vlada, if it weren’t for directing, what would you be doing? i was an excellent student at school, participated in olympiads in chemistry and biology, and, probably, i would have studied science, maybe even genetics, because genetics fascinated me very much as a child, and i adore animals, plants, and i still do it's even growing me. watermelon and melon, yes, i planted it to see if i could get something out of it or not, my heroine loves to experiment, surprise and take risks, her performances evoke strong emotions, it takes a long time to talk about them... them

are discussing and reconsidering how our heroine feels about this, now let’s ask. today my guest is the artistic director of the variety youth theater, director vladislava artyukovskaya. vladislava, hello, hello. probably not everyone knows that you are not only a director, but also a playwright, and you started writing in school, how did your teachers and classmates react to your writing? i probably started writing when i was 14 years old, maybe even earlier, because at 14 i already had my first award, there was a berezh festival like that, i received an award as a playwright, this is my very first award, it was as a playwright, and already, probably, yes, from the age of 14-15 i wrote a play that we staged, i studied at a theater school, we staged it together with my classmates and it there was one on the popular youth theme of love, relationships in the classroom, that’s why it was so popular.

these were the subjects, this was when i had to write essays, probably already from the third grade i gathered girls and did concerts with them, concerts for school, and my mother watched like that me, because there were no such creative professions in the family, although mom is a historian, dad is an engineer, but she watches me, she said: you know, vlada, there is such a profession, director, and she described it beautifully, what do you say, come to the theater hall, and you sit down, and there is a whole stage, and you sit in the hall, and you have actors. i

imagined it so well that i thought it was really very interesting, admissions, studies, mastering some of the first tasks of the profession, i know from experience that not all students pass the tests first course, there was no doubt then whether i had chosen the right profession, you know, i was so lucky, i got in, it turns out the best course, and it turned out to be the course of professor ledia alekseevna monakova, already when i...

having spent the night at home, i again ran away to the academy, because it was necessary on saturday and sunday , you definitely had to get there, because there were a lot of teachers, a lot of tasks, everything had to be completed, i really wanted to do it, also participation in the academy, you staged a play, a plastic performance tuti-fruti in the genre comic book, i must say, it was in many ways an experimental performance, it enjoyed enormous success with the audience, the educational theater was crowded, it was always filled to capacity, by the way, there also shone in one role, so extravagant, adventurous, yes, it was a plastic performance , there was no opportunity to speak, but there was an opportunity to show everything with your body, i mean movements, dancing, and it was very interesting, because we played such, well, really in the comic book genre, that were bright, i remember. that i had

an episode where i came out as a very beautiful woman in a fur coat, took off this fur coat, and many guys went to the performance, well, classmates, some from other courses went. to look at the performance at that very moment, because it seemed to them that it was so elegantly beautiful, and there was also such an element of rewinding, as if in a performance, as a solution to the fact that the scene was rewound back, and i seemed to be moving it back, moving , moved, and the fur coat fell on my shoulders, they wanted watch this gorgeous moment, when he has a fur coat on his shoulders and it’s as if everything is starting from scratch. as a rule, course masters like to look into the future of their students. what kind of future did lidia alekseevna predict for you? i'll tell you, she was very strict with me, she was strict with me, she played a big, probably the most important role in my development, because i came as a young girl, very

emotional, energetic, who flared up and touched everything to me. time she gave some valuable instructions, she said: “you’re a director, learn how”? hold in your hands, be reasonable, she kept an eye on me all the time, and sometimes it seemed to me that she was too strict with me, until the moment when i graduated from the academy, and we came to her for her birthday, so she took me by the hand, and i just graduated and introducing all the other guests, she said: this is my best student, i’m serious, i almost burst into tears, for me it was, you see, even until now, even until now it was so unexpected so nice. what am i i understood, she put her soul into me, she put her heart into me, i love her endlessly, after graduating from the academy, you worked in the youth theater, staged a belarusian playwright at the republican theater, and then suddenly, unexpectedly, you

