Grishkovets Eugene, whose biography we are now discussing, combines a genius actor, writer, musician and playwright. Very rarely happens when a person is good in all these creative industries. But Grishkovets is just like that. Eugene can hold the hall for several hours only by the power of his voice, facial expressions and gestures, his stories. Grishkovets always shows us the theater of one actor. And in what Eugene says, we see ourselves. Looking at his play "How I ate a dog", everyone understands that, by and large, this is his biography. The feature of Grishkovets is that he is simple and close to all of us. His biography is a biography of each of us. Simply, he can tell her so that we all were interested.
Evgeny Grishkovets was born on February 17, 1967 in the city of Kemerovo. He studied at the Faculty of Philology and passed an urgent army. About his service, fans heard in the plays and read in books. Grishkovets in many of his stories recalls the Pacific Fleet and three years, which he had to serve there. If we talk about Eugene, as a writer and playwright, then his work began with pantomime and poetry. Even during his studies at the Faculty of Philology at the Kemerovo State University, Grishkovets was already fond of acting and created his own pantomime theater. And in 1990, Evgeny organized an independent theater "Lodge". Over the next seven years, ten performances were staged in this theater. And then, in 1998, Grishkovets moved to live in Kaliningrad. It was in this city that he created all his best plays and books. To date, Grishkovets has written ten books and put twelve plays.
The peculiarity of Grishkovets is that he talks about things that everyone understands equally. People of various circles and specialties come to his performances. These are businessmen, doctors, housewives, teachers, people of different ages and material possibilities. But, the magic is that listening to it, each of them recalls his childhood. Youth, military service and much more. At the same time, it seems to everyone that Eugene is not talking about himself, but about him. The special simplicity and truthfulness of Grishkov's performances saved him from failures at the very beginning. When Eugene put the first performances, because of the excitement he had incidents with diction, the monologue seemed muffled, but the viewer never paid attention to it. And the whole thing was that Eugene was amazed by his charm and kindness. His performances, a little sad, funny and very close to each, are charged with positive energy. After the numbers Grishkovtsa is impossible for someone angry and offended. I want to really enjoy life and try to see in it all the bright things that Evgeny is talking about.
If we talk about the most famous play, which is today at Grishkovets, then, most likely the play, "how I ate a dog." It was written back in 1999 and it was for her that Grishkovets received the Golden Mask Award. In 2003 this piece was released in the form of an audiobook.
The next famous performance, which put Grishkovets, is called "1". The premiere of this solo performance took place in 2009 in Moscow. This performance tells about what Grishkovets himself feels when he observes humanity, whether it is easy to be creative in this world, where you are only plus one person to the crowd. This performance completely reveals and reflects its name, and Grishkovets says in it that it is necessary to love. Let not all and not so much, but it is better to still love. And if the audience loves himself, then Eugene will be very pleased.
Eugene always says that we try not to notice, from what we hide and run away. He loves his homeland, his childhood and youth, and teaches us not to forget who we are and where, and also to love our life. His country and his family. All the images in his performances make sense. Sometimes it seems that he talks about absolutely unrelated things. But then, in time it becomes clear that they all unite in one story and tell us about what Eugene considers the most important and necessary. He never promotes anything, persuades, or forces. It simply speaks about what should be dear to us and what we often forget. Of course, Grishkovets' first plays differ from his latest creations. Like any man, he changed in twenty years, saw life from different angles. His work remained the same special and multifaceted, but the characters have changed, their desires, requests, views, interests became different. If earlier most of his characters were fictitious, now, Evgeni more and more speaks about himself, tells stories from his personal experience, in fact, gives a piece of his life, to his audience. In his performances. Eugene raises those questions about which we try to remain silent. It provokes us, but it does not irritate us. In what he says, there is no criticism that causes anger and irritation. He laughs at himself, and we understand that we laugh with him over our mistakes, analyze our actions and maybe, sometimes, we try to change our life.
Talent Grishkovets really amazing. On the one hand, he is a man who has lived a fairly normal life, but, on the other hand, his life is special and unusual, thanks to his plays. Like the life of each of us. Therefore, if a person really wants to know who Grishkovets is, he does not look for excerpts from his biographies, because there are only dry words. In this case, you need to read Grishkovets' books and watch his performances. Only then, it is possible to understand who he is and what he is, and also to realize his talent and ability to talk about the simplest and most intimate.