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And there is nothing wrong with this outrageous fun - the light genre that Buff adheres to dictates its own rules. And yes, sometimes on a summer evening you want to laugh and relax, and not suffer together, for example, with the heroes of Shakespeare. Again, a classic - not Pushkin, Karamzin - said that "laughing, really, is not a sin at what seems funny." The problem is that it "seems" funny. In the play “Our Everything”, this is funny, alas, so primitive that it is strange to see adult spectators bursting with laughter literally at the sight of a shown finger. But nevertheless - the audience laughs, claps to the beat of any more or less cheerful melody and, in general, is absolutely delighted. Well, this audience knew where it was going.

For those who did not know, it is difficult to feel the fun of the school drama circle, or rather, jokes in the style of the respected Evgeny Petrosyan. Namely, his television shows are remembered first of all when you watch the play “Our Everything”.

And this is not accidental. The director of the performance, Mikhail Smirnov, is one of the regular participants in these shows. But he even surpassed the teacher, because he swung not just at some production composed by modern satirists, but just at “our everything” - Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin and his story “The Young Lady-Peasant Woman”. And he promised that he would demonstrate an “unexpected, non-trivial” look at the classics, and at the end of the performance the audience would remember “Ah yes Pushkin, ah yes . ..”. And something similar came to mind, but not in relation to Pushkin.

To be completely honest, Pushkin's story written in one day is not the pinnacle of his work. This is such a trinket, from which a cheerful musical performance played by young actors could well come out - yesterday's graduates of the Theater Academy, who have recently joined the Buffa troupe, are busy in the premiere.

But the story itself was not enough for the director, and he puts Alexander Sergeevich himself (Aren Kuchukyan) and his nanny (Natalya Bobrovnichaya) into action. The poet actively interacts with the characters of his work and is generally very active - he fusses and flickers all the time. The apotheosis of this flickering is Pushkin's dance - squatting and whistling. To the rhythmic applause of the audience.

They generally try to make the audience laugh by any means. Each hero of the performance has his own signature exit, where he gives out his portion of jokes. So, Lisa (Ekaterina Konopatskaya) no matter how she grimace, trying to learn to speak "peasantly". The director also set certain tasks for the rest of the actors. Only these tasks are at the level of the first year of the theater institute, when students learn to portray animals. Therefore, the dog and the horse that lead the public to complete delight, performed by undoubtedly talented actors, are just student sketches. And choral and solo singing are just well-learned music lessons.

On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with that either. The young ones showed their potential, entertained the unpretentious spectators, and everyone left satisfied with each other. But this didn’t seem enough to the director Smirnov, for some reason he wants to demonstrate all the facets of Pushkin’s talent, who reads his frivolous poems, then deep and philosophical ones, and in the end climbs onto a pedestal and recites “I erected a monument to myself ...”.

And this "educational program" finally reduces the staging to the level of amateur performance, designed for schoolchildren, who need to be familiarized with the work of the main poet of our country. Well, if someone then thinks that Pushkin danced and whistled in between writing masterpieces, then this is the cost of a “non-trivial look at the classics”.

So you can safely take cultural trips to the performance. The main thing is that those children who see “Our Everything” do not decide that a real theater is when they tell you before the start of the performance how long the first act lasts and how long the second, and promise that they will definitely cheer you up (and it happened , when the director, having gone out to the audience before the premiere, announced her "timing", calling the actions - departments out of "pop habit", and the actors by hook or by crook will try to make them laugh.

I would also like to warn young actors who get applause for rather modest achievements: 35 years ago, a brilliant course of graduates of the then Theater Institute received a building for their theater, called "Buff". And for Soviet times, it was something incredible - Raikin was not given the building, but here yesterday's students, led by their talented master Isaac Shtokbant, were given, believing in their future.

Over the years, only a few remained from that course in the theater, and they did not have any breakthrough in their work. But they gather the halls, break the applause, and everything seems to be fine. But they just expected something completely different from them, a new word in art - however, it did not work out. So today's young people should think about whether audience success is always creative success. And is it art when the audience is told how long the production will be, and after that they leave something like this (for another performance): “Beautiful theater! Everything is so calm and the buffet is delicious.”

Anna VETLINSKAYA,

Internet magazine "Interesant"

Guskova not only won a medal in Beijing, but also made the bureaucrats, who were strangling freestyle, dance the dog waltz - and this is very funny 9001 , which can be looked at endlessly.

I don’t know about you, but after Guskova’s medal, I was jarred by the phrase from the main amateur (although what an amateur he is - a professional) to cling to: “Pride for you and our freestyle school!”

