Roman G. Viktyuk

Viktyuk, ROMAN GRIGORYEVICH (p. 1936), Russian director. Born October 28, 1936 in Lviv (Ukraine) in a family of actors, puppeteers. Upon completion in 1956, actor department GITIS (now RATI) worked at Lviv TYuZe them. Gorky, staged "All this is not so simple", "When will rise a month," "Factory Girl", "City Without Love," "Don Giovanni", discovering the craving for 'atypical' reading of plays. In 1971 worked as a director at the Russian Drama Theater of Lithuania (Vilnius). Of productions "Duck Hunt" and "Last summer, in Chuvimske" AV Vampilov, "Mary Stuart" Fr.Shillera, "Valentin and Valentina M. Roshchina," Love - a book of gold "," Meetings and partings "" Sold the Rain ", etc.. Always adhering to the author's text, staged performances of 'no cuts'.

Creativity Viktyuka difficult to take the leadership. His performance of "Music Lessons" LS Petrushevskaya, staged in 1978 in the Student Theater of Moscow State University, was banned. In 1975 in Theater. Mossovet Viktyuk put "Evening Light" AN Arbuzov, in 1977 - "Royal Hunt" LG Zorina, the Moscow Arts Theater - plays "The husband and wife will remove the room" Roschina (1976) and "Tattooed Rose T. Williams ( 1982). The play M. Butterfly (1990) on the play DG Juan opened 'Roman Theater Viktyuka', which brought together artists from different theaters, close to the director its outlook. Play by N. Kolyada "Slingshot" (artist B. Boyer), . which Viktyuk worked with the U.S., . 'Broadway' actors (in the Russian version of "Slingshot played SV Makovetskii), . in the interpretation of the director raised the issue of loneliness, . longing, . spiritual quest,
. For creativity Viktyuka characterized by aestheticism, high taste, coupled with the philosophy of mind ( "Maids" Jean Genet, "Lolita" by Edward Albee Vladimir Nabokov, both of 1992). His performances director determines its own task: search for harmony. One of his favorite techniques is the director's 'theater in theater', where actors perform before the audience the plot, violating the integrity of the scenic illusion, generous space for their own ostraneniya. In 1999 'Roman Theater Viktyuka' got its own building in DK Gorbunova name.

Viktyuk liaises with provincial theaters Russia, in 2001 produced the play "The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov in the Nizhny Novgorod Drama Theater. Gorky involving GS Demurova.