Dodin Lev Abramovich Theater. Lev Dodin about the construction of a new theater building

Lev Dodin was born on May 14, 1944 - Russian theater director, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and State Prizes of the Russian Federation (1992, 2002).

Private bussiness

Lev Abramovich Dodin (70 years old) born in Stalinsk (now Novokuznetsk), his parents were evacuated there. In 1945 everyone returned to Leningrad. Dodin studied at the Leningrad Youth Theater under the direction of M. G. Dubrovin, and immediately after school, in 1961, he entered the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography on the B.V. Zone course. After graduating from the institute in 1966, Dodin made his debut as a director with the television play “First Love” based on the story by I. S. Turgenev. He worked at the Leningrad Youth Theater, where he staged, in particular, A. N. Ostrovsky’s “Our People—Let’s Be Numbered” (1973) and several performances together with Zinovy Korogodsky. In 1975-1979 he worked at the Drama and Comedy Theater on Liteiny, staged the plays “The Minor” by D. I. Fonvizin, “Rosa Berndt” by G. Hauptmann. He staged performances on the Small Stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater - Oleg Borisov's one-man show "The Meek" based on the story by F. M. Dostoevsky (1981) and at the Moscow Art Theater - "The Golovlevs" based on the novel by M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1984), "The Meek" with Oleg Borisov (1985).

What is he famous for?

In 1975, Lev Dodin’s collaboration with the Maly Drama Theater began with the production of the play “The Robber” based on the play by K. Chapek. Since 1983 he has been the artistic director of the theater, and since 2002 the director. Actually, MDT and Dodin are already inseparable.

What you need to know

"For me there is no choice between modern art and non-modern, relevant and irrelevant. There is only the noun “art”, which does not need adjectives. If it is “art”, then it cannot be non-modern. Even if it was created many centuries ago, then is still modern. Any adjective placed next to a work of art, in my opinion, calls into question the value of this work of art. I would compare the term “contemporary art” with the popular term “sovereign democracy” today" - Lev Dodin.

Another direct speech from Dodin

Lev Abramovich Dodin

“I do what I do. I'm learning something. What this will lead to is unpredictable. As you know, the smell of a rose is described in a thousand ways. To find a new one, there are two options: either find out these thousand ways and find the thousand and first, or don’t know any of them and accidentally blurt out something hitherto unseen. I think the second trend is now greatly suppressing the first.”

“About mistakes: On the one hand, you always tell yourself that you have the right to not just one mistake, but a lot. Because if you don’t think like that, you won’t take a single step. And not necessarily the right steps, theater is a search, exploration, comprehension of something unknown. But when you realize that you have gone in the wrong direction, you still reproach yourself, torment yourself, and torment yourself. This is a story from which there is no way out, unfortunately.”

6 facts about Lev Dodin

In 1967, Lev Dodin began teaching acting and directing at LGITMiK, and trained more than one generation of actors and directors.

In 1992, Lev Dodin and the theater he led were invited to join the Union of European Theaters, and in September 1998, the Maly Drama Theater received the status of “Theater of Europe” - the third, after the Odeon Theater in Paris and the Piccolo Theater by Giorgio Strehler.

Lev Dodin's theatrical activities and his performances have been recognized with state and international prizes and awards. Including the State Prizes of Russia and the USSR, the Prize of the President of Russia, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III and IV degrees, the independent Triumph Prize, the K. S. Stanislavsky Prize, the national Golden Mask awards, the Laurence Olivier Prize, Italian Abbiati Prize for the best opera performance.

In 2000, he, so far the only Russian director, was awarded the highest European theater prize “Europe - Theater”.

Lev Dodin is a member of the General Assembly of the Union of European Theaters. In 2012 he was elected honorary President of the Union of European Theaters.

He is a permanent member of the jury of the professional literary competition "Northern Palmyra". Member of the jury "Golden Soffit" - theater award of St. Petersburg. Member of the editorial board of the almanac "Baltic Seasons".

"Life and fate of the Lev Dodin Theater"(video in three parts: open lesson of Lev Dodin's graduating class at the St. Petersburg Theater Academy, the program includes: Lev Dodin, Valery Galendeev, Oleg Dmitriev, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Danila Kozlovsky, Nikolay Pesochinsky, Sergey Vlasov, Sergey Kuryshev, Ksenia Rappoport, Alexey Devotchenko )

Productions by Lev Dodin at MDT

1974 - “The Robber” by K. Capek. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay

1977 - “The Rose Tattoo” by T. Williams. Design by M. Kataev, costumes by I. Gabay

1978 - “Appointment” by A. Volodin. Artist M. Kitaev

1979 - “Live and Remember” based on the novel by V. Rasputin. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay

1980 - “Home” based on the novel by F. Abramov. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay

1984 - “Bench” by A. Gelman. Directed by E. Arie. Artist D. A. Krymov (artistic director of the production)

