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 Yanina Lakoba graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts (Yu. Krasovsky’s class) in 2007. Her diploma roles were Angel (“The Alpine Radiance” by P. Turrini), Nicole (“The Loony Jourden” by M. Bulgakov), and the Princess (“The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Ye. Schwartz).
In 2006, then still a student of the Theater Academy, she was invited to the Alexandrinsky Theater for the role of Sasha in Valery Fokin’s performance after L.Tolstoy’s drama The Living Corps. At the same time, she was introduced in the role of Maria Antonovna in the performance The Inspector General by N. Gogol (Director Valery Fokin). Critic Lilia Shitenburg wrote about this work of the young actress: “Maria Antonovna, the second one in Yanina Lacoba’s version, is a little and funny, but extremely purposeful predator, one of those modern young girls who prefer shopping and shopping again to all dreams of the big and sincere love. Her best scene is the passionate monologue composed of the only word “Sweetie!!!” repeated many times and in different ways. Any object spotted as a “sweetie” (in this case, a hypothetical bride groom) would be doomed to capture (adsorption, developing, etc.) by this pushing and untamable girl, be he anybody but Khlestakov. The young Yanina Lacoba, as many witnesses mentioned, reminds of young Inna Churikova in her satirical hypostasis; this is why the actress is invariably successful in her endangering “I want!!!” (including that in the more elaborate version of Sasha from The Living Corpse). (THE IMPERIA OF DRAMA ¹ 6 - April 2007).
The actress also plays the role of Masha in the performance The Seagull by A. Chekhov (Director Khrystian Lupa) and the role of the Grandmother Bee in the performance The Fly (after Joseph Brodsky’s poem with the same name and Korney Chukovsly’s Mukha-Tsokotukha (The Clattering Fly) fairy-tale) (Director Oleg Eremin, 2007); the role of Sonya in the performance Uncle Vanya by A. Chekhov (Director Andrey Serban, 2009). All critics singled out the sharp and accurate actress’s work; they wrote: “Most frequently, the ill at ease and indecently open owlish Sonya with a boy-style haircut functions as the register “handstop.” The actress, who is quickly gaining impetus, is playing in a sharp and eccentric style, but her eccentricity is always internally justified. She is finely tuned with Serban’s stylistics. A Violin (Here – a Guitar) and nervously a bit. Reminiscence with Mayakovsky is no surprise. There is a devil’s brew in Uncle Vanya (in Lakoba’s heroine in the first place) inherent to the great poet: roughness, sarcasm, the ache of an exposed heart, a moving but not sentimental touch, anguish and hyperboles.” (E. Sokolinsky. “The First Stage of a Rocket.” // Peterburgsky Chas Pik ¹ 27, September 16 – 27, 2009)
In Valery Fokin’s performance Ksenia. The History of Love, directed after V. Levanov’s play “The Life of St. Holy Ksenia of Petersburg,” Lakoba played the major role of the Holy Ksenia, who after her death became one of the most respected in St. Petersburg Orthodox Saints (2009). Yanina Lakoba was nominated for the top St. Petersburg theater award “The Golden Soffit” for this role. She was named the “Best Actress of the Year 2009” by the results of a “Choice of Thirty Three” appraisal carried out by the St. Petersburg Committee on Culture. The role of Ophelia became the new job of the actress (Hamlet, director V.Fokin, 2010). In Andrey Moguchy and K. Filippov’s performance “The Fortune” she plays the role of Mitil, a girl heading off for the Blue Bird to the Kingdom of the Night (Director Andrey Moguchy, 2011); she was awarded in the nomination of “The Best Female Role” at the ÕÕ “St. Petersburg Theaters for Children” Festival (2011) for this job.
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