The image of V. Pozdnyshev in the national theatre: M. Porechenkov
The article analyses the character of V. Pozdnyshev played by the actor M. Porechenkov in the Moscow Art Theatre (2008). The authors emphasise the controversial nature of The Kreutzer Sonata and its critical reviews, pay attention to the complexity and ambiguity of the protagonist perception, to an arguable possibility of staging the novella. In the theatrical interpretation of The Kreutzer Sonata, the authors find an attempt made by the director A. Yakovlev to show some new aspects of V. Pozdnyshev’s character in accordance with contemporary understanding of Tolstoy’s text. Special attention is paid to the means of revealing these new aspects related not only to the actor’s psychophysiological features but also to contextual and intercontextual, components: the image of M. Porechenkov in mass culture, the screen version of V. Pozdnyshev (O. Yankovsky). The way women’s characters are treated in the MAT play is accentuated, as well as the construction of scenic chronotope, stage settings, musical accompaniment of the play.