Pluchek in 1973

Valentin Nikolayevich Pluchek (Russian: Валенти́н Никола́евич Плу́чек; real name Isaak Nokhimovich Gintsburg, Russian: Исаа́к Нохи́мович Ги́нцбург; 4 September 1909 – 17 August 2002) was a Soviet and Russian theater director and actor. He is known as a stage director of the Physical Culture Day parade in Moscow during the Stalinist epoch.[1] The Physical Culture Day took place each summer at central squares of major Soviet cities. Peter Brook's cousin.[2]

Pluchek worked with the director Vsevolod Meyerhold until he was arrested and shot in 1940, and then worked with the playwright Aleksei Arbuzov. In 1950, he joined the "often-daring" Moscow Satire Theatre in 1950, and rose to chief director in 1957.[3]

Awards and honors

References

  1. Edelman, R. Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State. page 100
  2. Русский англичанин Питер Брук
  3. "Valentin Pluchek". The Scotsman. 20 August 2002. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  4. Владимир Дуров — В МИРЕ ЦИРКА И ЭСТРАДЫ
  5. Театральная энциклопедия (под ред. П. А. Маркова)
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