Guilty without guilt (performance, 1993)

Prologue

A poor girl, Lyubov Ivanovna Otradina, accidentally learns that her beloved, Grigory Lvovich Murov (from whom she bore her son Grisha ), is going to marry another girl at the insistence of her mother. Taisia ​​Ilyinichna Shelavina , his bride, Lyuba's girlfriend, knows nothing about this story; not hiding, she tells Otradina that the groom does not love and he is needed not so much as a husband, but as a manager with her capital. After Shelavina’s departure and a brief explanation with Murov, Lyuba receives another sad message — Grisha, who is in the care of Arina Galchikhi, is about to die.

Main action

The events of the second action unfold seventeen years after the prologue. The arrival of the famous actress Elena Ivanovna Kruchinina made a lot of noise in the town; the local theater people are particularly excited. Rich barin and philanthropist Nile Stratonych Dudukin tries to please the beauty in everything. Kruchinina, by chance meeting with the half-crazed Arina Galchikha, learns that Grisha, whom she considered dead for seventeen years, survived and then, at the insistence of Murov, was brought up to strangers. Soon comes Murov himself, in a famous actress who recognized Lyuba Otradina. Murov speaks reluctantly about his son, gets confused, lies, then he admits that he gave Grisha to “good people”, putting a medal of Otradina on his neck, but he doesn’t know anything about his future fate.
The intrigue Korinkina with the participation of the hero-lover Petit Milovzorov uses the story of Kruchinin to turn a young actor Grigory Neznamov against her, whose filial love Kruchinina managed to earn during her stay in the city. Neznamov is an orphan himself - a child abandoned by his parents. Confident that Kruchinina voluntarily left her own son and wanting to hurt her more painfully, Neznamov makes a toast to “mothers who abandon their children”. Among other things, he denounces the tradition to leave a trinket as a keepsake to the abandoned child: “these souvenirs burn a chest”.
Kruchinina recognizes his locket around Neznamov’s neck and faints. Dudukin tells Neznamov the true story of Lyuba Otradina. Recovering, Kruchinina embraces his son.

The bold characters are the actors who participated in the TV version of the performance.

• Elena Ivanovna Kruchinina, famous provincial actress - Yulia Borisova
• Nina Pavlovna Korinkina, actress - Lyudmila Maksakova
• Neil Stratonych Dudukin, a rich gentleman - Yuri Yakovlev , Yevgeny Karelsky
• Grigoriy Lvovich Murov - Vyacheslav Shalevich , Victor Zozulin
• Grigory Neznamov, artist of the provincial theater - Yevgeny Knyazev
• Petya Milovzorov, first lover, artist of the provincial theater - Viktor Zozulin , Alexey Zavyalov
• Shmaga, artist of the provincial theater - Yury Volyntsev , Mikhail Ulyanov , Dmitry Kravtsov , Mikhail Vorontsov
• Arina Galchikha - Alla Kazanskaya , Inna Alabina
• Ivan, servant in the hotel - Anatoly Menshchikov
  • In the prologue:
• Lyubov Ivanovna Otradina - Lydia Velezheva , Elena Sotnikova
• Taisa Ilinishna Shelavina - Marina Esipenko , Nonna Grishaeva
• Grigory Lvovich Murov - Yury Kraskov
• Annushka - Olga Gavrilyuk
• Arina Galchikha - Inna Alabina
• Musicians - Vladimir Brand (guitar), Vladimir Sveshnikov (piano)

• Pushing away from the phrase Shmagi “The place of the actor is in the buffet!” Pyotr Fomenko staged the play in the space of the theater buffet. A bar counter and a large closet-buffet became the basis of the decoration design for the second action of the performance.
• The first and second actions of the play are in different halls.
• The photograph of the group of actors of the second act was used in the design of the dust jacket of the Russian Drama Theater encyclopedia ^[2] .
• The role of Petit Milovzorov was originally proposed to Vasily Lanovoy , who refused it ^[3] .

