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A Happy Interview (about the prospects of some capital's theaters). A story.
Yana came to the capital from Oblast with a dwindling number of rural settlements. Her mother worked as an accountant, and her uncle was a company car driver in a Oblast television and radio company. Yana studied well at school. There were plans to send her to get a diploma of higher education to an economic institute.
But Yana didn't like her mom's lifestyle. On the contrary, Yana really liked some of her uncle's stories about the lifestyle of those associated with theaters.
She was greeted kindly in the capital. She entered the theater institute and gained a significant life experience by communicating with some male teachers (of this institute).
It was clear to Yana that neither she, nor those who study together with her, had any prospects of joining any capital's theater troupe.
As a something natural, she perceived the invitation of the rector of the theater institute where she studied to discuss the issue of professional prospects.
She came to his office.
The rector was extremely polite, he asked soft leading questions, the answers to which lay on the surface, but such answers, as a rule, were undesirable to say out them aloud: for example, hopes for a prosperous personal life (and not for work as an actress in a theater).
At some moment, the door of the rector's office opened and a tanned, unshaven man in a suit and tie entered.
- A new person in the Government of the Oblast of Metallurgical Manufactures, - the rector said. - He is from the team of the new owner of the Copper Mountain. There is a small problem: his ex-wife - she in past, before their marriage, worked in the theater at today's New Territories, - she writes unpleasant messages from Europe. It is advisable to leave this woman in the foggy past, - to "cross out" this topic.
The new Oblast minister was looking at Yana attentively.
Yana stood up and jokingly did a knicksen (a curtsy).
- A diligent girl-student! She studied well at school before entering our institute, - the rector introduced Jana.
The new Oblast minister sat down in an armchair and asked Yana:
- Have you participated in patriotic theatrical performances?
- "Yesterday I played the role of the wife of the regiment commander with the call sign Resolute," Yana replied. - I sang various songs, for example, Po dolinam i po vzgoriam ("Through Valleys and Over Hills.")
- And what are you going to do today? I'm flying to city of Gorno-Fabrichensk tomorrow, I'm going to take office.
- "She's free today," the rector explained.
- "Yes," Yana agreed.
- Maybe you can show me the cultural attractions of the capital?.. We'll take a motor boat ride through the reservoir, have lunch...
- "Of course, of course," the rector approved.
- "Yes," Yana agreed.
After a good lunch on a motor boat (on a small river motor ship) and a pleasant hour in a comfortable cabin, Yana returned to the apartment of a institute's male teacher (where she lived).
She rested a little, took a shower, put herself in order and, out of habit, began to perform some duties in the kitchen. At the same time, she was thinking about the offer made to her by the Oblast minister.
When Yana was a child, her mother read Yana many fairy tales, and despite a good course of personal development at the theater institute, she loved to dream about a fabulous event that would happen in her personal life.
The radio was on in the kitchen.
Some voice was talking about the Belgorod Oblast: there are so many cultural organizations, creative teams in it, and even, it seems, were named the number of soloists. Yana thought about it: and how are things going in the neighboring Kursk Oblast?
Suddenly, Yana heard the voice of the rector of the institute where she was a student from the radio receiver. The rector interviewed a very important person dealing with cultural issues in the capital. (The rector, in parallel, is employed as a cultural observer at the Kosti-NF radio station).
Yana learned a lot of interesting things from this interview.
For example, the former mayor of capital (he gone to another world) gave consent to the creation of a theater to everyone who applied to him with a corresponding request (if the applicant had a more or less well-known surname).
Now there are almost 66 theaters in the capital.
In some theaters, tickets are now very expensive, and in others they are very cheap (it seemed to Yana that the price of tickets in some theaters reaches 200 rubles per ticket; in other theaters, tickets are, of course, much, much more expensive).
In some theaters, occupancy (percentage of seats occupied by spectators in the hall) is very high, while in others it is very low. People have a small desire to go to some theaters.
However, city cultural authorities do not sleep: "Theater Alleys" (or something like that) were organized. The point of these Theater Alleys was that the capital's theaters did performances - free for the audience - right on a street.
"Apparently, theaters and artists receive money from the city treasury," Yana tried to guess.
The city's cultural authorities are carefully analyzing the situation: why some theaters are popular and others are not popular.
At first, Yana did not understand why the capital's cultural authorities were so worried: people earn their bread, and whether they have butter or not, - it is their own problem. Maybe they are ready to practice an art, living only on a tap water.
Gradually, she began to guess that perhaps the theaters receive money from the capital, from the city.
Yana remembered what her mother and her uncle had said. Perhaps, she thought, the whole point is that money is needed.
When a beautiful explanation will be found, something will be done with some of the theaters, and the money saved will be directed for important things.
The strange circumstance was that the rector behaved himself very confidently. If the rector suspected that something would happen to some of the theaters, then this prospect did not seem to bother him at all.
However, Yana has long learned a simple truth: many girls-students of theater institutes do not plan to work as actresses in theaters. Therefore, the rector has no reason to be alarmed - even if something will be done in relation of several capital's theaters.
Suddenly, Yana came up with a simple idea regarding her own fate: money-saving measures can create panic moods among female students of theater institutes and actresses. And with such sentiments, the proposal of the new Oblast minister will be responded to immediately, - without any requests to give a time to think, without any delays.
Yana decided not to focus on the fairy tales that her mother told her. Her mother's parents also told her (her mother) fairy tales: and what now?
Yana looked at a watch: it was already late, it was almost midnight. However, the new Oblast minister was by all signs an energetic man. For sure, he is now preparing the text of tomorrow's speech (for the ceremony to enter in position).
Yana called the minister: "Thank you for the wonderful walk along the beautiful waters of reservoir. You are a wonderful man. It's good that you and I have a compatibility in all matters. Of course, I agree."
"I'm sending the car to you, we're going to the registry office - in order to register a marriage. A biographical information will be published in the local press at the time of my arrival. I need to appear in the city of Gorno-Fabrichensk with a status of married man."
Yana quickly put on a stylish pantsuit appropriate to the situation and went outside. The car was already arrived and was waiting for her.
It is good that the rector did not limit himself only to the conversation in his office, but took care of conducting a useful interview with a competent person and of broadcasting this interview on the radio.
October 7, 2024 01:13
{ 27. Счастливое интервью (о перспективах столичных театров). Рассказ. - 7 октября 2024 г.
XXVII. A Happy Interview (about the prospects of some capital's theaters). A story. - October 7, 2024.