It is hard to imagine that it is not: dense, beautiful, full of strength and indefatigable, seething energy. In one of the many television interviews, he was shown an unpresentable appearance. The image does not correspond to fame and regalia, a complete lack of officialdom in clothes. He answered, as usual, charmingly simple: a tie fettered, more - strangled.
Belyakovich Valery Romanovich - a man-volcano. You cannot tame the element with a tie, a jacket, it does not fit into the framework of a trivial male uniform, but you will find it impossible to miss it on the street, among human crowds, too unusual. Now you will not meet. It is difficult and painful to replace the present tense of the verb āisā with āwasā.
From an interview with Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina
The actress says she watched the play āStrokes to the portraitā and was shocked. She saw the world of Vasily Shukshin: genuine, lively and deep, assembled and recreated bit by bit on the basis of stories, letters of the artist. A minimum of scenery: music and light, but the power is incredible. Nobody has succeeded in this yet, the Peopleās Artist of the RSFR summarizes and adds: daughter, daughterās friends, now she too, is considered an honor to get into such a theater.
What is the main thing in the actor?
The main thing for the lyceum is eyes, you canāt replace them with their splendor of scenery and costumes, the actor should be able to keep the audience in suspense, Valery Belyakovich believed. He knew how to make those eyes sparkle with passion. Victor Avilov, Mikhail Trykov, Nadezhda Badakova, Gennady Kolobov, Sergey Belyakovich (brother) - ordinary guys and girls from the working district of Moscow Vostryakovo, became the leading actors of the Theater in the South-West.
It all started in the library
He worked as the head of the library in his native area, rehearsed right there. Spectators are the guys of the working outskirts: lovers of a drink and a bully.
Twice a week, Valery Belyakovich went to the Palace of Pioneers, his second home, led a children's group. He himself went to the Palace to study acting from the age of seven. He staged the performance āNightingaleā by Andersen with schoolchildren. Then the children's and library groups formed the backbone of the Theater in the Southwest.
Small rooms in the fate of Valery Belyakovich
Four lived in a one-room apartment: father, mother, he and brother. Enjoyed the bathroom, amenities. They, the children, were delighted with the locomotive, which delivered materials to the plant. He puffed under the windows, rattled, hummed. Below the plant lived its own life, the family was part of it.
The first performances were shown in a library room in 6 square meters. m, 30 people crammed, monkeys hung on window sills.
The room for the theater, allocated to young enthusiasts, by and large, was not such - the base had to be built with its own hands, and later upset. No money, from the nearest construction sites they "took away" everything in a row: bricks, boards, reinforcement. The Avilov truck (the future famous actor worked as a chauffeur) carefully delivered to the place, that night they let the stolen goods into business, they built it. The year of birth of the amateur theater studio is 1977.
Is family a bulwark of dreams?
Where and how the theater came into his life, he himself could not explain. Parents are simple people. My father has three classes of the Polish school, and his mother from the "universities" has the position of chairman of a collective farm, who fell to her at 17. Temperament unbridled, energy over the edge, songs, jokes. Before school, he lived with his grandmother in the village of Gorodetsky Vyselki in the Ryazanshchina. There was no electricity; in winter, newborn lambs huddled next to people in the hut, but nearby - Yesenin places, land that gives birth to nuggets. Parents were suspicious of the theater, did not trust the profession: pampering and nothing more.
For the āgolden weddingā, children, Sergey and Valery, played the play āBrothersā for their lovely old people on the stage of their native Theater in the South-West.
Valery Belyakovich, director, biography facts
- 1964 TUM (Theater of Young Muscovites), plays in it until 1969. After school - an unsuccessful attempt to enter the theater school. Temporarily changes direction: goes to vocational school.
- 1969-1971 - Military service. Next - entrance exams to the theatrical Moscow. Failure everywhere.
- 1971 Valery Belyakovich was admitted to the studio of the experimental theater of G. I. Yudenich, enters the pedagogical profession in the specialty āRussian language and literatureā.
