformed that pathos author’s rhetoric looks somewhat excessive. The master of stage poetry, Tuminas chooses large optics and the most important issues for his thoughts. And even the story of the apples of the last crop that the house stores, becomes a metaphor for life and death in his lips.

But the second film - Oedipus in the Epidaurus made with a professional class. Alexander Softchenkov and Marina Merkulova created a documentary chronicle, a step -by -step history of staging the tragedy of Sophocles “King Oedipus” in Greece. Their film is captured by the many, with the golden grains of the details, the accuracy of the atmosphere: it has the merciless sun of the Greek Augustus, and the softness of the night that sheltered rehearsal, and the hum of the amphitheater for 12 thousand people, and the amazing metaphors of the play (bird screams, two girls in white, rotation of a huge black pipe). In a word, the whole complex assembly of the machine of the performance, one of the most honed, thought out and at the same time inspired creations of Tuminas. There are also its always co -authors - composer Faustas Latenas and the scenographer Adomas Yatsovskis. The camera fixes a combination of doubts and will, fear and excitement in all participants in the events - actors, the Greek choir, and Horevta himself, in a white shirt, a man burnt by the sun, forcing the most famous antique myth to speak with the 21st century.

This year Tuminas turned 65 and 10 years since he headed the Vakhtangov Theater. His parish became a new era not only in the life of the theater, but also in the theatrical life of the capital. The Lithuanian farm has long mastered the language of parables, its genre is an epic. And the replicas stored by the creators of both films open and mask it at the same time:

- ... a little moon, a little darkness - and there will be the atmosphere of the finale ...

- ... man is a particle of God

- ... I do not like to rehearse, I love to understand!

Tuminas is a modern Prospero, it knows how to grow both cucumbers and roles, knows how the earth smells and how far the sky. Hmel lover, he has one of the most sober and mysteriously arranged heads in the theater.

And gratefully quoting Ostrovsky - “Lithuania fell on us from the sky” - we congratulate him on the day of the theater! He and everyone who creates suffers and rejoices for the glory of this most important game of mankind.