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Boris Ahanov
Борис Аханов
Birth at
5 November 1937
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Having married a Jewish girl Ida from Riga, Leningrader Akhanov changed his residence twice. Ida was uncomfortable in the city of Petrov, but in Riga was the Theatre of Russian Drama. In 1973 Akhanov entered it and for a long seventeen years was a favorite of the Riga theater audience. In 1990, Ida took her Russian husband even further to Israel. True before this Boris Akhanov passed a kind of initiation into Judaism having played two quite kosher roles on the stage of the theater one after another:
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Having married a Jewish girl Ida from Riga, Leningrader Akhanov changed his residence twice. Ida was uncomfortable in the city of Petrov, but in Riga was the Theatre of Russian Drama. In 1973 Akhanov entered it and for a long seventeen years was a favorite of the Riga theater audience. In 1990, Ida took her Russian husband even further to Israel. True before this Boris Akhanov passed a kind of initiation into Judaism having played two quite kosher roles on the stage of the theater one after another: Abram Ilyich in "Sailor Silence" and Arye-Leib in the brilliant musical "Sunset" based on "Odessa Stories" by Babel. It is unlikely that Akhanov himself thought that a few years later he would play this role in Tel Aviv.
The beginning of the 90s in Israel was chaotic. In just a few years, the population of the country increased by one-fifth, and at the expense of people who did not speak Hebrew. The Russian language has literally swept the country. Russian theaters and theaters appeared. Director Evgeny Arye began to build what later became the world-famous theater "Gesher". The playwright Semyon Zlotnikov founded his theater “Ark” in Jerusalem, which by the way is “afloat” to this day. It was Zlotnikov who played Akhanov the first roles simultaneously playing in Gesher - in the play based on Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead." This production made a splash.
But soon after the premiere, the Russian actor Akhanov left the victorious "Gesher" in the Jerusalem theater "Khan" who played exclusively in Hebrew.
And here in the "purely Hebrew" theater Boris Akhanov begins ... with a Russian play. In the wake of the mass interest of the Israelis in “these mysterious Russians who came to the country,” the theater decided to stage a play based on Gelman’s play “The Bench.”
But the biggest exoticism in the theater "Khan" was for Akhanova the role of the actor. Lenin! In general, the history of this role so reflects the realities of Israeli theatrical life that it deserves a separate story of the participant of Leninian.
While Akhanov played in Khan, he periodically called Arya with the same refrain: "Wrestling and it's wrong that you are not with us." Eventually Akhanov realized that this was really wrong. And now for eleven years the "second coming" has been going on Akhanova in Gesher. During this time, many roles were played among them Satin in "At the bottom" Chebutykin in "Three Sisters" Orgon in "Tartuf". The list of roles primarily gives an idea of the repertoire of the theater.
And the production of Babel's works "The City". Odessa Stories" organically fit into this repertoire a Akhanov already on a new turn of his acting life again played Arye-Leiba and in two languages - both Hebrew and Russian.
But it is not only bilingualism that distinguishes Gesher from other Israeli theaters. The collective works in a country where the air is literally saturated with politics, where everyone is divided into left and right, and political passions sometimes reach crazy potentials. And in the theater, meanwhile, there is a healthy creative atmosphere: in the popular definition of the theater as a “terrarium of like-minded people” to “Gesher” refers only the second word – “like-minded people”.