The Screen and the Footlight: the 1960s Theatrical and Cinematografic References in Alexander Vampilov’s Artistic Legacy

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.3-17.080

Smirnov Sergey R.,

Doctor of Philology, Senior lecturer managing chair of the newest Russian literature at the Faculty of Philology and Journalism

at Institute of philology, foreign languages and media communications

Irkutsk State University

e-mail: ssrisu@yandex.ru

The issue considers little-known theatrical and cinematografic references in the Irkutsk playwright Alexander Vampilov’s writing on the base of Soviet and forein art of the 1950–1960s.

Basing on A. Rumyantsev’s memoirs, genre transformation of the sketch/story “The Sun in a Stork Nest” and Vampilov’s attitude to the theatrical source, an amateur theatre performance on “Lyavonikha in Orbit” by the Belorussian playwright A. Makayonak, are analyzed.

Vampilov’s newspaper publications are considered in the issue, including those only known to some researches, e. g. reviews of the movies “Hamlet” by G. Kozintsev and “Strictly Business” by L. Gaidai. The playwright’s impressions of Moscow theatres in the early 1960s are described, reminiscences from “Cain XVIII”, a N. Kosheverova movie (scenario by E. Schwartz and N. Erdman) are regarded.

Keywords: Vampilov, references, reminiscences, Sovremennik Theatre, Erdman, “Cain XVIII” movie.

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