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How I Ate the Dog (1998)

The play “How I Ate the Dog” is, according to the author and performer, “ universal history human maturation”, the experience of a sailor gained while serving in the Pacific Fleet.

The narration is told in the first person by one actor (the author himself) as a person’s recollection of childhood, adolescence, and naval service.

About how the life perception of a young guy, a sailor of the Russian Pacific Fleet, changes while serving far from his hometown. The difference in experiences of a recruit traveling on a train Far East in comparison with his own experiences, but three years later, and creates the basis of the play. The monologue performance contains many life stories from the childhood and youth of the hero, who shares his life experience as if this experience was received personally by each of the spectators.

Simultaneously (1999)

“At the same time” is “an attempt to explain what it means to “instantly understand something, or rather feel it, and not just instantly, but at the same time.”

The main “event” of the performance is the amazing text that the hero Grishkovets pronounces.

This is a monologue filled with many wonderful stories from Everyday life ordinary person and, at the same time, not inferior in its philosophical depth to the best examples of classical drama.

A production that perfectly demonstrates the inimitable style of Grishkovets, in whose works there is always “a feeling of the looseness of the living tissue of the text,” moreover, this feeling “is preserved even in already recorded plays: in multiple confused approaches, the suddenness of endless associations, in the defenselessness of intonation and what - something completely unusual openness and disposition towards the listener-reader.

Winter (1999)

Beautiful fabulous winter forest, stars in the sky.

The Snow Maiden walks through a fairytale forest. The First and Second appear.

They come on skis, crawl or parachute – it doesn’t matter. Both are dressed in white camouflage suits, they have duffel bags and various equipment. They go about their business for a while.

Notes of a Russian Traveler (1999)

Two characters, ancient relationships between people, which is felt in every next line, in every turn of the head, in intonations - this is the plot of this not even a play, but these short stories connected by a long friendship.

If a theater with a name loaded with meaning needs to somehow reinforce this very choice and meaning from time to time, then we can say with confidence: “Notes of a Russian Traveler” - once again lived up to the sign, the performance became such a good, positive example of the theater’s work with new text.

“Notes of a Russian Traveler” is perhaps the first successful performance “based on Grishkovets” without Grishkovets himself, the first among the famous, popular ones - and still the only one.

City (2001)

All Grishkovets' texts tell about himself - and about everyone at once.

“City” is about what Grishkovets himself experienced when leaving his native Kemerovo: about confusion and total mental imbalance. If you like, about a midlife crisis.

The protagonist’s experiences are devoid of specifics: what kind of job he decided to quit, why he wants to leave the city, from which city is unknown. This makes the damned job, and the disgusted city, and the squabbles between spouses familiar to anyone who has ever wanted to do the same thing - to leave everything to hell.

Planet (2001)

Grishkovets's performance Planet is a kind of story about life and love.

The Planet differs from other performances by Evgeniy Grishkovets, because... in it, just like on the planet, there is no end, the audience involuntarily asks the question: what’s next.

Evgeny Grishkovets remains an original here: he never reveals the secret of the play Planet.

The Planet once again confirmed: Evgeny Grishkovets can speak with stunning ease from the stage about the most important philosophical matters and even stage scientific knowledge to the service of the theater.

Dreadnoughts (2001)

Evgeniy Grishkovets: Dreadnoughts are a drama of Russian cinema.

A one-man performance in which Evgeny Grishkovets participates, it reveals the entire plot so much that no one else is needed, because the picture acquires integrity.

“Dreadnoughts” is the name of the production about the largest and, perhaps, epic ships of their kind since the First World War.

The Battle of Jutland, due to its grandeur, became the basis of history.

The battles that the actor will tell about will captivate the viewer with their history, because many people took part in them and every fate will not be deprived of attention, literally every little thing will seem important.

Siege (2003)

“The play “Siege” is quite modern history, made by young and acutely sensitive people.

The performance was created using the method of collective improvisation, so that all the actors are also co-authors of the play.

And if we briefly define the content of the play, in the sense of what it is about... The play “Siege” is about war.”

Uncle Otto Is Sick (2004)

"Uncle Otto is Sick" was presented at the Vienna Theater Festival.

All of Austria celebrated its seventieth anniversary in unison civil war 1934, during which the Nazis finally crushed the Social Democrats.