decided to quit, leave the theater and go to advertising, why? are you disappointed in the theater? no, i was not disappointed in the theater, but firstly, i was still studying at the same time. i wanted some kind of financial situation, but because i had children and the theater at that time did not give me the opportunity, well, because i have a family, i have two children, and i wanted some kind of financial position, some kind of stability, just stability, this stage of your life, your creativity, what kind of experience it gave you, a huge experience, because - i’m very, we still, when we live in a theatrical life, a little illusory, a little illusory, there is a moment when we don’t know real life, i had to return, as it were, to real life, and this is very important, it’s important no matter how lose one's origins, truly one's own

life, with an understanding of how it is structured, how it flows, with communication with people, because this is also very important, to understand that one circle of creative people... that surrounds you is one, as it were, your environment. we follow the sporting life of our country. the belarusian school of batuta again shows a high class. the winner of the fourth stage of the swiss world cup was belarus' stanislav yaskevich, with oleg ryabtsev taking bronze. congratulations to our guys, a result that to some extent can be recognized from. historical in the oval of medals in our sport. belarusian athletes completed their performance at the brics sports games, having won 247 medals. we review the most interesting event. the chicago black hawks selected our fellow countryman with the second overall pick in the draft. and this is the highest result for us at the

enkhal talent fair in history. we listen to the opinions of competent specialists. i was pleased, i was also pleased with the performance of our ska, because not a single victory of bgk over them is... easy for us, now the generation has come that understands that if they don’t train in the summer, then in the season they will it will be very bad, you won’t be able to talk about any results or achievements. all this is in sports projects on the belarus 24 tv channel. a talk show in which famous people answer tricky questions from the younger generation. i love very much. sing and dream of becoming a famous artist, could you now hold a mini-audition for me to assess my chances? well , let’s sing something, it’s wonderful there behind the dawns, behind the fogs in the silence of the forests and fields,

but it would be interesting to know if there are any statistics on reliability and safety, or are there any safety criteria for your airline? certainly, certainly and... there are statistics, and there is such a concept as punctuality, this is again related to flight safety. let's turn 180°, yellow sector, please, your question. what hidden talents do you have? i ’ll tell you, somehow everything in my life, i went on stage, i immediately started singing, look at the project 100 questions for adults on the belarus 24 tv channel . in 2018, if i’m not mistaken, you were offered to head the youth pop theater, you immediately

agreed or thought about it, but absolutely not right away, it would seem, absolutely not, but i had some kind of free life of my own, i had to understand that i now needed to somehow restructure myself, i realized that i had a lot of work ahead of me, because the theater didn’t even have an image as such, it was more like this... then i realized that the team had its own conflict situations and i understood that i

was going to be a complex, difficult team with its own conflicts and i would have to deal with this too , so i needed this time for reflection, i was very attentive to this, i wondered if i could pull it off, but on the other hand, that’s what motivated me, i always understand that we, as creative people, love to criticize everything, and especially in our field there is a moment such that everything is bad everywhere. everything is wrong, everyone likes to criticize, but no one does anything, i thought, here i have a chance to come with my own work, and really with my own, because i am a hard worker in life, with my work, with my perseverance, to prove that something is possible change, it must be said that in 5 years, it’s not just me who is saying this, everyone who is there is saying this, not only in the theater, those who come, in 5 years i have completely remade this theater and made it really, well, a theater. about which you can talk, they talk a lot about him, that’s who they’re not meeting, they ’re talking about, that’s who they’re talking about, it’s about

the variety youth theater, when you came to the theater, that ’s the creative bar you set for yourself, let’s say, a super task, what is the vision of the future theater here? i understood that pop music is multi-genre, that i wouldn’t to confine myself, for example, only to dramatic works or only to musicals, although i started with musicals. i realized what the potential of the theater is, i have a lot of vocalists, very professional vocalists, one might even say unique, because i have performers, for example, who have four acts, a famous director even came to me from st. petersburg and watched the performance, firstly, he was stunned, he said that there is no such level even in europe, he said, you have the level of world productions, but he says, but what kind of voices do you have, he says? what amazing voices, how could you gather so many amazing voices into one,