1985 - “Brothers and Sisters” based on F. Abramov’s trilogy “Pryasliny”. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay

1986 - “Lord of the Flies” based on the novel by W. Golding. Artist D. L. Borovsky

1987 - “Towards the Sun” based on one-act plays by A. Volodin. Artist M. Kitaev

1987 - “Stars in the morning sky” A. Galin. Directed by T. Shestakova. Artist A. E. Poraj-Koshits (artistic director of the production)

1988 - “The Old Man” based on the novel by Yu. Trifonov. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay

1988 - “Returned Pages” (literary evening). Staged by Dodin. Directed by V. Galendeev. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits

1990 - “Gaudeamus” based on the story “Stroibat” by S. Kaledin. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits

1991 - “Demons” according to F. M. Dostoevsky. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay

1992 - “The Broken Jug” by G. von Kleist. Director V. Filshtinsky. Design by A. Orlov, costumes by O. Savarenskaya (artistic director of the production)

1994 - “Love under the Elms” by Yu. O’Neill. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay

1994 - “The Cherry Orchard” by A.P. Chekhov. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay

1994 - “Claustrophobia” based on modern Russian prose. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits

1997 - “A Play Without a Title” by A.P. Chekhov. Design by A. E. Porai-Koshits, costumes by I. Tsvetkova

1999 - “Chevengur” after A.P. Platonov. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits

2000 - “Molly Sweeney” by B. Friel. Artist D. L. Borovsky

2001 - “The Seagull” by A.P. Chekhov. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits

2002 - “Moscow Choir” by L. Petrushevskaya (artistic director of the production)

2003 - “Uncle Vanya” by A.P. Chekhov. Artist D. L. Borovsky

2006 — “King Lear” by W. Shakespeare. Artist D. L. Borovsky

2007 - “Life and Fate” based on V. S. Grossman, dramatization by L. Dodin.

2007 - “Warsaw Melody” by L. Zorin (artistic director of the production) Scenography idea by D. L. Borovsky; Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits.

2008 - “Long Journey into Night” by Yu. O’Neill

2008 — “Love’s Labour’s Lost” by W. Shakespeare

2009 - “Lord of the Flies” by W. Golding. Scenography and costumes D. L. Borovsky; implementation of scenography by A. E. Poraj-Koshits.

2009 - “A Beautiful Sunday for a Broken Heart” by T. Williams. Artist Alexander Borovsky.

2010 - “Three Sisters” by A.P. Chekhov.

2011 - “Portrait with Rain” based on the screenplay by A. Volodin. Artist A. Borovsky

2012 — “Cunning and Love” by F. Schiller. Artist A. Borovsky

2014 — “Enemy of the People” by G. Ibsen

2014 — “The Cherry Orchard” by A. P. Chekhov

Born in 1924 in the Moscow German Settlement. The five-year-old's parents were taken away from him - his father Zalman Dodin, a metallurgist and mathematician, and his mother Stasia Fanny van Menck Dodina, a field surgeon in five wars of the early twentieth century (1904-1922).
He was kept in a prison orphanage for 7 years. Having been released, he lived for 4 years with his great-grandmother Anna Rosa Haase, a descendant of Petrov General Chambers. By the time he was arrested, he graduated from school. Following the pastoral of childhood in the Mother See - 14 years of hard labor exoticism of the Samara Volga region, the island Arctic, Chukotka, eastern Kolyma, the lower Amur region, the northern Baikal region...
In exile, the reward is peace - the happiness of a lonely life with a wolf in the Ishimbinsky winter hut of the Angara-Tunguska Highlands. As a caisson worker, he participated in the laying of communication lines and transport tunnels of the new imperial capital near Zhiguli. In the Arctic, on Bunge Land - in making settling tanks for submarines. To the east - in the construction of mine shafts, supports for railway crossings, in the installation of foundations and underground structures... Everywhere - in permafrost surveys - absorbing the beginnings of a future profession.
The acquired knowledge eventually resulted in the materials of a diploma (1957), dissertations (1963 and 1969), the first monograph (1965), and the foundations of discoveries on the Deep Thermodynamics of Rock Masses (1971 and 1974). Without completing his deadline, he remained to work in the Altai Mountains and graduated in absentia from the Moscow Polytechnic Institute and the graduate school of the USSR State Construction Committee. Later, at his main research institute, he led the Laboratory of Construction in the Far North for 30 years (1958-1988) and the Special Course at the Military Engineering Academies (1961-1982), led special. research on Novaya Zemlya. At the same time he was an expert at the Soviet-American Commission on Construction in Cold Climate Regions; member of the Higher Attestation Commission; correspondent for the Commission under the Presidents of the USSR (Russia) and the USA on prisoners of war and missing in action; member of the Geographical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Advisor to the Commission (I.P. Aleksakhin) for Rehabilitation under the CPSU Central Committee... Author of books and scientific discoveries in the field of geocryology, physics of the Earth.
Having replaced his parents in their many years of service to people, while still in camp he helped fellow prisoners (mainly foreigners - tragically helpless, doomed people). Returning to Moscow, settling down and starting cooperation with the Higher Attestation Commission, in development of the tasks of the “Salvation” society organized by his parents (1918), he organized unrestricted, not prohibited, not persecuted systems of food, medical and legal support for prisoners, doctors, teachers and clergy (saviors) . In the fall of 1991, he was one of the initiators of the creation in Tokyo of the “Independent Association of Volunteers to Help Victims of Natural and Man-made Disasters.”
Since 1991 he has lived in Israel.
(From the author)