Viennese theater festival dedicated a special program to this inconspicuous war called “Dictionary of Silence.” Everything was prepared terribly seriously, but not a single project in the program earned such unconditional approval from the public in Vienna as Yevgeny Grishkovets’s one-man show “Uncle Otto is Sick.”

By Poe (2005)

“According to Po” by Evgeny Grishkovets is a light, cleverly conceived and well-executed piece.

The title is explained simply - in the play, two charming storytellers, interrupting each other, tell familiar stories of Edgar Allan Poe from childhood, embellishing and freely complementing them.

They tell the stories as they are remembered by a person who has not re-read them since childhood. The writer Edgar Allan Poe, seen through their eyes, is not at all like the creator of the world of horror and the master of the detective story - Grishkovets gives Poe's stories a familiar everyday format, turning horror into horror films. The author of the production himself characterizes it as follows: “Good, easy, play performance. Beautiful, cheerful, very paradoxical.”

Home (2009)

Evgeniy Grishkovets: “I was not going to buy a house, it was a very serious decision for me, an adult. They took me to look, I saw: this one? I'll take it right away.

Then conversations started, I wanted my loved ones to talk me out of it, but suddenly everyone wanted to do the same.

I understood that if this did not happen, then I would have to live in the feeling that I could not do this, but I had already fallen in love with him. So this is a completely documentary play."

+1 (2009)

"Nobody knows me." The performance begins with this phrase, and it soon becomes clear that this is not just slyness popular artist, which is known to many, even very many, because we are not talking about many here at all. We are talking about the closest people. They don't know either. It is also impossible to convey your innermost thoughts and feelings to them. Just as a tape recording changes the sound of your voice, any attempt to tell another about the state of your soul also leads to inevitable distortions.

In these arguments it is easy to hear the old Tyutchev’s “thought expressed is a lie.” But in Grishkovets’s performance, the well-known maxim takes on a special meaning. After all, we hear the confession about “spoken lies” from the lips of a person who, in fact, specializes in conveying to us his innermost thoughts, putting into words his secret feelings and making the unformulable articulated.

From the mouth of the owner of a signature recipe for theatrical sincerity, telling us about himself in such a way that we see our own reflection in the mirror of the stage. And suddenly he directly tells us that everything he talks about corresponds to a very small extent with his real experiences. But he doesn’t know how to talk about this, the real thing, because despite all his well-being, he is infinitely alone. He just can’t feel like he’s part of humanity. He always +1 to humanity.

Farewell to Paper (2012)

Evgeny Grishkovets, who at the turn of the 2000s changed ideas about the genre of a one-man show and even became a certain “genre” himself, shows his new work.

“Farewell to Paper” is a collage of memories, nostalgia for the “Guttenberg universe” - for a world where books do not glow, but rustle and smell of printing ink, and instead of SMS, notes are sent on a piece of paper.

Whisper of the Heart (2015)

In many ways, a sobering performance opens eyes to an unattractive truth, which, perhaps, not everyone needs, but which everyone is aware of.

The hero of Grishkovets’s new one-man show, on the creation of which he worked for more than three years, is human heart, suffered and unfamiliar to us. And he has something to tell his master.

Libra (2017)

Evgeniy Grishkovets: “Libra” is mine new play, stage fate which I decided to do myself. This is the first time this has happened to me. Why?

Yes, only for the simple reason that I do not dare to entrust the heroes of this tender play to the hands of others. Although the characters in “Libra” are not sissies at all. They are normal, down to earth men. But it is they, and it is in this play, that are especially dear to me, because they are experiencing an exciting, most important and very special night.

They worry together about the most important thing. I am well aware of the experiences of the characters in my play. I want to convey them through the actors with whom I work, as accurately as possible and close to the original plan.

Preface (2018)

“For the last ten years, since 2008, I have been producing and releasing one one-man show every three years. It is always very special, long-lasting and painstaking work. But in the coming year, I finally came to the end of writing the novel “The Theater of Despair or Desperate Theater.”

I have been working on this book for three years now, and it has crowded out all other plans and ideas. But as it usually happens... suddenly a strange and unexpected decision came... The stage image of the preface to the novel that I am now writing was born. What I had in mind on stage will not be a creative evening. The novel was not written as a story about how it was either fun or difficult...

This will be a performance called “Preface to the Novel.” In this performance I will try to talk about the very mysterious process of the emergence of literature and literary image, which appears from factual biography and from the history of everyday life. This performance will be largely dedicated to the wonderful and at the same time very disturbing, and sometimes scary, process of remembering. I want to tell and show on stage what happens to a person going into the past... How he goes into his memories, and how he returns. And I also want to do on stage what I once started my stage activity with, and what I haven’t done on stage for almost thirty years.”