- 1973 GITIS, director-acting course of A. Goncharov. Not having studied for a year, he threw: a conflict with the leader.
- 1976-1981 Valery Romanovich Belyakovich again enrolled in GITIS. Studying with B. And Ravensky.
Native Theater in the Southwest
Valery Belyakovich - a director who made himself, actors and a troupe. The basement theater on the outskirts has become a legend. In 1985, he was awarded the title of "people." Here no one shunned any work: they washed, sewed, put out the light, and guarded. The master himself could have replaced the controller, looked into the eyes of the viewer: with what came, what do you think? Itās necessary, it means itās necessary: āāhe took a rag and a broom, snobbery was not his thing. Mother came to Moscow, got a job as a janitor, and he is not shy: why not? Not the walls are important - people. He sculpted them from practically nothing. Victor Avilov - a hooligan guy on the outskirts of the capital, later his name and the theater of Valery Belyakovich were perceived as a whole and inextricable. The role of Hamlet, brilliantly played by him at the Edinburgh Theater Festival, captivated the public. The English press recognized the production as the best among foreign works.
Wives, children, love
He spoke of love with inspiration: this is when the actor and the director understand each other not in words, in gestures, but in silence, merge into a single spiritual body. So it was with Avilov, brother Sergey. If journalists posed the question directly: "Valery Belyakovich, what does personal life mean to you?" - did not leave the answer.
Two sons. The first - called the army. He was born during military service. Our hero played Santa Claus, the girl played the Snow Maiden: the result is logical and natural. Further, a good fairy tale turns into a drama. The snow maiden gave birth and passed the child to an orphanage. He first saw his son already 16 years old, since then the connection has not been broken. The second is Roman, everything is in order with him: the director of television, there is a family.
Wife - Valentina Shevchenko. He knew her from childhood, did not live together for long, the relationship was always maintained. He considered himself a "lone wolf", too hectic life. Sighs, bouquets - not for him.
Life - work, creativity and work again
The boiling energy is crowded on the outskirts of Moscow. Valery Romanovich Belyakovich staged performances at the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky, MTYUZ, Novaya Opera, works a lot in provincial theaters: Penza, Belgorod, Nizhny Novgorod. He gives lectures to students of GITIS, in Russia, abroad.
25 years of hard work in Japan. The productions of Romeo and Juliet, Moliere in Tokyo and the Innkeeper in Chicago. In the States and the country of the Rising Sun, he stayed many times and for a long time.
Valery Belyakovich (director) staged the performances in a staggeringly short time: two weeks or less. As possible? Unbelievable! He kept his eyes on the interlocutor: the actor and the director of the play is a single nerve. Only then is success guaranteed.
All of Russia recognizes him under the program āThe Court is Comingā on NTV and āHearing the Caseā on RTR.
Last years
He builds his house with a home theater in it, writes books. Belyakovich Valery Romanovich directed the Stanislavsky Drama Theater, where there is a difficult team, complex, intricate relationships, lasting intrigues for years. The first bell is a coma. A month in the hospital, in tubes, an inanimate body, visions: friends came, dead and alive, encouraged. I got out, returned to my theater, the theater of Valery Belyakovich. He earned the right to consider him his homeland and family. Recently I spoke from the television screen about the premiere Macbeth, looked tired, but as always, was bright. He did not have much.
Valery Belyakovich. Cause of death
He died on December 6, 2016 at the 67th year of his life. Before my eyes, an impassive hospital card: Valery Belyakovich. The cause of death is acute heart and pulmonary failure. He became ill at the cottage, doctors did not save, death occurred in a medical facility. On the day of death and on the day of the funeral, the actors of the Theater in the Southwest played his performances. For him and for himself. They knew: he wanted to make the best theater in the world, life itself - less cruel. People's Artist of Russia is buried at the Vostryakovsky cemetery.