The aged madcap.
The aged madcap.
So new performance of the Novel of Kartsev is called. I do not know,
Who has given it such name - author Michael Zhvanetsky or the actor? But
For certain Kartsev to whom today - sixty, carries itself to the such
Categories of people. However in a life it not hohmach. Glance in his eyes: a hall
It is shaken from laughter, and in them - inescapable grief. It became especially
Appreciable after Kartsev remained one, without partner Victor
Ilchenko, so early died.
- What do you wait from our meeting? - The actor the day before has asked me
Prime ministers in the Variety theatre of "the Aged madcap". - to Tell about itself?
It is interesting? I tell 37 years. And my general seniority - 43
Year. Here it will be executed sixty, there will be at me a pension of 500 roubles. Then
Let's laugh. However, our actor's rates always were ridiculous. Who
Established six-seven roubles for an exit? Eighty roubles paid in
Theatre. 25 it was necessary to give for a corner which removed, and still - for
Childlessness. The Komsomol, a society of bibliophiles helped, supported concerts
In KB, scientific research institute - in an envelope handed over on 100 roubles. Then began to invite for
Border: to Romania, Poland. Pennies paid. But nevertheless we could somehow
To put on, look the world... Now the Komsomol is not present, scientific research institute and KB - without job.
Hope of own talent.
- And some variety figures all the same all time joke...
- Zhvanetsky never jokes. Raikin never joked. And here Vishnevsky
Jokes constantly. I do not understand it. I do not understand, when publicly
Tell jokes. A joke, as well as sex, - an intimate thing. It it is impossible
To tell from the TV screen. Jury Nikulin - great was an exception
The clown. I adore clowns. Even the bad. There is a clown, falls - I already
I laugh loudly...
- You have started to work in seventeen...
- Because of astigmatizma me did not take in army, and I became the serviceman
On a garment factory, then on the shoe. Six years has worked.
- Your parents did not concern art?
- Any! My father was the professional football player, and mum
- The secretary of the party organisation of the Odessa shoe factory. Stahanovka.
War has begun. The father has left on front, has reached Berlin. But was in time
To visit in three ghettoes, ran from them. Then became the football judge. We
Have returned to Odessa after evacuation. It has appeared, our house near Opera
Theatre it is whole.
The daddy eternally argued with mum. It came from closed Communist Party meetings,
Where read the next confidential letter about which already all knew all. The father
Has bought receiver "Riga-10" - very expensive - and at night listened "to the Voice
Americas ". It, by the way, in the fiftieth years! Mum frequently spoke:
"All of us will plant". And its daddy exasperated with questions: "It's nothing there on
Meeting have decided to do with us? "Mum piously stored party secrets:
"I can tell nothing". More shortly: the daddy was with huge sense of humour, and
Mum - the real party member.
- And in your family now understand humour? What at you for a family?
- In my opinion, remarkable. My wife Victoria, growth 170, very much
Kind, clever. To it was seventeen when she has married me... Together
We thirty years. It the dancer with strong legs. Danced to those
Time, has not become pregnant yet. Now - the manager in hotel. Fine
Prepares: dishes of four national kitchens can create at once on 30-40
The person. Is able to prepare and my liked stuffed fish.
The daughter has ended medical institute, the son studies as the teledirector.
I it see and thanks God a little: he asks all time of money. I have presented to it
"Field", and to itself has bought "nine". Before long went by "Oka". When
Came for anniversaries of Kobzon, Pugachevoj, the militia drove away me - spoilt
Interior. And generally I long went by the underground. "Oka" has bought and has learnt
To go about five years ago that it was possible to reach quickly in Mitino to
To the grand daughter. In my opinion, it the girl with humour. She somehow speaks to me: "the Grandfather!
What for you so recollect me often? "-" and what? "-" I endlessly hiccup ".
It is guilty: to children of attention gave a little. And here the grand daughter... Very many
Now I learn about children. Wished to make performance for children. Has not made
And, probably, I will not make. And the grand daughter speaks: "the Grandfather! You such ridiculous!".
Children differently understand humour. Here played Kharms. There there are such
Words: "I have taken out a sphere from a head". Children laughed, adults were perplexed.
- You wished with Ilchenko to create theatre of miniatures...
- With Ilchenko. But Viti is not present more.
- You like yourselves?
- I get tired of myself in an hour on a scene. The person of the actor defines
The author.
- Michael Zhvanetsky was your author always. Do not want another
The author?
- Any more I do not want.
- In your performances there are no politicians...
- Has bothered! We with Vitej and Mishej never struggled from the Soviet
The power, did not loosen foundations - played... Everyone should be engaged in the
Business. I do not like, when scoff at the person, when jokes malicious... Ours
The humour "has strongly fallen". We are brought up on Saltykove-ShChedrine, Gogol, Bulgakov,
Zhvanetsky. Now the main thing who will make laugh more. And humour, by definition
Zhvanetsky, is a rare status of the person when it is cheerful and clever
Simultaneously. If the person lives well, it jokes absolutely differently, than
When it is angry.
- But the policy interferes in a life, it is difficult to escape from it... When
To you was more comfortable: earlier or now?
- Earlier Zhvanetsky wrote on five miniatures in day. We still chose.
Now writes less. He never for anybody does not write specially. Nor for
Any dates, anniversaries...
We live during vague time. Theatres surrender under discos, restaurants,
Business clubs. At cinemas sell cars. Advertise singers,
Which "pull" from force on two songs.
- It that - nostalgia on the past?
- Yes is not present! Zhvanetsky has very precisely told: "Our last life -
Old avto. Be touched as much as necessary, and to go it is impossible. otezdilis ".
And new performance "Aged madcap" is not nostalgia. It I
The today's. Performance on what is not similar. It both Kartsev has a rest, and Kartsev
Sleeps, he - in hospital, writes love letters to women. In the middle
Performance - memoirs on, about Vite Ilchenko, about an anniversary...
- By the way, how Kartsev has a rest?
- Years thirty I float on courts of the Black Sea fleet. Another
Rest I do not recognise.
- Now many known actors complain on nevostrebovannost.
When it was easier to you to work - in days of stagnation or now?
- To work always it is heavy. Perhaps because the main censor -
Ourselves. On nevostrebovannost I do not complain. I participate in enterprises. Now
I act in film at Ryazanov in "Old jades". Eldar Aleksandrovich has collected
Star structure: Krjuchkova, Gurchenko, Kupchenko... However, to cinema to me it is difficult
To get used: start to remove from the end. And what was in the beginning?.
- Men in sixty years retire?
- On our pension to live it is impossible. And sixty years - not that age...
Irina KRASNOPOLSKY.
//* an information Source: the Russian newspaper, 20.05.99
//* Reg. Nom. - 1090500169.61-------------------------------------------
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