Where to go: 6 best performances of September
"The Thomas Passion"
Where : Theater of Nations
When : 7, 8, 17, 18 September
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The former head of the Yaroslavl theater named after Fyodor Volkov, who is now in free floating, took up the story of another Fyodor - Dostoevsky. The funny and scary story about tyranny “The Village of Stepanchikovo and its Inhabitants” may be familiar to many from school. But Evgeny Marcelli is going to surprise us. He declares: “I want the viewer to gasp: this is a story about me!”
It is noteworthy that the work was selected for the actors, so we can definitely expect it to hit the target. Foma Opiskin, who is often called not a character, but a Russian phenomenon, is played by a brilliant master of grotesque roles, Avangard Leontyev. Besides him, Olga Volkova and Vitaly Kishchenko are announced in the play.
"Field"
Where : "Practice"
When : September 23, 24
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Another premiere. Under the direction of Marina Brusnikina, the star-studded female cast (Paulina Andreeva, Alexandra Ursulyak, Marina Petrenko, Victoria Korlyakova, Yana Gladkikh, Nina Guseva and Anna Zaikova) will play in the play based on the story by Chingiz Ai. Time period: Great Patriotic War.
Marina Brusnikina is a director with a keen sense of literature in general and the word in particular and knows how to both work with modern prose and find relevant works among authors of the past.
What you should definitely expect from the performance is piercing tenderness and transparent sincerity, indecent for today. A simple conversation about love, relationships and pain, which, unfortunately, cannot be avoided.
“I’m afraid to become Kolya”
Where : Chekhov Moscow Art Theater
When : September 10, 28
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Another performance by Marina Brusnikina - but of a completely different nature. An ironic, light and poignant play by the Ural playwright Ivan Andreev won the Eurasia competition four years ago, and for good reason. It sounds not so much the voice of a talented author, but the voices of our contemporaries and young people trying to break out of the vicious circle of clichés.
The main location of the action, a reserved seat car of the Ufa-Ekaterinburg train, becomes a kind of cross-section of Russian reality. The companions of the main character Alik (Danil Steklov) are painfully familiar characters with conversations and discussions about life typical of long-distance routes.
"Misanthrope"
Where : Gogol Center
When : September 27-29
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Latvian director Elmar Senkov staged not a typical Moliere, but a Moliere translated anew by Dmitry Bykov. This adaptation was made specifically for the Gogol Center, and it will surprise those who have seen The Misanthrope more than once. The play, already relevant for any time, began to sound even more piercing and topical, and the images began to seem copied from the characters who surround us every day.
Today's heroes are those who flash on the screens of our smartphones and computers. Beautiful people with beautiful pictures advertising beautiful themselves and their beautiful lives. But the label turns out to not correspond to the content, but only cover it up. Starring the entire color of the Gogol Center: Alexander Gorchilin, Philip Avdeev, Odin Byron, Alexandra Revenko and, and, and.
"Snake Woman"
Where : Theater on Malaya Bronnaya
When : September 29
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This fairy tale story based on the play by Carlo Gozzi, staged by Oleg Dolin, will be interesting to watch for both children and adults. The square commedia dell'arte will not leave anyone indifferent. Indeed, in addition to the fairy-tale plot about the prince and his beloved, there is also a lot of sparkling humor.
The artists famously change roles, masks, outfits, put together a makeshift stage, and use improvised means as props. In general, they do everything so that the audience does not believe what is happening. True, this is precisely what does not work. By the end of the performance, you believe in fairies, and in animated dolls, and in the transformation of a beautiful princess into a snake and back.
"Flying over Cuckoo's Nest"
Where : Ermolova Theater
When : September 22, 23
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Staging a play based on a work that already has a textbook adaptation is a risky business. But Leonid Kheifetz’s student, director Dmitry Akrish, seems not at all afraid of comparisons. And we won’t test him for apprenticeship, but will only be surprised at how relevant Ken Kesey’s novel is today.
What is normal and who is really normal? This is not the first season that Moscow theaters have been asking this question. The role of a patient who disturbed public peace in a psychiatric hospital is played by Nikita Tatarinkov. And in addition to theater artists, students from Oleg Menshikov’s workshop at GITIS also take part in the performance.
