Efros Anatoly

I wake up poorly rested; my head keeps working in my sleep… I notice that a lot of solutions come to me in my sleep. I fall asleep with the feeling that something’s unclear to me, but wake up and see that I’ve found a way out in some scene or another. Afterwards I go to rehearsal in my theatre. I usually rehearse from 11 to 2 or 3 o’clock. Afterwards I drive home, eat a fast lunch, rest a little, and go back to the evening rehearsal, or to the film set, or to the radio station… Rehearsals end late, as does filming for TV.

 

I come home, and for a long time I can’t fall asleep; I’m thinking over what happened that day, and making plans for tomorrow. I don’t have days off. On weekends I also work – if not in one theatre then in another. And if it turns out that I actually do have a day off, then it’s very hard on me: I look at my watch all the time, so as to make the day pass quicker and get back to work again…