Jewish TV box. Collection of articles and notes. Compiled by Anatoly Glazunov (Blockader) and others.

Director Lev Abramovich Dodin - Jewish

Dodin is a theater director - a theater zombie. But it is possible and desirable to talk a little about him in this collection. He also staged television plays. And he spoke publicly against Russian nationalism, he claims that Russian nationalism is a “cancerous tumor” in the body of Russia, and even argued that “And in our country there was a Holocaust.” By Holocaust he understands only “the extermination of poor Jews”...

Lev Abramovich Dodin was born in 1944 in Stalinsk (now Novokuznetsk). The family fled from the Germans from Leningrad to Southwestern Siberia. His father Abram worked on a geological expedition. “My father was a very eminent scientist, a geologist,” Dodin wrote. Mother was a pediatrician. When the blockade of Leningrad was broken and the Germans were driven back from the city, the Dodin family naturally returned to Leningrad.
By nationality - Jews. There is no Russian Lev Abramovich. His name is in the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia. His last name is highlighted in blue on some Jewish sites (“Know ours!”). They write about him with respect and a lot on Jewish websites. For example, on the site jewish.ru.

From childhood he studied at the Leningrad Theater of Youth Creativity under the direction of the Jewish artist Matvey Dubrovin. After school, he entered the Leningrad Theater Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography in the class of director and teacher Zhidovin Boris Vulfovich Zon.
In 1966 he graduated from the institute. He made his debut as a director with the teleplay “First Love” based on Turgenev’s story. He worked in different theaters. In 1974 he began collaborating with the Maly Drama Theater. Since 1983, Dodin has been the artistic director of this theater; since 2002, Dodin has also been the director of this theater. The complete owner of this theater. The theater is now more often called the “Dodin Theater”.

In September 1998, the Dodin Theater received the status of the Theater of Europe - the third after the Odeon Theater in Paris and the Piccolo Theater in Milan. Lev Dodin is now a member of the General Assembly of the Union of European Theaters. In 2012, Dodin was elected honorary President of the Union of European Theaters.
The new government appreciates him. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1993), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1986) and State Prizes of the Russian Federation (1992, 2002). He received the Order: “For Services to the Fatherland”, III and IV degrees. He is an Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. Honorary Doctor of the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University. Head of the Department of Directing at the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts, professor.

In 2000, Dodin, so far the only Russian director, was awarded the highest European theater prize “Europe - Theater”. He received many more Western awards.

In 1967, the Jewish Dodin began teaching acting and directing at LGITMiK. They write about him: “He trained more than one generation of actors and directors.” That’s why, even among Russian artists, Russianness is not visible at all and there are many who are expected.

Family.

He was married to actress Natalya Tenyakova. Then he married People’s Artist of Russia Tatyana Shestakova, and Natalya Tenyakova became the wife of Sergei Yursky. It was reported in the news that the leading actress of the theater Tatyana Shestakova, the wife of Lev Dodin in Paris in 2012 at the end of December last year, jumped out of a second floor window. She survived with broken arms and legs. Brother - Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, corresponding member. RAS David Dodin. Niece - Deputy Artistic Director of the Academic Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe - Dina Dodina.

*****
Dodin: Russian nationalism is a cancer

He is a typical Jew. He is angrily against nationalism, but does not give a scientific or more or less clear answer to the question: what is nationalism. He prefers to say “nationalism”, but means, first of all, “Russian nationalism”. For him, Russian nationalism is anti-Semitism.

But Russian nationalism means realizing one’s belonging to one’s own - Russian - people. Perceive yourself as part of your own - Russian - people. Love the Russian people. Serve the interests of your own - Russian - people. Work for its survival and development... And for Dodin, Russian nationalism is a “cancer.” It must be irradiated, treated with chemicals and cut out. He is only embarrassed to say clearly that Russian nationalists should be driven out of work, hounded, tried and sent to labor camps.
And he pretends or does not see what Jewish nationalism and chauvinism are, pretends that he does not see or does not see what Jewish fascism is.

