The best performances of Moscow: rating

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Moscow posters are full of various offers: classics and comedy, drama and melodrama, parody and tragedy. What are the best performances in Moscow to choose: high-profile entreprises or scandalous productions of fashionable directors? What productions feature well-known actors, whose performance is so desirable to see?

We bring to your attention an overview of modern performances, which are guided not only by the audience, but also by directors, actors and critics. We will help you understand this abundance and present the rating of the best performances in Moscow - a reflection of modern life in the classical repertoire. After all, if the theater limits itself exclusively to the classics in its unchanged form, then it risks becoming “academically dead” (V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko).

"Triptych" (Pyotr Fomenko Workshop)

The best performances of Moscow take place here. A large-scale production of the "Triptych" by P. Fomenko at one time opened the Small Hall of the theater. The literary basis of the production is Pushkin's works "Count Nulin", "The Stone Guest", scenes from "Faust". Three movements, two intermissions.

The first part is light, airy, in the spirit of the director: swings, poems, “a sentimental anecdote in poetic form”. In the second part P. Fomenkotransfers viewers and the stone Spanish city. Tombstones, lattices, monastery, prayer. All this confuses non-obviousness. The third part is the denouement, where the viewer plunges into a completely realistic sea and then, together with the stage and the actors, is covered by a silk wave.

All these metaphors, illusions, associations excite and impress: “In this wooden booth, you can, like in the universe, go through all the tiers in a row, descend from heaven through the earth to hell.” This is what P. Fomenko offers his viewers.

The talented play of Kirill Pirogov, Galina Tyunina, Karen Badalov is a real "paradise" for theatrical "gourmets".

"Eugene Onegin" (Vakhtangov Theatre, director - Rimas Tuminasov)

This performance is worth watching in order to see how the director breaks the stereotypes of poetic flair, lyricism and rhythm in the construction of phrases. The performance is author's, it opens up new facets in the character of the characters and the plot. It is called performance-impression-reflection.

The whole production takes place in a foggy haze. This makes it more like a fantasy that shines through Russian vices and makes virtue obvious. Russian life is presented visible and tangible, its bad sides are shown with humor and sophistication.

But the main thing is a galaxy of actors who make the performance flawless: S. Makovetsky, V. Dobronravov, M. Sevrinovsky, V. Vdovichenkov, Y. Borisova, I. Kupchenko, M. Volkova, N. Vinokurova, L. Maksakova.

"The Seagull" (Theatre"Satyricon")

Great eccentric Y. Butusov outplays actors' fates in the play. The heroes of this play are clowns, cheerful cheerful idiots, pensive lunatics and aging beauties who have played prima. What happens on the stage is inventive and spontaneous. Madame Arkadina, with her eyes lined up, looks like a witch, in the finale Treplev will try to drown her mother in a rusty bathroom, and Butusov will dance an unknown dance.

Here you will see the bright stars of the "Satyricon" - Polina Raikin, Timofey Tribuntsev, Agrippina Steklova, Lika Nifontova. And by the way: The Seagull received the Golden Mask for directing, for which the best performances in Moscow were nominated.

Anarchy (Sovremennik Theatre)

The untouchable "hooligan" Garik Sukachev is the director of the play, and Mikhail Efremov as Billy "Miscarriage" is the director of this non-conformist action based on the play by the British Mike Packer. The effect that the performance produced is compared to a "bombshell" - so unusual, entertaining and unlike "Sovremennik". What is there on stage, drunken squabbles and anti-government demagoguery!

The story of elderly punks who band together in the hope of making money is spectacular and compelling. In company with M. Efremov you will see D. Pevtsov, V. Mishchenko, M. Selyanskaya, O. Drozdova

"No. 13D" (MKhAT, staged by V. Mashkov)

Each theatergoer of the capital to the question: “What are the best comedy performances in Moscow?”, Invariably answered: “Number thirteen”. The production ran for ten years andaccompanied by constant full houses. But in 2012 she was removed from the theater's repertoire.

The show has been revived again.

With a new cast and a new fashionable format, this is how the hilarious play based on Ray Cooney's crazy story is back. Instead of Vanguard Leontiev, the role of a politician who longs to "indulge in passion" with his secretary is played by Igor Vernik. The role of the "corpse" is portrayed by the unchanging Leonid Timtsunik. The devoted secretary - the “unlucky virgin”, who was played in the last production by Yevgeny Mironov, and now by Sergey Ugryumov, is still madly afraid of his mother and her nurse. Charming Paulina Andreeva (secretary) and touching Irina Pegova (nun) rush around the stage in lacy lingerie.

In number thirteen, everything sparks, falls and explodes. The performance is full of special effects and even full-screen video. In general, there are enough attractions. Apparently, Mashkov invites the viewer to digress from the absurdity in life and watch the absurdity on stage.

The video-comic finale adds to the remake's treasury: the "Chekhov" seagull flies to Kamergersky Lane, managing to hit the Kremlin double-headed eagle and Big Ben along the way. In general, comedy acts like vitamins on the audience: it perfectly raises the tone and improves mood.

Toddler Theater

What are the best performances in theaters in Moscow where you can go with small spectators? After all, for them, theater is emotions, surprise and inspiration. K. Stanislavsky also said: “Children need to play like adults, but only better.”

So, the mostthe best children's performances in Moscow - the TOP five productions that you must see:

• "Peter Pan" (Vakhtangov Theatre) - 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 mischievous girl. A story told for little ones who continue to believe in miracles.
• “The Wizard of Oz” (Meyerhold TKTs) – theater director Lev Ehrenburg will present a magical performance based on the work of L. F. Baum.

• "Alice Through the Looking Glass" (P. N. Fomenko Workshop Theatre) is a classic fantasy for children and adults. This is the first debut of director I. Popovski, who turned the play into a fairy-tale performance. Indeed, the best performances of Moscow are held in the Fomenko workshop, 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 that turn to the audience in different directions and, like puzzles, make up pictures. And the children will watch the production on pillows located in the lobby.