The capital presents a huge number of performances according to the school curriculum and works that are considered classics of world literature.

When is it worth watching a play: before reading the original or after? The answer is not straightforward. As practice shows, it is still better to watch the performance after reading a literary work. Then you have your own view of the material read, a concept is formed, an understanding of the plot, the arrangement of characters is clear. The work of art is analyzed in the classroom, accents are set.

If you watch the performance before reading it, then the student often gets the thought: “Why read if you've seen the performance? If the plot is clear and the characters are familiar? "

There are a number of performances staged based on the works of Russian and Western classics that do not take place in school, but every educated person should know them. Therefore, if you look at them even without reading the original, then this in itself is wonderful. This series is opened by Shakespeare, Stendhal, Mark Twain, Salinger ...

It is important not only what to watch, but also where, because theater directors can interpret the author's text in different ways and present familiar classics to everyone in such a way that not only adults, but also children will be “embarrassed” from what they see.

Now you can take a more substantive look at the playbill of Moscow theaters and analyze the repertoire designed for a teenage audience.

Small theater

This is a win-win. The classics never leave the stage. Wonderful actors, classic interpretation of the piece, rich costumes, sets and props.

The peculiarity of this theater is that it is difficult to get tickets for performances according to the school curriculum - they are bought by schools. Therefore, you need to take care in advance, two months in advance, in order to purchase tickets for the desired performance.

RAMT (Russian Academic Youth Theater)

Located opposite the Maly Theater. The performances staged on its stage are designed for a youthful audience. The works for which they are delivered are not included in the compulsory program, but belong to the treasury of world literature:

The theater has a classic vision of the staged material.

Children's Musical Theater. N. I. Sats

With an orchestra pit. And this says a lot: about live music, about beautiful voices (how else in a musical theater?) The hall is equipped for young spectators, with wonderful acoustics and the rise of the auditorium, the stage is clearly visible from any place.

The theater is also interesting in that it acquaints the audience with various genres of theatrical art: opera, ballet, musical. Each performance is adapted for children. On the stage of the theater are the operas Thumbelina, The Magic Flute, Twelve Months, Eugene Onegin, The Marriage, ballets Cinderella, Swan Lake, Sherlock Holmes, The Nutcracker, the musical The Magician Of the Emerald City ".

Theatrical creations

Reading the names of the performances, it is impossible to imagine how this can be “portrayed” on the stage, where the means of expression and presentation of material are limited by space? Everything is now possible in cinematography, computer graphics will "draw" any imagination of the creator. And how on stage, for example, to convey the movements (workshop of P. Fomenko)? The director of the play I. Popovski did it masterly. It is not clear how, but the impression is enchanting! No wonder you can't get to this performance.

And how to stage classics using dolls instead of actors? masterfully coped with this task. On its stage there are performances: "Little Tragedies", "Concert of Chichikov with an orchestra", "Gulliver", "The Night Before Christmas". An action is played out on the stage, where actors and puppets are partners. For example, the faces of the dolls of Korobochka, Sobakevich and other characters in Dead Souls are so emotional that they seem to be replaying the real actors.

And how to play the novel "Catcher in the Rye" on a stage the size of a patch? How to keep the audience in suspense for two unnecessary hours, when there are no special effects, no scenery, no change of costumes? And who to keep? The most critical, ironic audience - teenagers? The theater at the Nikitsky gate does it wonderfully well. Proof? Try to buy tickets for a show.

"Carefully! Children"

And there are enough such modernly interpreted performances in Moscow. A striking example of this is the production of Eugene Onegin at the Taganka Theater. Yuri Lyubimov put this novel in one act. It seems, not because he was afraid that half of the audience would leave the theater during the intermission? The performance is conditional: there are no classical theatrical attributes. It resembles an amateur concert. Instead of decorations - some kind of cardboard partitions, curtains, ladders. One went out - spoke the text quickly and left, followed by the second. He rattled off the words in his own way and left. Each Pushkin character performs with his own solo number and his task is to surprise the audience, no matter what.

In an effort to modernize the "poem in verse", the director included jazz, rap, Russian and African folk in the performance. The performance leaves an ambiguous impression. Where is the lightness and airiness of Pushkin's line? Where is the poetic tenderness and sadness?

The task of any theatrical performance is seen in arousing the interest of the younger generation in literature and other types of arts. And there are many performances that serve this very idea. Search, read reviews and don't just rely on the title of the show.

The performance is SUPER! Tickets are sold only at the box office of the theater itself and you need to buy them in advance, they are quickly sorted out. Most of the children at the show were between 10 and 15 years old. Many came in groups with teachers. But despite the fact that there were few adults and many children, there was practically no control over the children, they did not break away from the performance. And they did not let the artists go after the performance for a very long time! And mothers and teachers came out with tear-stained eyes.

Performances for children 12-13 years old

• Much ado about nothing - Theater of the Russian Army, Theater named after Pushkin
• Twelfth night (the play is not going anywhere yet)
• "Romeo and Juliet" (held according to the 8th grade program). The play is at the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky and in the Satyricon. My children watched it at the Moscow Art Theater, they liked it. Most of the spectators are teenagers, they clapped for a long time, the artists were not released, they liked it so much.
• Every day is not Sunday
• Like a cat walked wherever he pleases - RAMT, black room
• Fairy tales just in case - RAMT
• Think about us - RAMT
• Bourgeois in the nobility (grade 7)

By the way, RAMT has a club for teenagers and their parents "Theatrical Dictionary"

Performances from 13 to 15 years old

• Don Quixote (Grade 9) - RAMT
• Poverty is not a vice, Our people are numbered (grade 9) - Maly Theater, Moscow Art Theater
• And the dawns here are quiet - it was highly recommended to watch at the RAMT, but since 2010 the performance has not been performed
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - Theater in the Southwest
• Eugene Onegin (grade 9)
• Lyceum student (about Pushkin) - Sfera theater.
• Inspector - Maly Theater.
  The Maly Theater has an excellent Inspector General. A full hall of schoolchildren, everyone clapped, did not let the artists go. Tickets can be bought quite easily at the city ticket offices. But at the box office of the theater, tickets are better and cheaper.
• The Minor - Maly Theater.
  This performance is always sold out, tickets are sold only at the box office of the theater. But the play itself is somehow crumpled at the end. Fonvizin did not think of something, he finished the play with some utopian ideas. This leaves a feeling of wasted time. It's a pity for the actors, they gave their best by 150%.