And of course, Lev Abramovich loves to talk about the persecution of the Jews. He wants to drive this topic deeper into the consciousness of the Russian people and paralyze the Russians. He staged the play “Life and Fate” based on the novel “Life and Fate” by the Jewish writer Vasily Grossman. The CPSU did not allow this novel to be published in 1960. KGB officers confiscated the typewritten copies. But Grossman’s friends kept the handwritten copy, and twenty years later, in 1980, the novel was published in the West. And in 1988 it was published in Russia. In terms of thickness, it is like Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace.” And many Jews called and still call this novel “War and Peace of the 20th Century,” “the main novel of the Soviet era”... But what it has in common with Leo Tolstoy’s novel is only in the thickness of the novel. It takes a lot of will to read this novel. There, naturally, there is a lot about the suffering of “poor Jews” from Hitler and Stalin. The Jews write that this novel is about “the cancer of civilization” - about anti-Semitism. But neither Hitler nor Stalin were anti-Semites. They treated the Semites-Arabs normally. They had only a negative attitude towards the expansion of the Jewish people. It is still necessary to use terms correctly, not like Jews, not like Dodin. It is possible (with great stretch) to use the terms “Judeophobia” and “Jew-phobia.”

“In the finale of Dodin’s play, to the music of a Jewish brass concert, stripped naked, naked Jews, men and women, mostly young, on the orders of the camp capos, walk into the ovens of Auschwitz.” The foundation of Jewish billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov helped Dodin stage this performance. How this Jew earned his billions during the collapse of the USSR, during the terrible disasters of the Russian people, of course, does not interest Lev Abramovich Dodin. He is not going to stage a play about this.

Lev Dodin:“In Russia they always did not want to know their history or distorted it for fear of discovering something bad. In Germany, for example, not a year goes by without serious research on the topic of Hitler's time; films and performances are constantly being released. Although there this period was shorter, and our system existed for almost a century. Maybe that’s why we don’t want to deal with it, because we are all children of this system? This, in my opinion, is its most terrible effect, a sign that she is alive. Until we understand that not only Stalin and the party are responsible for this, but also everyone who allowed such power to exist, we continue to be in the past.”

According to Dodin, to know the history of Russia is to know, first of all, Stalin’s violence against the Jews. But Dodin does not advise knowing the history of the expansion of the Jewish people in Russia, knowing about the troubles that the Jews brought to Russia and the Russian people. According to Dodin, there was no violence of the Jews against the Russian people.

In 2013, Lev Abramovich organized the festival “We and They = Us” at the Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe, which was conceived and took place as a social, civil event above all. Of course, first of all against “anti-Semitism”. About Russian violence. Over the course of three days, eight sketches were presented based on texts by authors from Poland, Finland, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Hungary, and Russia, touching on the problem of nationalism as a type of intolerance. Each viewer bought a single ticket for all festival events, including the final discussion of what they saw - and in total spent 20 hours in the theater over the weekend. The hall was sold out, this is natural; there are many opponents of the revival of the Russian people, there are many different kinds of zombies in Russia. Journalists and text authors from six countries were invited to the festival.
http://calendar.fontanka.ru/articles/1139/

The festival was full of Russophobia. For example, in the sketch “Woman and War”, according to the memoirs of the Hungarian psychologist Alan Polz, Russian liberating soldiers raped local women - forty people in a row. In “Purification” by the young Finnish author Sofia Oksanen, the consequences of the forced Sovietization of Estonia were presented (acts of direct violence, not only against women, but also against children)... Not without words about the persecution of the Jews. Not a single word about the humiliation and discrimination of Russians. At the final discussion, Lev Abramovich Dodin once again compared nationalism in society with cancer cells in the human body: “It is a great misconception to believe that nationalism can exist calmly and intelligently in society. This is the same as saying that cancer cells are present in the body in civilized numbers. Our festival stories are about late, already incurable, stages of cancer.”

It is clear that there is not a word about the Jewish cancer in Russia and Western Europe.

On the sidelines over a cup of tea they talked with indignation at the victories of the French National Front... About the Russian law that banned the propaganda of pederasty among teenagers in Russia...

That is, it was a completely obscurantist festival against the revival of Russia and the Russian people and against the liberation of the peoples of all Europe from liberals, Jews and homosexuals.

Dodin; “More and more people are insisting on the return of point five, including in the government.” According to Dodin, this is terrible.

Yes, more and more Russian people (and not only Russians) do not yet demand, but want, the nationality column abolished by the Jews and Judaizers under Yeltsin, during the Second Great Leap of the Jews into Power after 1991, to be restored in passports and application forms. Opinion The authorities did not ask the oppressed Russian people then. But little by little, more and more Russians are realizing that there is an important historical task, a minimum program of the Russian people - to force the authorities to adopt the Law on National Equality. In particular, the Law on restoring the clause on nationality in passports and questionnaires, on national proportions in government bodies, in the media, especially in the TV box, in the Education System... We must put an end to Jewish censorship. We must put an end to discrimination against Russians in TV Box. It is necessary that the share of each people in the TV box corresponds to the share of this people in the population of Russia. This means no less than 80% for Russians and 0.16% for Jews... This means, for example, that for every 500 TV presenters, if in fairness, if in the interests of the security of Russia, there should be only one Jew. For every 500 directors there is only one Jew... We must put an end to the zombification of the Russian people by Jews... Jews should not have privileges in Russia... There should be no discrimination against the Russian people in Russia... Russians should not live under the Jews... We must put an end to disguised, cunning Jewish chauvinism and fascism...

