NATALIYA BORTKO
Sochinyat' p'esy menya uchil prekrasnyj pedagog Ignatij Moiseevich Dvoreckij v sozdannoj im "Masterskoj dramaturga".
Mozhno nauchit' gramotno pisat', no nevozmozhno ob®yasnit', chto est' chelovek, kakov on. A ved' imenno eto interesuet literatora bol'she vsego. I esli inogda udaetsya pust' ne razgadat' etu zagadku, a hotya by priotkryt' zavesu tajny, - eto uzhe bol'shaya udacha. No kak redko takoe sluchaetsya v nashem dele! CHasto prihoditsya dovol'stvovat'sya tem, chto vidyat i ponimayut vse. A kak hochetsya podsmotret' zhizn', nevidimuyu prostym glazom, zastavit' geroya progovorit'sya, postavit' ego v takuyu situaciyu, chtoby on vynuzhden byl raskryt'sya. CHasto chelovek ne priznaetsya dazhe sebe, chego on v dejstvitel'nosti hochet, a ya obyazana eto uznat'.
Za desyat' let ya napisala shest' p'es. Menya uprekali v tom, chto ya ne pishu o "nasushchnyh problemah sovremennosti". Edinstvennaya p'esa, gde ya ne prenebregla "nasushchnymi problemami" - "Vysokie potolki" - vyzvala interes u rezhisserov, byla postavlena v nashem uchebnom teatre pri "Masterskoj dramaturga" studentami LGITMiKa. Odnako eti "nasushchnye problemy" tak bystro teryayut svoyu aktual'nost', chto pisat' o nih mozhno tol'ko v gazetah. Oni, po-moemu, mogut byt' lish' fonom, obramleniem osnovnoj idei p'esy.
YA staralas' pisat' tak, kak budto ya vpervye stolknulas' s zhizn'yu i udivlena tem, kak vedut sebya lyudi v situacii, kotoruyu ya dlya nih pridumala, ibo, esli ne budu udivlena ya, kto zhe togda udivitsya moemu sochineniyu?
A esli ne udivitsya, to, stalo byt', i otkrytiya ne proizoshlo. A v iskusstve, kak i v nauke, net nichego bolee cennogo, chem otkrytie. Pust' krohotnoe, no otkrytie. Radi etogo ya pishu.
YA napisala neskol'ko scenariev dlya kino: "Sobach'e serdce" (|kranizaciya povesti M. Bulgakova), "Bez sem'i" (ekranizaciya povesti G. Malo), a takzhe komediyu "Udachi vam, gospoda!" (v soavtorstve s muzhem - rezhisserom V. Bortko).
NATALYA BORTKO, The play "Barbara"
Graduated from the Theatrical Academy in Kiev.
Script writer of TV films "Without family" (after the novel by Malo), "Dog's heart" (after the novel by Bulgakov).
Together with her husband V.Bortko she wrote the script for full-length film "Good luck, gentlemen!"
Started to write plays in 1984.
The play "Barbara" was written in 1994. Restless, unrealizable wishes, yearing for ideal make heroes act extraordinarily. Barbara is an unacknowledged actress. Marina is a student. Their meeting and original friendship help them to meet their wishes. Love helps creative work and creative work brings new feelings into love.
The third hero Anton thought that truth was very far from everyday life. But suddenly he understood that he was mistaken.
Language of the heroes sometimes very ordinary, sometimes very pompous reflects conditions of their souls that live in the irrational world.
OLEG ERNEV, Avtobiografiya
Rodilsya v znojnom Ashhabade.
ZHil tam do dvadcati treh let.
Togda zhe, razvlechen'ya radi
okonchil universitet.
Skitayas' dolgo, v Peterburge
ya okazalsya. V nem zastryal.
Rable Velikij, ty v Panurge
klyanus', menya narisoval!
Carivshij v Pitere nakal
duhovnyj tol'ko v dramaturge
mog voplotit'sya. YA im stal.
S teh por pishu. Menya listayut.
Napisany desyatki p'es.
Kakie-to teatry stavyat,
obhodyatsya inye - bez.
YA chlen profkoma dramaturgov,
SP, TD i LTP.
Podderzhkoj pol'zuyus' u turkov,
yaponcev, nemcev i t. p.
Strany, v kotoroj ya rodilsya,
davno uzh net. I ya drugoj.
Byl kolobok i dokatilsya
do ruchki vmeste so stranoj.
V bashkah odni lish' mani-mani.
Zamesto slova - revol'ver,
No vse zh lyudej teatr nash manit,
i zritel' trebuet prem'er.
Poka smeyus', poka grushchu,
poka fantazii igrivy,
Druz'ya, Otchizne posvyashchu
dushi bolyashchie naryvy!
