At Stanislavsky School
Fifteen years in Stanislavsky Theater People's Artist of Russia Vasily Bochkarev recalls as his studies at Stanislavsky School, deep entry into the acting profession. He talks about the teachers (V. Korshunov, Yu. Solomin, P. Bogatyrenko V. Zakhod), about the work in Stanislavsky Drama Theatre, the people who have influenced the actor, on one of the best Moscow troupes at that time, about the chief theater director Boris Lvov-Anokhin and distinction of his manner from Andrei Goncharov's manner, under whom Vasily Bochkarev first worked at the Malaya Bronnaya Theater. About the playwrights Mikhail Roshchin and Alexander Vampilov. On work with directors Ivan Bobylev, Alexander Tovstonogov, Leonid Varpakhovskiy and about the time when the theater was headed by Andrei Popov, who brought Anatoly Vasilyev, Boris Morozov and Joseph Raihelgauz. Much of the text is devoted to Anatoly Vasilyev and features of his creative method.