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May 02, 1900 Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia Died on 08 Jan 1967 (aged 66)
actor, theatre director
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About Nikolay Okhlopkov
- Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (Russian: ??????´? ??´?????? ????´????; 15 May 1900 – 8 January 1967), was a Soviet actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold.Okhlopkov was born in Irkutsk, Siberia and started his acting career there in 1918.
- Since 1930, he directed the Realistic Theatre in Moscow, although his directing style was hardly realistic: he was the first to place spectators on the stage around the actors, in order to restore intimacy between the audience and the company.
- In 1938, his theatre was closed and he moved to the Vakhtangov Theatre.
- In 1943 he established the Mayakovsky Theatre, which continues his traditions to this day.
- Okhlopkov was awarded the Stalin Prize and four USSR State Prizes.
- He also directed a production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1954, the first time this play was staged there since World War II.