because there was some kind of established caste of people, suddenly i found myself interested in others, for example, artists, well, i was interested in artists with unique vocal abilities, i began to take a closer look at them , i did the first such performance, even a little provocative, it’s burlesque, which, by the way, has been going on for 5 years and 5 let-lags, every year i do something to me. it really turns out to be arshlag after arshlag, even in the summer, when it’s very hot, i took it, it was completely

packed, because there was such a bright comedy that i wanted to go to it, and really , when you came to the theater, they started talking about it, it changed, they began to talk about it as an experimental theater, here are some names , already sounded burlesque, guryanov, i wish i could marry the rabinovichs, how do you manage to embody such a scene on stage? multi-genre performances, people sometimes ask me, vladislav, how do you manage to write a comedy, where there is humor, where there is textual humor, and such bright one at that?

born in june, gemini, gemini, i probably have a lot of personalities in me, i don’t know what, but everything is interesting to me, i am a very curious person, and everything is always interesting to me, it causes some kind of excitement in me, i and everything is really accessible to me, i can write both tragedy and comedy, for some reason i realized this back in childhood, that any genre is accessible to me, i feel very good in it, but if it’s a comedy, then i’m like -i exist in it in my own way, if it’s a tragedy, then in a different way somehow.

go on stage, well, in a rather unusual role, well, as for the famous, really artists there, also ruslan chernetsky, and we met him outside of my theater, and he came with pleasure, i probably made some kind of impression on him, because he was interested in trying, and until now, it seems to me that our work is proceeding in such a really, well, active way, the same artem pinchuk, i remember, i came. to some performance, i watched it and was very shocked by his performance, and i already called him myself, invited him to the theaters, and we talked and decided to interact, but i came to the theater, where, for example, there was the honored artist of the republic of belarus zhannet, who plays amazingly in my plays and sometimes even plays negative roles, does it so delicately beautifully, and

for me, for example, it was difficult, but at first, how- then build a relationship, because what i was proposing was not exactly her role, it was necessary to go out, not sing songs and perform, it was necessary to stage a dramatic actress, but i knew that she was such a restless person, and also so passionate and curious, and i saw that i had acting talent, because somewhere we crossed paths, some small scenes were done for some other projects, i understood that this actor doesn’t have a scan, i just need to pull it out somehow and... and just the same burlesque performance began exactly where she was in the leading role, where she had to act in a completely different role, where she had to play, where she had to appear in the same swimsuit, she still appears in the swimsuit scene, he does it amazingly, that was very interesting, and i remember that even for this performance i have other actresses ekaterina

medvedeva, she told me that she even wears caps at home, because she had to... play the owner of this establishment and such a grand lady, and that i criticized everything, that the gait was not the same, that the movements were not the same, that even when she came home she clicked in her heels and fried her husband’s omelette there, that’s why this also had to be done, i have many arts that they didn’t even suspect that they had have acting skills, they really showed off in this theater, because i always say: this is my school, whoever goes through my school can act... everything, how lukashenko treats corrupt officials as president, we all know this very well, if you’re a thief, then you’ll be in jail, no matter how

pro-state you are no matter how he was, lukashenko is demanding, yes to everyone, but he is especially demanding. he is right for those who are nearby, our main enemy, carelessness, fraud and corruption. the homeland, in my understanding, is, of course, my country, and my cities, but first of all, the homeland is people. every third person on the territory of belarus died from the war. and when now someone suddenly doesn’t understand what belarus and specifically its leader lukashenko are doing, when we conduct maneuvers, then combat coordination, then we invite the wagnerites to come to us to learn from experience, then we return nuclear weapons. the enemies present this as aggression, that they are maneuvering there at home? but all that alexander grigorievich wants for his homeland is so that the same thing does not happen again, every third person. a stable environment that is controlled, well, but nevertheless you can't relax. that's all it does. lukashenko defends his homeland the way its leader should defend it. the author's project of igor turai is propaganda. watch on tv channel belarus 24. how is life for foreign

guests in belarus? i was lucky enough to meet the military doctor of this medical unit, who i listened to there. he suggested that i go and enter the grodno medical institute. belarus. this is one of the friendliest countries in azerbaijan. watch the project glance at belarus on our tv channel. vlada, you write plays, stage performances, you direct the theater and for more than