Theater for kids
What are the best performances in Moscow theaters where you can go with small spectators? After all, for them theater is emotions, surprise and inspiration. K. Stanislavsky also said: “You need to play for children as for adults, but only better.”
So, the best children's performances in Moscow are the TOP five productions that you must see:
- “Peter Pan” (Vakhtangov Theater) - director Alexander Koruchenkov involved young actors - students of “Pike” in the play based on the play by James Barry.
- “Pippi Longstocking” (The Cherry Orchard Theatre) is a bright, burlesque production about the famous red-haired mischief-maker. A story told for kids who continue to believe in miracles.
- “The Wizard of Oz” (Meyerhold TCC) – theater director Lev Erenburg will present a magical performance based on the work of L.F. Baum.
- “Alice through the Looking Glass” (P.N. Fomenko Workshop theater) is a classic fantasy for children and adults. This is the first debut of director I. Popovski, who turned the performance into a fabulous performance. After all, Fomenko’s workshop hosts the best performances in Moscow not only for adults, but also for children.
- “Cat's House” (Moscow Theater for Young Spectators) - production by G. Yanovskaya based on the work of S. Marshak. The performance is notable for the fact that the scenery is made in the form of large cubes, which turn to the audience with different sides and, like puzzles, make up pictures. And children will watch the performance on pillows located in the foyer.
the best performances for teenagers
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Oddly enough, home theater involuntarily begins when you, playing with a tiny baby, act out and discuss any of your and his actions.
Every mother becomes a real director, playwright and actor when communicating with her baby. After all, mom has to use all her experience, imagination, natural teaching talent, knowledge of folklore (“Ladushki, ladushki...”), fiction (“A fly walked across a field, a fly found some money...”) and artistic abilities! After all, a parent needs to turn even the simplest but necessary washing procedure into a game that gives the child both an emotional charge and information about the world around him.
“Water, water!
Wash my face..."
Or: “We must, we must wash ourselves in the mornings and evenings.”
After all, anyone understands that these simple play performances, all these petes and ditties, successfully replace an incomprehensible and boring lecture on “hygiene and water procedures”!
An experienced teacher or sensitive parent will turn changing diapers, putting on shoes, and eating into an exciting performance!
So why do we completely forget about play and theater when our children especially need it? When they grow up and our comments, threats and teachings do not always reach them? How to teach a child beauty and kindness, attention and empathy, history and literature?
Home theater can help us with all this, understood not as acting for the entertainment of the public, but as a way of teaching a child important life values and skills. Home theater is not just a game, but a game with deep meaning! (you can buy it on the 100sale website)
For children from six months to 12 years old, play is one of the main vital activities. The game is not just entertainment. For a child, play is the world, the universe. The purpose of home theater is to teach by playing. Teach emotions
communication, creative thinking, ability to behave in society.
Professor-Archpriest Vasily Zenkovsky also noted that “game is free creativity, the most important manifestation of the aesthetic principle in a person,” a means of penetrating into the sphere of meaning, comprehending the unity of the world and the Creator.
“With the help of games, a child’s learning becomes more effective and his upbringing becomes more enjoyable. Play is a modern means of diagnosing a child’s mental state and his personal development, but it is also an excellent method for correcting certain defects, deficiencies, and developmental delays. One of the youngest psychological methods is play psychotherapy.
In a word, the game is a serious matter.”
“The desire to play is an organic property of human nature. We all know well how wonderfully the smallest children, just out of swaddling clothes, imagine themselves as either a driver, or a car, or a tree, or a bird in a tree. Then, gradually, as the little person socializes, this freedom of self-expression disappears. The child begins to feel embarrassed to behave differently from everyone else; his need for play goes inward and begins to be realized.
in dreams and fantasies and over time becomes more and more hidden and subconscious. At the same time, the creative principle also leaves all external manifestations of the personality, especially since the nature of teaching science in our school is mainly, with rare exceptions, designed for students to reproduce the truths discovered before them, and not for creativity.”
