Vladimir Baylis presented at the Maly Theatre his version of the play "Without guilt guilty"

In the repertoire of the Maly Theatre almost half a century later, the play “Without Guilty” based on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky returns. Director Vladimir Baylis moved away from the usual melodramatic plot, putting the life of the theater behind the scenes at the forefront. How the happy world of acting is broken into shards of illusions, Elena Voroshilova saw. For Lydia Velezheva, actress of the Vakhtangov Theatre, the invitation to play Elena Ivanovna Kruchinina in the Maly Theatre is an unexpected and fateful turn. In the 93rd on the home stage in Vakhtangov she played in the production of Peter Fomenko young Lyubov Ivanovna Otradina. In Ostrovsky’s play, two actresses play the same heroine at different intervals of life. “It’s been more than thirty years, growing up Otradina, I became Kruchinina in the Maly Theatre,” said Honored Artist of Russia Lidia Velezheva. In the Maly Theatre, which was and remains Ostrovsky's home, "Without Guilty" was waiting. Theatres remember the version of Viktor Khokhryakov with Elina Bystritskaya in the title role. Now the new work of Vladimir Baylis, which he was inspired by the legendary artist of Maly Yuri Solomin. "He dreamed about this play, told me a lot about it, and said that he would like to see on the stage of the Maly Theater," said the director, People's Artist of Russia Vladimir Baylis. Time-worn posters, Empire-style dresses, mirrors, flowers, vases. The ideal world of the theater was invented by the artist Viktor Gerasimenko, because the characters of the play are actors and actresses. In the theater behind the scenes, the story of the lives of the main characters is played out. The heroine of Lydia Velezheva, an abandoned homeless woman who became a famous actress, will find her son, whom she considered dead. Who will be an actor in the provincial theater. “Ostrovsky teaches us not to be indifferent by these plays. You see a man. He is deprived of something, he does not have something, for example. Here you can just show the best human qualities that his mother, the main character, shows in this play. She doesn't know it's her son. She just saves him, said actor Maxim Putintsev. A classic verified production in the spirit of the Maly, on the stage of which Lydia Velezheva feels her heroine piercing and sharp. The actress is in love with the story of a woman who was not broken by betrayal and deception. “She proved to be a strong man, a noble man. She went into nobility, into cordiality. It helps, added Lidia Velezheva. Ostrovsky is loved, understood, appreciated. “Without Guilty” is a timeless story in which many will see the reflection of today.

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