OLEG ERNEV, "Payment for Transportation"
This novel is a philosophical-art parable.
After the carcrash, two heroes found themselves in some other reality. They can't go away. Some strange strong power of a boatman stops them for indeterminate time. Strange life after deathstarted. And again, as in former life, the main hero has to go through fear, despair, hesitation, love. Loss of love and wife makes him act. He chose freedom. He killed a boat-man.
But his freedom becomes dependance. He has to take place of the boat-man. He has to transport people's souls across the river.
ANDREJ ZINCHUK
Smenil neskol'ko professij. Rabotal raznorabochim, reporterom "Poslednih izvestij" leningradskogo radio, tehnikom, inzhenerom, redaktorom. V 1986 godu zakonchil scenarnyj fakul'tet Vsesoyuznogo gosudarstvennogo instituta kinematografii, posle chego v techenie dvuh let stazhirovalsya na kinostudii "Lenfil'm" v kachestve scenarista. Za eto vremya napisal neskol'ko polnometrazhnyh scenariev i okolo desyatka korotkometrazhek. Po trem iz nih byli snyaty kinofil'my. Odin - "Bojtes' ryzhih s usami!" - shiroko shel v prokate. V svyazi s tem, chto "Lenfil'm" v izvestnom smysle prekratil svoe sushchestvovanie (vmeste so vsej stranoj), uchredil vmeste s kollegami izdatel'stvo "Borej" (Litejnyj pr., 58).
Kak prozaik, v osnovnom zanimalsya fantasticheskoj i detskoj literaturoj. Skazki i povesti publikovalis' v zhurnalah "Kolobok", "Fantakrim-Mega", "Izmerenie F", v gazetah. A takzhe v sbornikah "Den' svershenij", "CHasy s variantami", "Magicheskij treugol'nik" i dr.
V teatre s 1976 goda (v Petrozavodskom teatre kukol spektakl' "Pesn' o Sampo"). SHiroko izvestna p'esa dlya detej "Vpered, Kotenok!", napisannaya v 1979 godu i s teh por ne shodyashchaya so sceny teatrov raznyh gorodov Rossii i blizhnego zarubezh'ya. A takzhe p'esy: "Pered nachalom seansa", "Bezymyannyj prospekt", "Vozvrashchenie Nadezhdy" i drugie - bolee desyatka nazvanij.
ANDREY ZINCHUK, The play "The 31 of December"
Changed several professions. Worked as an odd-job man, reporter of "The Latest News" on Leningrad Radio, technician, engineer, editor.
Graduated from the State Academy of Cinematography in 1986 as a script writer. Together with friends established "BOREAS" publishing house.
The action of the play "The 31 of December" takes place in a small town. The only season there is winter. Every day all town people have to celebrate "New Year". Because New Year has no end. Nobody knows who did that, nobody knows how long it lasts...
The main heroes of the play try to find the "Master". The "Master" really did all that and he can't understand, why people don't like their life.
Of course the story has the happy end. Moral of this fairy-tale is:
- life can't be everlasting holiday, even if this is holiday;
- life can't be fat and satiated;
- life must be free.
SERGEJ NOSOV
Rodilsya v 1957 godu. Avtor dvuh prozaicheskih knig, izdannyh v Peterburge "Vnizu, pod zvezdami" (1990) i "Pamyatnik Vo Vsem Vinovatomu" (1994). Uchastnik poeticheskoj antologii "Pozdnie peterburzhcy". Iz semi p'es chetyre postavleny na "Radio Rossii".
Schitaet sebya postabsurdistom.
SERGEY NOSOV, The comedy "Berendey"
"Berendey" is an original comedy about the adventure of two young avanturists from Russia in one of the European countries.
The main hero got political acylum posed as berendeypeople, that extincted as long ago as XIII century. He has just met his friend, whom he invited into that country, promissing unbelievable things. Having no money for fare, he nevertheless tries to take his friend from one town to another. Two friends have to get out of the train on every other station. The action of the play takes place on the platforms of those stations. The play is written in the genre of "strange comedy".
Sergey Nosov was born in 1957. Two books of novels and short stories written by Nosov were published in St.Petersburg"Below, under the stars" (1990) and "Monument to the one, who is guilty of everything" (1994).
Participated in the poetical anthology "Late poets of St.Petersburg". Four plays from seven written by Nosov were staged on "Radio Russia".
Nosov considers himself a postabsurdist.
ALEKSANDR OBRAZCOV
YA ne lyublyu byvat' v teatre, potomu chto tam slishkom chasto popadaesh' v situaciyu muchitel'nuyu: muchayut akterov, zritelej... Ujti, k sozhaleniyu, udaetsya tol'ko v antrakte.
