Plays for actresses over 50 years old. Texts - Plays by Alexander Stroganov - Comedies, Dramas, Placements - Playwright A
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(3 women, 3 men)
(A play in two acts.)
Extended version of Halo's play. The events taking place this time are viewed in two projections - male and female.
(Illusion in two acts)
Anatoly Yuryevich Mozzhukhin, a wealthy businessman, a middle-aged man prone to reflection in a crisis. He's broke. His wife leaves him. As it turned out, the only person able to support and share the bitterness of misfortune is his old friend, "drunkard and vagabond" Kamorin. But he is also unable to keep the main character from committing suicide. Fatal shot. It would seem that an end has been put in this sad story, however, it turns out that everything is just beginning. A playful, humorous play provides the actors with a wonderful opportunity to show their abilities, to show off the gift of improvisation.
(Comedy in two acts)
The famous writer Dmitry Andreevich Koblikov invites his ex-wife, movie star, Svetlana Eduardovna Mnitskaya to the dacha. He has a young wife, she has a young lover. A series of unexpected events, a range of new feelings. Confusion, confusion. Everything is like in the new philosophical novel of the hero called "Anthropology".
(Etude)
An elegant philosophical miniature, executed in the genre of "naive" comedy, touching upon the most acute problems of our time, at the same time filled with the highest tragedy. The etude was the basis for the creation of the piece MALUM IN SE.
(Naive comedy in two acts)
With the obvious urgency of the problems touched upon in the "naive" comedy, one involuntarily suggests a comparison with a medieval tapestry. Philosophers, minstrels, enigmatic forest dwellers, hunters and wild beasts are invisibly present at this feast at dusk. Despite the supreme tragedy of the events unfolding in the play, the author managed to preserve the lightness and sharpness of the genre he designated.
(Dramatic study)
Passion and longing, love and misunderstanding, tenderness and hate. There are so many colors and nuances in the life of every woman. Every experience is unique, every ending is predetermined and inevitable. Rich material for an actress conceiving a dramatic solo.
(Play in 2 acts)
In the sands of the Gobi (Shamo) desert, the deyti family (the ancestors of the Mongols) lives. They have their own ancient way, their own philosophy. The head of the family, Dorj, is digging sand, trying to get to the inner sea, which promises happiness to all mankind. His daughter, Moon, is growing up. Like a bolt from the blue in the life of a family, Tim, the driver who has gone astray, appears. What will bring his appearance - happiness or death?
(Presentation in two acts)
An extremely influential contemporary director, claiming to fundamentally reform the theater, creates a “show of the inexperienced,” in which traditional actors try to improvise without knowing what the production's intention is, what its literary basis is, what the ending will be like. In the end, it all comes down to a banal bargaining. Everything is very reminiscent of the absurdity and disorder of our days. The comedy is filled with unexpected metaphors, sharp dialogues, in a word, everything that characterizes the direction of pararealism developed by the author.
(Stanzas in two acts)
By coincidence, the names of patients in the tenth ward of the oncology department coincide. Everyone is Pavel Andreevich. And their attending physician is also Pavel Andreevich. These are people who are completely different in age and perception of the world. One day of hospital stay is like a whole life - a search for joy, discovery, short happiness:
(A play in two acts)
A play-reflection on the last days of the great actress Marlene Dietrich. The material provides a unique opportunity to embody the images of Marlene and her Alter Ego Norma. Despite the obvious tragedy of the plot, the play is filled with light irony and humor.
(Nevidal in two acts)
The play is an ironic fantasy based on the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea".
(Scenes from family life in two acts)
The worries of family life rest on the fragile shoulders of Vera Andreevna Valyazhina. Her loved ones are passionate, contradictory people. The husband is afraid to leave the house and collects bells. The sister is in love with the composer Verdi. Mother is going to marry an air marshal. An explosive situation can only be saved by her love.
(A play in two acts)
The parable story about the flight and death of the Roman emperor Nero, deprived of time.
(A play in two acts)
A play about the last night in the life of Komitas, an outstanding Armenian composer, folklorist, singer and choral conductor. The art of Komi-tas conquered famous musicians: Vincent d "Andy, Gabrielle Fauré, Camille Saint-Saens. In 1906, after one of the concerts, the outstanding French composer Claude Debussy excitedly exclaimed:" Genius father Komitas! I bow to your musical genius! "Having overcome the need, deprivation, the nightmare of genocide, Komitas retired from the outside world, took refuge in his gloomy and heavy thoughts. In 1916, Komitas's health deteriorated and he was placed in a psychiatric clinic. The genius of Armenian music found his last refuge in Paris, in the suburban hospital Ville-Jouif, spending almost 20 years there until his death.
(Screenplay for a movie)
The writer Povalyaev, who received an order for a play about A.S. Grine, goes to work in the city of his childhood, where amazing events, memories and dreams descend upon him, dictating his metaphysical scenario, breaking his perception of the world and, ultimately, life itself.
(Comedy in two acts)
Once dreamed of doing physics, an admirer of the immortal ideas of the great Tesla, but now lost gambler Igor Dmitrievich Pok-tilov goes to a hotel in order to commit suicide. His bodyguard Eduard decides to save his patron by all means. Completely unexpected characters come to his aid, including the inhabitants of the subtle worlds.
(Comedy in two acts)
An old husband, a young wife and a young man. At first glance, the situation is banal and clearly anecdotal. If not for ... There are a lot of these "if only". Constructed according to the laws of pararealism, the play carries many meanings. Polyphonic sound is also imparted to the classic for drama "theater in theater". Realized on stage, the play will provide the actors with an excellent opportunity for the actors to demonstrate their skills.
(Drama in two acts)
What happens when music leaves our lives? What fills the resulting void?
The story of a brilliant pianist who lost the ability to play, but did not squander his gift. The play is a reflection, which is at the same time a modern dramatic material and a detailed psychological study, filled with the music of S.V. Rachmaninov.
(In ten pictures)
The play is a reportage about one day in a pub. Of those that are cramped, heavy light, slippery floors and loud barmaids. All kinds of people meet here. It is like the balls in a bowling alley collide with their aspirations and destinies.
(Drama in two acts)
The passion of the artist, the love of the artist, the life of the artist, his death - everything is unpredictable and acute. The fates of his loved ones and his characters are mixed like paints and who knows what can happen to them when this mixture is ready?
(Play in 2 acts)
The play is a fantasy about S. A. Yesenin and A. Duncan.
Vertigo - the feeling experienced by the patient that either he or the objects around him are in constant motion. Most often, this state is accompanied by a sensation of rotation of surrounding objects, however, sometimes a person may think that the earth begins to rotate under his feet.
(A hoax in two acts)
A play in which the author made an attempt to analyze the complex processes that take place in the consciousness (subconsciousness, overconsciousness) of a person suffering from schizophrenia. A peculiar appeal to the history of the life and death of the great Russian psychiatrist V.Kh. Kandinsky.
(Comedy in two acts)
The once very popular, but now all abandoned actor finds himself in an amazing company of people who seem to know how to change their lives for the better. The situation, on the verge of reality and absurdity, emerging as a result of this meeting, forces the hero of the play, and together with him and us, to reconsider his attitude to many things that seem certain and unambiguous. The bold plot twists, the paradoxical decisions made by the characters in the play are based more on intuition than on any logic. This sharp modern comedy is fraught with a number of mysteries, in an effective search for answers to which the author sees the audience's interest.
(Play in 2 acts)
To a certain extent, the impetus for writing this play was the news of the tragic death of the famous Czech theater director P. Lebl, whose creative motto could be Wyspianski's catchphrase "Everything, just don't kiss." The author is trying to figure out what a scene is? Together with his characters, he makes a journey through the looking glass, into the very belly of the theater. The deep psychologism of the play is combined with the grotesque, appropriate at the mention of the name, who loved this genre so much P. Lebl.
(Play in 2 acts)
Is music always love? And if music replaces, displaces it? If music is an inspiration, a premonition of trouble? And if music is itself a tragedy? Music is harmony. Music is symmetry. The same as fate. Can a person resist her? The choice of the names of the first and second actions coinciding with the titles of the program works of G. F. Handel "Music on the Water" and "Music for Fireworks" is not accidental. The play is modern, in many respects innovative, designed for directors and actors of psychological theater.
