The performance "Catch me Can you?": audience reviews, actors, duration

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Reviews about the play "Catch me … Can you?" quite contradictory - they scold and praise him, often they are perplexed, confusing him with the musical of the same name and inattentively reading the poster.

This comedy has nothing to do with the Broadway musical production adapted for the Russian audience. There are no lush scenery, impressive extras, songs and dances. The action is tied around three main characters whose dialogues and relationships will make viewers cry.

Which theater is the performance in

“Catch me if you can” performance at the CDKZH – so often it is written in tabloid announcements on the Internet, online ticket office portals and even on posters. This is false and confusing, disorienting the viewer. This is the name of the musical staged many decades ago on Broadway and not so long ago adapted to the Russian stage.

The comedy, in which beloved and famous artists are involved, is called “Catch me … Can you?”, The performance was staged by the Millennium Theater and for a Western musicalhas nothing to do.

The Millennium Theatre, or the Millennium Theatrical House (that's what its full name sounds like) is one of the oldest and most successful entreprise theaters in our country. Unlike many other creative associations of directors, artists, technical staff, artists, Millennium not only transports its productions around the cities, but also has a relatively permanent venue in the capital, located in the Central House of Culture of Railway Workers, on Komsomolskaya Square, in a house under number 4.

“Catch me… Can you?”, a performance at the Central House of Culture, has reviews not only on specialized portals, theater forums, on resources dedicated to event announcements and ticket sales. This entreprise community has its own pages in all social networks, where you can get acquainted "first hand" with the repertoire, find out where and what kind of performance will be on, clarify the specific composition of the artists on a certain date, as well as read the opinions of the audience and take part in discussions.

Who is the author?

Reviews about the play "Catch me … Can you?" sometimes they ask about the authorship of the plot. You can ask about this directly on the Millennium pages on social networks or from the participants of the production, lingering after the curtain in the hall.

The authorship of the plot is “veiled in legends” and “shrouded in mist”, as one of the artists said with a smile after the premiere. In fact, everything is simple - the comedy is built on anecdotes dedicated to everyday scenes of the earlier return of a man from a longbusiness trips. However, the director replaced the male character with a female one. It turned out so funny that the audience does not recognize the “beard jokes” familiar to everyone without exception in what is happening on the stage since childhood.

Partly based on the play "The Husband Trap", but the performance does not follow its content completely.

What is the play about?

The plot is as old as the world itself - one of the spouses returns to the house after a long absence, and the other has a romantic date. In this case, a wife comes from a business trip and finds her husband with a woman.

At first glance, this is not interesting or funny. Here we can assume flat jokes at the household level or a sitcom.

However, everything is not so banal, which is confirmed by the reviews about the play "Catch me … Can you?", which are full of pages of the Millennium social networks and various forums. A wife finds her husband in an ambiguous situation, but not in a clear one.

Accordingly, the action develops very dynamically along the line: the spouse is trying to catch, and her "strong half" is trying to slip out of the logical traps being set, citing a lot of arguments. The guest comments on everything that happens in a funny way.

Who is the director?

"Catch me… Can you?" - performance by Nina Chusova, graduate of two institutes. First, a native of Voronezh graduated from the State Institute of Arts in her hometown, receiving a diploma in drama actress.

After working for some time at the Samara Gorky Theater, NinaVladimirovna became interested in another profession and entered the directing department at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts - the famous GITIS, which she successfully graduated in 2001.

Reviews about the play "Catch me … Can you?" they note the quality of the production, the lack of protraction in the development of the plot, the dynamism and the skillfully built series of very funny and less explosive jokes.

Meanwhile, this wonderful comedy is not the only work of Nina Vladimirovna. For many years she has been the chief director and artistic director of the Aquamarine Theater of Fairy Tales in Moscow, actively cooperates with various entreprise communities, takes part in festivals and has received more than one award.

Who's on the stage?

The disadvantage of every private production is that the composition of the artists employed on stage is inconsistent.

This fact is indicated by reviews of the play "Catch me … Can you?". Dobronravov is an artist whose performance many viewers want to see, but it is he who is busy in some performances, while another artist plays the same role in others. He is also talented, the performance with him also turns out to be funny, but those who "went to Dobronravov" are disappointed. Some viewers are so upset by this substitution that they give up tickets or leave almost immediately after the show starts.