I repeat this in this collection, but repetition here is the mother of learning...

Born on May 14, 1944 in the city of Stalinsk (now Novokuznetsk), Kemerovo region, in evacuation.

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (06/27/1986).
People's Artist of Russia (10/26/1993).

Immediately after school, he entered the Leningrad Theater Institute, in the class of the outstanding St. Petersburg theater teacher Boris Vulfovich Zon. The first production was in 1966 the teleplay “First Love” based on Turgenev’s story.
In 1967, he began teaching acting and directing at LGITMiK, trained more than one generation of actors and directors, professor, and headed the directing department at SPGATI.
He worked at the Leningrad Youth Theater, where he staged, in particular, “Our People - We Will Be Numbered” by A. N. Ostrovsky (1973) and several performances together with Zinovy Korogodsky.
In 1975-1979 he worked at the Leningrad Regional Drama and Comedy Theater (now the Liteiny Theater).
In 1975, his collaboration with the Leningrad MDT began.
Since 1983 - artistic director of the Academic Maly Drama Theater, and since 2002 - director.
In 1992, Lev Dodin and the theater he led were invited to join the Union of European Theaters, and in September 1998, the Maly Drama Theater received the status of “Theater of Europe” - the third, after the Odeon Theater in Paris and the Piccolo Theater by Giorgio Strehler.

Lev Dodin's performances were performed in 27 countries, including the USA, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy, Finland, Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden, Brazil, Israel, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Finland, Poland , Romania, Norway, Portugal, Canada, Holland, Austria, Yugoslavia, New Zealand, Belgium, Hungary. In the fall of 1999, a festival of performances by Dodin was held in Italy.
The play "Gaudeamus" was awarded the "UBU" prize in Italy, the Laurence Olivier certificate in England, and the prize for the best performance in a foreign language in France. After a tour in England in 1988, the Maly Drama Theater (for the play “Stars in the Morning Sky”) was awarded the Laurence Olivier Prize.

Honorary Doctor of St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise (2006).
Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Honorary President of the Union of European Theaters (2012).

Brother - Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences David Dodin (born 1935).
He was married to actress Natalya Tenyakova.
His wife is People's Artist of Russia Tatyana Shestakova.

theatrical works

Productions (in brackets - production designers)

Leningrad Youth Theater
1967 - “After the execution, I ask...” V. Long. Production by Z. Korogodsky, director L. Dodin (G. Berman)
1968 - “Our Circus” Composition and production by Z. Korogodsky, L. Dodin, V. M. Filshtinsky (Z. Arshakuni)
1968 - “The Boss” based on the stories of M. Gorky “The Boss” and “Konovalov”. Production by Z. Korogodsky, director L. Dodin (A.E. Poraj-Koshits)
1968 - “Model 18-68” by B. Goller. Production by Z. Korogodsky, director L. Dodin (N. Ivanova)
1969 - “Ours, only ours...” Composition and production by Z. Korogodsky, Dodin, V. Filshtinsky (M. Azizyan)
1970 - “Tales of Chukovsky” (“Our Chukovsky”). Composition and production by Z. Korogodsky, Dodin, V. Filyshtinsky (Z. Arshakuni, N. Polyakova, A. E. Poraj-Koshits, V. Solovyov, under the direction of N. Ivanova)
1970 - “The Death of the Squadron” by A. Korneychuk. Production by Z. Korogodsky, director L. Dodin (V. Dorrer)
1971 - “Open Lesson”. Composition and production by Z. Korogodsky, L. Dodin, V. Filshtinsky (A. E. Poraj-Koshits)
1971 - “What would you choose?..” A. Kurgatnikova (M. Smirnov)
1973 - “Mess-Mend” by V. Menshov based on the novel by M. Shaginyan. Staged by Z. Korogodsky, directed by L. Dodin (M. Kitaev)
1973 - “Our people - we will be numbered” by A. Ostrovsky (E. Kochergin)