(In two acts)
What happens when two women, two completely different women, live together? Anything can happen here. Their melodies, nebulae are intertwined, colors are mixed. An eternal struggle, rather like a dance, pleasure with a taste of pain, expectation of happiness, fantasy. Flowers. Flowers. Flowers.
The woman's secret will never be solved. The author does not set himself this task. He only slightly lifts the curtain, just enough for the viewer to physically feel the magic of love on himself.
(Comedy in two acts)
The play, seemingly built according to the laws of comedy, replete with witty dialogues and ridiculous positions, carries within itself the nagging theme of female loneliness. The comedy is multi-layered and polyphonic. Is a rich material for the performer of the role of the main character.
(Comedy in two acts)
In the life of every person there is a "moment of truth", a rehearsal of the Supreme Court, when forgotten sins, old dreams and lost illusions arise from nothing and acquire quite tangible features. A play about the "midlife crisis", performed in the style of pararealism characteristic of the author.
(Comedy in two acts)
Recently, the famous scientist Sergei Petrovich To-milin with his two daughters, not accepting the changes, decides to settle in a secluded place, far from people. Once the serene life of hermits is disturbed by the arrival of a third, younger sister and her friend. These are people of new times, new values. Together with the un-invited guest, anxiety, doubt, love penetrate into the Tomilins' house.
(Scenes from family life in 2 acts)
In this play, everything is about family life with tragedies and secrets, laughter and magic, transformations and death beyond the threshold, birds and children. A new, non-standard look. As if some photographer, balancing on the brink of genius and madness, to the amazement of the household, at the most unexpected moment, created a series of photographs and changed their fate.
(Play in 2 acts)
The play is a scenic interpretation of the biblical legend about Jonah, the prophet sent by Yahweh to announce the imminent death of the sinful inhabitants of Nineveh, performed in the manner characteristic of the author, but who found himself in the womb of a sea monster.
(Night rehearsal of "Kashtanka" by A.P. Chekhov at the Theater-House of S.O. Zelinsky in 2 acts)
(Play with light in two acts.)
The retired actors, who have long left the theater, gather at the dacha in order to make a benefit performance for their "prima", the terminally ill actress Trukhanova, who once brilliantly rehearsed the role of Arkadina. An old house, a landscape with a "witch's lake", even the coincidence of the name of the actor for the role of Treplev with the name of the character intertwines the threads of Chekhov's "The Seagull" and the unfolding action. The metaphysical laws of theater are turned on, directing events in their own direction.
The play is intended mainly for the older generation. A special role in the production, as conceived by the author, is assigned to stage lighting.
(A play in two acts)
A very rich person, facing an incurable disease, tries to look into himself, rethink his life, fix something, repent. As in a cracked mirror, the familiar, serene reality is suddenly transformed, the funny becomes tragic, sad, unexpectedly takes on shades of laughter, miracles and chimeras appear from the hero's subconscious. There are many unexpected, unpredictable, paradoxical.
(Play in 4 acts)
The play is a detailed analysis of the motives for the war. The famous writer Samson Levin, whose play takes place in Gomel in 1942, together with his characters tries to simulate the psychology of a person under occupation.
(Study in one act)
Theatrical parable about the immortality of the Great Utopia, its leaders and its victims.
(Drama in two acts)
Reflections on who we are, what our vain life is, what is the end of the world in the perception of Russian people. Today and forever.
(Play in 4 acts)
The well-known metropolitan theater director Korsak, who conceived of staging a play about Musorgsky, comes to a provincial town in order to invite his old friend, once a brilliant, but drunken actor Dronov, to the main role. The fates of the characters are closely intertwined with the fates of Mussorgsky and his contemporaries. The events of the play, sometimes funny, sometimes full of drama, receive an unexpected existential development.
(Drama in two acts)
Moira is destiny. Moira is a metaphysical space where, according to the conviction of the aging and drunken "darling of fate," the writer Agrov, the threads of life are concentrated. How to restore faith to people, how to make sure that life, obviously reminiscent of clownery, does not remain nonsense, so that the "era of unconsciousness" does not become familiar and comfortable for people? He tries to answer these questions in a rather strange way, in a way that causes misunderstanding, bewilderment, and laughter in the people around him.
(A comedy in two acts in the space of Korean classical poetry and prose.)
A mesmerizing action full of magic and irony, combined with fragments of classical prose and Korean poetry, inspired by an exquisite floral scent.
(A bargaining drama in two acts)
A dynamic comedy about women, men, people, birds, people - birds, clouds and snares, ornithology and taxidermy.
(Crime chronicle in two acts)
A detective in love, Aristarkh Petrovich Kreschenov, will investigate the most famous crime in the history of mankind. The play, designated as a criminal chronicle, is in fact a comedy performed according to all the canons of pararealism, where light irony can turn into a musical phrase, sharp dialogue takes on graphic features, and a tense storyline turns the viewer into a participant in the events taking place on the stage.
(The tragedy of dressing up in two acts)
A theatrical story about how an actor is saturated with the scents of a character, how his fate changes at the same time, and how a play, at times, turns out to be much more real than life itself.
(In two acts)
The plays "Satire", "Tea Ceremony" and "Divertissement" are combined by the author into a single dramatic cycle "Dances". Indeed, these plays, each of which is a dialogue, are unusually plastic. Their main task is to "sound the silence of the sexes." "Satire" is a play for two men. The leitmotif is the relationship between fathers and children. Is it possible to bridge the generation gap? What is the masculine principle - is it only destruction and death? What is the loneliness of a man? What lies ahead for all of us? The author and his characters are trying to find an answer to these questions.
(Outdoor games for adults in two acts)
The play takes place on New Year's Eve. Old friends spend their time organizing fun games and contests. One of the games started by women is swing, the exchange of husbands. At a certain stage, events unfold in a completely unexpected perspective. In ironic, sometimes grotesque dialogues, signs of our ambiguous, full of drama of the time are guessed.
(Elegy for Andrei Tarkovsky in two acts)
Death brings about the final montage of our life. After death, after the expiration of the stream of life, the meaning of this stream appears. (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
(Comedy in two acts)
Television journalist Inessa Kruglova manages to find Kirill, a well-known bard in Soviet times, whose death was officially announced in the press. In the fifteen years that have passed since his death, he has become a homeless vagabond. Veronica makes an attempt to return him to society.
(Comedy in 2 acts with variations)
Doctor Vasily Ilyich Kovrogov is not ready for the change of eras, which has changed the country and society beyond recognition, overturned the usual ideas about the values and meaning of life, distorted the way of his family. The harrowing analysis of what is happening for the hero is more than a "midlife crisis", it is a resection of the soul. His salvation lies in irony, an elixir from death and madness at all times.
(A dream in two acts)
How many oddities and secrets, rustles and melodies, warmth and despair are hidden in the ghostly space of love! Sometimes it seems that the characters in the play are in this space of the century, and sometimes they behave as if they are seeing each other for the first time. The world they created is capable of emitting light, but it is dangerous and unpredictable when this light dims. What is the connection between a man and a woman? Holiday? Execution? The game? Hard to say. One way or another, everything is very similar to a lifelong oriental ceremony.
(Test prints in two steps)
Conflict of times. The tragedy of an elderly photographer against the backdrop of the emerging millennium. The play is written in an unusual manner of "control prints", which allows to give the events taking place in it an original analytical series, a special rhythm and additional volume.
(Study in the genre of dramatic clownery)
A grotesque sketch-parable about the search for truth in the blind space of lost harmony.
(Metamorphoses of modern times in two acts.)
A play is a construction of the world in which we live, in the perception of a person who thinks in chess categories of eternity, a person who is in a state of shaky balance between life and death, norm and pathology, who is in the substance where youth and old age, mimicking each other, emit the sounds of chaos, called music.
(Fantasy based on the fairy tale by E. T. A. Hoffmann in two acts with outlandish mechanisms, miraculous transformations, music by the gentleman Gluck and an angel in two acts.)
A new reading of the famous fairy tale by E. T. A. Hoffmann, proposed by the author, fills the play with a special atmosphere. Accurate psychological portraits of the characters give the plot a touch of reality. The virtuoso metamorphosis of the magical performance is juxtaposed with the concentration of analysis. Philosophical sound is harmoniously combined with light irony and mischief. The play is of interest to both children and adults.
