Theater of modern comedy. Comedy. Further development of the young theater

Comedy is one of the favorites theatrical genres for many millennia now. And this is not surprising. Translated from Greek, the word means a drunken procession with singing; its origins are a ritual dedicated to the god Dionysus.

The main goal of comedy is to make the audience laugh. Modern artists successfully cope with this difficult work. Various aspects of social life, situations, and characters are ridiculed on stage. As a rule, the production contains not only humor, but also grotesque and satire, which makes the performance instructive and at the same time light and fun.

Comedy performances in Moscow

Among the authors of the most interesting comedy performances are Italian and Spanish, English and Russian playwrights. Performances in the style of sitcoms and cabaret, funny detective stories, witty satire and stand-up comedy - the Moscow audience has a huge choice.

A Nightmare on Lursin Street is a mesmerizing French vaudeville at the Satire Theater directed by Alexander Shirvind. Male comedy Ladies Night. Only for women captivates already star cast actors, including Gosha Kutsenko, Mikhail Politseymako, Pyotr Krasilov. Ideal husband at the Moscow Art Theater A.P. Chekhov - a toothy performance based on the works of Oscar Wilde.

And also - Ma-Mure - at the Russian Army Theater. Birds - at the Et Cetera Theater. Rhinoceros - at the P. N. Fomenko Workshop Theater. Poplars and the wind - at the Satyricon Theater and many others interesting productions. Each performance is a discovery, and this is a must-see if you buy a ticket to the show.

Comedy is incredibly popular in our time, and indeed, it has always been so - it is one of the most beloved and sought-after theater genres. She lifts the mood and tells the most simple stories in a light, cheerful manner, causing smiles, laughter, and laughter from the audience. The term itself comedy“from time immemorial has caused a lot of controversy among dramaturgy researchers, because the nature of laughter is so diverse that all philosophical and social postulates are not enough to describe it. Be that as it may, one of the functions of comedy should be called knowledge of reality, or its heuristic function. That is, comedy allows us to evaluate what is happening from new points of view and contains important components for reflection. Comedy- not just a dummy, it is a whole work, sometimes containing deep meanings, which very tactfully or clearly teaches something, instructs, and not only actively affects the viewer’s emotions.

It is precisely due to the diversity of the comic that various subtypes of comedy were born: the genre that makes us smile can be lyrical comedy, or adventure, farce, vaudeville, satire and many, many others. These subgenres arose due to the use of various artistic techniques by playwrights. Also, comedy, among other things, also has an intra-genre classification. If you divide " comedy» according to the so-called social aspect, then we get the fact that a dramatic comedy work can be “low” or “high”. “Low” comedy means that the work is based on farcical situations, and “high” comedy means that the opus has a high meaning, it is subordinated to serious social and moral problems. For a more precise understanding, let us give examples: the famous work “Woe from Wit” is considered to be high comedy, the works of Aristophanes are related to it, but the works of F. Koni belong to the “low” comedy. The social orientation of comedies divides them into lyrical and satirical. Surely, our reader has already guessed what the difference between such a classification will be - a lyrical comedy means that the author sympathizes with his heroes, and a satirical one is full of ridicule and sarcastic jokes aimed at social vices, or any character flaws. For example, “Dog in the Manger” is a lyrical comedy, and Moliere’s “Tartuffe” can be classified as satirical. Among other things, comedy is divided into two types according to composition and artistic construction (architectonics): comedy of situations and comedy of characters. The first one is built on unexpected and bright plot twists, and many enterprise productions can be classified as such comedy. The comedy of characters is populated by psychologism, and of course, by the confrontation of personalities - someone is trying to change someone else in terms of character, as, for example, in Shakespeare’s play “The Taming of the Shrew.” According to the type of plot, a comedy work can be everyday, romantic, heroic, fairy-tale and symbolic, and generally very diverse. In general, all of the above classifications are quite arbitrary: after all, each individual creation of a particular playwright will always be wider than any established framework. Comedy is an incredibly huge, dynamic and developing genre of theatrical art, which will always amaze with its limitless variety of forms.

Tickets for comedy performances in Moscow

Comedy performances in Moscow are grandiose, funny, avant-garde productions filled with humor, in which there is no place for cynical, offensive jokes. Only high-quality humor, satire, parody, vaudeville - everything that the audience likes and that provides good mood. These are the kind of performances offered by Moscow theaters - the Satyricon Theater, the Satire Theater, Quartet I and other equally famous theater venues.

Using the Bilettorg.ru service, you can buy tickets to a comedy performance in any theater in Moscow, having previously studied the layout of their halls and selected the most convenient seats. By purchasing tickets to comedies using our resource, you receive guarantees that the planned leisure time in the theater will definitely take place. Give yourself and your loved ones joyful moments - book theater tickets for a comedy and you will have a wonderful chance to heal with laughter therapy and fill your soul with positivity.

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Laughter is a serious matter, so in order to choose a suitable comedy and laugh heartily, let’s first understand the intricacies of the genre.

Usually there are comedy of situations, comedy of manners and comedy of masks. In a sitcom they laugh at funny situation, in which the heroes found themselves: “ Barber of Seville"Monsieur Beaumarchais, "The Bourgeois in the Nobility" by Monsieur Molière. Sir William Shakespeare loved sitcoms: Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew. From Russian authors- “The Bear” by Mr. Chekhov, “The Inspector General” and “Marriage” by Mr. Gogol.