Maly Drama Theater
1974 - “The Robber” by K. Capek (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)
1977 - “Tattooed Rose” by T. Williams (M. Kataev, costumes by I. Gabay)
1978 - “Assignment” by A. Volodin (M. Kitaev)
1979 - “Live and Remember” based on the novel by V. Rasputin (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)
1980 - “Home” based on the novel by F. Abramov (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)
1984 - “The Bench” by A. Gelman (production director). Director E. Arie (D. A. Krymov)
1985 - “Brothers and Sisters” based on F. Abramov’s trilogy “Pryasliny” (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)
1986 - “Lord of the Flies” based on the novel by W. Golding (D. L. Borovsky)
1987 - “Towards the Sun” based on one-act plays by A. Volodin (M. Kitaev)
1987 - “Stars in the morning sky” A. Galina (production director). Director T. Shestakova (A. E. Porai-Koshits)
1988 - “The Old Man” based on the novel by Yu. Trifonov (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)
1988 - “Returned Pages” (literary evening). Staged by Dodin. Director V. Galendeev (A. E. Porai-Koshits)
1990 - “Gaudeamus” based on the story “Stroibat” by S. Kaledin (A. E. Porai-Koshits)
1991 - “Demons” after F. M. Dostoevsky (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)
1992 - “The Broken Jug” by G. von Kleist (production director). Director V. Filshtinsky (A. Orlov, costumes O. Savarenskaya)
1994 - “Love under the Elms” by Y. O’Neill (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)
1994 - “The Cherry Orchard” by A. P. Chekhov (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)
1994 - “Claustrophobia” based on modern Russian prose (A. E. Porai-Koshits)
1997 - “A Play Without a Title” by A. P. Chekhov (A. E. Porai-Koshits, costumes by I. Tsvetkova)
1999 - “Chevengur” after A. P. Platonov (A. E. Porai-Koshits, costumes by I. Tsvetkova)
2000 - “Molly Sweeney” by B. Friel (D. L. Borovsky, costumes by I. Tsvetkova)
2001 - “The Seagull” by A. P. Chekhov (A. E. Porai-Koshits, costumes by H. Obolenskaya)
2002 - “Moscow Choir” by L. Petrushevskaya (production director) (A. Porai-Koshits, costumes by I. Tsvetkova)
2003 - “Uncle Vanya” by A. P. Chekhov (D. L. Borovsky)
2006 - “King Lear” by W. Shakespeare (D. L. Borovsky)
2007 - “Life and Fate” based on V. S. Grossman, dramatization by L. Dodin (A. E. Porai-Koshits)
2007 - “Warsaw Melody” by L. Zorin (production artistic director) (Scenography idea by D. L. Borovsky; Design by A. E. Porai-Koshits)
2008 - “Long Journey into the Night” by Y. O’Neill (A. Borovsky)
2008 - “Love’s Labour’s Lost” by W. Shakespeare (A. Borovsky)
2009 - “Lord of the Flies” by W. Golding (set design and costumes by D. L. Borovsky; set design by A. E. Porai-Koshits)
2009 - “A Beautiful Sunday for a Broken Heart” by T. Williams (Alexander Borovsky)
2010 - “Three Sisters” by A. P. Chekhov (A. Borovsky)
2011 - “Portrait with Rain” based on the film script by A. Volodin (A. Borovsky)
2012 - “Cunning and Love” by F. Schiller (A. Borovsky)
2013 - “Enemy of the People” by G. Ibsen (A. Borovsky)
2013 - “He’s in Argentina” by L. Petrushevskaya (production director). Directed by T. Shestakova (A. Borovsky)

Leningrad Regional Drama and Comedy Theater
1975 - “Rose Bernd” by G. Hauptmann (L. Mikhailov)
1977 - “The Minor” by D. Fonvizin (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)

Moscow Art Theater named after. M. Gorky
1984 - “Gentlemen Golovlevs” after M. E. Saltykova-Shchedrin (design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)
1985 - “The Meek” after F. M. Dostoevsky (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)

Leningrad Comedy Theater
1980 - “Continuation of Don Juan” by E. Radzinsky (M. Kitaev, costumes by O. Savarenskaya)

Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater named after. M. Gorky
1981 - “The Meek” after F. M. Dostoevsky (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay)

Educational theater LGITMiK
1978 - “Brothers and Sisters” based on F. Abramov’s trilogy “Pryasliny”. Staged by A. Katsman and L. Dodin (N. Bilibin)
1979 - “Love’s Labour’s Lost” by W. Shakespeare. Staged by A. Katsman and L. Dodin (N. Bilibin)
1979 - “If only, if...” Staged by A. Katsman and L. Dodin
1983 - “The Brothers Karamazov” based on the novel by F. Dostoevsky. Staged by A. Katsman, L. Dodin and A. Andreev (N. Bilibin)
1983 - “Oh, these stars!” Staged by A. Katsman, L. Dodin and A. Andreev