Byvayut, razumeetsya, schastlivye isklyucheniya. No iskat' eti isklyucheniya v haose sovremennoj informacionnoj bezvkusicy - zanyatie dovol'no hlopotnoe i neblagodarnoe.
CHto ostaetsya delat' v takom sluchae dramaturgu?
Mozhno pomenyat' professiyu. Pozdno.
Mozhno zhdat' luchshih vremen. No mozhno i ne dozhdat'sya.
Nado vse-taki iskat' schastlivye isklyucheniya i pytat'sya v meru svoih sil rasshirit' ih predely.
Mne predstavlyaetsya, chto segodnya poyavilis' pervye prosvety v gluhoj i tuskloj oblachnosti. Ustavshie ot nasiliya lyudi nahodyat v sebe sily pomolchat', prislushat'sya, prismotret'sya. |to moe lichnoe oshchushchenie. Mozhet byt', ono lozhnoe.
No apatii i prezreniya k sovremennosti uzhe men'she. |to horosho.
ALEXANDER OBRAZTSOV, The comedy "Magnetic fields"
Yunona, an excited young woman in a light-blue wedding-dress has just left her hair-dresser and is walking towards Moscowsky Prospekt to get a taxi. Her bridegroom, the giant of bodybuilding Pirogov, her family and numerous guests are already waiting for her in the Wedding Palace.
Daniel, an intelectual with an indefinite profession, very kind-hearted and responsible and due to this most unlucky is going from the bakery home to his wife Vera a sarcastic clever and nice-looking woman.
They stop. When Yunona tries to run to Moscowsky Prospekt she falls down in three meters from Danielan invisible resilient wall stops her. The same happens to Daniel. They are in the ring of "magnetic fields". "Magnetic fields" can be interpreted as a metaphor, the nature's promtor literallyas a joke of Supreme Powers. Nevertheless, Yunona and Daniel can not leave each other.
We meet Yunona and Daniel in a month after the wedding in her flat. They are still inseparable. Pirogov sleeps in the next room. He is not a bridegroom already but not a husband yet.
The playwright Alexander Obraztsov is the author of more than 50 plays. 20 of them were staged and published in Moscow, St.Petersburg, Tbilisi, Zurich, Bratislava and other cities. Twice he was awarded with the first prize in All-Russia radio plays competitions.
IGORX SHPRIC
SHpric Igor' odnazhdy v otrochestve progulyal shkolu. Vdvoem s podruzhkoj on poshel na novyj fil'm "Devyat' dnej odnogo goda". Postupok etot cherez dlinnuyu cep' privychek i harakterov porodil sud'bu,
YUnosha vpolne osoznanno reshil vsyu dal'nejshuyu zhizn' posvyatit' probleme upravlyaemogo termoyadernogo sinteza, olicetvoryavshego v te cherno-belye vremena chelovecheskoe schast'e. K sozhaleniyu, osnovnaya tragediya v fil'me - polnaya impotenciya geroya posle polucheniya polnost'yu ionizovannoj plazmy - proshla mimo ego soznaniya. Zakonchiv srednyuyu shkolu, zakonchil i Politehnicheskij institut, uzhe togda reflektorno oshchushchaya somneniya v pravil'nosti vybrannogo puti i, voobshche, v pravil'nosti vsyakogo puti.
Armiya razveyala eti somneniya. Prosluzhiv dva goda lejtenantom v samyh hrabryh vojskah PVO strany, posle demobilizacii SHpric polnost'yu otdalsya nauke. Nauka prinyala etu zhertvu, kak, vprochem, ona priemlet vse. Nauka, znaete li, beskonechna. Dolgie dvadcat' let promel'kHnuli, kak devyat' dnej odnogo goda. I ostepenivshijsya fizik, ponyav, chto nel'zya vsyu ostavshuyusya zhizn' izuchat' transformator, stal dumat' nad vechnymi istinami. Podumav, on reshil pisat' p'esy.
Podvedem itogi. Sovmeshchaya priyatnoe s poleznym - dramaturgiyu s naukoj - Igor' SHpric k segodnyashnemu dnyu napisal vosem' p'es - chetyre komedii i chetyre ne komedii. Tri p'esy byli postavleny, a dve napechatany. Ostavshiesya pokorno zhdut svoej uchasti. O chem mozhet pisat' takoj avtor? O prostyh veshchah. Schast'e, gde ty? Vozmozhna li druzhba mezhdu muzhem i zhenoj? Gde i kogda konchaetsya chelovek? Est' li zhizn' na Marse? A esli est', to komu eto nado? Voprosov skopilos' ochen' mnogo. Ih vyyasneniyu SHpric Igor' i sobiraetsya posvyatit' nepredskazuemyj, k schast'yu, ostatok dnej.
