Book: How is the play

Theater concepts, if the play quickly left the scene, it's because it failed and is no good; if it has withstood a lot of performances, it's because it's trash, catering to the baser tastes.

As you know, Prime Ministers have their permanent audience. There are people who go only to the premiere. They say that this is a passionate theatre-goers or just curious people, snobs or lovers to show off toilets and to see friends. Don't know, but I think they come persecuted subconscious sadism, it's nice to enjoy the excitement of the actors, the torments of the agony of the Director.

Theatre near rough and imperfect. But when he successfully performs his job, he wakes up the illusion and feelings that last until the end of the play and often leave the viewer beyond the theater.

The artist reads the play, not paying attention to the charms of style and composition. He is interested in, where and what should be doors and what furniture you want to place on the stage, the author to, in consultation with the Director, to do the opposite. Then struck the author States that he is all imagined. A svoebrazny the fact that there all things are so different than first assumed.

The work of the Director is hard and tragic, for he seeks to create something better than what is written, staged and played.

Author - odd people in the theater, even more superfluous than he expected. His work is already laid on the shoulders of others. The Director has come up with its own interpretation and is tormented by the fact that the author of his play, in fact, prevent him. Because he, the Director, puts in a wonderful performance, which severely threatens the author, breaking into it with their obscene and ridiculous text.

I don't want to say that the theatrical environment, especially Dika, the bloodthirsty and aggressive. It is only, how shall I say, a little crazy. The fact that the orchestra of the Bolshoi theatre consists of a wide variety of people of different professions.

Theatre people are known to be superstitious. Don't, for example, to say to the actress before the premiere: "good luck". I must say: "break a leg". The actor does not say, "good luck," and say, "Break my neck," - and even spit in his direction.

On the last day before dress rehearsal of the trouble is usually spilling out of the bag. Among the actors, there breaks out an epidemic of influenza, sore throat, pneumonia, pleurisy, appendicitis and other ailments.

In order to reveal to you the secrets of the drama, I will say that creatively minded author that doesn't want to associate themselves with the scene, and creatively minded Director - one that "is not going to go on about the text."

In the theatre everything is possible, this is the home of miracles.

Theatre is akin to the military art and gambling the game of roulette - no one knows in advance what will show. Not only the premiere, but every subsequent evening the magic really happens.

We are not going to pretend to understand the theatre; nobody understands - neither men aged on the stage, nor the most experienced Director of the theatres, or even newspaper reviewers.