See everything, don’t be afraid and always tell the truth

MOSCOW. In the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, the presentation of the book “100 Contemporaries about Lyubimov” took place.

The monumental concept of “centenary” is difficult to correlate with the image of Yuri Lyubimov. Pathos celebrations, the laying of bouquets and regalia - not about him. He would definitely come up with something, dumbfounded by an unexpected experiment. He, as before, would speak directly to the viewer, helping to find answers from Chekhov, Aristophanes, Moliere and Shakespeare to the most pressing questions of the day. “The director’s profession is to see everything.”

And also to talk about what excites everyone, not thinking about the consequences, as honest artists and directors have done at all times. Like in “The Good Man from Cezuan”, “Galilee”, “Hamlet”, “Pugachev”, “Demons”. And also to do things without fear of reckoning. Visit Solzhenitsyn in Peredelkino on the day of his arrest. Uncompromisingly uphold Zhivoy and other impassable performances. Do not shut up Vysotsky’s seeing off despite contrary recommendations. Survive the troupe’s split in 1992. Survive the breakup with his brainchild in 2011, reminiscent of the dramatic collisions of Shakespeare’s King Lear. “The truth is always driven out of the house like a guard dog.”

Once his grandfather and grandmother, 86-year-old Zakhar Petrovich and 84-year-old Agafya Nikiforovna, were thrown out of the house in the snow, having taken all the property from the “deprived” and “fists”. Parents were repeatedly arrested, their older brother was expelled from the Komsomol. The future reformer learned to survive and keep punch from early childhood. Be free and teach others about it.

Active participation in the creation of the book "100 Contemporaries about Lyubimov" was attended by employees of the Design Laboratory for the Study of Lyubimov’s work. The initiator of her publication was the widow of the director and chairman of the Charity Fund Lyubimova Katalin Lyubimova. Co-authors of the book are famous actors, directors, like-minded people of Yuri Petrovich.

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