8 Jul actor, Director and artistic Director of the theater “Satyricon” was 70 years old. He did not draw conclusions, as he considers himself a workhorse, not a deep retired. On the eve of the anniversary, he told me why his theatre homeless, and how to teach adolescents to love Russian literature.
I do not anniversary people, not love pathos of the moment. We do business, – said Konstantin Raikin. – I have no pride in their business and continue to work. Be proud and be happy – this is for deep retirement. And yet, there’s just no time. I’m a working man and my job even creativity never called. You talk with the working horse and the old horse furrow does not spoil. For 32 years I ran the theatre “Satyricon”, which during this time was as I wanted. He became the most important in my life. Five years ago, we drove out of the building, put him in a building. Repair is ongoing, and we are still in a homeless condition.
All the well-known anecdote, when a young journalist asked, a patronymic Konstantin Raikin. On the eve of the anniversary, Konstantin Arkadievich remembered his great father.
Arkady Raikin – a unique phenomenon, particular star in the theatrical firmament. He was so peculiar, so unlike anyone else that he had directly something to learn. But a dialogue with my father my entire life. For me it means a lot. He taught me, his attitude. The theatre was for him a way of life. He inspires me with this. Often ask ourselves to the father said in a given situation. I am originally from our family. Very well, when one grows near mom and dad, older sister. In this sense, I was very lucky. With characteristic modesty, I must say that they are not mistaken, choosing a son.
Konstantin Raikin for the utilitarian. So that sometimes even surprised his subjective statements about colleagues. Actor oddball is unacceptable for him. Here are his rules of life.
– If the actor is difficult to move away from the role, he needs to see a psychiatrist. This area of pathology. A good actor takes the role immediately, with great pleasure. Sometimes a shamanic actor, loves to play up that he is Prince Myshkin, and in life suffers from epileptic seizures. When you see students start to behave, I quickly shot down. I am a professional. We have a wonderful healthy profession. This craft is. To the future actor did not lose his mind, this long train.
– I never play in the performances that he put. When I’m an actor, given to the Director and totally obedient, do what he says. The actor should not be on a par with the Director, even if he is artistic Director. Who is the commander? Director. Who is the actor of any rank? SubordinatedNY. Regardless of age and regalia. I – a rare case of connecting to three occupations: artistic Director, put on plays, play as an actor. Still he teaches. And in his spare time he goes to the theater. To discharge great consider your colleagues – from the Lion to Dodin Yegor Peregudova. He is confident that we have a country where more like the dead than the living.
what he wants?
‘ I’m a dreamer? I’m a maker. Never wanted to play any specific role. Is hamlet a better Richard III? I think not. It all depends on how to put. I played the roles brilliantly written scoundrels, loathsome which are hard to find. Hamlet – is a positive role? Then why is he misbehaving with her mother and Ophelia? I do not dream. Do what you want. Wanted to play Cyrano and played. I think Peter brook said that hamlet is the top, littered with the corpses of actors and Directors. And my corpse is there.
a Movie for him, though, and a wonderful form of art, but theater has always been in the first place. Do yourself on the screen? No.
– I don’t think I – high blue-eyed blonde. Know that the bald and small, but can afford something that no one tall and blue-eyed won’t allow it. With movies I don’t have a long creative partnership. To work in the theater actor interesting. Theatre from the very beginning was the only thing my main thing… fear of the audience I had, although onstage is an act of will, a certain act. Each profession – his courage. If the test pilot to put in the urgent situation you enter in the show, he may not survive. I love to play on stage. There is a special fear when you get one-on-one with a huge hall: microphone, lighting, six thousand people and you. And you need to be inspired and mobilized every fiber of your being, nerves and cells.
the Wife and daughter of Konstantin A. – actress. Does this additional nuances in joint work and in relationships? It turns out, no.
My daughter is a good actress. And I need it as an actress. Family ties in these moments go by the wayside. I also work with my wife. Maybe I relate to them much more severely than others. Knowing their capabilities, trying their best to show.
And finally, the celebrant spoke about literature in my life:
– I would recommend our teenagers to read the great Russian classics of the XIX century separate from school. I doubt that there is a right teaching. I see a lot of old-fashioned ways to teach Russian literature, you see that the students who are not accustomed to reading. I would have the kids from the high school interested in our writers, so they understand what Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov not about some ancient life, and about them. And we have it taught without the spiritual contribution. I recently read all books by Eugene Vodolazkin, would like to meet him. I was really impressed by his works. The our theater artist Sergey Sotnikov puts us on the Small stage performance of “Close friends” of his military prose.
