Famous artist Alexander Kalyagin, who has played the roles of Charley aunt, Lenin, played as a clear clown, mask with the Et Cetera theatre led by him in Yerevan. He was a hooligan in Alfred Jearre’s Ubyu King staging, who comes to power easily and ruins everything. Alfred Jearre (who lived his short life drinking and as a hooligan) wrote this play 100 ago when he was still at school and it was intended for puppet theater. The piece starts and ends up with slang and involves a lot of vulgar scenes. It was the reason why the piece was failed in Paris in 1896, however in the future this play was considered as the manifest of the new theatre of the 20th century. Jearre’s plays returned the realistic motives to the theatre again. Antonen Arto, leading producer of the French theatre and actor, called his theatre in the name of Alfred Jearre. “I hate the theatre because everything is fake in theatre, the theatre is a poetic automanipulation and lie, and I really hate it,” said Jearre, and his words were used in the play in Moscow. The producer of the play, Alexander Morfov from Bulgaria, has deepened all the genres in of theatre in the play (dolls, circus, film, etc.) and made it an entire happy picture, where all actors are attracted and inspired by the play. The clown gets tired, decides to change the power and he does that. And if he wants it again, he will do it one more time. If he wants to kill people, he does that, if he wants to increase the taxes, he goes to villages to collect taxes himself. When Ubyu Kalyagin wants to eat the sausage with green, he does that. And he doesn’t care whether the army is being killed, the important thing is that he is eating the green he wants. When he wants to make money, he lets Russians to capture the hill to show how good place it is and make the price higher, and says that they can pay him and he will let them shoot at their army. Even at this age Kalyagin does everything with passion and seems that he makes us understand that it is a play and everyone on the stage are dolls. One of them is Alfred Jearre, who has been hang and they forget to take him out of there and left him hanging. Everything was good with the Moscow staging, Bulgarian producer Alexander Morfov had created an entire picture, which was very funny and interesting. He did not sharpen the political component and it seems that he left it for the people to come to political conclusions. The form and style of this staging is for circus and is funny, but the meaning is more than just being transparent. Every country that has had a revolution can recognize itself in this circus. I remembered about our Rusted Key staging, which was failed because of its political components and non-artistic staging. In the Soviet times political components were excluded from the stage, and the countries which had got independence were so tired of it that did not want to involve it in the theatre. Now it seems it’s the time to bring politics to theatre. Kalyagin told in an interview that he was afraid of artistic provincialism. This is the reason why he decided to play the role of king Ubyu and make a big provocation. He even did not let the critics from Moscow see the first plays. He wanted time to work out the shortcomings. And he did it and made the personage of the awful child look like attractive and awful meantime. Laugh, laugh as much as you can because a great actor is serving you. Laugh saves everyone. By the way, when Alfred Jearre, who was alcoholic and drug addict, was up to passing away the doctor asked him what could help his pain and in answer to the doctor’s question he said “a toothpick”. One century ago in his manifest entitled “Uselessness of theatre for theatre” he said that the theatre would bring back the laugh.
