A popular director throughout the post-Soviet space, Dmitry Anatolyevich Krymov, is also a very interesting conversationalist. He always has his own opinion on a variety of issues. And, of course, he is ready to talk endlessly about modern theatrical activities. Indeed, current trends in the confrontation between the traditional classical school of theatrical art and innovative ideas for the formation of basic concepts of productions are quite relevant today. According to Dmitry Anatolyevich, it is precisely the interest of the consumer that is the main measure for the theatrical life of the country.
One of the pillars of modern Russian culture today is, of course, the stage director Dmitry Krymov, whose genius is currently recognized by the whole theater community. He is a member of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia and the Union of Artists and has many thematic awards, including prizes at international festivals.
Biography of Dmitry Krymov
On October 10, 1954, the future theater director was born in a creative metropolitan family (father is the famous director Anatoly Efros, and his mother is theater critic and art critic Natalya Krymova). Due to the wave of anti-Semitism in our country during the birth and growing up of Dmitry at the family council, it was decided that the boy would take the name of his mother. And, as life itself showed, this decision was justified.
After graduating from a general educational institution, Krymov entered the Moscow Art Theater School (production department), following in the footsteps of his famous parent. In 1976, with a diploma of higher education, he went on to develop his professional career at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. And his first directorial projects were the productions of “Remembrance”, “Summer and Smoke”, “Living Corpse”, “Month in the Village” and others.
In the period from 1985 until the beginning of the "nineties, " when his father passed away, Dmitry mainly collaborated with the Taganka Theater. Here the theater-goers could enjoy his directorial talent in the performances: "The war has no female face", "One and a half square meters" and "Misanthrope". However, in addition to his native theater stages, the famous scriptwriter participated in the productions of theaters located in many cities of Russia (St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd and others), as well as in Japan and Bulgaria. And his colleagues in the creative workshop were such celebrities as Portnova, Tovstonogova, Arye and Shapiro.
After the death of his father, Dmitry Krymov decided to abandon the work of the stage designer and completely focused on the visual arts. It was painting and graphics that made him famous in France, England and Germany, where he exhibited at thematic exhibitions. And in Moscow, his artistic work was widely represented in the Russian Museum.
And now the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum contain among their exhibits the canvases of Dmitry Krymov. From 2002 to this day, he began to engage in teaching at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts. Also under his leadership are the Laboratory of the School of Dramatic Art and a course of theater artists.
It is interesting that the director considers the main posture of any theater project to be precisely the postulate of "misunderstanding by the viewer of the director’s intention." This will allow theatergoers to reflect and draw conclusions only after long inferences. That is, the success of modern theater lies precisely in the philosophical and psychological plane, which eliminates banal plots.
