History of Efremov’s “Modernist”.

Alla Pokrovskaya said that Efremov so infected his actors with the love of the Stanislavsky system that any talk ended in discussions on this topic.

Once on a tour in Romania, the artists gathered after a performance in one of the hotel rooms. We are talking about the Stanislavsky system.

Kalachin and Gaft argued about the System, and Evgeny Evstigniev, who marked the end of the working day, fell to bed and fell asleep.

Eventually, Gaft and Kalagin argued before they decided to find out who would be better at the "Evaluation of the Fact".

The fable was invented as follows: in the cabin of the public toilet a man is waiting for his turn. He waits so long that he can’t stand, breaks the door and finds him hanged there.

They did not let go, built a hanging man from a pillow and placed him in a wall closet.

One played a terrible horror and rushed with a cry for help, the other, presenting possible troubles, quietly slammed until nobody saw... Both played great.

The judges are in trouble. Then they decide to wake Evstignev up and see what he will come up with.

They scattered, persuaded, explained the situation... Evstigniev went to the closet.
Within a second, the whole room, seeing how he sits, jumps in front of the door of the wall cabinet, compressing his knees, first gently knocks on the door of the "toilet", then just drums.

Finally, brought to complete despair, he breaks the door on himself, sees the "hanging," without a second of doubt, catches him, knocks off with the rope, throws out and, jumping into the toilet, with a wild shout of happiness does his simple deed, even without closing the door!

A thunderstorm, screams of "bravo", and the unanimously awarded EVSTIGNEEV victory. The artist crashed and collapsed.