The play "Freaks" with Dobronravov: audience reviews and content

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

The performance "Freaks" with Dobronravov collects a variety of reviews. Some people write about how boring and uninteresting it is to watch what is happening, others admire the work of their favorite artist, others point out the difference between the first and second acts.

Such a significant variation in the opinions of the audience about this performance is due to the fact that not everyone clearly understands what exactly they are going to watch. As a rule, in announcements and on posters it is written - the performance-comedy "Freaks" with Dobronravov.

Accordingly, most of those who buy tickets go to laugh and relax, but they end up at a comedy, but very serious dramatic performance that requires attention and thought.

About the play

The performance "Freaks" with Dobronravov, reviews of which are very opposite - a project directed by Alexander Nazarov, conceived as a benefit performance for the leading actor. The basis for the production was the stories of Vasily Shukshin. Used for the show9 stories presented in two acts separated by an intermission.

In the first act, the audience will see:

• Cherednichenko and the Circus;
• "Cosmos, nervous system and shmat fat";
• "Exam";
• "Microscope";
• "Mil's sorry, madam."

The second act presents the following works by the Soviet artist, director and writer:

• "I believe!";
• "The Visitor";
• "Non-resistance Makar Zherebtsov";
• "Crankshafts".

It makes sense before you go to the theater to read or refresh Shukshin's stories. Spectators, who understand what exactly they will see, leave extremely positive reviews about the play "Freaks" with Dobronravov.

The director wonders if all of us, born and raised in the Soviet Union, have remained dreamers, altruists, for whom a common goal is important, going to a bright future, or have all these qualities been lost for a long time, or maybe they and are simply outdated.

Of course, people who come just to laugh and look at their favorite artist are not ready to accept Shukshin's serious and subtle dramaturgy, though filled with kind ironic humor. Moreover, for those who are not at all familiar with the work of this legendary person and life in the distant 70s in the Soviet Union, what is happening on stage is simply incomprehensible.

The production was carried out by the production center "Fyodor Dobronravov". The performance "Freaks", reviews of which the audience often leaveoutraged and negative, － not the first work of the creative team. The employees of the Center themselves are proud of the production, considering it a great creative success.

Who's on stage?

Reviews about the performance "Freaks" with Dobronravov in St. Petersburg are ambiguous, they are filled with an assessment of the game of the main character and other participants in the performance.

Since the production is a benefit performance, all the main roles, and there are many of them - 9, are played by Fedor Dobronravov. In addition to him, artists of famous and beloved theaters are busy on the stage:

• Olga Lerman from the Vakhtangov troupe;
• Ivan Dobronravov from "Anton Chekhov";
• Alexander Chernyavsky from the legendary Theater of Satire;
• Natalia Ryzhykh from "Satyricon".

The scenography of the performance was done by Ilariya Nikonenko, and the costumes of the characters were done by Lada Shvedova.

How does it look?

It is impossible to say that "Freaks" look in one breath. Although all the stories that have become the literary basis of the presentation are organically united by a common idea, logically continue each other, they are still different. Therefore, nine "breaths" will also be needed.

It's hard to call the play funny. Theoretically, this is a comedy; what is happening on stage cannot be attributed to melodrama or tragedy. However, there is not much to laugh at, the irony of Vasily Shukshin is quite specific, it requires understanding what the author is talking about.

There are no flat banal jokes here, moreover, there is nothing that would be clearpeople who did not grow up in those distant years when the action takes place. There is no adaptation to modern consumer perception. Therefore, it is worth going to the performance either for those who are familiar with the work of the Soviet writer, artist and director, or for those who are interested in what people lived in those years. The mentality of the Soviet common man is perfectly conveyed in the performance.

What are they saying?

The audience talks a lot, the performance "Freaks" with Dobronravov has reviews on every portal that sells tickets, on all existing theater forums and, of course, in every social network.

There are far more negative responses than positive ones. They write with emotions, indignation, they note how many people leave the performance during the intermission and even in the middle of the first act. But if we analyze such statements, for example, on social networks, since you can see in them who exactly wrote the comment, then the following picture emerges - those born after the 80th year are dissatisfied.

And since this age group is the most active on the Internet, people related to it most often write and discuss something, the reason for the predominance of negative responses to the performance becomes obvious. It's just that this production is designed for a completely different audience.