'The director, like a child, does not tell the world' no ': Roman Viktyuk died - ForumDaily
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'The director, like a child, does not say no to the world: Roman Viktyuk died

Theater director, People's Artist of Russia and Ukraine Roman Viktyuk died at the age of 85. It is reported by «Medusa» with reference to the press service of the theater, which Viktyuk founded and headed for many years.

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At the end of October, it was reported that Viktyuk was hospitalized with a coronavirus infection in one of the Moscow hospitals. The theater reported that the cause of the director's death was thromboembolism - a blockage of a vessel by a blood clot.

Biography of Roman Viktyuk

Roman Viktyuk was born on October 28, 1936 in Lviv. Studied at the State Institute of Theater Arts in Moscow. After receiving his education, he returned to Lviv, where he worked as an actor at the local Theater of the Young Spectator, and later as a director. He created a theater studio at the Lviv Palace of Pioneers, says 24tv.

Viktyuk’s first directorial work was a play based on G. Shmelev’s play “It’s Not So Simple,” which took place on the stage of the Lviv Theater for Young Spectators in 1965. In the same theater there was a performance based on the play by L. E. Ustinov “City Without Love” and “Don Juan” (Molière). From 1968 to 1969, Roman Viktyuk was the chief director of the Kalinin Theater for Young Spectators. From 1970 to 1974 he was the chief director of the Russian Drama Theater of Lithuania. From 1977 to 1979 – chief director of the Moscow State University Student Theater.

In 1988, on the stage of the Satyricon Theater, Roman Viktyuk staged his most famous performance - “The Maids” based on the play by J. Genet. Viktyuk managed to create a unique performance, which was shown in many countries around the world, received rave reviews from the press, and made the director himself one of the most famous and outstanding theater figures.

Roman Viktyuk Theater

In 1991, the Roman Viktyuk Theater appeared. He celebrated the opening with the production of a new bright play “M. Butterfly,” a reworking of the classic story of Madame Butterfly.

The staging of this play caused fierce controversy among theater experts and a wide range of theater audiences. There was a lot of shocking, eccentric costumes and bright strokes on the stage. Roman Viktyuk brought together like-minded and close-minded actors from several theaters into the troupe of his theater.

On account of Roman Viktyuk more than two hundred performances and productions. The director was known for his work in the USA, Italy, Finland, Sweden, where he repeatedly went on tour. Often Viktyuk made performances under his favorite star actors.

Roman Viktyuk believed that the main thing in the director's craft is the ability to see with the heart and love and be open to the world.

"The director, like a child who is born into the world, never says" no "to the world, only says" yes ", - he quotes RBC.

Director Awards and Awards

In 1991, Roman Viktyuk received the Maratea Prize from the Center for European Drama.

The Americans included Roman Viktyuk in the list of 50 people in the world who influenced the second half of the 20th century. He is the only foreigner to be awarded the Institute of Italian Drama Prize for the best embodiment of contemporary drama.

Awarded the “Kiev Pectoral” prize and the STD of Ukraine “Triumph” prize.

 

Roman Viktyuk's disease

With age, the director's health deteriorated significantly. In 2004, Viktyuk lost a lot of weight. He was increasingly hospitalized, and rumors circulated on the Internet that the director was suffering from a serious illness. Relatives and Viktyuk's family did not confirm the version of the journalists, but did not refute the rumors either.

In 2015, Roman Viktyuk suffered a microstroke. The director's entourage claims that the reason for the seizure was not so much the actor's age as his worries about the theater - not long before that, Irina Apeksimova left the post of theater director. However, the director's zest for life helped him overcome his illness, return to work and start new productions.

On November 17, 2020, Roman Viktyuk passed away. The theater said that the director could be buried in Lviv.

“The issue of transporting Roman Grigorievich to his homeland, to Lvov, is being resolved. It is not yet known whether it will be possible to resolve the issue of crossing the border. This was always his desire during his lifetime - to be buried next to his mom and dad,” the theater’s press attache told RIA Novosti.

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“I loved my Ukraine very much”

“He was very sick. An era is passing away again. There is no other unique director. This is a tragedy. He left a huge mark on the theatrical business and theatrical art. There were many interesting performances that were staged by him in their own interesting manner, in their own form. He is certainly a bright individual. I knew him personally; we were on very good terms for many years. Always bright, always interesting, always original,” Mark Varshaver, director of the Lenkom Theater, told Interfax.

“Ukraine was his heart, but for some reason he remained in Russia and continued the work of our great masters Stanislavsky, Shchepkin, and the Moscow Art Theater. His teachers were at the Moscow Art Theater, he graduated from GITIS. Moreover, he extended the Efros method, went into non-everyday theater, poetic theater, no one had done this before him. He’s the only one,” said People’s Artist of the RSFSR Valentina Talyzina.

“The great Russian genius of the theater, although he loved his Ukraine very much,” she assessed the scale of Viktyuk’s personality.

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What the director said about Ukraine

Roman Viktyuk has repeatedly spoken about the situation in Ukraine, including on the Maidan and Donbass. OBOZREVATEL collected a few quotes.

The director in general about the situation in Ukraine:

“The nation must have patience and believe only that God is with it. Anxiety is a microbe and a devilish voice that tries to put a person to sleep. It is in order to wake up that you, the press, exist. And talking about the difference between the West and the East is a devilish conspiracy.”

Viktyuk about the events on the Maidan:

“The guys rushed to me and said: “Don’t make us angry!” And I answered that I couldn’t spoil it. They looked at me with such eyes... their eyes are always with me... I saw that the father brought his son to the Maidan and sent him to save people. And the son died. And the father did not mourn his sacrifice, but stood and thanked him for the fire of devotion to his homeland.”

“We have wasted so many years. The most important thing is education. The communists said – there is no God, and everyone immediately refused, and this became the norm. Everything needs to start from childhood. Even when the mother is pregnant, there should be music. Not the one that calls for beatings and killing, but the one that sounded under Shevchenko in Ukraine.”

Roman Viktyuk also spoke about the situation in Donbass and has repeatedly addressed its residents:

“I want to say only one thing to the residents of Donbass: you live outside of God, you don’t hear Him. Turn off all TV channels for a second, close your eyes and be quiet. No evil, no violence, no murder. In this silence, having joined Heaven, perhaps something will happen in your soul. It should happen if you are Ukrainians. If you are not citizens of Ukraine, even this silence will not help you, then leave Ukraine alone.”

The director argued that no one knows how to win and stop the war in Donbas:

“Only the Ukrainian people with their heart-analytical mind know this.”

He spoke more than once about his desire to perform in Ukraine:

“Recently I performed on the radio “Echo of Moscow”, even there they asked me: “When will you finally come to Kyiv with your performance?” We have already postponed our tour several times, but not because of the revolution or war, but because the stage in the October Palace is not ready (there is only a concert, not a theatrical version of the stage with a special mechanism). I appeal to all of Ukraine: thank you for not handing over your tickets, because we will definitely come to our native land.”

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