Chamber Music Theater. Pokrovsky

"Read" thousand and one night ", read the fantastic stories of Hoffman, overfine the pages of Jules Verne, Main Reed, Wells - and then, perhaps you will get some idea about how the chamber theater arose, or rather, how to The last moment we ourselves did not know whether he really originated or it was only a hot nonsense, "Capricheo" of our theatrical imagination "- so wrote Alexander Tairov, inspirer, creator and director of the chamber theater. Of course, the miracle was that Alisa Koonen. I left MHT, and the fact that the feasibility of Marjanov with the creation of a free theater, where all theatrical genres would coexist, lasted the season, and the fact that Mardzhanov invited Tairov, who had already been almost spreading with the theater, put two performances, and what he agreed, And of course, the miracle was the meeting of Alice Koonen and Alexander Tairova!

The most successful performances of the free theater were Tairovsky "Covered Pierretta" and "Yellow sweater"In which Alice Koonen played the main role. Fate did not favor Mardzhanov, and the free theater broke up, putting the beginning of the chamber. A group of young people without money, connections and premises were already theater, everything else did not slow down to attach. There was a mansion on the Tver Boulevard, which, by legend, was indicated by Tairov Alisa Konen. "We wanted to have a small chamber audience of our viewers, the same dissatisfied and seekers, like us, we wanted to immediately tell the theater man in theater that we were not looking for His friendship, and we do not want his afternoon visits," explained Tairov the essence of the theater name .

"Liberated" theater

The creators of the new theater had their own program. It consisted in renunciation from all the areas that existed then. The director with his like-minded people offered to create a "liberated theater", plastic, effective, emotional, speaking his purely theatrical language. Tairov as if scolded the entire history of the theater, establishing new relations with literature, music, space, painting. And most importantly, brought up a new actor, masterfully owning his body, voice, emotion that can be a dancer, a singer, an acrobat, a dramatic artist, which is capable of absolutely free to feel in two main genres of chamber theater - tragedy and buffonade.

The theater opened 12 (25) December 1914 by the drama of the ancient Indian author Kalidas Sakuntala. The history of the tragic love of Sakuntala, which Alice Koonen played brilliantly, was a great success. But the new system was not immediately. Genuine victory was obsessed on the performance "Famir Kiifared" In the tragedy of Innokentia Annensky. Separate finds merged, finally, in a single whole. In the performance, everything was harmonious: and the production of A. Tairov, and the fundamentally new constructivist design of A. Exter, and Music A. Forter ... "Famira Kifeda" impressed the bomb. Even the opponents of the new theater were forced to recognize his victory. The circle of admirers has expanded, the theater appeared "his viewer".

In the 1916-1917 season, the theater had to leave the building on Tver Boulevard. It was handed over to another theater on more favorable terms. But the chamber theater was not collapsed, on the tiny stage of the acting stock, the following software performance was born - "Salome". A. Efros wrote about it: "The experience of huge courage. So far the theater did not come in ". The role of Salomie discovered the gallery of the tragic images of Alice Koonen. Brilliant work I. Arkadina (Herod) and N. Tsereteli (Iocanan) showed that Tairov's dream about "Svethakter" begins to be carried out.

The premiere took place three days before the revolution. Bright entertainment, romantic elevation and beauty of the performances of Alexander Tairova turned out to be a consonant new epoch. Lunacharsky decided to return the theater of the building on Tverskoy Boulevard, 23 and on the allocation of money on the restructuring of the auditorium at 800 seats. So far, the construction went, the troupe went on tour to Smolensk, where in the hiking conditions was born "Adrienne Lecurger" - The legendary performance of the chamber theater, which lasted in the repertoire of 30 years, the performance to whom the chamber forever said goodbye to the viewer in 1949 ...

Almost the same noisy was success and "Princess Brambilla", Kapricchio Chamber Theater on the fairy tale of Hoffman, who began the Arklochy line in Tairov's work.

Next season Tairov released "Fedra". Especially for this performance, Valery Bryusov made a new translation of the tragedy of Jean Rasin. "Fedra" became one of the most famous performances of the chamber theater and one of the best tragic roles of Alice Koonen. In this formulation, everything that Tairov taught his troupe was crystallized. Fedra approved the position of the theater in the tragedy, and the performance released in the fall of 1922 Zhirofla Zhiroflia Charles Lekkka became a genuine triumph of the buffonads. Alice Koonen was easily turned from Fedra in Zhirofla Zhiroflia, and Nikolai Tsereteli from Ippolita in Maraskina. And it was another evidence of the loyalty of the Tairovsky method of upbringing a synthetic actor.

The chamber Theater has become one of the most beloved in Moscow, and foreign touring in 1923, 1925 and 1930 brought him world glory! It was found his own theatrical language, the troupe was raised, which, by general recognition, was not equal in Europe. But in front of the theater there was a difficult task of choosing a repertoire, which would correspond to its aesthetic principles - "neorelism", romantic rates, commitment to tragedy and buffonade, cut off from domestic details. After not too successful experience with the play of the Ostrovsky "Thunderstorm", Tairov performs the production of three Pieces of Yujina O'Nila: "Cosmata Monkey", "Love under Knia" and "Black person". All three performances had great success among the public, especially shook the hearts of the audience "love under elm".