Movies

Azazel (2002)

Role: Ahimas Velde

A young official from the detective department, Erast Fandorin (Ilya Noskov), takes on the investigation of a mysterious suicide.

He meets the suicide's friend, student Akhtyrtsev (Kirill Pirogov), but as soon as the first clues to the investigation of the crime fall into his hands, an attempt is made to kill him.

Fandorin is on the trail of the mysterious organization Azazel...

Walk (2003)

Role: Seva

A girl and two of her random companions walk halfway through St. Petersburg, flirting, picking at each other and living out a love drama in an hour and a half of real time.

This walk, filled with laughter and tears, the everyday bustle of the street and some almost ominous secret, keeps the viewer in constant suspense, but is resolved completely unexpectedly.

However, the ending of the film, as unpredictable as it is natural, puts everything in its place, forever connecting the story told with the city. There has never been a Petersburg like this before. This is not a monument, not a phantom, not a specter, not a ruin. This is St. Petersburg on-line - a beautiful, bustling city in which young Russian Europeans live easily and painfully.

Not by Bread Alone (2005)

Role: investigator

1947 A small industrial town that grew up around a large steel mill. First post-war years. They met at school, she taught English language, he taught children physics.

She was the wife of the director of the plant, General Drozdov, he dreamed of building a new pipe casting machine, one that no one had ever invented before.

She becomes interested in Lopatkin's idea and falls in love with him, leaving her husband. He wanted to be useful to his homeland, his people. He was ready to give his life for the sake of his idea, she gave him her life, love and faith. The general takes revenge in the Soviet way - preventing his opponent from promoting his invention...

In the first circle (2005)

Role: Galakhov, writer

The action takes place in the USSR in 1949. In the Marfino sharashka near Moscow, prison scientists are working on an order commissioned by Stalin himself - a secret telephone communication device.

The main character Gleb Nerzhin faces a heavy moral choice: serve the regime he hates or exchange the happiness of a warm sharashka for the prison stage of the Gulag.

Another storyline is the story of Innokenty Volodin. A diplomat traveling abroad, a representative of the elite of the Soviet intelligentsia, is trying to convey to the US Embassy information about an attempt by a Soviet intelligence agent to obtain the developments of US scientists in the field of atomic bomb production.

Thirteen Months (2008)

Role: Stein

Successful businessman Gleb Ryazanov suddenly realizes that he spent best years to become the “right shot”.

Even him family life nothing short of a bargain. In a desperate attempt to start life with clean slate Gleb leaves home, finding himself in a dizzying world of mysticism and crime, friendship and love. But getting out of the vicious circle turns out to be very difficult...

“Thirteen Months” is an ironic and sometimes lyrical crime drama that tells the story that running away from problems and obligations is much more difficult than it seems...

Moscow Fireworks (2009)

Role: Tajik brigadier Amak

Sofia - famous Opera singer, who has irretrievably lost the ability to sing, dreams of regaining her lost voice.

And find peace of mind. Her husband Arkady dreams of returning the love, warmth and former sensuality of his wife. Natasha is afraid and worried about her husband Kirill and tries to avert the impending danger from him.

Dmitry, a retired military man, is looking for himself in life, he wants to be needed by someone. And the teenager Semyon thinks that by killing a man, he will reconcile with himself...

Windows (2009)

Role: Alexander Semenovich

Katya learns about the betrayal of her husband, writer Victor, with her boss Anfisa.

After a stormy showdown with mutual accusations and absurd suspicions, Victor takes steps, sometimes funny, sometimes stupid, towards reconciliation with his wife. Anfisa tries to prevent this, even going so far as to try to attract the sorcerer.

But Katya and Victor love each other and eventually make up. This whole situation could not but affect Victor the writer. Instead of a detective story, he writes love story. "Every window is human life, like a soul, just look into it - everything is there.”

The mood has improved (short film, 2009)

Role: narrator (cameo)

We have been producing advertising and promotional films for a very long time. And absolutely always, in parallel with this daily work, there was a desire to do something only for myself, and not for the customer.

In general, I wanted creativity. At some point, we felt that we had technically reached the level where you start to think about this in a more specific way. The search for material began.

But in practice, finding something that all team members like turned out to be extremely difficult...

