Farid Mukhametshin and Irada Ayupova were among the first to watch the premiere at the Kachalov Theater

The Kazan Academic Russian Bolshoi Drama Theater named after VI Kachalov successfully hosted the premiere of the play "Vassa" directed by Alexander Slavutsky.

“Vassa”, based on the second version of Maxim Gorky's play, is a family story, a story about people who are unable to hear and understand each other, about loneliness, about the thirst for happiness and the impossibility of finding it, this is a sincere and merciless conversation about a person, the bitter truth about him.Tickets for the first days of the premiere were sold out several hours after the opening of the sale. The story of one family "Vassa" was the first premiere timed to the celebration of the Year of Native Languages ​​and National Unity.

The main roles were performed by People's Artists of Russia and Tatarstan Svetlana Romanova and Gennady Prytkov, Honored Artist of Russia, People's Artist of Tatarstan Mikhail Galitsky and others.

Special attention is paid to details in the performance. The stage light was set by the Honored Worker of Culture of Russia Yevgeny Gansburg, he specially came from St. Petersburg to work in Kazan, and the set design was the Honored Worker of Arts of Russia, People's Artist of Tatarstan Alexander Patrakov. The catwalk images of the heroes were created by the designer of theatrical costumes - fashion designer Yekaterina Borisova. An important part of the performance is a video projection from the Moscow videographer Maria Stepanova.

One of the first to see the new performance was the Chairman of the State Council of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin and Irada Ayupova, Minister of Culture of Tatarstan:

“This is the strongest work - it is about social injustice, and how to survive and how to fight for life. In my opinion, such works remain relevant, despite the change of eras and generations. It is important that we do not forget that we need to remain human in any situation. Thanks for the show!

The latest productions of "Dragon" and "Vassa" are deeply philosophical. These performances reveal the problems of society, and they are relevant at any time. It's great that in our theaters we can talk about the eternal. Thanks to the team of Alexander Slavutsky and the actors, the game was very strong, hard-won - I really liked it! "

Alexander Slavutsky - director, artistic director of the theater. Kachalova: “Not a single modern text can give the depth, the volume that Gorky has. We took the second version of the play, but we also took a lot from the first version. Our play is partly created by us. After all, we took something from other works of Gorky, those that were consonant with our sense of time. We cleaned up Gorky, corrected, supplemented, but there was no need to rewrite anything. There are no concessions to fashion here. The melodramatic line, the human line, the family line was important to me. Gorky wrote a text that is absolutely consistent with today's problems. "

The next premiere screenings of the play "Vassa" (16+) June 10,17,25,26,29, 2021.

Press service of the Kachalov KARBDT