(Play in 2 acts)
The Hermitage is interpreted as a hermit's cell, solitude. The hero of the play, already a middle-aged, lonely man, whose name is Absinthe, finds solitude in a somewhat unusual space, a cafe. Observing the events taking place around, for a long time he remains indifferent. However, fate is inexorably making adjustments to its serene existence. Love, confusion, conflict of generations, anxiety for the future radically change and fill his life with new meaning. Sharp, modern, imbued with irony and illuminated by the special melodic characteristic of the author, the play is at the same time a kaleidoscope of bright characters and a philosophical parable.
(Comedy in 2 acts)
The comedy is set in a hotel cafe. Visitors, men and women of different ages, with different destinies, are united by the eternal theme of the failure of love. Loneliness, born of the illusion of lack of freedom. An eccentric waiter with a strange name Eros, sincerely trying to help the characters figure out everyday collisions, in fact turns out to be a hostage of their passions.
(Drama in two acts)
A fantasy play about the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin and his student Camille Claudel.
(Idylls in 2 acts)
Two elderly people, husband and wife, Yakut and Mura, who have suffered a great tragedy, decide to radically change their lives. They leave people in search of an idyll. The place that took them is Yakutia, Paradise, as it seems to them at first. But then, in their serene existence, changes begin to take place ...
(A love story in two acts)
Replete with comedic and dramatic situations, full of tenderness, a play about the love of the elderly. Benefit roles for older actors.
Plays for Entrepreneurial Projects
Plays for enterprises and private theaters in their artistic merit should not differ from the plays played in repertoire and any other theaters. However, the specificity of their rental requires that they also meet some technical desires: a limited number of characters, convenience and portability of sets, attractiveness for a wide range of viewers (usually a comedy or lyric drama). Below is a list of the most suitable pieces, according to the author, for performance in entreprise projects. There are also annotations of these plays. By clicking on the title of the play, you can see its full text on the Internet.
Two characters
A modern comedy del arte in the genre of a funny booth. Two clowns and a clown act out a play that is born right in front of the audience. Pantomime, acrobatics, circus tricks, music, singing, dancing, the word merge into a single action. Comedy assumes the ability of actors to improvise, buffoonery and live contact with the audience. Performance based on the play "Balagan" (" Bâlciul » ) performed by the Theater Group of the National College of Arts Octav Bancila (Iasi, Iasi, Romania) won the Grand Prix at the 4th National Comedy Competition in Romania in 2013. 2 male roles, 1 female, interior.
This work combines dramatic, melodramatic and comedic motives. The bride and groom, successful business people, are forced by the will of circumstances to invite a random counter - already a middle-aged man of strange behavior - to be a witness at their wedding. To laugh at the man and have some fun at the same time, a young couple asks him to talk about the women he loved. The result of the entertainment is quite unexpected. This meeting drastically changes the fate of each of the heroes. Purity of soul, intellect, sensitivity, ability to deep feeling triumph over rationalism and dry practicality.2 male roles, 1 female, interior.
Three friends - single women of "golden age" - decide to change their destiny and find life companions for themselves. This warm comedy convinces the viewer that the years are not a hindrance to the search for love and happiness. 3 age female roles. Interior.
.There are 3 characters in the play: a man, a woman and ... a dog (to be played by a child or an actress).
A lonely man, a railway worker by profession, finds a puppy, and very quickly this little faithful dog becomes his only joy and consolation. She responds to this concern with selfless love and loyalty.
The day comes when Mikhail has to make a choice: either quit his job or get rid of the dog. After agonizing hesitation, Michael decides to kill his friend. A woman is engaged in the killing of animals at the veterinary station. She tries to save the dog, and with it - and the soul of its owner. The clash of two truths of the characters, their dissimilar views on the true meaning of life, creates a spring of conflict. The character of the woman - prickly and at times aggressive, but disinterested, ready to love and help, and gave the name to the play. The play was translated into English and staged in New York.
Director Howard Fishman: The American Theater Company is proud to present itself in New York with the production of Valentin Krasnogorov's The Dog, the first production of this unique and challenging play on the American stage.
What fascinates me most about her is her nobility of spirit, and the heart that pulsates so vulnerable in her. Without a doubt, this is a difficult piece - prickly and subtle, frightening and controversial. But she is courageous enough to admit it all and show it on stage, where we can all get to know the sides of ourselves that we are trying so hard to hide. "
. An evening of three one-act comedies of different genres, paradoxically interpreting the problems of modern marriage. These theatrical novels can be presented separately or together. 1. " " ... The wife persistently challenges her husband to a frank conversation. 2 male roles, 1 female. Interior.2. " ». The husband is looking for the best way to part with his wife. 2 male roles, 1 female. Interior " ". An ironic presentation of the classic triangle version of the ideal family. 2 female roles.
... (see above)
4 characters
. An exploration of modern marriage in the form of a brilliant comedy, bitter and very funny. Critics of Poland, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic commented on the "deep meaning and wit of this hilarious but wise and warning piece", its "magnificent construction and sparkling dialogue." A. Shirvindt concluded the preface to this play, published in Contemporary Drama, with the following words: "If you are not afraid of a mirror, hurry to look at it. In Bulgaria, a performance based on this play won the prize" ». " Plot: The husband and wife invite their two friends (a man and a woman) to a party. All four are connected by complex relationships, and each is waiting for the decision of their fate: today or never. 2 men and 2 women. Interior.
By the beginning of the play based on the classic play of the 15th century, the theater does not have one of the main roles. He is urgently replaced by another actor who does not know the role, which leads to the emergence of numerous tragicomic situations. They are complicated by the uneasy personal relationships of the participants in the performance. Love, hatred, envy, jealousy, flirting add additional colors to the comic plot. Each participant in the performance simultaneously plays both the character and the actor performing it. 1 female, 3 male roles.
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. Strange, funny and dark, late night rehearsal of an unusual performance with an unexpected ending. 2 male roles, 2 female roles, interior.
. An evening of three one-act comedies of different genres, paradoxically interpreting the problems of modern marriage. These theatrical novels can be presented separately or together. 1. " " ... The wife persistently challenges her husband to a frank conversation. 2 male roles, 1 female. Interior.2. " ». The husband is looking for the best way to part with his wife. 2 male roles, 1 female. Interior " ". An ironic presentation of the classic triangle version of the ideal family. 2 female roles.
5 characters
. Comedy. A man with memory loss comes to see a doctor for help. The doctor tries to find out the symptoms and causes of the disease, but to no avail: the patient's answers are so contradictory that it is impossible to get anything worthwhile from him. Fortunately, it is possible to call the patient's wife. She answers all questions clearly and confidently, but it follows from her statements that the doctor also suffers from memory loss. The situation becomes even more confusing when another woman unexpectedly comes and also declares that she is the wife of the sick person. The situation becomes completely absurd. The doctor goes almost to the point of insanity. This dynamic and funny comedy develops rapidly and vividly, ending with an unexpected denouement. 3 men, 2 women. Interior.
6 characters
. A farcical sitcom in the French style la piece bien faite - "well done piece". Confusing adultery situations are intertwined with the heroes' passionate desire to make a career. The play is a great success. 3 men, 3 women, interior.
An excerpt from a review of the play: "This is a wonderful gift for the audience - a balm of humor, smiles, laughter, an excellent remedy for bad mood, blues, pessimism."
(THIS WEAK GENTLE SEX.) . An evening of two one-act musical comedies: « » . and « ». These very dynamic farces take us back to the days of Le Sage and Rabelais. The play has not left the repertoire of theaters for many years in a row. Real farce, frivolous, dynamic, grotesque, funny, has become a rare genre. The more he enjoys it with the public. The music for the play was written by Viktor Pleshak. Plot: 1. " ». The old doctor's wife falls in love with the young man. She finds a way to deceive her strict husband. 2. " ». The husband invites a doctor to heal his young and obedient wife from dumbness. In vain is the doctor trying to dissuade her husband from this intention. In the end, the doctor returns the speech to his wife, and she starts talking incessantly until she drives her husband crazy.
