60×90/32, hard cover, ill., 328 pp., 2006
ISBN 5-86793-462-4

Vladimir Mirzoyev has a creative track-record to be envied. He has produced around thirty plays on the stages of Moscow, Toronto, St. Petersburg and Vilnius, as well as the operas Siegfried and Götterdämmerung for the renowned Mariinsky Theatre. Mirzoyev has been artistic director of three theatres altogether. At the beginning of the eighties he headed Moscow’s Domino theatre, then Toronto’s Horizontal Eight company, and has now returned to Moscow to take over the reins of the Stanislavsky Theatre. In 2006, he made the move to the silver screen, as director of “Signs of Love”, starring Maksim Sukhanov. The name Mirzoyev is surrounded by a tumult of controversy and divided opinion. On the one hand, he is a recognized master, as attested to by his numerous prizes, including the Russian State Prize. On the other hand, quite a number of theatrical devotees think that “it is simply indecent to attend a Mirzoyev production”. These criticisms are usually so passionately heartfelt that one begins to wonder: what could this refined, erudite, modest man have done to so offend his no less erudite viewers? But their cry is too full of insult and despair to have any pretensions to objectivity.
Etery Chalandziya, “The Art of Cinema” magazine

My book is variegated with genre, like a Persian carpet – slightly moth-eaten, but still adequate for a flight-of-fancy. The act of writing is not capable of turning a director into a rational, bourgeois citizen, but it at least assuages my pathological desire to constantly talk to people.
Vladimir Mirzoyev

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