Listening to Mozart

Many in Yerevan were surprised to learn that Armen Dzhigarkhanyan went to act in GITIS. Including its decision astonished parents. But the surprise did not mean a ban. Anyway - on the part of the mother.

• My mother was a remarkable woman - says the actor .  - The great woman all my life was so, I loved her very much .  She is the only supported me, not discouraged, and even went with me to Moscow .  And another woman in her place would have certainly tried to convince his son to go to some other institution, more reliable - medicine, for example, or agriculture .  But not my mother .  And many were surprised my intention - it's true, especially in the school .  I can not even say how came to this decision .  It was somehow suddenly suddenly .  Incidentally, I think all of a sudden come to us some very important things .  I myself was difficult to understand then (and now even more so can not), how everything turned out .  Apparently, this bacillus has got me, got infected - all .  And when it turned out that I did not, I have no particular shock was not .  He worked for a year and then all moved quietly, without tragedies .  And my mother, too, .  It was generally a very quiet woman .  I only once saw my mother crying, the only time I saw her confused - when she lost bread cards .  And always react like this: "God is good, all the better" . 

Speaking of his studies at the Institute of Theatre, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan did not try to gloss over the years, stressing that the actor's craft began much later, while working in the theater.

• Do not ask me about the teachers. I was, you might say, a great teacher, but it was not in any way connected with intistutom. Theatrical education and now, as then, very lame. It is conducted as if we are not talking about art. It equated with the library, and, as you know, all this is far from creativity. Nothing in theatrical universities we do not teach students just four years to sit behinds. That's why I did not have long teaching. I tried to fight, but all in vain.

Work in Yerevan Russian Drama Theater. Stanislavsky Armen Borisovich remembers with great pleasure, emphasizing how important was this scene in his life.

• Twelve years he worked there, and proud of it. It was in this theater, I, in fact, learned to be an actor, not a talker. And quickly, within a month. No, I do not regret that at once did not get to the stage of the theater named after Majkowskis. I do not want anything back, I do not have feelings pomhmelya. Because the most important thing - to learn a lesson, and there I learned the craft, I learned to work quickly. You know, how much time in the academic theater performances prepared? In three or four years! I remember always compared and marveled. Law of birth - nine months on everything about everything, and then to conceive, and then to give birth. In agony.

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan likes to Armenian saying: "It is better to wear out than to rust." All his life he worked on top naiznos and seemingly his fame, made an unexpected move - left Mayakovsky Theater, where he had the opportunity to rule without problems for many years. Since then, he played in different theaters in different entreprise and their nurses - still quite young, but already distinguished audience - theater.

• Thirty-seven years I played on the stage of Mayakovsky Theater. So what? I lived there for a happy life, and went to another life, and began to seek his fortune there. There will be no happiness, will not find it there - turn and go look elsewhere.

"The most popular post-Soviet space has become a major Moscow Armenian landlord," - wrote the Russian newspaper, when in addition to the basement Teatrika near the metro station "Sport" Dzhigarkhanyan was housed in a former movie theater "Progress" at the Lomonosov Avenue. Housewarming there on the right at the end of last year - for a premiere spetaklya famous play by Edward Radzinsky "It is the absence of love and death." Thus, Armen Borisovich and now have normal, large theater and a branch where the master had to overhaul. However, on this occasion he was not upset.

• From all you can make the holiday. Of repairs too. We were lucky, the director of the theater we wonderful. With people I was lucky. Do their own thing, not talkers, have fun and work. So we also repair joy.

As head of the theater Armen Dzhigarkhanyan undoubtedly themselves to the blows of the Russian theater critic, he was a favorite for many years.

• Let no one be offended, I say quite mildly: I do not know who the critics. In my opinion, there is no such profession. Maybe one person's opinion, more or less well-expressed. In just his personal opinion. It can not be based on it, to judge performance. For example, I know what my criteria: I have experience shock, I should cry or laugh. And sometimes I do not know why I cried. And I do not need to explain to me why. One day I was listening to the concert performance musicologist. Later I hated her for life. I usually sluchshayu Mozart, and I remember my mother, and then I could not help remembering all the words that she spoke, and I do not even know. Yes, I love Mozart, though I understand that this is not original ...

Irina Grushin

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