The right to a monologue. Theater paradoxes Valery Fokina

The book traces the creative path of the outstanding Russian theater director Valery Fokin. Family, childhood, first life and artistic impressions, decisive, but reckless actions that almost broke fate ... And then the choice of profession, study at a theater university, an invitation to one of the most famous Moscow theaters - "Contemporary". The pages of the book describe in detail about the performances of Fokin, staged in the largest Russian and foreign theaters, about working with outstanding artists, playwrights, and theater artists. Creative searches, experiments, international projects, creating a creative center named after the Armed Forces. Meyerhold in Moscow, as well as almost two decades of the leadership of the oldest professional scene - the National Drama Theater of Russia, the legendary Alexandrin - this is the fascinating story of one of the luminaries of modern theatrical art