Most often, such incidents occur during tours in provincial cities. Local organizers do not payattention to such subtleties, and viewers (especially women) do not buy tickets for a performance at all, but solely for the sake of their favorite artist.

It's easy to avoid this situation. It is enough just to clarify who will be busy in the next performance of Catch Me If You Can. The actors don't like this organization either, as it creates a somewhat tense atmosphere.

Tatyana Vasilyeva, Elena Safonova, Nikolai Dobrynin or Fedor Dobronravov, Maria Bolonkina or Elena Silova, Philip Vasilyev are busy in comedy.

How does it look?

Although the composition of the artists does not affect the quality of the production, this nuance has a rather noticeable effect on the perception of the performance by the audience.

In the performance of the CDKJ "Catch me … Can you?", the actors reveal their hero in different ways:

• Dobronravov - in the first act there are many dialogues, enhanced by plastic techniques, many pauses filled with facial expressions and gestures. In the second act - an abundance of fuss on stage.
• Dobrynin - throughout the performance, the character has a persistent “presumption of innocence”. His hero does not run, does not wriggle, on the contrary, he behaves as if he is not caught "hot".

This must be taken into account when going to the theater. Both versions of the performance are good, but the humor is more "squeamish" when Fyodor Dobronravov is busy. His hero is simpler, he is a guy "from the people", although, of course, "with cunning".

The husband played by Nikolai Dobrynin is an intellectual, a kind of philosopher. There is no "grimacing", mimicry techniques, but extremely expressivespeech.

To put it simply, if you are going to a performance with Dobrynavov, you need to take binoculars, and at a production with Dobrynin, listen carefully.

Are the acts different?

Quite often in comedies, the first and second acts are significantly different. For example, a light beginning has a serious continuation, or vice versa, a difficult in perception plot gets an unreasonably blurred ending.

There is nothing like this in this performance. It does not carry a hidden meaning, does not touch on deep life issues and does not raise philosophical topics, like, say, everyone's favorite film "Toy" with Pierre Richard.

This is a simple comedy for relaxing, not at all tense and the same in both acts. This is exactly what the performance “Catch me… Can you?” is good for, the audience reviews note its unobtrusiveness, exceptional positiveness, ease of viewing and desire to visit again.

How long does it take?

The total duration of the event may vary in different cities, as it depends on the duration of the intermission. Each organizer leaves for a break between the first and second action the amount of time that he considers necessary. In the same city, but at different venues, there may not be the same duration of the performance. Somewhere the break will last five minutes, and in another place - all twenty.

The action itself lasts 1 hour 43 minutes. Accordingly, when going to the theater, you must have at least a couple of free hours.

Are there any restrictions?

This production has a 16+ status, probably due to the theme of the action taking place on stage. In fact, there are no dirty jokes, nudity, dark humor or anything like that that can offend someone's morals or affect the fragile souls of teenagers.

This is a light family comedy, full of understandable humor and funny scenes, a kind of "life story" that you can go to without any fears with children, with elderly parents, and during a romantic date.

What genre?

Provincial posters and online checkout portals often write the word "comedy" under everything, without going into the intricacies of the genre. This also does not benefit either the performances or the audience.

Tragic farce is different from sitcom, intellectual humor is different from mundane, and each person has his own understanding of what is funny. Therefore, situations arise when the audience is dissatisfied and, of course, write about it in the reviews about the event. As a rule, they go to laugh, but find themselves in a serious performance filled with grotesque and artistic techniques.

There is nothing like this in the case of this performance. This is an absolute classic comedy, intended solely for recreation and does not affect any global issues. You can safely go to the performance on Friday evening, after a hard week of work, a lot of positive emotions, a lot of laughter and a great rest are guaranteed.

What are they saying?

This production is perhaps the only one about which they write that itvery short. With a running time of more than an hour and a half, Catch Me… Can You?

In the assessment of acting work, opinions differ, which should not be surprising. Fans of Fedor Dobronravov do not enjoy the presentation of the character by Nikolai Dobrynin.

All spectators who have published reviews of their perception of the performance note not only its kindness and positivity, but also the fact that what is happening on the stage is completely neutral and understandable to everyone, both a professor from a university and a locksmith from a factory.

In general, according to the reviews, the performance is good for relaxation, it is worth going to see it. The price of tickets for it is quite democratic. In Moscow, you can buy them for about 1,300 rubles. In the provinces, the price depends on the organizers, but, as a rule, it is lower than in the capital.