• “Corner” (“I was breathing the night with delight of voluptuousness”; words by V. Mazurkevich , music by S. Steiman)
• “Give a kiss” (“Your image is radiant to me”; words and music by M. Steinberg)
• “Yes or no” (words by E. Yuriev, music by A. Chernyavsky)
• “Hopes, dreams” (“I look at you, friend, with a prayer”; words and music by M. Steinberg)
• “Farewell!” (“Farewell! - six letters bring so much torment!”; Words by M. Yu. Lermontov )
• “Stars in the sky” (“I dreamed of a garden in my wedding dress”; words by E. Diterikhs, music by B. Borisov )
• "Come quickly, kiss hot"
• “I adore” (words by A. Pugachev, music by B. Klinov)
• “The night shone” (words by A. A. Fet , music by N. Shiryaev)
• “Do not be angry, do not be jealous” (words and music of A. Denisyev)
• “We broke up, but your portrait” (words by M. Yu. Lermontov, music by A. Spirro and L. Malashkina )
• “Night Flowers” ​​(“White, pale, sweet-scented ...”; words by E. Varzhenevskaya, music by A. Shilovsky)
• Cancan from the operetta of J. Offenbach “Orpheus in hell”

• State Prize of Russia (1994):
  Fomenko, Pyotr Naumovich, Selvinskaya, Tatiana Ilyinichna , Borisova, Yulia Konstantinovna, Maksakova, Lyudmila Vasilyevna, Volyntsev, Yury Vitalyevich, Knyazev, Evgeny Vladimirovich, Shalevich, Vyacheslav Anatolevich, Yakovlev, Yury Vasilyevich ^[1] .
• Moscow Seasons Festival Prize, ( 1992–1993 Season):
  Fomenko, Petr Naumovich (Best Director Work), Selvinskaya, Tatiana Ilyinichna (Best Set Design), Borisova, Yulia Konstantinovna (Best Actress of the Year) ^[4] .
• The prize of Moscow critics "The High Season" , (season 1992 - 1993 ):
  Fomenko, Peter Naumovich ^[4] .
• Crystal Turandot Award ( 1993 ):
  Fomenko, Petr Naumovich (Best Director Work) ^[5] .

• Production by the People’s Artist of Russia , the laureate of the State Prizes of Russia Peter Fomenko
• Scenography and costumes - Tatiana Selvinskaya
• Stage version - Galina Pokrovskaya
• Music Director - Tatiana Agaeva
• Trainee Director - Alexey Chernobay
• Make-up artist - Olga Kalyavina
• Lighting Designer - Vladimir Amelin
• Sound producer - Andrey Rybnikov
• Assistant Director - Natalia Menshikova

• O. Yegoshina. “To take a punch” (Interview with Pyotr Naumovich Fomenko on November 23, 1998) // Director's theater from B to Y. Conversations at the close of a century. Issue I / Authors of the project and ed.-comp. A. Smelyansky, O. Egoshina. - Moscow : Moscow Art Theater, 1999. - p. 436-444. - 530 s. - ISBN 5-900020-06-1 . (inaccessible link)
• Krymova N. In her circle: “Guilty without guilt” in the Theater to them. Evg. Vakhtangov // Moscow Observer. - 1993. - № 7 .
• Krymova N. Today’s Ulyanov // Screen and Stage. - 1997. - № 47 from November 20-27 . - p . 10-11 .
• Krymova N. Among the first plots: Ulyanov plays Shmagu // Moscow Observer. - 1995. - № 1-2 . - p . 65-67 .
• Lvov-Anokhin B. The Theater World of Peter Fomenko: Notes from an admired colleague // Screen and Stage. - 1994. - No. 32 of September 15-22 . - p . 10-11 . (inaccessible link)
• Maksakova L. My bitter, bitter happiness ... (Great sorcerer) // Theater. - 1994. - № 3 . - pp . 57-60 . (inaccessible link)
• A. Svobodin. “You need light breathing!” (Interview with Peter Naumovich Fomenko) // Teatralnaya zhizn. - 1996. - № 7 . - pp . 39-42 . (inaccessible link)
• Spirina S. The Game of Time and Space in Peter Fomenko’s Performances // Theater Life: Relationships in Time and Space: Proceedings of the Intern. conf., 17-19 oct. 1998 / [Ed.-Comp .: N. V. Pakhomova]. - SPb. : S.-Petersburg Acad. theater. Art, 1998. - p. 62-66. - 135, [1] s.
• Shah-Azizova T. Ostrovsky, his spectators and heroes // Screen and stage. - 1998. - № 5-6 . - p . 2 .

• The page of the performance on the official website of the theater
• The text of the play "Guilty without Guilt" in the library of Maxim Moshkov