The popular actor was not afraid of superstitions.

Alexey Kravchenko

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Actor Alex Kravchenko took the stage of the Moscow art theatre them.Chekhov with dreadlocks and with the baby-babies in hand! This demanded a new production of Macbeth, so exotic hairstyle Alex had created with the help of a wig, and the baby depicted is very similar to a real baby doll.

Alexander Semchev

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Shakespeare’s tragedy, which for four centuries, in the Art theatre for the first time give. Maybe the reason for such caution was a theatrical legend of the curse that brings this work of Shakespeare. Because the West is still people not speak the name of the tragedy, preferring to replace it with “the Scottish play” or “this play is the bard” (Shakespeare).

Rosa Khairullina

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Tales of the curse of “Macbeth” with the fact that in the play there are three witches, who cast spells and brew magic potion. Moreover, these spells — real, which the playwright in the loyal outburst took from the book “Demonology” written by the then king of England James the First. When these lines heard real witches, came to the theater, they were furious. And curse all who will in the future touches to this play.

Since then, the staging of this dark and bloody tragedy, accompanied by numerous injuries to actors (in the play a lot of duels with bladed weapons), as well as fires and even earthquakes! However, the bad reputation of the play is not scared of Oleg Tabakov and invited to postanovku Polish Director Jan Bloody. And indeed, at the premiere at the Moscow art theatre no accidents have happened. And in the end, the audience warmly applauded the actors and handed them bouquets of flowers.