"Actor", theater: history, repertoire, artists, reviews

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

The Theater "Litsedei" (St. Petersburg) works in a special genre that combines clowning, pantomime, tragic farce and variety shows. The theater is known to a wide audience thanks to Vyacheslav Polunin and such numbers as "Blue-Blue-Blue-Canary …", "Nizya" and "Asisyai!".

About the theater

The Theater "Litsedei" (St. Petersburg) began its career in 1969. It was then that A. Skvortsov, V. Polunin, A. Makeev and N. Terentyev met in the pantomime studio under the direction of Eduard Rozinsky at the Lensoviet Palace of Culture.

The name "Litsedei" was coined by Vyacheslav Polunin. The repertoire included such performances: “Tek-Shen”, “Churdaki”, “Petrushka”, “Small Olympics”, “Asisyai-revue” and others. The artists have repeatedly become laureates of various festivals in Russia and abroad, participated in the filming of films, and appeared on television.

In 1991, the "Lyceum" (theater) was closed, but the brand remained. In 2009 it was opened again. At the theater there is a school-studio "Lyceum Lyceum". Actors are trained heregenres of pantomime and clownery. Students are recruited once every three years.

Repertoire

"The Actor" (theater) offers the following performances to the audience:

• "Familyyuki".
• "Northern Tale".
• "New Hochmachi".
• "Fly and saw".
• "Twelfth Night".
• "Stupid Evening".
• "Ayay revue".
• "Space show".
• "Children's ride".
• "Dr. Pirogoff".
• "Hercules".

And others.

Fly and saw

One of the most popular performances regularly given by the "Act Theater" is called "Fly and Saw". This is a show of the world-famous clown with a unique talent, Leonid Leikin. In the last 12 years of his creative activity, he worked in the legendary circus du Soleil. Most recently, he returned to his homeland and now pleases the domestic audience in the theater "Lyceum".

The show "Fly and saw" is collected from the best numbers of Leonid. Together with him, other actors of the theater "Litsedei" also take part in it. The Russian audience has never seen most of these unique numbers.

During the performance, Leonid Leikin talks to the audience, tells them about the life of the theater, about his creative path and about the history of creating his most famous performances. Talking about his friends andcolleagues. In front of the audience, he creates his image - puts on makeup, puts on a wig, puts on a suit and demonstrates the transformation from a storyteller into a clown.

Spectators better hurry to see this performance, as it will not grace the theater repertoire for long, soon Leonid will take him on tour.

Artists

"The Actor" is a theater that is a small but very talented team. These are the artists:

• Anvar Libabov.
• Yuri Muzychenko.
• Robert Gorodetsky.
• Anna Nikitina.
• Leonid Leikin.
• Alexander Kolobov.
• "World Champions" (vocal group).
• Anna Orlova.
• "Young actors" (students of B. Uvarov).

And others.

World Champions

In 2000, a vocal ensemble called "World Champions" appeared at the "Litsedei" theater. It includes five talented girls. As part of the children's choir of radio and television, they traveled all over the world. They have a huge number of prizes and diplomas in their piggy bank. They have earned the right to be called world champions.

Girls work in the style of musical collage, mix. Vocalists sing a cappella and do not need musical instrumental accompaniment. Their vocal arrangements are very beautiful and talented. Their repertoire includes works by Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Bach, songs by the ABBA, The Beatles, etc. FolkRussian, Japanese, Irish, Negro, Jewish, etc. works. They sing blues, rock, chorale, bossa nova, jazz and more.

They do not just sing at their performances, but turn their concerts into performances, into humorous numbers.

Reviews

The audience is very fond of the theater "Litsedei". Reviews about him are mostly laudatory. Theater fans consider him wonderful, and his shows are brilliant. Many attend the same program many times. Theatergoers leave words of deep gratitude to the artists for their talent and ability to make laugh. Admire how professional they are. Spectators say that the theater is always fun and friendly.

Negative reviews can be found about the play "Children's Ride". In general, the show is liked by both adults and children. But the parents of young viewers write that some acts, namely with a Barbie doll and with big-lipped girls, are uninteresting, incomprehensible, filled with stupid humor and even immoral.