20 years you have been the director of the most large-scale republican holidays, concerts, how did it all begin, how did you, as a very young director, manage to attract attention, i’ll tell you, it was a competition, it was definitely. competition - i was a very young graduate and a girl, i didn’t really understand at all what and how and how it was a completely different, probably job and profession, i’m still a theater director, there are concert activities and some kind of festive events, and well i so little by little, i remember that i was on some kind of first graduation holiday and i needed to make a prologue, and i made all these living statues, painted everyone white, even the instruments i found there was a veloncelle, everything was white .

i cried so much, and it’s impossible to watch, listen, listen and not cry, i probably always carry everything through my

heart, and therefore, probably, it gets into the viewer, i understand that if it touches me, if my tears exist , which means there will be empathy from the audience, and it seems to me such projects are very important, especially now, when everything is forgotten, many years have passed, when... there is no longer any understanding about the tragedy of this war, when some facts have been forgotten, it is necessary to even show this without hesitation, to remind, probably, this concert , it contains shocking footage, very shocking footage that is impossible to watch without tears, which is on the screens in the form of video content, the ministry of defense, the military, worked with us, they really got... such archival footage that was probably a very, very long time ago not were shown, or maybe from the position that they are, well, so difficult, tragic, and

what can make you cry, when was the last time you cried, i am a very sentimental person, i can cry, yesterday my daughter had the birthday that your youngest daughter turned 16, of course... i know that your biggest critic, first listener, reader, is your husband, he often criticizes you, i wouldn’t say that he criticizes me, he praises me. he loves me very much, respects me very much, appreciates me very much and really praises me, and i was lucky, because thanks to his love, this real love, i

probably have. when honestly, he is a very honest person, even when i got married, i understood that i was marrying a very honest person, and for me this was fundamentally important, when he reads a work for the first time, he is sometimes really ruthless, he can say some things that might even offend me at some point, but then i’ll hold back my first grievances, i’ll think, yes, he’s right, we need to redo it, and how do your daughters feel

to your work? well, my eldest daughter is studying to become a film director, she is already a separate creative person who also criticizes, there are some things she likes, but i am very understanding about this, because she already has her own vision of how it should be , and some moments, let’s say , we really don’t agree, on some we don’t, but for some reason i always have an inner censor, i always have it in me, i... can listen to all people, critics , and some kind of commission that is there, the artistic council, so, well i have this inner censor in me that will say whether all this is right or wrong, i trust some kind of inner censor of mine, it somehow doesn’t allow me to make mistakes, in fact, i know that this is how it should be done, it’s right , then later it turns out that this is really what needs to be done, that there was no need to make

a concession here or somehow change

this desire not just to live, but to be useful to this world, to reach not the heights for one’s glory, but to be close people, to open human hearts with their creativity, to see their tears, their empathy, i have a performance, the same gurian, in which a wonderful story happens when people come, then leave and say: i started to live differently. i rethought something in my life, or there are people who come to this performance eight times, they say: it’s easier for me to live after watching the performance, and i understand that i am some small part of myself into the universal, i invested it, and i want to continue to do this with my creativity, my work and desire to help people, because i help people a lot and i never skimp on it, everyone knows that the one

who calls me. without help, i will always lend a helping hand, and i believe that this also has a great meaning in life. vlada, first of all, i want to thank you for this very interesting, meaningful conversation, for the opportunity to see you again, look at your charming eyes, i want to wish you creativity and not only the stage, in art, creativity in life, and to be like that interesting, meaningful and carry the world that is inside you... viewer, thank you, i like that they are multi-colored, as if like me, it suits you, yes, it suits me, this was the meaning of vlada artikovskaya’s life.