From theatrical review: " The events unfolding on the stage, although they occur as if in the 17th century, are very attractive today with their audacious humor, wit, unpredictability of plot twists. "
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7 characters
The characters of this paradoxical comedy are women who are not familiar with each other, different in age and dissimilar in character, by chance find themselves in one place. In their conversations, disputes, conflicts, the influence of our turning point on the fate, views and moral values of the heroines of the play becomes obvious. 6 female, 1 male role. Interior.
"Black comedy. The theater has just played the long-awaited premiere - Shakespeare's "Othello". Actors - performers of the main roles remain after the performance in order to celebrate this event in a friendly circle. Unfortunately, the holiday is overshadowed by the mysterious death of one of the characters, and there is a suspicion that one of the participants in the performance may be involved. Either gloomy or funny humor, detective intrigue, sharp plot twists and an unexpected ending attract the viewer's attention to the very last remark. 4 male roles, 3 female roles.
. Comedy. A producer and a group of actors are preparing an entreprise production of an Italian play.3 male, 4 female roles. Interior.
.Media with elements of the grotesque. Her characters of different ages and temperaments hope to find their personal happiness in a successful marriage, but the realities of the hasty life of a business and practical XXI centuries force them to say goodbye to the ideals of the past. As a result, they find something completely different from what they expected. The engine of the action is the central heroine - an energetic middle-aged business woman. Funny and, at times, sad, this by no means everyday intellectual comedy provides excellent material for performers of all roles. 2 men, 5 (3) women (three roles out of five can be played by one actress).
.This play is a 2017 "remake" of the comedy of the same name, first staged in the 1980s in Leningrad, where it underwent 400 performances, then in 40 more theaters in Russia, as well as in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. The play won three prizes at a festival in the Czech Republic, including the Best Drama Prize and the Audience Prize. 4 male roles, 3 female roles, interior.
. Synthesis of melodrama and ironic paradoxical comedy. Two lines of action develop in the play. The main character in one of them is the director, who is looking for a way out of the creative crisis and in a strange way recruiting actresses for his new performance. The leading character in a different line of action is a famous artist experiencing her last love. The heroes of the play are in that period of their lives when the time comes to take stock. Despite the sad ending, the play is ridiculous. Lively dialogue, unusual construction and variety of colors make this comedy very theatrical. It contains a dozen "solo" roles for actresses of all ages and roles. 2 male roles, 10 female roles, interior.
The main characters of the play (2 men and 1 woman) are approximately 55-60 years old, female characters are from 25 to 55 years old. If necessary, fewer actresses can play female roles.
Translation from French of three very unusual one-act comedies with elements of grotesque and absurdity.4-13 characters.
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The Soviet Union was a huge country. "From Moscow to the very outskirts, from the southern mountains to the northern seas" were thousands of kilometers, the best performances were staged only in the largest cities, and everyone wanted to see them. Therefore, the most popular and most interesting for the viewer was filmed and shown on TV. For many, this was the only opportunity to ever "go" to the theater and see great actors.
The title has compiled a selection of excellent television versions of the performances. Because our country is still huge, and many of those actors are no longer there.
Khanuma (1978)Once upon a time matchmakers were in charge of marriage affairs. The women were irreplaceable, lively, they knew everything about everyone, they could arrange everything that needed to be adjusted! This performance is about the matchmaker Khanuma, her rival Kabato, a merchant who dreams of marrying his daughter to an elderly ruined prince for the sake of his title, and about a daughter in love with her teacher. And all this is happening in pre-revolutionary Tiflis - Tbilisi. With Georgian songs, markets and sulfur baths on the banks of the Kura.
Search a woman (1982)An ironic detective story based on the play by the French playwright R. Thom. A dead man was found in the notary's office, an investigation began, and the secretary of the office, a woman of indomitable energy, was actively involved in the search for the killer. Great plot, expertly written dialogues. From the performance "smiles turn on like light bulbs."
Tevye the Milkman (1985)A two-part teleplay based on one of the most poignant works of Sholom Aleichem. This is a performance in letters that Tevye from Anatovka writes to the author. In correspondence, Tevye shares stories of his poor life with his huge family and what he does for the happiness of his daughters.
Director: Sergei Yevlakhishvili. Cast: Mikhail Ulyanov, Galina Volchek, Sergey Makovetsky.
Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro (1974)
The adaptation of the classic by Beaumarchais is in many ways so great thanks to the actors who played it. The play ran for 18 years and did not lose its popularity. On August 14, 1987, Andrei Mironov, who played Figaro, did not finish the final scene, lost consciousness and two days later died of a stroke.
Juno and Avos (1983)The great story was staged at the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater in 1981 and immediately and still has become a hit and everlasting work. The rock opera by composer Alexei Rybnikov on a libretto by Andrei Voznesensky about the love of Ryazanov and Conchita has been impressing even the most dry and callous for 35 years.
twelfth Night (1978)A sitcom based on the play of the same name by Shakespeare was staged at the Sovremennik Theater in 1975 by the English director Peter James, and in 1978 it was transcribed for television.
Strange Mrs Savage (1975)
The play was staged at the Mossovet Theater in 1966, and the first leading role was Faina Ranevskaya. Her performance was amazing, the performance was a huge success, and the role in it became one of Ranevskaya's favorite roles. In 1975, the role was transferred to Vera Maretskaya, and it was this version that was filmed as a film-performance and became the most famous version of the play in the country. Ethel Savage is a wealthy widow, her three children find out that she has founded a fund that spends money on fulfilling the unusual desires of people, making them happy. They put her in a mental hospital and want to manage her money themselves. But this is not a tragedy, this is a magnificent comedy.
Director: Leonid Varpakhovsky. Cast: Vera Maretskaya, Tatiana Bestaeva, Irina Kvitinskaya, Konstantin Mikhailov.
Little Comedies of the Big House (1974)
TO Screen
Five plots in one performance. "Inspection order" - about the housing issue, which, as we know from the classics, spoiled the Muscovites. "Robbery" - makes fun of materialism, which then did not exist, but how relevant this part is now. "Moscow Serenade" is a comedy musical about love. "Sound Letter" is a short story performed by Alexander Shirvindt. "Sing, swallow, sing ..." - a household oratorio for the housing office with a piano, about friendship. The performance of the Moscow Satire Theater was staged in 1973, and hit television screens already in 1974. So he was popular.
NEW YEAR'S FAIRY TALE PIECE!
IN SEARCH OF MAGIC
A fabulous New Year's performance based on the play "In Search of the Lost Magic".
Genre - a circus New Year's fairy tale for children.
Date of writing - 2015
Duration - 1-15
The premiere took place in December 2015 at the Irkutsk Theater for Young Spectators named after I. Vampilov.
A magical story that takes place in the circus on the New Year's Eve: miracles, magic, funny and completely unexpected adventures that young heroes will have to go through in order to save the New Year's performance.
A kind funny tale that if you really want and believe in yourself, then we can fulfill any desires.
The genre of a circus fairy tale makes it possible to introduce ready-made circus acts into the plot, which makes the performance very dynamic and spectacular.
DO NOT BE ANGRY FROST FROST!
A New Year's tale for those who do not believe in magic.
Characters: 6 (4 male, 2 female)
New Year's fairy tale play, which takes place inside a computer game.
A boy who does not believe in magic and miracles gets a very strange game from Santa Claus. Having started to play it, he finds himself in a fairy-tale world, in which he becomes the main participant in a fairy-tale game. And now, in order to return home, he has to go through all the levels and complete various tasks. During his mission, he meets fairy-tale characters: Snow Maiden, snowmen, Baba Yaga. Only in this game, due to the fact that the boy does not believe in miracles, they do not at all look like the usual fairy-tale heroes. Very soon he realizes that in the fairy-tale world one cannot do without the help of magic. And in the finale, when there is no longer any hope for a happy ending, the New Year's miracle will surely happen!
The play allows the widespread use and use of modern staging technologies, such as multimedia and video mapping.
CABARET "ASTORIA"
Boof-fantasy on the theme of one biography or a step-by-step course on the destruction of the universe for "dummies".
The play contains some facts from the biography of Jura Soyfer, the Austrian playwright and poet. But the result is a very free fantasy, which simply makes it possible to once again touch upon the topic - "The Artist and Time", to look at modernity through the prism of historical experience.
