Last weekend, Russian TV presenter and singer Olga Buzova told fans that she was participating in rehearsals of the play The Wonderful Georgian at the Gorky Moscow Art Theater.

The play tells about the young years of Joseph Stalin.

“I became an actress in the most popular theater in our country.

I play and sing in a new production at the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky ... I am so happy.

Now I spend every day on the cult stage with legends and rehearse the main premiere of this season at the Moscow Art Theater, ”the artist wrote on Instagram.

It will be possible to see her on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater on June 11 and 12.

The director of the play with the participation of Olga Buzova is the producer of Greek origin Renata Sotiriadi, who has been collaborating with the theater on an ongoing basis since 2020.

The play by Andrey Nazarov is taken as a basis.

The work is described as a tragedy.

“The main question posed in the play is what is more in young Stalin: revolutionary maximalism and service to the idea, or love of power and a desire to break through to the top?

With what event did he begin his ascent to the abyss? "

- says the description of the performance on the website of the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky.

In an interview for kp.ru, the artistic director of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater, Eduard Boyakov, explained that Buzova is playing the role of the cabaret singer Bella Chantal.

In the story, she becomes a spy and saves Stalin.

Boyakov called the character a "changeling" and noted that the heroine has something in common with the actress.

“She, it seems to me, is like a real character herself ready for transformation and transformation.

I have absolute confidence that this is a cool, meaningful move: today the meaning is where Buzova is, no matter how paradoxical it sounds, ”said the director.

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Actor Vladimir Dolinsky, in an interview with RT, said that he has great respect for Olga Buzova's penetrating abilities, “how she did herself,” and noted that today the artist is making the most of her popularity.

At the same time, according to Dolinsky, the decision to invite Buzova to the theater as an actress, and even in a play about Stalin, remains on the conscience of the creative team.

“This is not a theatrical approach.

Everyone knows that a non-professional cannot be allowed into the rally, no one will enter the operating room except the surgical team, but somehow it has become normal that anyone can come to the theater - a non-professional actor.

In the movies, this is possible.

There are other visual possibilities in cinema.

With the right approach, a crow in a movie can play a role.

But in the theater it is impossible, ”the actor explained.

He added that he himself would not have gone to the theater for the play with the participation of Buzova, which tells about Stalin's youth.

“I just imagine a hall filled with her fans with a certain level of training and life values.

I will not go to such a show.

But I don't judge anyone.

This is purely my personal professional opinion, ”concluded the artist.

At the same time, Buzova's participation in the production was criticized much more sharply on social networks.

“Olga Buzova will perform one of the roles in the performance of the Moscow Art Theater.

Gorky about Stalin.

In the play, she will both play and sing.

It looks like news generated by neural networks, but I'm not being ironic right now, unfortunately.

It really will be, ”writes a Twitter user. 

“Buzova on the stage of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater?

Lord, why does the theater have such misfortunes? "

- says another author.

According to some bloggers, the current situation characterizes the administration and the creative team of the Moscow Art Theater not from the best side.

“If for the leadership of the Moscow Art Theater Buzova is an artist, then this theater has no right to be called artistic, academic, named after Gorky and should not receive state subsidies,” the user notes. 

“Buzova on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater is the personification of the point of decline that we have reached as a society.

The vulgarity, abomination and mediocrity trample the great achievements of the past with their dirty paws.

And so in everything.

I would like to say that there is nowhere lower, but tomorrow we will read something else, ”another blogger is sure. 

Some people jokingly tried to predict the further development of the situation, taking into account recent events.

“Buzova will become the Minister of Culture of Russia.

Danya Milokhin will be her deputy.

Remember this tweet, ”the user sneers.

However, some bloggers believe that it was only thanks to Buzova that the upcoming performance became so resonant.

“If not for Buzov, no one would have known about the performance at the Moscow Art Theater.

Most of us still assess what is happening, having the high criteria of the Russian (Soviet) acting school.

This school no longer exists, just as there are no great actors and directors.

They do not serve in theaters now, they work and earn money, ”they emphasize in social networks. 

The attention of some was attracted by reports of Olga Buzova's fees for participating in the production.

“By the way, for the role of Buzov he will receive 446 810 rubles (half for rehearsals, half for a performance).

It's okay if everyone in this theater gets that much.

But do they get it? "

- thought one more author.

The indicated amount corresponds to the information from the contract posted on the public procurement website on June 3, 2021.