Productions abroad
1986 - “Bankrupt” (“Our own people - we will be numbered!”) by A. N. Ostrovsky (E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay) - National Theater, Helsinki, Finland
1995 - “Electra” by R. Strauss. Conductor C. Abbado (D. L. Borovsky) - Salzburg Easter Festival
1996 - “Electra” by R. Strauss. Conductor C. Abbado (D. L. Borovsky) - Teatro Comunale, Florence Musical May
1998 - “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” by D. D. Shostakovich. Conductor S. Bychkov (D. L. Borovsky) - Teatro Communale, Florence Musical May
1998 - “The Queen of Spades” by P. I. Tchaikovsky. Conductor S. Bychkov (D. L. Borovsky) - Netherlands Opera (Stopera), Amsterdam
1999 - “The Queen of Spades” by P. Tchaikovsky. Conductor V. Yurovsky (D. Borovsky) - National Paris Opera
1999 - “Mazepa” P.I. Tchaikovsky. Conductor M. Rostropovich (D. Borovsky) - La Scala Theater
2003 - “Demon” by A. Rubinstein. Conductor V. Gergiev (D. Borovsky, costume designer H. Obolenskaya) - Paris, Chatelet Theater
2003 - “Othello” by G. Verdi. Conductor Z. Meta (D. Borovsky) - Florence, Teatro Comunale
2003 - “Salome” by R. Strauss. Conductor James Conlon (David Borovsky) - Paris, Opéra de Bastille
2005 - “The Queen of Spades” by P. Tchaikovsky. Conductor G. Rozhdestvensky (D. Borovsky) - National Paris Opera
2012 - “The Queen of Spades” by P. Tchaikovsky. Conductor D. Yurovsky (D. Borovsky) - National Paris Opera

prizes and awards

USSR State Prize (1986) - for the performances “Home” and “Brothers and Sisters” based on the works of F. A. Abramov at the MDT.
State Prize of the Russian Federation (1992) - for the play “We are given young years for fun” based on S. Kaledin’s story “Stroibat” at the MDT.
State Prize of the Russian Federation (2002) - for the performance of the AMDT-Theater of Europe “Moscow Choir”.
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (March 24, 2009).
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (May 9, 2004).
Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art (2000).
Independent Russian award in the field of art "Triumph" (1992).
Prize of French Theater and Music Critics (1992).
Regional English Theater Award (1992).
Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (France, 1994).
Prize of the K.S. Foundation Stanislavsky “For outstanding achievements in pedagogy” (1996), “For contribution to the development of the Russian theater” (2008).
Golden Soffit Award (1996, 2007, 2008, 2011).
National Theater Award "Golden Mask" (1997, 1999, 2004).
The highest European theater award “Europe for the Theater” (2000).
Georgy Tovstonogov Prize "for outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art" (2002).
Independent Moscow theater award "The Seagull" (2003).
Award of the National Association of Theater Critics of Italy for the 2003/2004 season.
Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg in the field of culture, literature and architecture (2004).
Awarded the medal of the Hungarian government "For contribution to the development of Hungarian culture" (2005).
International award for the development and strengthening of humanitarian ties in the countries of the Baltic region “Baltic Star” (2007).
Award of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia “Person of the Year” (2007).
"Breakthrough" Award in the "Master" category (2011).
Prize named after Andrey Tolubeev in the nomination “For the preservation and development of the methodology of live theater” (2011).
Platonov Prize in the field of literature and art "For preserving the traditions of Russian repertory theater and outstanding productions of recent years" (2012).
St. Petersburg Theater Award "Golden Sofit" in the category "Best Director" (2013).
Russian National Acting Award named after Andrei Mironov “Figaro” in the nomination “For service to the Russian repertory theater” (2013).
Badge of honor "For services to St. Petersburg" (2013).
Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize "For outstanding contribution to world theater art" (2013).

Lev Abramovich Dodin(born May 14, 1944, Stalinsk) - Soviet and Russian theater director, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1993), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1986) and State Prizes of the Russian Federation (1992, 2002, 2015).

Biography

Lev Dodin was born in Stalinsk (now Novokuznetsk), where his parents were evacuated. In 1945, the family returned to Leningrad. Passionate about theater since childhood, Lev Dodin, together with classmate Sergei Solovyov, studied at the Theater of Youth Creativity (TYUT) at the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers under the direction of Matvey Dubrovin. Immediately after school, in 1961, he entered the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography on the B.V. Zone course. Olga Antonova, Viktor Kostetsky, Leonid Mozgovoy, Sergei Nadporozhsky, Natalya Tenyakova, Vladimir Tykke studied with him in the acting group here. But L. A. Dodin completed his studies a year later than his classmates in the directing department at the Zone workshop.

After graduating from the institute in 1966, Dodin made his debut as a director with the teleplay “First Love” based on the story by I. S. Turgenev. He worked at the Leningrad Youth Theater, where he staged, in particular, “Our People - We Will Be Numbered” by A. N. Ostrovsky (1973) and several performances together with Zinovy Korogodsky.

In 1967, Lev Dodin began teaching acting and directing at LGITMiK, and trained more than one generation of actors and directors.

In 1975-1979 he worked at the Drama and Comedy Theater on Liteiny, staged the plays “The Minor” by D. I. Fonvizin, “Rosa Berndt” by G. Hauptmann and others.

