what would you do? i was an excellent student at school, i took part in chemistry and biology olympiads. and i would probably do science, maybe even genetics, because genetics really fascinated me as a child, and i adore animals, plants, i even still have a watermelon and a melon growing, and i planted them to see if i could make something out of it or not.

my heroine loves to experiment, surprise and take risks. her productions evoke strong emotions, they are talked about for a long time, discussed and re-watched. how to this our heroine refers to, now we will ask. today my guest is the artistic director of the youth theater estrada. 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 back in school. how did your teachers and classmates feel about your writing? i probably started writing when i was 14, maybe even earlier, because at 14 i already had my first award, there was a breza festival, i received an award as a playwright, that's my most first award.

that you need to go into directing, well, that you should become a director, it's probably so funny, but my mother came up with it, because i studied very well at school, and i really liked chemistry and biology, i participated in olympiads, but i always wrote, since childhood, as far as i remember, my favorite subjects were probably when i had to write an essay, probably already from the third grade i gathered girls and did concerts with them, concerts for the school, and my mother, watching me, because... she described it beautifully, that

you say, you come to the theater hall, and you sit down, and there is a whole stage, and you are sitting in the hall, and you have actors, i imagined it so perfectly that i thought that it really is very interesting, admission, study, comprehension of some first basics of the profession, i know from experience that not all students pass the tests of the first year, and did doubt arise then, did i choose the right profession, you know? i was so lucky, i entered, it turns out, the best course, and it turned out to be the course of professor ledia aleksemovna monakova, already when i when i entered, they told me the whole story, that these are the most stellar courses, that they have the best performances, and that everyone dreams of entering there, so i somehow entered and realized that i was so lucky in life, that i have such the best teachers, that she invites such interesting people to the course, that i will have such an interesting study, that i appreciated every moment. of course, we studied a lot, we

studied a lot, i remember that i came, probably at 8 in the morning, left at 12:00 at night, then only after spending the night at home, i i ran to the academy again. because i had to get there on saturday and sunday, because there were a lot of teachers, a lot of assignments, i had to do everything, and i really wanted to do it, and i also had a part in the academy, you staged a play, a plastic play tutti-fruti in the comic genre, i must say, it was an experimental play in many ways, it enjoyed enormous success with the audience, where the educational theater was overcrowded, it was always overcrowded, yes... kaza, by the way, also shone in one role there, such an extravagant one, 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, dances, and it

was very interesting, because we played such, well, really in the comic genre scenes that were bright, i remember that i had such an episode where i came out as a very beautiful woman ... a fur coat on my shoulder and as if everything starts from there, as a rule, the course masters like to look into the future of their students. what future did lidiya alekseevna predict 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, like... who flared up, moved, she always gave me some valuable instructions, she said: "you're a director, learn to control yourself, be reasonable, she was always watching me, and it seemed to me sometimes that she was too strict with me, until the moment when i graduated from the academy, and we came to her birthday party, so she took me by the hand, and i had just graduated, and introducing me to 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 to this day, even to this day it was so unexpected, so pleasant, that 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 a youth theater,

staged at the republican theater of the belarusian drama, and then suddenly you decided to quit, leave the theater, go... advertising, why? were you disappointed in the theater? no, i was not disappointed in the theater, well , first of all, i was still doing creative work at the same time, because i did some big concerts, i participated in other programs, but probably finances, still finances, because i had children, and i wanted some kind of financial position, and the theater at that time, well, did not give the opportunity, well, because i have a family, i have two children, and i wanted, as it were, some financial situation, some stability, just stability. this stage of your life, your work, what experience did it give you? a huge experience, because i am very, we still, when we live in theatrical life, a little illusory, a little illusory, there is a moment when we do not know real life,

i had to return to real life, and this is very important, it is important not to lose your roots, really with your life, with understanding.

is not really interesting, because there are no different artists, different genres, so to speak, there is no opportunity to do something with them, some interesting collaborations, i understood that i would be presented with... very hard, very difficult work, then i understood that there are conflict situations in the team, and i understood that i am going to a complex, difficult team, with its own conflicts, and i will have to deal with this too, so i needed this time to think, i was very attentive to this, i thought whether i would be able to pull it off, but on the other hand, what motivated me, i always understand, that we as creative people love to criticize everything and... especially in our field there is such a thing that everything is bad everywhere, everything is wrong, everyone loves to criticize, but no one

does anything, i thought, here i have a chance to come and with my work, and with my own really, because i am a workaholic in life, with my work, with my persistence to prove that it is possible to change something, they will tell us that in 5 years, it is not only me who says this, everyone who is not only in the theater, those who come, says this, in 5 years i completely... remade this theater really its ah well the theater, which can be talked about, they talk a lot about it, here are those who are not even met, they don’t talk: here are those who are talked about, it’s about the youth variety theater, when did you come to the theater, what creative bar did you set for yourself, let’s say, the super task, what is the vision of the future of the theater? i understood that variety is a multi-genre, that i will not be limited, for example, only to dramatic works. or only to musicals, although i started with musicals, i understood what

the potential of the theater is, i have a lot vocalists, very professional vocalists, you could even say unique, because i have performers, for example, who have four acts, even a famous director came to me from st. petersburg, who watched the performance, firstly, he was stunned, he said that there is no such level even in europe, he said, this is 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 in one group, this is really, this is unique, and how were you accepted at the theater at first? well, i suppose it wasn't easy, well, not at all easy, because there was some kind of established caste of people there, suddenly i found myself interested in others, for example, artists, well, i was interested in artists with unique...