Satisfaction (2010)

Role: Alexander Grigorievich Verkhozin, prominent businessman

The main character Alexander, a major businessman and influential person in his city, after a busy day of work, takes his friend and assistant Dmitry to a restaurant.

But to Dmitry’s surprise, neither business partners nor friends are waiting for them there - there are no visitors at all in the room.

Men will have to spend time in the company of silent waiters and numerous bottles with contents of varying strengths. When the door is locked from the inside, the two heroes have the whole night to sort things out.

Wake Me Up (Documentary, 2016)

Role: Head

Zhenya works at the border control service at the capital's airport. More than a year ago, under strange circumstances, her beloved Andrei disappeared.

Zhenya is literally obsessed with her own past while she dreams of the future. Dreams about colleagues and corrupt drug trafficking schemes become reality. Gradually, Zhenya becomes part of the criminal world around her, and without realizing it, she plays an important role in it.

It seems to her that, being between sleep and reality, she can change the future. Zhenya thinks that he can deceive fate and save his new love from tragedy, but is it really so?

Piece of the Universe (2017)

Role: Father John

A story about real Heroes who live here and now. And who you want to be like. This is a story about real Women who know how to wait.

About the people who work for space at the Mission Control Center and Zvezdny, at Baikonur and at the Institute of Space Medicine.

This is a movie about a feat, a real male friendship And Great love. About what we are missing so much in this life.

An Ordinary Woman (TV series by Boris Khlebnikov, 2018)

Role: Marina's husband

"Breaking Bad" in Russian.

The most ordinary woman - a loving and beloved wife and mother, whom all neighbors and acquaintances want to be like - turns out to be the boss of a criminal business.

Later it is discovered that everyone in her family has dirty secrets...

Evgeny Grishkovets was born on February 17, 1967 in the distant Siberian city of Kemerovo. When little Zhenya appeared in the young and friendly Grishkovets family, the parents were still studying at the institute. The couple took their son with them everywhere and everywhere.

After graduating from a local university, the head of the family enters graduate school at the St. Petersburg University of Economics. Valery Grishkovets and his relatives move to live in Leningrad.

Living in the Northern capital, Evgeniy really missed his hometown. But having returned to Kemerovo again, the feelings gave way to the opposite sensations, and the boy dreamed of returning back to the “cultural capital”.

Having received a certificate of secondary education in 1984, Grishkovets became a student at the Faculty of Philology of Kemerovo Humanitarian University. Diploma of higher education Evgeniy will receive it only after 10 years.

In his second year at the institute, the young man was drafted into the Soviet army. For three years Evgeny Grishkovets served in the Pacific Fleet on Russky Island. During his service, he took an active part in army amateur performances.

Returning home in 1988, Evgeniy Grishkovets continues his studies at the institute. At the same time, he is diligently involved in the local theater studio, and performs modest roles in the pantomime theater.

Soon the native mining town becomes too boring and monotonous for the future playwright. That's why in 1990, Grishkovets intends to emigrate to Europe, but changes his mind and returns to Kemerovo.

The genius of modern drama

IN hometown Evgeniy organizes his own theater called “Lodge”. During the existence of this theater venue(1990 - 1997) 10 performances were staged, which were popular and in demand not only among Russian audiences, but also abroad.

1998 becomes a turning point in the fate of the playwright. His theater is slowly fading away, and Grishkovets decides to leave the city. The whole family moves to Kaliningrad. During the same period his first one-man show “How I Ate the Dog” was born.

The production was demonstrated in Moscow at the Shkola Theater modern play" There were only 17 spectators in the hall. But this did not prevent Evgeniy from receiving a prestigious theater award for this performance. Golden mask" Grishkovets won in two categories at once: “Innovation” and “Critics Prize”.

His next work is the play “Simultaneously,” which repeats the stunning success of the previous production. Now Evgeniy’s creative “handwriting” as a playwright is more clearly visible. The director masterfully presents human dramas and the realities of the modern world, while relying on excellent traditions Russian literature. In his performances one can notice echoes of Chekhov, Shukshin and Dovlatov.

In 2014, Evgeny Grishkovets presents to the viewer new performance"Farewell to paper." Story line The production is narrated by the thoughts of the author himself: modern world filled electronic media and gadgets, and paper is becoming obsolete. But this process, according to the director, inexorably leads everyone to oblivion.