It seems that the events described in the play relate to ancient times, but in a strange way certain historical parallels can be seen in the text, willingly or not.
But here, as they say: all coincidences are accidental, and the author for them
is not responsible.
SAVE CAMERA JUNKER PUSHKIN
The text was written in the genre of "monoplay" and has a subtitle: "The story of a failed feat" - which in itself is already quite sad ...
However, this does not prevent the directors from defining the genre of their performances quite arbitrarily - from comedy to tragicomedy.
Characters:
Despite the fact that the play was written in the "mono" format, the number of characters is limited solely only by the director's imagination and the staging capabilities of the theater.
The premiere took place in October 2013 at the Moscow Theater "School of Contemporary Play".
First place at the International Drama Competition "Active
face "2012.
The highest prize in the field of drama - "Grand Prix" "Competition
Competitions "as the best play of the year at the Golden Mask festival.
Diploma of the Russian State Library of Arts - "For
a brilliant experiment with dramatic form. "
Aurore "became a prize-winner of the international literary competition" O
Petersburg in prose and poetry ".
PUBLICATIONS:
Collection of plays of the competition "Characters" - "The best plays of 2012".
Magazine "Northern Aurora No. 17"
ROCK-N-ROLL AT SUNSET
A lyrical comedy for two lonely dancers.
Characters - 1 - male. 1 - female.
The play is ideal for an entreprise or benefit performance.
On two age actors. Man and woman. The older the better.
This is the story of the relationship between two already far from young people who accidentally meet in an amateur dance training studio.
Heroes are very different in character. Therefore, it is not surprising that each scene of their communication turns into a rather funny, sometimes comic, situation.
But they still continue to meet, without giving up the hope that one day someday the day will come when they will dance real rock and roll.
Rock-n-Roll - as an image that life is not over yet. And that at any age there is room for hope and feeling.
ROCK-N-ROLL ON THE BENCH.
Monopiece for a lonely lover of Rock and Roll
Characters: female - 1
The genre is a lyrical monoplay comedy for a middle-aged actress.
Familiar actresses have repeatedly asked me to write a play for a solo performance. This one-piece is a text for a one-man show based on two of my other popular plays: "Waiting for HIM" and "Rock-n-Roll at Sunset". And the heroine, to a certain extent, embodies the collective image of all the female characters in these plays.
DON'T FORGET TO SCHEDULE
The play - Laureate of the Voloshinsky International Drama Competition 2018. First Prize.
The premiere took place in April 2019 at the Yekaterinburg theater "On Plotinke".
A comedy in the genre of social utopia
Date of writing - 2018
Characters - 4 (2 - men and 2 - women) Age couple and young couple.
A comedy in which a seemingly common story, a love date of a young couple, is brought to the point of absurdity. Recently, one can often hear a joke that soon it will be impossible to come on a date without a lawyer. And what happens if suddenly such a situation arises in reality? What happens when the true feelings and relationships inherent in nature itself are replaced by artificial rules and restrictions?
The play has a genre subtitle - "social utopia". The only question is: how far is our reality from it?
ANATOMY OF FEAR
Thriller for two
Characters - 1 - male (can be up to 40 years old). 1 - female (from 18 to 30)
Thriller is a genre of works aimed at evoking feelings of anxious expectation, excitement or fear in the viewer.
The text of the play fully complies with this definition.
The dynamic development of the action, unpredictable plot twists and, as is customary in this genre, is an absolutely unexpected ending. Road. Driver. A fellow traveler ... Nothing foreshadows something unusual ... But soon, under the influence of random circumstances, an atmosphere of suspicion builds up between the heroes, gradually turning into open confrontation. Speculation generated by fantasy, step by step, blur the edges of reality. The heroes gradually, without realizing it, become more and more entangled in the maze of fear created by their imagination, from which they are unsuccessfully trying to get out.
The unity of the scene and the small number of characters make this play very convenient for staging in entreprise projects.
TABLE FOR THREE
An ironic workshop on the psychology of family relations
Characters - 2 - Male 1 - female
(married couple - 30 plus and an age actor)
In terms of genre and number of participants, the play is well suited for an entreprise.
A married couple comes to a restaurant to celebrate ten years of family life.
Everything starts out great, if not for one strange circumstance: for some reason the ordered table turns out to be covered for three.
The extra cutlery surprisingly changes the romantic atmosphere of the evening, creating with its presence, then frankly comedic, sometimes quite dramatic situations. And everything that happens becomes for the heroes a serious test of the strength of their family relations.
ROPE
The play is a prize-winner of the international drama competition "Badenweiler 2010"
The genre is a dark comedy with a cheerful ending.
Characters - 10. (9 - male. 1 - female)
At first glance, completely unrelated scenes, like pieces of a puzzle, gradually add up to the finale into an integral finished story. The paradox is that, despite the comedic character of each separate scene, the whole thing turned out to be more than sad.
The premiere took place in December 2016 at the Kiev Academic Theater of Drama and Comedy.
Director - Alexey Lisovets.
IN SEARCH OF LOST MAGIC
A fabulous story that can happen to every boy or girl.
The premiere took place in March 2014 at the Moscow Theater "School of Contemporary Play".
The genre is a circus tale for children.
Date of writing - 2012
Characters - 9 (7 - adults and 2 - children. Boy and Girl - 9-11 years old)
Duration - 1-30
Audience - for primary and secondary school age - 6+
A magical story that takes place in a circus: miracles, magic, funny and completely unexpected adventures for the young heroes.
"... And you need nothing at all: when you grow up, do not forget that in childhood you dreamed of becoming a wizard." These words, uttered in the finale by one of the heroes, could be taken as an epigraph to the play.
And, perhaps, this performance will remind parents of the time when they themselves were little.
What were they dreaming of?
It will make you look at yourself today in a new way and think: am I who I wanted to become as a child?
And isn't it time to change something in your life? To return again to the distant world of childhood, when we sincerely believed that if we really want and believe in ourselves, then we can fulfill any desires.
The genre of a circus fairy tale makes it possible to add ready-made circus acts to the plot, which makes it possible to make the performance more dynamic, vivid and spectacular.
WAITING FOR HIM
Lyrical improvisation on the theme "Slow Twistin" for four female voices.
The premiere took place in 2011 at the Moscow theater "On Perovskaya".
The play is a prize-winner of the international drama competition "A New Play for an Old Theater".
Characters: 4 - female
Lyrical comedy for four actresses of different ages - from 16 to 60 plus.
The play is staged in two Moscow theaters - "Theatrical mansion" and in the theater "On Perovskaya".
From the annotation of the play at the Theater Mansion Theater: "The play by M. Kheifetz" Waiting for Him "is a poetic improvisation, perfect for dramatic, comedy and experimental productions ..."
Ideal for women’s entreprise.
HOW TSIOLKOVSKY FLY TO THE MOON
Art Mystery on the theme of one biography.
The play is a prize-winner of the Voloshin International Drama Competition 2014
Finalist of the Omsk Laboratory of Contemporary Drama 2013
READS AND SHOWS:
The second festival of contemporary art "Tsiolkovsky" in Kaluga.
Project - "Open History Theater" Moscow.
The play is not about Tsiolkovsky or even about astronautics.
The play is nothing more than a parable.
Persons without a sense of humor and noteworthy leavened patriots - it is contraindicated to read.
PLAYING HOFMAN
A comedy about some controversial issues in anthropology.
Characters: 10 (female - 2, male - 8)
An original plot, inscribed in one of the most "seditious" Hoffman's fairy tales - "Little Tsakhes".
The eternal question: what is truth, falsehood, truth?
The play makes it possible to once again be convinced that modern reality is not much match for the phantosmogoric invention of the great writer.
I wanted to write a play in the tradition of the aesthetics of Schwartz and Gorin.
FOUR RABINOVICH
A comedy about the exodus, in which all coincidences with any real historical facts are completely random.
Characters - 10. (8 - male. 3 - female)
History, or rather - two stories, developing in parallel in two time layers.
The text is on the verge of farce. And, as the names of the characters indicate, it has something to do with Jewish themes.
WELCOME TO MATTRACENTANA!
