Таланты и поклонники

Aleksandra Nikolaevna Negina ,
young actress in a provincial theatre
Lazareva Polina
Domna Pantelevna,
her mother, a widow, a really ‘simple woman’
Nemolyaeva Svetlana
Prince Irakly Stratonych Dulebov ,
an ‘old guard’ kind of aristocrat, an old man
Kostolevsky Igor
Lobotsky Anatoly
Grigory Antonych Bakin ,
a regional government’s official in a prominent place
Lensky Vitaly
Ivan Semenych Velikatov,
a very rich landowner, owner of several prosperous estates and factories, a retired cavalryman
Filippov Mikhail
Lobotsky Anatoly
Petr Egorych Meluzov,
a young man, who after just one year in University, awaits for getting a teacher’s vacancy
Sapphirov Ivan
Nina Vasilievna Smelskaya,
an actress, who is older than Negina
Ardova Anna
Augshkap Tatiana
Gavrilo Petrovich Migaev,
an entrepreneur
Prokofiev Dmitry
Evtushenko Igor
Martyn Prokofyich Narokov,
an assistant director, props master, an old man, who is dressed very decently but poorly; a man of good manners
Rubeko Sergey
Erast Gromilov,
a tragedian
Marychev Igor
Kovalev Vyacheslav
Vasya,
a young merchant, a man of pleasant appearance and good manners
Konstantinov Konstantin
A Servant at the theatre
Glebov Maxim
Kovalunas Ivan

Talents and Admirers is the first work of the director Mindaugas Karbauskis at the Mayakovsky Theatre. It is a play about the nature of aristocratic gift, happiness and vulnerability to theatrical genius, freedom and eternal dependence – it is about theatre.

Actor is an eternally dependent profession and a desperately freedom-loving gift. Actor’s life consists in worries of reality, audience, everyday routine, habits. And anybody who admires and worship the talent actually trenches on it, seeks to possess and to make use of it.

The main character, an actress Negina is in the center of the story which is unfolding around her and where other characters aspire to play leading roles as well. Here everybody is a talent. Everybody implements his own plan with enthusiasm. What is the logic behind the separate plots? Where are the starting points? What does it mean to unravel the intrigue and to take part in its consequences? Who activates the new circle of action? Theatre is a collection of characters and events, a whirlabout and reciprocal use of goals and ambitions. While realizing this sad truth, people at the Mayakovsky Theatre still stick to romantic views based on admiration for power and charisma of the Artist’s personality. Karbauskis’ production is in many ways devoted to the talents of ‘Mayakovka’ itself, its brilliant actors’ ensemble.

The premiere performance took place on 21 January 2012

Running time: 3 hours 30 minutes

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