In a comedy of manners, the characters' characters, their exaggerated traits or passions are ridiculed. In Russia, this type of comedy is not very popular, since they are first introduced to it not in the theater but at school - this is “The Minor” by Mr. Fonvizin, “Woe from Wit” by Mr. Griboyedov. And everything that we “passed” at school leaves a sad aftertaste, even if it’s a comedy. Although there are classic comedies morals that are widely known, but are not part of school curriculum. For example, “Tartuffe” by Molière,” “The Power of Money” by Mirbeau, “The School of Scandal” and “The Rivals” by Sheridan.

Classics Italian comedy There are two masks considered to be Carlo - Goldoni and Gozzi. Carlo Gozzi known in our country not only for the sold-out production of “Princess Turandot” at the Vakhtangov Theater, but also for the film adaptations of “The Deer King” and “The Love for Three Oranges”. They also know Carlo Gozzi from Trufaldino from Bergamo in “The Servant of Two Masters.” And Carlo Goldoni is known to Moscow theatergoers for his play “The Carnival Joke,” based on his comedy “The Innkeeper.”

Some viewers believe that the main thing is not to choose a genre, but to choose the “right venue,” for example, the Theater in the South-West, and go there to all performances in a row. Others prefer to once choose a cheerful actor and not cheat on him, for example, they go to see Maria Aronova at the Vakhtangov Theater or other venues where she performs. For example, to the Vakhtangov Theater for Mademoiselle Nitouche. This cheerful operetta was staged both in the theater and in the cinema - in French with Louis de Funes, and in Russian with Andrei Mironov and Lyudmila Gurchenko.

Or you can combine the choice of a genre, for example, comedy of masks with the choice of a proven “venue” and go to the Theater in the South-West to see “The Carnival Joke”, based on the comedy “The Innkeeper” by Carlo Goldoni.

There are also those theatergoers who one day choose a writer of funny plays for themselves and go to the theater “to see the author.” For example, we love the American Ken Ludwig, known for Borrow a Tenor and Prima Donna. Or the French comedian Georges Feydeau. Georges Feydeau's play "The Ladies' Tailor" has been staged for a long time and willingly, and his "Key to the Bedroom" (2003) was even filmed by Eldar Ryazanov. Such spectators have a direct route to the Moscow Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin, where Feydeau’s “The Ladies’ Tailor” and “Borrow a Tenor” by Ludwig are staged. In the first comedy there is a small love affair young husband leads to him having to impersonate... a ladies' tailor! It's hard to go wrong with Borrow a Tenor - it was a success on Broadway, won nine awards, including two Broadway Tony Awards, was translated into eight languages, and is going well Worldwide.

Chekhov's Moscow Art Theater is staging another play by Ludwig - "Primadonnas" - a sort of "race in bags for money": two unemployed actors find out that a millionaire advanced years is looking for nieces lost in childhood in order to give them his millions. The guys decide to take a risk and play a comedy with disguises.

We also love the American playwright Neil Simon. Only on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theater were his plays “Banquet”, “Chapter Two” and “Divorce Like a Man” successfully staged.

And his play “Barefoot in the Park” was staged at the Pushkin Theater, “California Suite” is successfully performed at the Satire Theater, “Fools” at the Satire Theater, “Biloxi Blues” at the Tabakov Theater, “Lonely Games” at the Vakhtangov Theater " “Divorce, a Man’s Way” is a funny comedy about the relationships between men and women, based on the play “The Odd Couple” by the famous American playwright Neil Simon. This comedy was a success on Broadway, and later the play was made into a TV series and a film with the popular American actor Jack Lemmon. The play is performing with enchanting success. theater stages all over the world.

If you like British humor, then go see “The Too Married Taxi Driver” by English playwright Ray Cooney, directed by Alexander Shirvindt. This most famous comedy by Ray Cooney was included in the honorary list of the 100 best dramatic works Great Britain of the twentieth century. In total, Cooney wrote more than twenty comedies, which have been translated into 40 languages ​​and are performed on the stages of many theaters around the world. He is one of the highest-grossing playwrights - more than 100 million tickets have already been sold for performances based on his plays.

Or you can try a German-French cocktail prepared by the German author of historical adventure novels Georg Born and French playwright Eugene Scribe. Old good classic, at which more than one generation of spectators has died of laughter - “Secrets of the Madrid Court” at the Branch of the Maly Theater on Bolshaya Ordynka. The very name of the play has become a phraseological unit or, as they would say now, a hashtag. “Secrets of the Madrid Court” means an intricacy of secrets and intrigues, reminiscent of a tangled ball of multi-colored threads, where, by pulling one, you can unexpectedly pull out several others. French princess Margarita, smart and charming, will unravel a tangle of ten palace intrigues With love secrets, will free his brother the king from Spanish captivity, find love and become the queen of Navra.

And finally, gourmets can recommend the amazing international cocktail “Barber of Seville” in New Opera, where they took the French libretto by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, music Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini, and then they added the Estonian conductor Eri Klas, the Anglo-Australian director Elijah Moshinsky and the English artist Anne Tilby. It turned out fun, modern and professional.

So ten best comedies on Moscow stages that you need to see:

"Too Married Taxi Driver".