Viktoria Sadovskaya-Chilap
Viktoria means victory.
And for that reason I have always wanted to “defend of the poor,“ to take up position at the barricades, to wave the flag and sing the national anthem.
Like Joan of Arc.
I probably cut an odd picture when I was a girl because I read books as if there were no tomorrow, sang Boris Grebenshchikov's song about the “pig under the table,” and talked to the leaves and to myself.
Viktoria means victory and I couldn't help but want to be the world's No. 1 tennis player, to be able to shoot a bow and arrow like Robin Hood, to hack my way through a forest, to go hang gliding, to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra and to take part in the Crusades.
Later, when I began to realize that I probably would not be able to do all that in one lifetime, it occurred to me that it might be best to try playing at all that.
That's when I entered theatre school.
Not right away, of course. On the second try.
But I did it playing Joan of Arc.
And then I saw that everyone around me was as strange as I was, and that meant I had found what I was looking for.
It was like finding a needle in a haystack.
And that's how it's been.
It couldn't have been any other way.
And for that reason I have always wanted to “defend of the poor,“ to take up position at the barricades, to wave the flag and sing the national anthem.
Like Joan of Arc.
I probably cut an odd picture when I was a girl because I read books as if there were no tomorrow, sang Boris Grebenshchikov's song about the “pig under the table,” and talked to the leaves and to myself.
Viktoria means victory and I couldn't help but want to be the world's No. 1 tennis player, to be able to shoot a bow and arrow like Robin Hood, to hack my way through a forest, to go hang gliding, to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra and to take part in the Crusades.
Later, when I began to realize that I probably would not be able to do all that in one lifetime, it occurred to me that it might be best to try playing at all that.
That's when I entered theatre school.
Not right away, of course. On the second try.
But I did it playing Joan of Arc.
And then I saw that everyone around me was as strange as I was, and that meant I had found what I was looking for.
It was like finding a needle in a haystack.
And that's how it's been.
It couldn't have been any other way.