You see, this is not written by the press service of anyone, but of the person on whose orders the Belarusian freestyle school was practically destroyed. Pupils of Nikolai Kozeko since 1998 - that is, seven Olympiads in a row! - they bring medals from the Olympic starts. But Kozeko, without hesitation, was repressed for his desire for fair elections, in fact, depriving him of the right to a profession. Because it is not supposed to be an honest person in this state, here loyal sycophants and ministers nodding their heads are held in high esteem. Listen to the Gauleiter of the Ministry of Sports Kovalchuk, so Guskova's merit in the medal is not so much: “This is the work of a large number of people - our young and promising coaches, the whole team, and fortunately, four years of hard preparation resulted in such an important medal for our country.

What can I say about honesty is not held in high esteem, even if from the book “Belarus is our Motherland”, which is given to first-graders allegedly as a gift from Lukashenka (as if it was printed for his personal money), disloyal athletes were replaced with loyal ones. Well, it happened so by accident, you know. Among the "disappeared" is Guskova, who signed for fair elections and against violence. Even Kolodinskaya (bronze of Tokyo-2020), who did not sign the pro-government letter, disappeared from the book. They punish not only if you are against violence - they punish you even if you are not in favor of violence.

And if in 2018, after the victory in Pyeongchang, the happy Anna Guskova was photographed with Nikolai Kozeko and the flag, then in 2022 she could receive congratulations from the coach only remotely. And the flag on the pedestal in her hands cringed ridiculously - I don’t know if it was by accident or on purpose, but it turned out very symbolically.

And the main symbolism is that Guskova's medal is not thanks to, but in spite of the state. For some time, an honest freestyler will again shake hands - propaganda will speak loudly about her, because she “brought a medal to the bins of her motherland” (what other miserable clichés are there on television?). The ungodly telegram channels will squeal about “the Nazis, who are crippled by the successes of the patriots,” and propagandists and forced people with flags will definitely come to the airport to meet the medalist. True, it is unlikely that Guskova will be allowed to talk much, because she is disloyal, what if, God forbid, she does not thank the expert for the medal, who at least “spread the whole race”, or even “taught skiing”.

And no matter how hard Gauleiter Kovalchuk tries, he cannot ignore Guskova and is forced to dance around her. The minister fawns over the regime, destroys all sports that he can reach, but when, despite his work, one of the athletes who retained his dignity gets a medal, Gauleiter Kovalchuk stands on his hind legs and dances a dog waltz. Guskova deserves to be thanked for this comedy even more than for the award itself.

Even "Pressball", which now consists of 80% of censorship, even put the name of objectionable Kozeko in the headline, forgetting about blacklists. What officials, what ideologists, what censors understand - you need to dance around Guskova. Because a medal, because the plan was fulfilled, because there may not be more medals. And you need to have time to fall under these rays of someone else's glory so that it illuminates the official and, perhaps, thanks to this, the official received an increase in salary in the amount of one base unit.

And propagandists will definitely try to show how great everything is in this wonderful state, which cares about athletes and everyone in general, using the example of medalists.

Only this medal is not thanks to the state, but in spite of it. See for yourself:

- Guskova's coach Nikolai Kozeko has been repressed since 2020. He was not allowed to work - and this affected the chances of freestylers for medals. He did not fly to Beijing - and this is also bad for the team, which he knew well, which he could prepare morally and psychologically.

– RCOP freestyle director Vadim Krivosheev was fired in September 2020 “for poor ideological work in the team”. Yes, yes, not for poor provision of conditions for athletes, for example, but for “ideological work”. And this also influenced the training of freestylers, because the new director primarily looks at indoctrination. And the athletes somehow do their own work there.

– A colleague and friend from the national team, Alexandra Romanovskaya, was fired from the RCOP in freestyle “for absenteeism”, in fact, depriving her of the opportunity to recover and train, and as a result, depriving her of the Olympics. The whole team stood up for Kozeko and Romanovskaya, but those who have “pride for you and the whole freestyle school” preferred to destroy this pride.

Belarus has achievements that the state is proud of. Outside of sports, this is, for example, the IT sector, which seemed to be developed “with these hands” - but in fact they simply did not interfere. It’s the same in sports – if the state says that it gave you something, it means that it didn’t take something away from you. But in the case of freestyle, the regime went further - it tried to take away and destroy what was created by others.

Now the state is clinging with all its might to Guskova's medal - but there is nothing in this medal that the state would give. There is pain, sweat, tears, blood, injuries, fear, the risk of Anna herself - and nothing from the state. Inventory or fees? All this is paid not from state revenues, but from the taxes of ordinary Belarusians. The state prepares three cameras for athletes: on one they talk about medals, on the second they apologize against the background of flags for failure. In the third they sit - like Alexei Kudin.

I'm definitely not an expert in freestyle and follow it once every four years. But I am very happy for Anna Guskova, who, against all odds, achieved such an important victory for her. I feel sad for Nikolai Kozeko, who was unable to hug the pupil immediately after the medal, and who, perhaps, now reproaches himself a little that he could not be in Beijing, suggest, help and improve the athlete’s medal to gold.

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