But the internal need for creative self-realization remains in a person forever. However, paradoxically, school-age children—for whom this need, it seems to me, is especially acute—have catastrophically few opportunities to realize it. Home theater is one such opportunity.
Strangely enough, the idea of home theater is most readily embraced by children who need warmth, who have psychological problems: stuttering, timidity, shyness, and lack of self-confidence. They are intuitively drawn to the theater as a medicine - and the theater, if you manage to organize it correctly, will not let you down.
The most important thing in home theater... is not art! It is important to help children open up, reveal their best qualities, give a chance for creative realization, and release the talents of communication, empathy, and knowledge that are buried in them under a pile of often meaningless skills, knowledge and complexes.
And please do not look at your performance as a work of art intended to be shown to any audience. You address your performances to your loved ones - family and friends. The main thing is an atmosphere of joy, warmth and love.
I’ll tell you another secret: the most valuable thing in a home theater is the long process of preparing for a performance. You spend several months communicating with the characters of the chosen play - be they characters from fairy tales by Andersen (Thumbelina, The Snow Queen) or Pushkin (The Dead Princess), Kipling (Mowgli) or Barry (Peter Pan). Making costumes and sets is also a long process, and some of you are at your best in this. After all, how interesting it is to make colorful decorations, intricate costumes, and select props with your own hands. Why rush, because the theater is also a place for your communication. While you are inventing everything, drawing, gluing, slowly rehearsing this or that mise-en-scène with the children, the performance is slowly ripening, like a seed in a pot. You are talking about what dresses Kai and Gerda, Peter Pan or the Little Princess could have worn, and the denouement is approaching.
And now - the long-awaited premiere, the holiday that both you and the artists themselves have been waiting for.
That is why, especially at first, I recommend that you time the performance to coincide with some major holiday or the beginning of the holidays. For example, for Christmas, Easter, summer holidays. You may only have one or two performances a year, but they will be some of the brightest memories in your life and the lives of your children.
But the performance does not end with the premiere. You will have videotapes with his recording and photographs for a long memory. And most importantly, you yourself will become a little different. No one can take away the experience of common labor, adversity, victories and joy from you. And that means you will complete the most important parental task - the task of educating the human soul.
The main tasks of a home theater are simple and clear. The main thing is that, in the process of creating such a theater, they are resolved as if by themselves, casually, in the game. • Through play, a child (and we ourselves) learns to resolve life situations related to communication, learn to look for a solution to a problem together with friends and adults, act in changing conditions, find a common language, negotiate, and understand the cause-and-effect relationships in life. Showing the ambiguity of possible solutions is very important. • There is a comprehension of cultural world traditions. Each national culture has its own traditions, its own style of relationships, including those within families. These traditions are reflected in religion, literature, and folklore. To understand them, it is important not only to know the Law of God, literary and folklore characters, but also to feel and understand what is happening. The participation of children in productions based on the Holy Scripture (Christmas nativity scene, Christmas plays about King Herod), Russian fairy tales, epics will allow them to better understand the feelings of their heroes, “live” in the world of these images, absorb the best and learn to recognize evil under the hypocritical a mask of goodness. • It is very important to instill in children an interest in important issues of the universe at an early age. Do not read notations and explain everything, but rather surprise, interest the child, and invite him to think for himself. Through theatrical impromptu, improvisation, you can talk with children about the most important ethical, social, historical and philosophical topics: where did man come from; What is the meaning of life; what is happiness, justice, honesty; how to deal with your shortcomings;
how to learn to be friends;
what our Motherland was like many years ago, etc. etc. • Development of children's creativity. Children participate in the creation of the production, suggesting their changes. Perhaps they come up with (maybe write) and act their own skits. There is a mastery of the native language, the laws of logical thinking, comprehension of all the spiritual beauty and diversity of literature and art. • And, perhaps, the most important thing: a skillfully selected repertoire will instill in children, without “morals and tediousness,” a love for the beautiful, for the great, for the present. A child brought up in an atmosphere of cooperation, mutual assistance, mutual understanding between adults and children will carry a spark of love for his home, for beauty, for his childhood throughout his entire life and all temptations. But this is the little thing that often stops us from taking a fatal step in the most difficult and tempting moments of life.