Black comedy with murder based on the story of the Hungarian writer Istvan Erken "The Family of Tots".
Characters: 5 (3 - male, 2 - female)
Istvan Erken is a Hungarian prose writer and playwright, the founder of the Hungarian theater of the absurd.
The play is not a staging and does not literally repeat the plot of the story. But I hope that, as far as possible, I managed to convey the unique spirit of subtle irony and "black humor" for which this writer is so famous.
MARRY A KAZANOVA
A mystical adventurous comedy with all the attributes typical of this genre: ghosts, frightened girls and an exciting development of events.
Characters - 11. (7 - male. 4 - female)
The text was written like a screenplay, but for those who wish there is an adapted version for the theater.
A funny melodramatic story, which, according to the author's immodest intention, is intended to try to compete in this genre with the comedy texts of Ludwig, Cooney and Company
THE TALE OF THE WIZARD WHO LIVED ON A CLOUD
Fairy tale-parable for children's and puppet theaters.
The play was written specifically for participation in the "Little Drama" creative laboratory, organized by the Moscow Regional Puppet Theater.
The premiere screening took place as part of the V International Theater Festival "Puppet Theater - Without Borders" in May 2015.
A romantic tale about the place of beauty and creativity in our everyday life, told through the story of love and friendship of fairy-tale characters.
HOW THE KING OF THE UNDERGROUND KINGDOM WAS DEFEATED
Children's play based on Korean fairy tales.
Characters: 11 (7 male, 4 female)
A funny tale, saturated with folk flavor, about how the Hero and his three friends - Strongman, Sly and Archer went to rescue their brides, kidnapped by the king of the underworld.
The play contains everything that children love so much: funny characters, unexpected plot twists, the struggle between the forces of good and evil.
The play was written by order for the International Asian Forum "International Contest for Asian Creative Story"
432 HERZ
A monologue that has nothing to do with the physical properties of sounds.
A monoplay on the theme of the mystery of Shakespeare's personality.
The play is a finalist of the international monoplays competition organized by the Library of Arts and Radio Culture.
The presentation of the play took place in June 2016 at the Jerusalem City Library.
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN BRIDGES
Unhistorical carnival fantasy with elements of mysticism.
The play was written for the "Historical Drama" competition organized by the Kaliningrad Drama Theater.
In August 1811, Konigsberg was found guilty and executed the last
the witch of Europe - Barbara Zdunk.
This is perhaps the only reliable historical fact that is used in this play. Everything else is nothing more than fiction and coincidence.
NEWS
PREMIERE! On November 8, at the Tolyatti Theater "Stagecoach", the premiere of the play "To Save the Camera-Junker Pushkin" took place.
PREMIERE!On October 27, the premiere of the play "Rock n Roll on the Bench" took place at the Khabarovsk Musical Theater.
PREMIERE! On October 23 in the Kherson Academic Music and Drama Theater the premiere of the play "Rock and Roll at Sunset" took place.
FESTIVAL RESULTS!The festival "Premiere of one rehearsal" has come to an end in Togliatti. According to the results of the audience vote, the performance, which will be included in the repertoire of the theater, was the work of Alexander Serenko based on the play by Mikhail Kheifets “To Save the Camera Junker Pushkin”.
PRESENTATION! On June 19, at the Tolyatti Theater "Stagecoach", within the framework of the theatrical festival "The Premiere of One Rehearsal", a play was shown based on the play "To Save the Camera Junker Pushkin."
PREMIERE! On June 15, the premiere of the play "Rock and Roll at Sunset" took place at the Saratov New Chamber Theater "Stage".
READING PLAYS - WINNERS! June 13 atThe Malyshitsky Chamber Theater presented the play "Cabaret" Astoria ".
PUBLICATION! In the last issue of the magazine LITERRATURA she published the play "Do not forget to sign".
PREMIERE! On April 7, the premiere of the play "Rock-n-roll at Sunset" took place at the Galatea Drama Theater in Solnechnogorsk.
PREMIERE! On March 22, at the Yekaterinburg theater "On Plotinke", the premiere of the play "Do not forget to sign" took place.
PREMIERE! On March 3, the premiere of the play "Rock n Roll at Sunset" took place at the Lviv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater named after Yuriy Drohobych.
PREMIERE! On March 1, in Vladivostok, at the Youth Theater, the premiere of the play "To Save the Camera Junker Pushkin"
PUBLICATION! In the next issue of the literary magazine "LITERRATURA" in the "Dramaturgy" section, a play by the Israeli playwright Mikhail Kheifets "How Tsiolkovsky flew to the moon" has been published.
PREMIERE! The premiere of the play based on the play by Mikhail Kheifets took place at the Gorky Crimean Academic Russian Drama Theater
PRESENTATION AND READING OF THE PLAY "How Tsiolkovsky flew to the Moon"
In Omsk on July 17, as part of the City Day celebration, a reading of the play by Michal Heifetz will be presented
PREMIERE! On March 23, at the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater (Mariupol), the premiere of the play "Waiting for Him" took place.
Presentation of the play "Cabaret" Astoria "at the festival!
On March 25, in Feodosia, within the framework of the theatrical festival "FeTeF", an actor's reading of the play by Mikhail Kheifets "Cabaret Astoria" will take place. Creative laboratory “Caution! Theatre!"
RADIO "GRAD PETROV" "LET'S TALK ABOUT THEATER" Theater critic Alexei Pasuev reviews three performances staged in theaters in St. Petersburg based on Mikhail Kheifetz's play "To Save the Camera Junker Pushkin".
PREMIERE! After an almost two-year hiatus, the Moscow theater on Perovskaya resumed showing, as they write on the theater's website, the cult performance "Waiting for Him".
How many girls, looking at the beauties with whom our cinema is so rich, dreamed of being at least a little like them. They fell in love, they were worshiped, they were idolized! However, life is more complicated ... And although now all the actresses say that they are happy with their fate, their happiness is very different. And this is not always the happiness of the family hearth. We decided to see how the first beauties of our cinema live today ...
Irina Alferova: "No need for victims!"
Main role: Constance in the movie "D" Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. 
What today: became the president of the Faithful Heart family festival, is engaged in charity work. Plays in performances. She has been married to actor Sergei Martynov for 10 years. There is a daughter, Ksenia, and a grandson. 
- Irina, did you have any desire to devote yourself entirely to your family? - I asked the actress.
- No, it's very boring. I will not give this advice to any woman. Even children are proud of you and are drawn to you when you show yourself!
Then if you do not have time for something, you will be forgiven. The main thing is that you don't have to sacrifice anything. We need to negotiate. Otherwise, you will suffer, and the children, because you will take out the negative on them. 
- And your husband is not jealous of work?
- The first husband (Alexander Abdulov. - Ed.) Was very jealous of me, although he himself did not always behave in an exemplary manner. With my second husband, we agreed that there is no jealousy in our family. Well, sometimes he misses me ...
But you come back home anyway, and on this free day you can make up for everything! Better to live a fulfilling life and grab onto whatever is interesting.
Elena Proklova: "I live in harmony"
Main role: Larisa Ivanovna from "Mimino". 
What today: art director of the Hermitage, was a member of the working group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. TV presenter. Filmed in serials. 
About personal: she has been married to businessman Andrey for 19 years. She gave birth to a daughter from him. In his youth, there was the first fleeting marriage in which she gave birth to a daughter. 
The second attempt at marriage was also unsuccessful. Proklova's twin sons died immediately after birth, and grief separated the spouses. “Meeting with Andrey changed everything in my life ... I need a partnership. And I have it, ”says the actress.
Natalia Andreichenko - Mary Poppins in the film "Mary Poppins, Goodbye!", Participates in charity work, goes to film festivals. Her first husband is the composer Maxim Dunaevsky, the second is the actor Maximilian Schell, with whom she is now divorced. There are two children.
Natalya Andreichenko: "You can't fool yourself"
Main role: Mary Poppins in the movie "Mary Poppins, Goodbye!" 
Participates in charity work, goes to film festivals. Her first husband is the composer Maxim Dunaevsky, the second is the actor Maximilian Schell, with whom she is now divorced. There are two children. 
