Afraid of troubles – cannot have luck (1954)
S. Ya. Marshak created a nice, optimistic fairy tale: everyone took Grief off their hands by deceit: woodcutter — to merchant, merchant — to tsar, tsar — to soldier. And soldier Ivan Tarabanov, good-natured and savvy, did тещ want to foist Grief to anyone by deceit and got along with it himself. The joy of liberation from Grief which doesn’t scare anymore, the merry juice of life which is born in the time itself was sparkling in this performance. Many people, admiring, called it truly Vakhtangian.
Main Stage
Premiere was on 6 May 1954
Characters & Cast:
Treasurer |
Maxim Grekov |
His wife |
Valeriya Tumskaya |
Senator |
Vladimir Shlezinger |
Amelfa Ivanovna |
Valentina Dancheva |
Skorokhod |
Aleksey Emelyanov |
A hunter |
Aleksey Kotrelyov |
Shepherd |
Nadezhda Generalova |
Man that bells |
Mikhail Dadyko |
1st gunman |
Alexander Bizyukov |
2nd gunman |
Konstantin Monov |
Woe |
Varvara Popova Elena Ponsova |
Ivan Tarabanov |
Mikhail Ulyanov |
Andey Kuzmich woodcutter |
Joseph Tolchanov Maxim Grekov |
Nastya Kuzmich’s niece |
Tatyana Kopteva Nina Nehlopchenko |
Tsar Dormidont |
Ruben Simonov Vladimir Etush |
Anfisa Tsar’s daughter |
Tatyana Blajhina Veronika Vasilyeva |
Foreign King |
Yury Yakovlev Eugeny Fedorov |
Saluyan Kapitonovich Porseluev, rich merchant |
Boris Shuhmin Viktor Eykhov |
General Podpraposchiov |
Arkady Maryin |
The head of the tsar guards |
Alexander Kashperov |
guests | |
Old man with a medal | Grigory Merlinsky |
His wife | Vera Golovina |
Scrivener | Alexander Lebedev |
His wife | Mariya Nekrasova |
Young merchant | Mikhail Zharkovsky |
Crew:
Staging |
Yevgeniy Simonov |
Decorator |
Konstantin Yuon |
Music |
Lev Solin |