A year later, Evgeniy demonstrates another production own composition"Whisper of the Heart". In an undertone, almost in a whisper, Grishkovets reflects on life from the perspective of his “heart.”

2016 – premiere of the play “While the beer is being poured.” Evgeny is not only the author of the script, but also the performer leading role. In 2017, the production “Scales” was released.

All performances by Evgeny Grishkovets

Writings

Evgeniy Grishkovets is the author of several literary works. His first published work was the book “Shirt” (2004). Following this, the story “Rivers” (2006) was published, which was even included in school textbooks on literature. Filled deep meaning Eugene's works are very popular among modern readers.

In 2006, a collection of all Grishkovets’ plays staged up to that time was published as a separate publication.

He is also the author of the books “Plank”, “Traces on Me”, “Asphalt”, “The Year of Life”, “Continuation of Life”, “A...a”, “Satisfaction”. Last piece formed the basis feature film With same name, the director of the film was Anna Matison, the wife of Sergei Bezrukov.

Love for music

Director, playwright, writer, he also loves music. According to Evgeniy, he doesn’t know how to sing at all, but he absolutely loves listening to the beautiful singing of others.

Grishkovets decided to create a completely new movement in musical art. He developed his own concept: a person who cannot sing reads the text to the music. Something like a short essay combined with musical accompaniment, and, as always, a high semantic load of the content.

In 2002, in collaboration with the group “Bigudi”, he recorded his first album. 2008 – releases his own version of the Alliance group’s song “At Dawn”. 2013 – collaboration with the Georgian “Mgzavberi”, the result of the work is the release of the album “Wait to Live Wait”.

On movie screens

The tireless and creative Grishkovets already has more than 20 works in cinema. Evgeniy's acting work began in 2002. Then it came out famous picture"Azazel", based on the work of Boris Akunin. Then Evgeniy said that the filming process itself was easy, and even playful, but the picture itself did not turn out very well.

A video version of the popular play “Whisper of the Heart” by Evgeny Grishkovets, in which Grishkovets himself for the first time plays not himself, but... his heart. It is the heart main character performance, will communicate with you about the most intimate. As in all his works, in “Whisper of the Heart” Grishkovets talks about complex life and philosophical things in simple and precise words. What questions can the heart ask the person in whose chest it beats? What does it think about when the mind prompts a person to perform certain actions? Why doesn't a person always listen to him? Grishkovets will look for answers to these and many other questions, and the audience, as always, will help him in this, because each of his performances is also a conversation. “Whisper of the Heart” has been running in the capital’s theater center “On Strastnoy” since 2015 and always attracts full houses. On our website you can watch an online video version of this performance, which was edited from two different runs of the performance and includes its best moments.

You can watch the film Evgeny Grishkovets: Whisper of the Heart online completely free of charge in good HD quality. Enjoy watching!

Evgeny Grishkovets - famous modern writer, playwright, actor and director. Grishkovets became famous thanks to his one-man show “How I Ate a Dog,” first shown in 1998 in the smoking room of the Theater Russian army. The performance changed the direction of the playwright’s career and became a real bright revelation for Russian theater and the viewer. Fresh and light productions by Grishkovets are distinguished by their somewhat naive sincerity and simplicity of presentation. Often in them the playwright reveals to the audience the significance of everyday little things, touching and nostalgic moments of his life. The performances of Evgeniy Grishkovets are the type of theater that does not curry favor or lie, does not offend and does not have a radical impact. He simply tells a story, sincere and humanly warm, as your neighbor, acquaintance or random fellow traveler in a compartment could do. Grishkovets staged 10 performances, 5 of which he performed alone. Some of the performances are performed on the stages of different theaters, staged by other directors.

The playwright's talents also include writing. From 2004 to 2013, Grishkovets published more than 10 books, many of them appeared thanks to the author’s blog on LiveJournal. Grishkovets admits that he cannot sing at all. But this does not prevent the writer and playwright from releasing joint albums with the groups “Curler” and “Mgzavrebi”, in which his sincere lyrics are superimposed on melodic music. The actor also has roles in films; “The Walk” by Alexei Uchitel and “Satisfaction” by Anna Matison can be considered particularly successful works. The script for “Satisfaction” was written by Mathison together with Grishkovets.

Evgeny Grishkovets has lived in Kaliningrad since 1998 and tours extensively with his performances throughout Europe. For his fruitful work, the author received many valuable awards, such as “Booker” and “Anti-Booker”, national award"Triumph" and others.