Andreichenko in real life never strived for resemblance to an ideal woman:
- You can deceive everyone around - both children and colleagues. But sooner or later you will still become yourself. And here, lies are unacceptable. You can't fool yourself. I already went through something similar in the USA, when they tried to convince me that I needed to change - speak without an accent, play American roles. But then I will be different! Not American - Broken Natasha. And suddenly it dawned on me that this should not be done. I am Natasha, Russian. I like it - good, I do not like it - sorry. I decided that I was staying with myself.
Natalya Varley
Main role: Nina in the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus" 
In recent years, Natalya Varley left her work in the cinema - her last film in 2006 was "Wolfhound from the clan of the Gray Dogs". 
Today he plays in an entreprise, goes on tour. She has not been married for the past six years. The first husband was the actor Burlyaev. Natalia was courted by the son of the Belgian Defense Minister Lucien Harmegins. But she chose another - the son of Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Nonna Mordyukova (from this marriage she gave birth to the eldest son). The name of the father of the second child is hidden. 
For some time she worked in the theater "O" Kay. 3 CDs with her songs, two collections of poems were released. She was engaged in dubbing and dubbing of foreign films and television series. Conducted the program "Home chores" on the RTR channel. 
In the spring of 2009, in a duet with Nikolai Hnatyuk, she took part in the television project "Two Stars".
Elina Bystritskaya: "You shouldn't grieve because of a man"
Main role: Aksinya in Gerasimov's "Quiet Don". 
What she is doing today: plays at the Maly Theater. Is engaged in social work.
Personal life: after 27 years of marriage, she divorced and has been living alone since the late 90s. Have no children.
What did the appearance give?
Alas, beauty is not always the guarantor of good luck in the profession and personal life. For example, in her youth, Elina Bystritskaya was proud of her fragile figure. But it was her slenderness that hindered her approval for the role of Aksinya. The actress had to gain as much as 15 kg. 
In life, her bewitching beauty created many problems for her. For example, she was expelled from the Komsomol ... for refusing to dance with a young man. Bystritskaya said that "he smells like a village." Later, without reciprocating the director of the Vilnius theater, she was forced to leave the troupe. 
When she rebuked the state official who was in love with her, she was not allowed to leave for a long time. Bystritskaya always had a lot of admirers, but she married only in the late 60s to an employee of the translation department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. After 27 years of married life, she decided to divorce, having learned about her husband's betrayal, and since then alone. 
“I realized that the divorce began to mature when Nikolai Ivanovich began to actively intrude into my work. I could not allow myself to be dominated ... He was no longer interested in everything, except that he was the husband of “that very Bystritskaya,” the actress recalled. 
- Elina Avraamovna, do you want to arrange your personal life today? - I asked the actress.
- I have male friends with whom I communicate. But I don't want to have a man in my house. It happens so: a man has disappeared from life, and often a woman begins to think that she needs to find happiness sooner. Some other guy, or what? 
You shouldn't grieve over a lost man. It means that your skill, your work, your actions are not for him ... You have to work hard to distract yourself after a divorce. It is necessary to realize what is given by nature, by God. 
The main thing for me is to be in demand. I am always in a fight. My destiny is not easy, but it was successful and will still be successful. I also have strength and desire! My life motto: do not cheat on yourself.
Margarita Terekhova: "Happiness in Children"
Main role: Milady in the film "D" Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. 
What she is doing today: staging performances in her native Mayakovsky Theater.
Personal life: single for the last 20 years. Two children. 
What did the appearance give?
Beauty helped to become one of the favorite actresses of the cult director Andrei Tarkovsky - when he accidentally saw Terekhova for the first time, he exclaimed: "What beautiful hair you have, how beautiful you are!" And he called her to his film "The Mirror". 
But his personal life did not work out. Men appeared in her life and quickly disappeared. “There was only one benefit from men - they gave children,” Terekhova once said. 
The eldest daughter Anna gave birth to the Bulgarian actor Savva Khishimov, after which she broke up with him. To her son, whom she gave birth without a husband, she gave the surname Turaev and said that his father was a certain prosperous Tajik Turaev.
Journalists found the director Georgy Gavrilov, who identified himself as the true father of the actress's son. As a result, the son took the name Terekhov, and when asked by journalists, the actress mysteriously replies that this is their family secret, the main thing is that the son knows who his mother is! 
"Be happy! Give birth to children, this is the meaning of a woman's life! And men come and go - God be with them, ”says Terekhova.
Natalia Kustinskaya: "Being in love gives me strength"
Main role: Natasha in the movie "Three plus two". 
What today: does not act in films, retired.
Personal life: not married.
What did the appearance give?
Kustinskaya always drove men crazy and lived in a seething passion. In her youth, actor Nikolai Gritsenko and director Roshal looked after her. The student director Yuri Chulyukin, having fallen in love with the blonde, tried to seduce her with an invitation to the role. 
- On the third day of dating, Chulyukin invited me to marry, - said Kustinskaya
- In general, all my husbands proposed to me on the third day of our acquaintance! But I never got the role from Chulyukin. In the comedy Girls, I wanted to play the cook Tosya. But the artistic council decided that my appearance was too spectacular for the role of a cook. 
On the set of Three Plus Two, Kustinskaya's nascent romance with partner Yevgeny Zharikov was "put out" by the actor's wife who arrived on time for the shooting. The scriptwriter of the film, Sergei Mikhalkov, also had views of Kustinskaya, came to her for the shooting for four days and immediately showed up to her room. But the actress refused the master, who left with the words: "Change your mind - call." 
- Beauty is both happiness and a test. Men betrayed me, - says Kustinskaya. - After the betrayal of my first husband, I immediately filed for divorce. The state of love gave me the strength to live. I was looked after by Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Vladimir Naumov, Muslim Magomayev, Alexey Batalov. But I married an employee of Vneshtorg Oleg. 
Much has been written about how Kustinskaya took her husband-cosmonaut Yegorov away from her friend Fateeva.
- Again, on the third day of our acquaintance, Egorov proposed marriage to me, - emphasizes Kustinskaya. - But then I was married to Oleg, who, upon learning about my novel, tried to poison himself, but the doctors left him. 
However, the marriage of Natalia and Oleg broke up. Kustinskaya married an astronaut, whose first betrayal put an end to their marriage. 
- I have a difficult fate, - says Kustinskaya. - I buried my grandson first, then my son. Former husband Egorov died. I thought I was going to go crazy with the pain. But she managed, found the strength to live on.
And although the years take their toll, I feel attractive. I still have a man who gives me the strength to live.
Svetlana Svetlichnaya: I never knew how to shoot with eyes ...
Main role: Anna Sergeevna in the comedy "The Diamond Arm" 
What today: Filmed in documentaries, in photo shoots for glossy magazines. She has not been married for more than 10 years. 
- You have always been surrounded by handsome men. Is there a secret on how to get the attention of the opposite sex?
- I love handsome men. I loved and will love. But this does not mean at all that if I see a handsome man, I will immediately hang myself on his neck. My eye can see beauty. But in all my life I have never used female tricks for a man to pay attention to me. She never knew how to shoot with her eyes. 
She is the first Soviet actress to be naked on the screen. Shyly covering her chest with her hand, Svetlana Svetlichnaya shouted: “I'm not guilty!”, And all the men believed her unconditionally. 
Only thanks to her, or rather, her heroine, there was a fashion for black arrows and Chanel perfume. Today Svetlana Svetlichnaya is published together with the young stylist Ruslan Tatianin. According to her, it was he who helped her to believe in herself again. 
- Svetlana Afanasyevna, you are called the first Soviet sex symbol. Are you flattered by this title?
- I am calm about him. Well, someone wanted to call me that, and for God's sake. Previously, even the word such - "sex symbol" - did not know. Today, alas, everyone has become so.
The sex symbol is such a shabby notion! It makes me neither hot nor cold. It was much more pleasant to hear that I have a soul without wrinkles. I am proud of this and will be proud for the rest of my days. And all because I am not angry, I forgive everyone.
She forgave her offenders from a pure heart long ago. I generally cannot hold a grudge against someone for a long time. I always feel sorry for everyone. Once, in the Epiphany frost, I went to the church to take holy water. There was a middle-aged man sitting there, he was shaking from the cold. I got some water, and on the way home I thought that I needed to bring this poor fellow at least some hot tea. And I did it!