He staged performances on the Small Stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater - Oleg Borisov's one-man show "The Meek" based on the story by F. M. Dostoevsky (1981) and at the Moscow Art Theater - "The Golovlevs" based on the novel by M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1984), "The Meek" with Oleg Borisov (1985).

In 1992, Lev Dodin and the theater he led were invited to join the Union of European Theaters, and in September 1998, the Maly Drama Theater received the status of “Theater of Europe” - the third, after the Odeon Theater in Paris and the Piccolo Theater by Giorgio Strehler.

Family

His wife is People's Artist of Russia Tatyana Shestakova.
Brother - Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, corresponding member. RAS David Dodin.
The niece is the deputy artistic director of the Academic Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe Dina Dodin.

He was married to actress Natalya Tenyakova.

Productions

1968 - “Our Circus” Composition and production by Z. Korogodsky, L. Dodin, V. M. Filshtinsky. Artist Z. Arshakuni
1969 - “Ours, only ours...”. Composition and production by Z. Korogodsky, Dodin, V. Filshtinsky. Artist M. Azizyan
1970 - “Tales of Chukovsky” (“Our Chukovsky”). Composition and production by Z. Korogodsky, Dodin, V. Filyshtinsky. Artists Z. Arshakuni, N. Polyakova, A. E. Poraj-Koshits, V. Solovyova (under the direction of N. Ivanova)
1971 - “Open Lesson”. Composition and production by Z. Korogodsky, Dodin, V. Filshtinsky. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits
1971 - “What would you choose?..” A. Kurgatnikova. Artist M. Smirnov

1974 - “The Robber” by K. Capek. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay
1977 - “The Rose Tattoo” by T. Williams. Design by M. Kataev, costumes by I. Gabay
1978 - “Appointment” by A. Volodin. Artist M. Kitaev
1979 - “Live and Remember” based on the story by V. Rasputin. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay
1980 - “Home” based on the novel by F. Abramov. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay
1984 - “Bench” by A. Gelman. Directed by E. Arie. Artist D. A. Krymov (artistic director of the production)
1985 - “Brothers and Sisters” based on F. Abramov’s trilogy “Pryasliny”. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay
1986 - “Lord of the Flies” based on the novel by W. Golding. Artist D. L. Borovsky
1987 - “Towards the Sun” based on one-act plays by A. Volodin. Artist M. Kitaev
1987 - “Stars in the morning sky” A. Galin. Directed by T. Shestakova. Artist A. E. Poraj-Koshits (artistic director of the production)
1988 - “The Old Man” based on the novel by Yu. Trifonov. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay
1988 - “Returned Pages” (literary evening). Staged by Dodin. Directed by V. Galendeev. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits
1990 - “Gaudeamus” based on the story “Stroibat” by S. Kaledin. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits
1991 - “Demons” according to F. M. Dostoevsky. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay
1992 - “The Broken Jug” by G. von Kleist. Director V. Filshtinsky. Design by A. Orlov, costumes by O. Savarenskaya (artistic director of the production)
1994 - “Love under the Elms” by Yu. O’Neill. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay
1994 - “The Cherry Orchard” by A.P. Chekhov. Design by E. Kochergin, costumes by I. Gabay
1994 - “Claustrophobia” based on modern Russian prose. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits
1997 - “A Play Without a Title” by A.P. Chekhov. Design by A. E. Porai-Koshits, costumes by I. Tsvetkova
1999 - “Chevengur” after A.P. Platonov. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits
2000 - “Molly Sweeney” by B. Friel. Artist D. L. Borovsky
2001 - “The Seagull” by A.P. Chekhov. Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits
2002 - “Moscow Choir” by L. Petrushevskaya (artistic director of the production
2003 - “Uncle Vanya” by A.P. Chekhov. Artist D. L. Borovsky
2006 - “King Lear” by W. Shakespeare. Artist D. L. Borovsky
2007 - “Life and Fate” based on V. S. Grossman, staged by L. Dodin.
2007 - “Warsaw Melody” by L. Zorin (artistic director of the production) Scenography idea by D. L. Borovsky; Artist A. E. Porai-Koshits.
2008 - “Long Journey Into Night” by Yu. O’Neill
2008 - “Love’s Labour’s Lost” by W. Shakespeare
2009 - “Lord of the Flies” by W. Golding. Scenography and costumes D. L. Borovsky; implementation of scenography by A. E. Poraj-Koshits.
2009 - “A Beautiful Sunday for a Broken Heart” by T. Williams. Artist Alexander Borovsky.
2010 - “Three Sisters” by A.P. Chekhov.
2011 - “Portrait with Rain” based on the film script by A. Volodin. Artist A. Borovsky
2012 - “Cunning and Love” by F. Schiller. Artist A. Borovsky
2014 - “Enemy of the People” by G. Ibsen
2014 - “The Cherry Orchard” by A. P. Chekhov