The continuation of this direction in the works of Tairov became performances on the play Bertold Brecht "Operations" and play Sophie Treduell "Machine". Tairov proved that it can talk about modern problems with modern language, not retreating from their system. Cukirol, "Day and night", "The person who was Thursday" - continued the line of buffonads, grotesque and bright entertainment. But gradually in front of the theater there was a serious problem in choosing a repertoire. The theater could not put only foreign authors, and Soviet dramaturgy could not satisfy Tairov. Several experiments in this direction ended in failure. And only "Optimistic tragedy" had indisputable success. In the future, modern Soviet topics took an important place in the performance of the chamber theater. "Sky of Moscow" Mdivani, "Front" S. Kornechuk, "Until the heart does not stop" K. Poist, "The sea spread widespread" Sun. Vishnevsky, A. Krona and V. Azarov ...

Nevertheless, the success of the chamber theater during these years is more related to the production of Russian and foreign classics. In 1940, the premiere of the play took place Madame Bovarie Gustava Flaubert, Staging A. Koonen, Music D. Kabalevsky. Madame Bovarie is one of the tops of the directorial skill of Alexander Tairov. (In 1940, the French government handed the theater medal as a sign of deepest appreciation for this performance). It seemed that Tairov and Koonen were able to penetrate the very essence of the human soul. Thin psychologism, which distinguishes the performance, is also peculiar to later producer, such as the performance-concert "Gull" By play A.P. Chekhov, "No guilt is guilt" A.N. Ostrovsky, "Old man" A.M. Gorky.

Forever closed

The planned struggle with the "Formalistic Theater" with interruption was carried out since 1936. Theater has released a funny parody of a fairy tale "Bogaty". The performance was supposed to continue the tradition of musical productions on the chamber scene. The premiere was successful. But the thunderstorm broke out suddenly. A month after the premiere in the truth, an article explaining the anti-people essence of the performance was published. Press began real injury. In 1937, a decision was published on the merger of the Tairov Chamber Theater and the realistic Okhlopkova Theater in one team. More opposite in their aesthetic principles of theaters was impossible to imagine! From the death of the theater saved the permutation in the culture committee. Instead of P.M. Kergentsheva was appointed M.B. Strapchenko who has canceled the ruling.

Theater survived war, playing performances in evacuation on a tiny club scene in the city of Balkhash. In 1945, the 30th anniversary of the chamber was widely celebrated, Tairov was awarded the Order of Lenin. But on August 20, 1946, a decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) was published, practically prohibiting foreign drama and orienting theaters on the Soviet "conflict" plays about the struggle of good with the best. Such a repertoire was opposed to the Tairovsk method. And again the struggle began, led in 1949 to the closure of the theater. Going to the last meeting in the art committees, Tairov was not going to give up. He read the report, trying to analyze the real state of affairs in the theater. But the report did not reach the goal. Firsting the decision of the Committee, he himself announced his care from his theater. The latest performance of the chamber was "Adrienne Lecherr", after which his curtain was forever closed.

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Want to go backwards? And I visited)
I really like walking on excursions to the theater, it is interesting to see where and how it is born that then you see on the scene.
Many thanks to Dasha for a tour and an interesting story about the theater, about his story and present.
It is a pity that the theater threatens closure, and maybe it was the last time I visited it ...
And we go there, where the audience is not on the usual day of the entrance.
The orchestral pit is very compact, but there may be placed up to fifty people (I can not imagine it), so every miliming of personal space is important. Because of this, it was possible only to look there, and they could move something.
The scene is ready for the evening spectral. What I like in this theater - the scene under a certain performance can be transformed, change its shape and even happens so that the audience are on stage, and the actors in the auditorium (I did not happen on such a performance)
Behind the scene in the "pocket" on the wall already ready cribs to the spectrum, prepared props, which will be needed in the evening
Usually in the theaters two "pockets", but here one, and very compact. We are hardly housed here, as they manage to warm up and straighten Grimm - I can not imagine.
And we go from the scene to wander around the corridors.
Dresser shop
And a very unusual thing - luminous dress
Male make-up workshop, designed for two artists, here the actors are only griming, although the actors prefer to make Grimm themselves to some performances
Here the actors rehearse, I can not imagine how to do in that stuff, especially if all the actors gather.
The stripes on the floor are not just like that - they denote the scenery of 9 not to drag them under the roof of the building, and not all scenery will fit here.
And here is the scenery, or rather the workshop where they are collected and stored.
Layouts to the scenery do observing all the proportions, all the details move, as well as in those that will be created on the scene.
One person works here, but he very quickly disappeared by our group)
Women's costume workshop.
If the play has two compositions, the tones of the hangers hang special tags so that the actors take their own costume.
Female make-up shop, here the boxes are kept all sorts of details to female images of different performances.
And if the actress wears some details in different performances, the decorations are stored in nominal boxes.
That's what I understand - the cosmetics, it closes and can be easily moved, because it is on the wheels.
Here, one young member of our excursion has a lot of questions, and the thinker answered in detail on them, where and what should be learn to work in this profession.
Male costume workshop, suits here, too, not enough.