The Moscow City Council’s last premiere this year is a detective from Yuri Eremin

MOSCOW. In the theater to them. The Moscow City Council was presented to the audience the last premiere of the outgoing year - a production of Yuri Yeryomin based on the famous play “The Phone Call”, written by Frederick Nott. This play was first filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. Russian viewers are aware of her later film adaptations - the Russian film "Tony Wendis’ Error" and "The Perfect Kill", where Michael Douglas starred in the lead.

In the stage reading of the play by Yuri Yeryomin, the play was called “In the case of a murder, type M”. The playwright wrote the play in such a way that both the killer and the customer are known from the first minutes, which contradicts the laws of the detective in the classical version.

However, Yoryomin acted no less original in his production - in his version, the detective, with the already famous ending, turned into a parody, using elements inherent in the classic detective story. Now the audience is more interested not in finding a criminal, but in the process of covering up traces of a crime, as well as how successful it will be for the hero of the play.

It was the elegantly staged parody of the performance that became part of the reason for its amazing success with the public. However, such a wonderful performance could not have appeared without an acting ensemble that successfully embodied the director’s intention on stage. This play demanded that the actors have impeccable accuracy in the performance of the character of each of the characters. The artists played a parody, implying a dramatic story of the heroes, which is why the performance turned out.

The performance was attended by Evgenia Kryukova, Roman Kirillov and Dmitry Shcherbina. Evgenia Kryukova first plays in the play of the detective genre, but the actress agreed without a doubt to the proposal of Yuri Yeryomin. The actress already has experience with the director, so she was confident in the success of the play.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru