For two hares (performance)

• Pronya Prokopovna Serko - Tamara Yatsenko / Louise Filimonova / Victoria Gurskaya
• Svirid Petrovich Golokhvosty - Yaroslav Gavrilyuk / Valery Legin / Valentin Makarenko / Alexander Galafutnik
• Prokop Sviridovich Serko, father of Prony - Valery Sheptekita / Igor Shcherbak
• Evdokia Filippovna Serko, mother of Prony - Zoya Grishchenko / Irina Kravchenko / Anna Rosstalnaya
• Sekleta Filippovna Lymarikha, sister of Evdokia - Alla Burliuk / Raisa Nedashkovskaya / Tatyana Steblovskaya / Louise Filimonova
• Galya, daughter of Sekleta - Galina Stefanova / Elena Kruzhilina / Liliana Rebrik / Elena Khizhnaya
• Nastya - Anna Vasilyeva / Elena Uzlyuk / Irina Shvedova / Oksana Shvets / Irina Kravchenko
• Natalka - Oksana Shvets / Natalya Vasko / Irina Shvedova / Irina Kravchenko / Elena Khizhnaya / Nadezhda Kozlenko / V. Gurskaya
• Khimka - Oksana Shvets / Nadezhda Kozlenko / Svetlana Teleglova
• Pidora - Elena Kulikovskaya
• Marta - Anna Rosstalnaya
• Ustya - Tatyana Ignashkina / Svetlana Bocharova
• Meronia - Oksana Shvets / Svetlana Watamanyuk
• Lender - Vyacheslav Slanko / Vladimir Chiglyaev / Andrey Kolesnik
• First Bass - Grigory Gladiy / Alexander Galafutnik / Vladimir Kokotunov
• Second Bass - Oleg Primogenov / Sergey Kucherenko / Anatoly Petrov
• Cinema stars, women, boarding houses, guys - theater actors

• Author: Mikhail Staritsky (play “ For Two Hares ”)
• Stage Director: Victor Shulakov
• Artists:
  • Natalia Gomon
  • Larisa Chernova
• Musical arrangement: Alexandra Yakovchuk
• Choreographer: Andrey Korenev
• Performance lead: Valentina Borovkova

• 1980 , September - Premiere of the play
• The 600th performance was recorded for television by the Golden Gate television and radio company ^[4]
• 1996 , April 6 - 800th show of the play ^[1]

“Behind Two Hares” is one of the first performances of the new, only established Kiev Youth Theater. After the release of the debut productions, the replenishment of the poster and the expansion of the repertoire were urgently required. They invited Cherkasy director Viktor Shulakov to the production (for his first production in theatrical Kiev). ^{[1] [3]}

The director found out about the choice of the play only upon arrival in Kiev . Having agreed to the production, Shulakov met with the director of the film of the same name , which thundered in 1961 throughout the Union , Viktor Ivanov , who told him:

Boy, don’t tackle this material, you won’t beat the film anyway!

This turned out to be a challenge that Shulakov accepts. ^[five]

At the first meeting with the actors, the director asked me to fill out a questionnaire in which I had to answer the questions: “What role do I want to play in the play?” And “What can I play?”. Beginning actress Tamara Yatsenko in both cases wrote “Pronya” without even hoping that she could get this role.

During rehearsals, the actress, previously approved for the role of Proni, did not like the director at all, and he offered to try Tamara. During the reading of Proni's monologue, everyone held on to their bellies. So Yatsenko became Proneus. ^[6]

According to the director’s story, the feeling that the actress for the role of Proni was found occurred at the moment when he found her backstage, all in tears, and asked to sing, playing her piano. Heard result convinced of the correct choice. ^[five]

Three performers were approved for the role of Svirid Petrovich Golokhvostogo, who played in line: Valery Legin - a refined dandy, Yaroslav Gavrilyuk - a cunning peasant, Valentin Makarenko - a large and reliable man. With such different partners, Prona managed to remain invariably the same. ^[3]

During the premiere performance, at the end of the first act, the performer of the role of Golokhvastovo, Yaroslav Gavrilyuk , breaks his arm. Arriving at the call, the ambulance insists on the hospitalization of the actor and the cessation of the performance. Gavrilyuk disagrees with this and decides to continue playing. Bandages are applied to him and the stage partners (actors Grigory Gladiy and Oleg Primogenov) and in the second act, three friends go on stage with the same supposedly broken hands ... ^[5]

In 1983, under the heading "Victor Shulakov's Poetry Theater", in the Moscow magazine "Theater" appeared the material of the theater expert Sergei Nikolaevich , who first got on the play "For Two Hares", which amazed him so much that he extended his business trip in Kiev to familiarize himself with other performances Shulakova. After publication at the Youth Theater, a large delegation arrived from Moscow , led by People's Artist of the USSR Angelina Stepanova and playwright Alexander Stein to evaluate the work of the director. ^[2]

The performance was so great that the Kiev pranksters offered to place hare ears on the curtain of the Young Theater - taking the Moscow gull as a sample. Critics called this performance "the hallmark of Kiev." ^[2]

The Golden Gate shopping mall for television made a shooting of the 600th performance, consisting of two 60-minute parts (director N. Grabchenko). ^[four]

On April 6, 1996, the play was shown for the 800th time. ^[1] During the stage life, many actors in the play changed. However, the main performers were Yaroslav Gavrilyuk and Tamara Yatsenko , the viewer still demanded tickets only for them. ^[7]

Over the years the performance has existed, he and its participants have received a number of competitive awards and prizes ^[8]

• Being an actress of the Youth Theater and playing on its stage the premiere performances of “Two Hares”, Tamara Yatsenko decides to go to GITIS , where Proni monologue reads at the entrance exams. The selection committee, among whose members were Anatoly Papanov , Andrei Mironov , died with laughter and after her speech announced an unplanned break. The actress was enrolled in GITIS without a second round ^[9]
• In addition to the production of “For Two Hares” on the Kiev stage, director Victor Shulakov performed two more in Donetsk and Sevastopol . At the same time, various accents are at the head of each of the performances: in the Kiev Youth Theater - a production of Pron Prokopovna, in the Donetsk Muzdram Theater ^[10] - about the inner world of Golokhvastov, and in the Sevastopol Drama Theater ^[11] - about a beautiful couple ... On the continuation of the series productions Victor Shulakov says:

My name is in different cities, they persuade me to put "For two hares." But I said: “That's it, I can’t come up with anything new, but to repeat myself is not in my rules” ... ^[12]

• After filming the television musical “ For Two Hares ” with Alla Pugacheva and Maxim Galkin in the lead roles, the prima donna asked for a meeting with the television Prona Margarita Krinitsyna . Here Pugacheva was prompted that in the musical, in the role of a flower saleswoman, another, the most popular theatrical Pronya played. So in 2004 there was a meeting of three Pron: Tamara Yatsenko , Margarita Krinitsyna and Alla Pugacheva . The meeting was held in Kiev in the restaurant "For Two Hares" on Podil ^{[6] [13]}

• Behind Two Hares (film, 1961)
• For two hares (musical)

• Ukrainian Theater of the XXth Century: Whistav Anthology / Nat. Acad. Mystic. Ukraine, In-t prob. now. Mist .; for zag. ed. M. Grinishino; entry V. Sidorenko. - K .: Feniks, 2012. - Program ”i3” / R. Akhmetov Foundation “Rosvitok Ukrainy”