Predlagaemaya chitatelyu p'esa stala laureatom Vserossijskogo konkursa dramaturgov 1995 goda.
IGOR SHPRITS, The comedy "At the bottom"
Combining pleasure and useplay-writing and research work - Igor Shprits has already written seven plays: three comedies and four non-comedies. Two of them were staged and two - published. The rest are humbly waiting for their lot. What are the main themes such a playwright can write about? Simple things mainly. Happinnes, where are you'! Is it possible for husband and wife to be friends? Where and when is the end of a man?
Is there life on Mars? And if life is there who needs it? So the number of questions is endless. Igor Shprits is going to devote the rest of his life to finding answers.
"At the bottom" is the remake of the famous play by Gorky but the acion is taking place in the old communal flat in St.Petersburg in our days. Any society has the bottom and any of us in this or that way belongs to this "bottom". There is nothing tragical in this : life is life. The play is the winner of the All-Russia Competition of Playwrights in 1995.
STANISLAV SHULYAK
Rodilsya v 1960 godu. Pisat' nachal s 18 let, ot malyh aforisticheskih form postepenno perehodya k razvernutym prozaicheskim proizvedeniyam, opredelyaya ih zhanr kak pritchi, dramaticheskie novelly ili prosto "tekst".
"Oglushennyj bespoleznost'yu budnej, ya poroj ispytyval somnen'ya i v samoj zhizni", - govorit glavnyj geroj p'esy "Kniga Iova" Afanasij Kudesov. I "Somnen'ya v zhizni" tak ili inache otbrasyvayut otsvet na vse ego dejstviya, a tochnee - bezdejstviya. On, pisatel', uvlekaetsya syuzhetom ves'ma dalekim ot vkusov "massovogo potrebitelya". Poka emu meshayut, rabotaet ne pokladaya ruk. Emu sozdayut usloviya. Kudesov bezdel'nichaet. Nichego udivitel'nogo: tvorcheskij krizis est' tozhe akt tvorchestva. Ego, avtora, otchuzhdayut ot rezul'tatov ego truda, on ostaetsya vidimo ravnodushen k tomu. Ot nego ozhidayut otkrovennosti - on sama uklonchivost'. Naedine s samim soboj sochinyaet pronzitel'noe i nemnogo bespomoshchnoe vozzvanie "ko vsem zhivym". Tradicionnaya mifologiya, privychnye moral'nye cennosti bolee ne yavlyayutsya orientirami dlya geroev p'esy (a vozmozhno, i voobshche dlya sovremennogo soznaniya), i ih sushchestvovanie mozhet byt' upodobleno pohodu slepyh iz biblejskoj pritchi. Neobhodimost' samoosushchestvleniya perestala byt' dokazuemoj, i bolee togo, edva li kogda-to byla takovoj. Usiliyami li Tvorca, libo Soavtora Ego iz preispodnej, no chelovek nakonec-to naproch' otchuzhden ot svoego smysla, ot svoego prednaznacheniya, i edinstvennym udelom chelovecheskim ostaetsya protivostoyanie "uragannomu bezvetriyu" zhizni, samostoyanie v lavine holodnogo i bescel'nogo vremeni.
A pri chem zdes' Iov? Iov, konechno, tol'ko povod. On - "nerazmennyj rubl'" mifologii, on - etalon pravednosti (stol' nedosyagaemyj, chto vremenami na volosok ot eresi). I on eshche byl odnim iz pervyh, komu, kazhetsya, udavalos' usadit' v luzhu Tvorca.
STANISLAV SHULYAK, The play "The Job's book"
Stanislav Shulyak was born in 1960. He started with small aphoristic forms when he was 18 and gradually getting over to big prosaic works. These works traditional (at first sight) stories and plays do not contain global catastrophies. There is only one theme in all of them: horror of simple human existence.
The main character of the play "The Job's book" Aphanasy Kudesov says: "Stunned with the uselessness of colourless existence I sometimes experienced doubts in life itself". And "doubts in life" one way or another influence all his activities or better to sayinactivities. He is a writer and he works on a topic very far from "mass culture". While he faces obstacleshe works a lot. When nothing inferferes with his work Kudasov immediately stops. Nothing special in that: the creative crisis also belongs to the creative process. When he, the author, is alienated from the results of his work, he stays indifferent. When he is expected to be outspoken he is evasive. Being alone he writes a pathetic and slightly helpless appeal 'to all who are still alive", traditional mythology, habitual moral values are no longer guiding lines for the character of the play (may be, for modern cousciousness on the whole) and their existence can be likened to the march of the blind in the Bible.
What has it all to do with Job? Of course, Job is just a pretext. He is an archetype, he is the standard of righteousness (so unattainble that righteousness itself seems to be very close to heresy). And he was one of those first who managed to cheat the Creator.