Biography
Risky research of theatrical forms from director Andrei Mighty cannot be separated from the drama of a new type, emphasizing the "pain points" of our days and expressing their understandable viewer of any nationality. He must definitely remake everything in his own way, he does not trust the original texts of the authors, rewriting, saying them in his own words.Childhood and youth
Andrei Anatolyevich Mighty Born on November 23, 1961 in Leningrad, in the family of Professor Biology. In 2 years, the family went to the new place of work of the Father, to the capital of Cuba Havana. About the island of freedom, where the boy lived for 3 years, the future director remained bright memories - the sea, ships, cigars and pistols ... After a short return to Leningrad, the family went to Mongolia. 5 years has passed in the capital of Ulan Bator, which is remembered by terrible and sort.
As a child, the boy wanted to be a pilot, read books about aircraft, and also coped with the repair of the TV. Parents united these abilities and sent to study at the Radio Engineering Faculty of Aviation Instrument Institute. He worked in the student detachment, laying an asphalt road, played for the national team of the university in volleyball.
Andrei came to the theater by chance. Father was responsible for the organization "Assembly days" at his institute. Parents from children's years have led the Son to these conferences, accompanied by a show of performances of the St. Petersburg Big Drama Theater (BDT). Once in his youth, together with the Father, the young man also got into the cabinet of Zeptit BDT Dina Schwartz and told that he liked the theater. Schwartz invited to try to go on the course of Georgy Tovstonogov. Mighty to go to the master himself was afraid, but he entered the institute of culture at the correspondence department.
Theater
In 1989, Andrei with friends founded the theater troupe "Formal Theater". A presses immediately spoke about her: a sharp attitude to the texts, brave experiments with space, surprise in the selection of sites surprised and admired. The theater united unrecognized geniuses and famous people, urban eccentrics and mortgages of life. It was more like a sect: meditation, shamanism, plastic, oriental trends - fees occupied 5-6 hours a day.The first work of the mighty: "Bald singer" of the Franco-Romanian playwright Ezhena ionesko, "Petersburg" on the novel by Andrei White, Orlando Furioso in the Knight's poem Ludochiko Ariosto, as well as Perfomans-Perfomana. With them the theater toured from Poland to Britain, moving on trucks of 4,000 kilometers. Success reached the production of "Fools", a free interpretation of the book by Sasha Sokolov, who received the Prize of the Scottish Frendge Festival and the Grand Prix of the Festival in Serbia.
At the beginning of the XXI century, the Baltic House Theater created the "play, which is not" Evgeny Grishkovets and "DC LAMANCH". In 2003, at the Easter festival in the Kremlin, work was shown together with the Mariinsky Theater - Opera Modest Musorgsky "Boris Godunov". In the director's portfolio, Silenzio's Silenzio ballerina Diana Cherry, the ceremony of the Golden Mask, Speeches of the Leningrad grouping.
In 2004-2013, Andrei Anatolyevich served in the St. Petersburg Alexandrinsky Theater. Among the works there: "Ivana" in Nicholas Gogol, the children's performance "Happiness" on Mauris Meterlinka. In the following years, the director created the performances of Circo Ambulante and the "fairy tale about the last angel" with Leia Ahacedzhakova for the Moscow Theater of Nations.
In 2013, Andrei Mogility became at the head of the theater, who launched his career, - BDT named after G. A. Tovstonogov. Among the production: "Alice" with Alice Freundlich, "What to do?" Nikolai Chernyshevsky, "Thunderstorm" Alexander Ostrovsky, "Governor" Leonid Andreeva and a play of several parts "Three fathers" on the fairy tale of Yuri Oleshi.
In the creative biography of the mighty 7 premiums "Golden Mask", 6th Petersburg "Gold Sofites", he was awarded the medal of the Order "For Merit to Fatherland" II degree and the title of Honored Arts Worker.
Personal life
His personal life from work director tries to separate. Andrei Mighty Three Sons (Arseny, Anatoly, Ivan) and the daughter of Maria. Svetlana's wife, in the 1990s served with her husband in the "Formal Theater", he considers his main spectator, devoting to her all performances. The son of Arseny graduated from the Faculty of Vgika, helped the press service of the theater with photo and video frames.
Andrei Anatolyevich was tougher for the elders children, and to the twins born in 2002, Vane and Masha (studying at the Studio School at MCAT) - gently like a grandfather, and assured that children also have something to learn. So, before putting a children's performance, I gave to read the "blue bird" Maurice Meterlinka and asked to describe the images that had arisen. And after I went looked at the school play "Evenings on the farm near Dikanka", delivered by his wife, even came to the conclusion that professionals have no chance to repeat the truthful game of children.
On the question of how the kids perceived the parliament's arrival in BDT, Andrei Mighty answered:
"When the son and daughter learned that the Queen of the" Three Musketeers "called me (Actress Alice Freindlich) - the father's rating immediately rose."Andrei mighty now
The premieres of BDT in the season 2020/2021 were their own work of Andrei Mighty "Three fathers. Episode 7. Idiota Staircase "and" Juliet "Tit Oyasso based on William Shakespeare with music Sergei Shnurov.During the stage pause, the theater suggested the audience the BDT Digital project with radio spectacles and viewing the archive online. Large interviews Vodduka Criticize theater Marina Davydova and the program "Culture" TV channel "White Studio" came out. The social productions of the "Letters of War" are presented on the Victory Day and "Help Doctors" with the texts of the doctors written in the days of the fight against COVID-19, and collected 4 million rubles. Sent in favor of ambulance.
In November 2020, Khudruka BDT them. G. A. Tovstonogov took part in the discussion started by the "open letter" actress Ulyana Fomicheva. Mighty expressed the view that the theater in the sense of the organization is atavism, because first of all his goal is to create works of art, its work cannot be compared in efficiency with the service of household services. Social functions of the theater - support for unsettled, low-income artists from humanitarian considerations - are welcome, but only not contrary to the fulfillment of the main task.
Speakty
- 1989 - "Bald singer" (Eugene Ionessko)
- 1991 - "Petersburg" (Andrey White)
- 1992 - "Two sisters" (Ivan Turgenev)
- 1998 - "School for Fools" (Sasha Sokolov)
- 2001 - "Piece, which is not" (Evgeny Grishkovets)
- 2004 - Krakatuk (Ernst Hoffman)
- 2007 - "Ivana" (Nikolay Gogol)
- 2008 - "Boris Godunov" (Alexander Pushkin)
- 2011 - "Happiness" (Maurice Meterlink)
- 2012 - "Process" (Franz Kafka)
- 2013 - Alice (Lewis Carroll)
- 2014 - "What to do" (Nikolai Chernyshevsky)
- 2015 - "Drunk" (Ivan Vynepayev)
- 2016 - "Thunderstorm" (Alexander Ostrovsky)
- 2017 - "Governor" (Leonid Andreev)
- 2018 - "Three fathers" (Yuri Olesh)
- 2019 - "Tale about the last angel" (Roman Mikhailov)
- 2020 - "Juliet" (William Shakespeare)