Grigori Gurvich

Grigoriy Efimovich Gurvich (October 24, 1957, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR - November 5, 1999, Jerusalem, Israel) - theater director, playwright and television presenter. In 1984 he graduated from the directing department of GITIS. In 1989, he created the Bat Theater in Moscow, which became the continuation of the tradition of the legendary theater of the same name, founded in 1908 by the Moscow Art Theater actor Nikita Baliev and philanthropist Nikolay Tarasov. The idea of ??rebuilding the Bat-Cabaret Theater was suggested to Gurvich by Mark Zakharov and Grigoriy Gorin. They approached the young author of the next cabbageman on January 13, 1983, to congratulate him on a resounding success, and practically unanimously advised him to take up the cabaret theater, a genre that originated from the skits of the Moscow Art Theater. According to Gurvich himself, at first he didn't really like such advice - he was going to engage in serious art and stage serious performances. Nevertheless, Mark