Moscow Art Theater Kekhman – Newspaper Kommersant No. 220 (7421) dated 11/28/2022
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Last week in social life, shallow without major international brands, there was not even one – two notable events. First, VTB Bank opened the Zotov constructive space for two evenings in a row, named after the people’s commissar of the food industry, who implemented the state program “On the Concentration of Baking in Moscow.” Just in the building of the former bakery No. 5, at the behest of VTB, a cultural and educational center appeared. They say that at first they thought to open a museum of modern art, but there is already such a thing in Moscow. Moreover, the Garage Museum has even closed. And there has not been a museum of constructivism until now, although the phenomenon is difficult to overestimate … – and so on.
Zotov opened with the exhibition “1922. Constructivism. Start”. On the first evening, the guests, among whom were Elvira Nabiullina and Marina Loshak, were received by the head of VTB Andrei Kostin. The next evening, the doors were opened wider: Boris Belotserkovsky, Alexander Rappoport, Denis Kitaev, Elena Remchukova, Marianna Maksimovskaya, Natalia Davydova, Irina Apeksimova, Evelina Khromtchenko, Alena Doletskaya, Klim Shipenko entered Zotov (the New Year’s video of the bank this December will be from the author “Kholop”, which everyone has seen, and “Challenge”, which no one has seen yet) and about 800 more guests. They celebrated the opening generously – they served the original Coca-Cola.
The next evening after repairs (not final – they will be completed only in 2024), the Gorky Moscow Art Theater opened. The guests were personally invited by the general director of the theater Vladimir Kekhman and his wife Ida, previously an active participant in social life. It turned out clearly: at the same table in the buffet, Mikhail Druyan and a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church were waiting for the third call. Igor Shuvalov, Denis Molchanov, Anatoly Torkunov were in the room for especially important guests. The Moscow Art Theater, Mr. Kekhman, is the general director, but the experience in artistic leadership is felt. Before the performance “Unexpectedly Out of the Blue” (named in the program “the late masterpiece of Valentin Rasputin”), Mr. Kekhman announced that he was introducing a new tradition in the theater – playing the Russian anthem. For a gala evening, a children’s choir from Novosibirsk and an adult choir of the Mikhailovsky Theater were invited to perform it. Children and actress Ekaterina Volkova stood on the stage, and adult choristers were placed in the first tier. The impression that the auditorium amplifies the children’s choir with its voices was complete – a brilliant find by the director. And then, while the stage was being rebuilt, Mr. Kekhman thanked: personally – Igor Shuvalov, Olga Lyubimova, Anton Siluanov, Denis Molchanov; collectively – the apparatus of the government and the presidential administration. From his speech one could learn that Mr. Shuvalov asked the director of the Moscow Art Theater not to change Moscow, but he did not listen to him, and Mr. Molchanov, in turn, taught Mr. Kekhman to write the word “unfair” correctly.
Of course, one could not have wished for a text more suitable for the image of the renovated theater than a story about the injustice of the nineties. Theater critic Alena Karas wrote about another work of the director: “Polishchuk powerfully pushed the space of the story.” With the story “Unexpectedly, unexpectedly” Galina Polishchuk did the same. Where the reader sees in Valentin Rasputin: “A girl gnawed a gingerbread like a squirrel, holding it with both hands,” in Mrs. Polishchuk, Marat Basharov, who plays the main role, turns one sentence into three, and even capslock. There was also a pool of water on the stage – it symbolized both the Angara River and the troubled waters of the Time of Troubles. Water was much discussed and praised during the intermission.
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