I am still proud of my deed. Seeing me, he burst into tears and said: "I remember you by the hat." The poor man could not believe it for a long time, he kept asking: "Did you come back because of me?"
Personal life was not happy. In 1995, she buried her famous husband, Vladimir Ivashov. She experienced a lack of money, severe depression. 
Two sons and friends-actors helped her to cope with difficulties. Unfortunately, the actress buried one of her sons last year. Despite all the hardships of life, he does not lose heart
Evgenia Simonova - “I donated little for the sake of work”
Main role: princess in the movie "An Ordinary Miracle" 
What today:
She acts in films, plays at the Mayakovsky Theater. She admits: she found female happiness with her second husband, director Andrei Eshpay. There is a daughter from his first marriage with Kaidanovsky, a grandson. 
"Well, what should I tell about this? I'm not a vamp woman. I was never elected as a sex symbol, even at our entrance, not to mention other scales," - this is how Evgenia Simonova once answered a question about the public wants to know the secrets of her personal life. 
In fact, I don’t want to learn any “secrets”, but there are enough “vamps” in Russian cinema, moreover, almost every representative of this class, willingly or unwillingly, evokes associations with Teffi's famous story “The Demonic Woman”.
But who is truly feminine is the heroine of Simonova from the legendary film by Mark Zakharov "An Ordinary Miracle". 
Evgenia Simonova, who was born on June 1, 1955 in Leningrad, unlike many colleagues in the acting workshop, is calm about her age.
“Why hide it if the pictures by which, I hope, the audience remembers me, came out more than thirty years ago. So, how old I am, everyone can guess,” says Evgenia Simonova. was insanely good, so I'm not really worried about the wrinkles that appear. "
Evgenia Simonova became famous throughout the country after the film by Georgy Danelia "Afonya" (1975) was released. Nurse Katya, who sincerely fell in love with the unlucky locksmith Borshchov, has become for many a symbol of a real woman who, for all her "quietness", has great inner strength.
The film's success was tremendous. Fans literally bombarded Evgenia Pavlovna with letters. She was admired, confessed her love, offered a hand and a heart.
It would seem that Evgenia Simonova should have felt dizzy from the all-Union glory that had fallen on her. It was not so.
“I never had any illusions about myself, - says the actress. - Now I am revising my old films, it seems that I didn’t play so badly. And then it seemed to me that I did everything badly, worried, cried. To which my mother shouted : “Yes, you need to go to a psychiatrist!” Apparently, all these experiences associated with low self-esteem became a good vaccine against “star fever”. 
Evgenia Simonova does not like loud words. You won't hear from her: "I gave up everything for the sake of my profession!" On the contrary, she states: “To be honest, I donated very little for the sake of the work. 
Most importantly, she gave birth to and raised two daughters (the eldest daughter Zoya - from her first husband Simonova - actor and director Alexander Kaidanovsky). And for me it was always in the first place. "
Galina Belyaeva: All my children are from loved ones ...
Main role: Olenka in the film "My affectionate and gentle animal" 
What today:
Plays in an entreprise, does yoga to maintain a figure.
15 years happily married to businessman Sergei, who is five years younger than her. From him gave birth to a daughter, Anna. (There is a son from his first marriage with the director Loteanu and a son from a second, civil, marriage with a doctor.) 
Few of the actresses dare to have a maximum of two children. Three is a feat at all, which only Demi Moore is capable of with the presence of Bruce Willis.
So, our Russian actress Galina Belyaeva, who played the main roles in the films "My affectionate and gentle animal", "Ah, vaudeville, vaudeville ...", "Anna Pavlova", imagine, there are four children! For this alone, you can give the State Prize. 
- Usually actresses sacrifice their personal lives in favor of their careers ...
- When I want a child, I have one. I don't even think about my profession. Children are treasures. The more there are, the more you want.
- But it is important that they are from a loved one.
- Of course. Children should only be from loved ones.
Ah, those "roe" eyes ...
Emil Loteanu was looking for an actress for the role of Olenka Skvortsova in the film "My affectionate and gentle animal":
- I need a Russian type of girl. Something between Savelyeva and Samoilova.
The assistants found a 15-year-old dancer at the Voronezh Choreographic School. Lotyanu saw her eyes on a black-and-white photo of her "roe deer" ... and immediately summoned the girl to Moscow.
Gali Belyaeva's screen tests were awful. Next to Oleg Yankovsky in front of the camera, she was terribly intimidated. But the artistic council approved it all the same. 
After the release of the film on the screens, Belyaeva woke up famous. Olenka Skvortsova loved her on the screen as if it was all for real.
- At the age of fifteen I have not yet had men with whom I would kiss so openly, - the actress recalls.
In fact, then she was in love. Only not in Oleg Yankovsky, but in director Emil Loteanu.
It was a beautiful romance. They were soon married. Galya moved to his one-room Moscow apartment, where their son was born. He was named after his father - Emil. 
- Galina, why did you part with Lotyanu?
- When you get married for the first time, you think forever. Lotyanu is my first man. I met an interesting person, fell in love. For me, the divorce was a real tragedy. Moreover, a common child ... And Emil Vladimirovich did not want to get divorced. Rather, I lacked worldly wisdom. 
- How do you manage so many children?
- Sometimes I am in despair that I do not know how to educate them. I have them all with character.
- You didn't want to change anything in your life?
- No. In the play “The Islander” one heroine says: “I was married three times. But I don't regret anything. You have to live to survive everything. " If I didn't have a past life, there wouldn't be a present one. I really value what I have. And I don’t wish anything for myself anymore.
Anastasia Vertinskaya: Laziness is a companion of talented people 
What today:
Anastasia Vertinskaya has not acted in films or played in the theater for several years. The actress unexpectedly started cooking in the restaurants of her son, Stepan Mikhalkov. Attends international forums of the restaurant business, adopts experience. 
By the way, she stopped acting when the film "The Master and Margarita" with her in the lead role was not seen by the viewer. The actress starred in this film naked, after filming she was sick and then left the cinema altogether. 
- In recent years, actress Vertinskaya has made a few gifts to the public - "Imago", "The Bremen Town Musicians", "Mirage, or Russian Pierrot's Road". But the audience's interest in you does not disappear ...
- I don’t want to work in the theater as in the structure anymore, this stage has been passed. It is interesting to play entertaining performances if there is a worthy play. But, as a rule, Western plays written twenty years ago are taken for entreprise: people not from our lives discuss their life. This is not what you want to play. I have no creative plans. I would be glad to name it, but there is nothing. 
- I will never play the killer's mom and the like. Sitting in the frame as a grandmother and knitting is not interesting to me. As I was whimsical in the choice of roles, I stayed. But I don't see any drama in this. Rather, I see the drama in the fact that Marina Neyolova, Lena Koreneva are not acting - actresses of this level.
In 1966, Vertinskaya married Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov, who later became an outstanding actor and film director. In the same year, their son Stepan was born. Their marriage lasted less than four years. Subsequently, Anastasia married a second time - to the singer Alexander Gradsky. But this marriage suffered the same fate. Not married since 1980.
- I think the Lord has deprived me of this joy altogether - to be happy in marriage. In fact, there are women born for marriage. They cannot live without it. I love silence, solitude ... If I am not married, this does not mean anything. Loneliness is the highest spiritual state. "
- Do you spend a lot of time in the restaurant business?
- My son Stepan is engaged in the interior and everything else. I am passionate about the art of cuisine. Especially Russian cuisine, which I remember from my family and from the Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky family. Natalya Petrovna Konchalovskaya cooked brilliantly. I study all the time, it is very interesting to me.
- Having overcome the age limit, when a lot has been learned and passed, did you rush to live? Or, on the contrary, do you exist in a more measured way?
- Oddly enough, my activity has increased. In my youth, sleep meant a lot to me. In general, I think that the companion of talented people is laziness. Since I used to work very hard, for me any day of doing nothing was a tremendous happiness. And now I hate these days, so I load myself from morning to evening. 
I would like to see my family at the table. So that the grandchildren run around. This is the result of life when those who remain come to you. The circle changes over time. 
Friends leave, close people - too. Life filters the environment very much, although I cannot say that there are few people around me. And I really want to see those around me at my birthday, so that all of them feel comfortable and fun.