HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MHER MKRTCHYAN
Support A1+!Today is the birthday of the happiest and saddest artist of the Armenian cinematography and theater: Mher Mkrtchyan would be 75 today. «I had no childhood, no kindergarten, and no yard. What I saw was the theater since my early years», these are the words of Mher Mkrtchyan describing his love for theater from early childhood.
He lived with the characters he embodied, so the audience so not his play on the stage, but a life. This was the secret of the endless love the people had for the artist. This was the power and the magic of his art.
The teacher of Mher Mkrtchyan, Vardan Achemyan, describing him said once, «This young man has great future, but someone must accompany him all the time, he cannot do anything alone».
He spent the last days of his life in loneliness. He was alone with his grief – ruins of his native town, loss of his daughter, illness of his son, the grave social situation in the country. This was the loneliness which Vardan Achemyan meant.
For 12 years the Armenian theater has been living without Mher Mkrtchyan, but the theater named after him will try today to relive one of his characters in the play «Baker's Wife» keeping the memory of the Great artist warm in our hearts forever.