there are many personalities in me, i don't know in what, but i'm interested in everything, i'm a very

curious person, and i'm always interested in everything, it arouses some kind of excitement in me, not and everything is really accessible to me, i can write both tragedy and comedy, for some reason i understood this back in childhood, that any genre is available to me, i feel very good in it, if it's a comedy, then i somehow exist in it in my own way, if it's a tragedy, then in a different way, somehow i succeed in this, probably because i... well , somehow i always want to move forward, it always seems to me that there is more interesting ahead, that is, i do not close myself off to what i have created, you have young artists in your performances, as well as already famous actors who have some of their own specific stage experience, stage amplo, how difficult was it for you to convince them, to go on stage, well, in a rather unusual role, well, as for the famous, really artists, the same ruslan

chernetsky, and we met him outside of my theater, he came with pleasure, i... who plays amazingly in my performances and sometimes even plays negative roles, does it so filigree beautifully, and for me, for example, it was difficult, well, at first, somehow build a relationship, because i was offering her not quite her role, it was necessary to go out, not sing songs, perform, it was necessary to become a dramatic actress, but i knew

that she was such a restless person and also so passionate and... inquisitive, and i saw that i had acting talent, because somewhere we crossed paths, we did some small scenes for some other projects, i understood that this is not an acting urge, you just need to somehow pull it out, and just like that, the same performance burlesque began with jeanette, where she was in the main role, where she needed to be in a completely different role, where she needed to play, where it was necessary to go out in the same bathing suit, she still goes out on stage in bathing suits, she does it amazingly - that was very interesting, and i remember that even for this performance i had other actresses there, ekaterina medvedeva, she told me that she even wears heels at home, because she had to play the owner of this establishment and such a grand dame, and that i criticized everything, that it was not the right gait, not the right movements, that even when she came

home she clicked in heels and fried her husband's omelette there, that was it... it was a competition, it was definitely a competition, i was still very young, a graduate and a girl, i didn’t really understand at all what and how and how it was completely different, probably work 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 some kind of first graduation party and i had

to make a prologue and i made all these living statues, painted everyone white, even the instruments on... years i’ve already done really the most grandiose holidays in the country. one of your recent works - every third concert. this is a very emotional project. neither the actor on stage nor the audience in the hall can hold back tears. for you, as a director, to evoke tears, and what does that mean? i

'll tell you more, i rehearsed so much, i watched so much. we filmed together with television, i cried so much, and it 's impossible to watch, listen, heed and not cry, i guess i always carry everything through my heart, and therefore, probably, it gets to the viewer, i understand that if this touches me, if my tears are there, then this will be empathy from the audience, and it seems to me that such projects are very important, especially now, when everything is forgotten. many years, when there is no longer any understanding of the tragedy of this war, when some facts have been forgotten, it is necessary to... even without embarrassment to show , to remind, probably, this concertviem, it contains shocking footage, very shocking footage, which is impossible to watch without tears,

which are on the screens in the form of video content, the ministry of defense, the military tv channel worked with us, they really got such archival footage, which probably they showed a very, very long time ago, and maybe from the position that they are well such... and we went to celebrate, i have two beauties sitting opposite me, and this, of course, brought tears to my eyes. i know that your main critic, and the first listener, reader

is your husband, he often criticizes you, i would not say that he criticizes me, but praises, he loves me very much, respects me very much, appreciates me very much and really praises me, and i am lucky, because thanks to his love, this... here is true love, i probably have the opportunity to create, to do a lot of things, because he is my assistant, he is my comrade, and this is not even criticism, i would say, this is a desire for everything to always be at the highest level, because my endless trust in him, i give to a person to whom i know that he will not just express some of his opinions related to his ambitions there, i know that he will do it from ... his big sincere heart, because when and 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 it was fundamentally important, when he

reads a work for the first time, he is sometimes really merciless, he can say some things that can even offend me at some point, but then i will restrain my first grievances and think, yes, he is right, it needs to be redone, and how about yours... this is already with a separate creative person who also criticizes, here she likes something, but this is very much so, i treat this with understanding, because she already has her own vision of how it should be, and some moments really, let's say we don't agree, in some we don't, but for some reason i always have an internal censor. i always have it in me, i can listen to all the people, critics, and some kind of commission that is there and the artistic council, well, but i have this internal

censor in me that will say, is all this right or wrong, i trust some internal censor of mine, it somehow doesn't allow me to make mistakes, in fact, that's me i know that it should be done this way, this is right, then later it turns out that it really should be done this way, that it was not necessary here... to make a concession or somehow change some turn of events, it was necessary to do it this way, because then the main critic is the viewer, after all, everything is done for him, and this viewer who comes to watch, he is like a litmas paper, he will show what should have been done correctly or incorrectly, he will react to those moments, sometimes it even happens, we plan there in a comedy humor somewhere suddenly meet in a completely different place. yes, humor, because the performance lives its own life, it is like a bird that has flown away, it has flown further, it has its own life, and the viewer helps this bird move, not to fall, to fly,

to fly in the clouds. vlada, and the last question, probably the most difficult in our program, what is the meaning of life for you, the meaning of life - in some simple concepts, of course, it is family, it is children. it is faith, it is the desire not just to live, but to be useful to this world, to reach not the heights for your glory, but to be close people, to open human hearts with my 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 it and say: i ... some of

my small part in the universal, i invested it, and i want to continue to do this and with my creativity, my work and desire to help people, because i help people very, very much and never save on this, everyone knows that whoever calls turn to me for help, i always extend a helping hand, and i believe that this also has a huge 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, to look at your charming eyes, i want to wish you creativity and not only on stage, in art, creativity in life, and to be just as interesting, meaningful and to carry the world that is inside you, to the viewer, thank you, i like that they are multi-colored, as if i am, you id, yes i id, it would be

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