Playwright Arbuzov Biography

Krymova “Arbuzov Theater” long and rich writing life gave Alexei Nikolaevich Arbuzov the opportunity to find out and get everything that a person who writes for the theater can know and get. And the biography of Arbuzov is theatrical: he began the actor, was a director, became a playwright. He wrote his first play “Class” at 22, as he himself expressed, “for reasons of a somewhat random nature”.

The play was set up in Leningrad, but it had no success. The story of this and the playwright in the memoirs of his children and contemporaries is told in the documentary “Alexei Arbuzov. He replied: “I did not write a single negative character.

I was going to do this several times, I thought: I finally write, but, as soon as I began to understand him, I forgave him his sins, and the forgiven one, he ceased to be negative. In his plays there is always something added to a household history, suggesting some unusual turn. He was a very observant writer. The author himself openly admitted that he often writes the roles “on actors”, as they wrote in the old days.

Dramaturs create characters, believing them with life. Arbuzov also created roles, that is, characters verified by theatrical convention. The first great success came with the play “Tanya”, which the playwright dedicated to his wife Tatyana Evtheeva-Arbuzova. During his work on the play, Arbuzov thought about Maria Babanova, constantly held her image in her head, because it was her who saw her as Tanya.

And at the same time he was afraid of her reaction. Maria Babanova was not only one of the most famous actresses in Moscow, but also a person who deeply understands the theater. The premiere took place in the year of the Revolution Theater, now it is the Vladimir Mayakovsky Theater. The actress played the main role in it, and the image of the main character Tanya instantly gained the widest popularity.

Later, in the year, the playwright processed the play in order to strengthen, make Tanya's image more convincing. The recording of this unique performance is preserved only in the sound. The image of Tanya, her joy and the sorrows of love, her riddles and disappointments again and again revive on theatrical scenes today. Alexey Nikolaevich Arbuzov wrote a lot and fruitfully, he created a large number of plays in the 30s.

He retained interest in the complex and subtle sphere of human feelings throughout his life. And the audience reciprocated him. The production of his plays literally did not leave the stage. They were included in the repertoire of professional and amateur theaters and was a great success on many scenes of the world. For example, the season of the year in England was called "Arbuzovsky." In this country, the play “My Poor Marat” was in 30 different theaters.

In the Bristol Theater "Old Vic", along with its premiere, the premieres of his two more plays "Tales of the Old Arbat" and "Evening Light" were simultaneously. The Royal Shakespearean Theater first accepted the Soviet play for the production - it was an “old -fashioned comedy”. Talent, the intuition of the playwright helped him not limit himself to the momentary requirements of the time.

He looked into the soul of man and approved the attitude of respectful and respectful to this soul. He also formulated his understanding of the main struggle that goes in life and seeking reflection on the stage: "The most interesting contractions that may be in the play are the fights of a person with himself." He managed to show that there is always in life, there must necessarily exist spiritual values, enduring, eternal.

The Foundation of the Russian State Library for the Blind on the subscription is stored “Favorites” by Alexei Arbuzov in two volumes published by the Moscow Publishing House “Art” in the year. In the first volume, his plays “Six Beloved”, “Tanya”, “City at dawn”, “House on the outskirts”, “Years of wanderings”, “Twelfth hour”, “Irkutsk history”, “Lost son”, “My poor Marat” are presented.

And the second includes “night confession”, “happy days of an unhappy person”, “my sight”, “fairy tales of the old Arbat”, “choice”, “in this sweet old house”, “evening light”, “old -fashioned comedy”, “waiting”, “cruel games”, “memory”. The publication is accompanied by an article by Natalia Krymova “Arbuzov Theater”, archival theatrical photographs and expanded comments that allow the reader to find out interesting details about the work of Alexei Arbuzov, his plays and productions.