In 2008th year I wrote detailed explications of two plays and planned to put them on the stage with a group of actors.

«Forget Herostratus» by Grigory Gorin
«Only Name in the Frozen Air...» by Olga Zverlina

These explications were highly appreciated by many professional actors whom I contacted, but due to financial difficulties and absence of actors of required dramatic types nothing came out. However I still plan to direct something in the future.

By the collected statistics I really like only about 1 play of 10. The probability of finding actors of required dramatic types is also equal to 1 per 10. (I don't pay money, they can receive only some percents of proceeds from the show.) And if all unpredictable circumstances (illness of an actor, shortage of money, conflicts with a playwright etc) will be considered the probability of success will become else 10 times less.

It means that I need to read at least 500-1000 plays, write explications for 50-100, and make 5-10 test performances before getting in the result 1-2 videorecords of performances made at high-quality professional level.

So, it's not such simple task as it may seem. :)

I decided to try myself in directing of theatrical plays instead of shooting short movies by 2 simple reasons:
a) shooting of short movies costs much more money;
b) it's much more simple to find a really high quality theatrical play than a high quality script for a short movie.
 

 
Below you can read a short FAQ for people who may be interested in working with me - actors, writers, and maybe producers.
 

What is my directing concept?

It's built on four points:
– anthropology
– ethnography
– culturology
– psychoanalysis
I analyze (and write) screenplays/plays and examine the stuff from these four points of view. Certainly these sciences are used by all directors (even if they don't think about them), the difference is in what every director takes as a basis. For example, somebody may takes as a basis "religion + psychology", and somebody else may take "mass culture stereotypes + vision of the world in the Russian culture" etc. I hope I explained all clearly.

What plays and screenplays am I interested in?

I work with the stuff concerning modern topics and written by modern writers, and I'm interested in works that are made in the following styles (or styles that are close to them). The names of very known movies are listed as examples.

1. "Hollywood + American" vision of the world
   "big city" + "crimes and social problems" + "ethnic minorities"
   Examples: "Once Upon a Time in America", "Carlito’s Way"
2. "New York + European" vision of the world
   "arts" + "love and sex" + "family"
   Examples: "Frida", "Everyone Says I Love You"
3. "Jewish + Asian" vision of the world
   "human vs. society" + "philosophy" + "humans as monkeys"
   Examples: "Kin Dza Dza", "The Inner Circle"

How the process of staging is built?

1. I write detailed, very (!) detailed explications of plays.
2. But it does not mean that actors should do everything that I wrote. I'm a "very democratic manager" – if an actor/actress can imagine something that is more interesting than I did, and it's approved by other actors, then he/she can do it.
3. Rehearsals consist of development and fine-tuning of mise-en-scènes that were created by me and actors.

That's all.