Oleg Permyakov - he would be 60!

Oleg Permyakov is a flash man who barely managed to take off and with his light trail illuminate the path of thousands of children and adults who, for many years, passed from hand to hand, like Prometheus, to transmit this light to new generations of lovers of theater. He took off, warmed and burned. As often happens with unsurpassed and in love with their work.

Permyakov Sr. was a terrible adventurer, dreamer and, infecting his ideas with everything around (both movable and not movable), spoke of an unprecedented miracle - a theater where children will live and create… And he did it skillfully. Someone believed, and some didn’t, there were those with a finger at the temple who resolutely rejected all the ideas of Permyakov, the dreamer, and he, like Munchausen, grabbing his braid, pulled out of the swamp of routine and transferred fairy tales into the world, magic and acting, creating a pebble after pebble children’s dream theater. He believed that everything is possible - you only need to.

And if, as the classic claimed, the whole world is a theater, then Oleg Permyakov was definitely the director of this theater. He has not been with us for 16 years, and the work of his life lives on. The theater does not just stand, like many theaters across Russia, sparkling with Indian fairs and entrepreneur performances, but develops, delighting tens of thousands of spectators from around the world with its performances, festivals, exhibitions, concerts, and sometimes skits.

Today Oleg Permyakov would be 60 years old and, for sure, would have been a huge, loud anniversary with an indispensable concert, a yacht and guests, but there is only light sadness, old photographs, recordings of several of his performances and our memory, inextricably linked with the history of the Crimean theater.

And, of course, a tremendous list of his merits and achievements is headed by the Golden Key children’s theater and the Earth. Theatre. Children". The theater has existed for 30 years, and the festival is 22 years old and in total they survived their creator for 8 years.

Today, Zolotoy Klyuchik is experiencing a new round of development, next year the center will finally begin to be completed, and the fifth professional theater of the peninsula will be created on its basis. But the most important thing is that the “Permyakov Center”, which is what everyone in its walls calls just that, with the light hand of Olga Barykina and the program “Up to 16 and older…” from 1990, will officially bear the name of its creator. They didn’t have time for the anniversary, and to be honest, they could not overcome the wall of misunderstanding of some republican officials who were far from the theatrical realities of the peninsula. But still - it’s one thing to be a whole chapter in history, like Permyakov, another thing is just a comma… And indeed, it’s like a stamp in a passport of a bride and groom — it may or may not be - it doesn’t affect love in any way. All the same, time will put everything (or everyone) in their places…

And today, on the day of the 60th birthday, we recall Oleg Anatolyevich Permyakov, the creator of the unique and unparalleled International Center for Theater Arts “Golden Key”, the founder of the International Festival “Earth. Theatre. Children ”, an outstanding Crimean director, social activist, laureate of the State Prize of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, honors student of Ukraine, laureate of the Prize named after S. E. Duvan, holder of the Order of St. Stanislav, awarded the gold medal of the All-Union Festival of Theater Groups in Moscow (1985); the gold medal of the international competition of amateur and professional theaters in Moscow (1990), the medal of the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet for military-patriotic work among children and youth (Decree of President B. N. Yeltsin in 1996).

Permyakov has directed more than a dozen productions based on the works of J.-B. Moliere, B. Lavrenev, M. Kulish, M. Shatrov, A. Chekhov, L. Filatov, A. Gaidar, A. Baranov, A. Ostrovsky and others. Performances have repeatedly been awarded gold medals and other awards at All-Union and international festivals and reviews.

Honored Worker of Culture of the ARC
Andrey Permyakov
Source: https://c-teatral.ru/oleg-permyakov-emu-bylo-by-60/
Photo: ICTI “Golden Key” archive