Performances 15+

• Scarlet sails - RAMT (from 16 years old, and not all. See

We all fondly remember going to the theaters of our childhood, to this wonderful world of magic and reincarnation. So let's return to it with our grown children. We offer an overview of the theatrical premieres of the 2015-16 season for viewers of the so-called 12+ category.

Moscow Theater of the Young Spectator presents the season premiere - a performance for the whole family "Penguins"... The new work by Evgenia Berkovich (a student of Kirill Serebrennikov) is based on the play by the German playwright Ulrich Hub "At the Ark at Eight". Your attention will be offered a witty variation on the theme of the famous biblical legend about the Flood. The main characters are a trinity of stupid, ridiculous, but very cute penguins who are killing time in anticipation of Noah. They play the balalaika, they play amazing penguin blues, and they just fool around. They endlessly argue and quarrel over trifles, pester everyone with stupid questions and stink terribly of fish. Meanwhile, the Ark with the penguin trio, Noah and his motley crew on board, overcoming the boundaries of space and time, moves in an unknown direction, which will be determined by the audience.

Moscow, Mamonovsky lane, 10

The premiere took place on 09.10.2015.

Theater on Malaya Bronnaya invites you to the premiere performance of director Yegor Arsenov "The True Story of Freken Bock"... This is an extraordinary one-man show performed by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Ekaterina Durova.

The author of the play, Oleg Mikhailov, offers to get acquainted with the famous "house-tormentor" from the book about the Kid and Carlson from a completely different side. Working in the house of the Svanteson family is just an episode in the life of Miss Bok, who was the same age as the last century. Now she is many years old, her husband died long ago, but there are no children. Freken Bock still lives in the Swedish wilderness among her old belongings - suitcases, floor lamps, sewing machines, televisions and old furniture. Talking with them, with the audience, and even with herself, she begins to recall aloud the story of her long life. And suddenly, from an old shuffling ruin, Miss Bok turns into a little provincial girl. And together with her, viewers see objects come to life: the sewing machine turns out to be a steam locomotive, and the floor lamp turns out to be a doctor for whom she once served. Before us will appear a completely different Miss Bok - a kind, mischievous, loving woman who knows how to believe in a dream. In the finale of the play, she goes out the window, as if she knows for sure that they are waiting for her - either in a house on the roof, or in heaven ...

The premiere took place on 28.08.16.

Main stage Theater on Malaya Bronnaya is waiting for its guests at the premiere of the play "Trees die while standing" based on the play by the Spanish playwright Alejandro Cason, directed by Yuri Ioffe. In the plot of the play, two elements converge - love and sacrifice, two passions - to live and play, entering into a desperate battle with cruel life circumstances.

An elderly couple who lost their children raised their grandson, who went on a criminal path, and ran away from home 20 years ago. All these years, grandfather, Señor Balboa, has been writing letters to his beloved wife on his behalf. Instead of a thief and a bandit, he creates the image of an intelligent and kind person, a talented architect, a happy family man. "Letters" from the grandson bring the inconsolable grandmother back to life. Señor Balboa hires comedians posing as Mauricio and his young wife, who have come to visit their nest. And here the skillful farce almost turns into a tragedy. For each of the heroes, this story becomes a test of nobility and humanity.

Moscow, st. Malaya Bronnaya, 4

The premiere will take place on November 25, 2016.

Legendary Small theater invites viewers to watch a new stage version of the comedy "Every day is not Sunday" based on one of the most witty and funny plays by the great Russian playwright A. Ostrovsky. It’s hard to believe, but this year marks 145 years since this performance was staged on the stage of the Maly Theater. The new production of the play is presented by the Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation Vitaly Ivanov. The music for the play was written by the composer Maxim Dunaevsky. The cautionary story of a modest girl Agnia from a poor family will be presented to the attention of the audience. Two people are trying to get her hands - the rich merchant Akhov and his clerk Ippolit. The arrogant merchant Akhov consoles himself with the thought that money and expensive gifts decide everything, believing that the naive twenty-year-old Agnia will be seduced by his wealth. But sincere feelings are more important than material wealth and, appreciating courage, courage and determination, Agnia gives her consent to Hippolytus.

The premiere took place on 03/15/16.

Small theater invites its viewers to another premiere of the new season - a fun performance based on the early stories of A.P. Chekhov (then still Antosha Chekhonte) "Rereading Chekhov" staged by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Elena Olenina. The play combines nine Chekhov's stories - "Joy", "Who to Pay", "Comedian", "In a Foreign Land", "Long Tongue", "Defenseless Creature", "Diplomat", "Wallet" and "Lucky". Chekhov, like no one else, knew how to subtly and ironically ridicule human vices, the desire for profit and easy money. The heroes of the play are smart and cunning, laugh and sad, find themselves in unexpected comic situations. The problems raised by the classic are still relevant in our time, so the performance is quite modern and looks in the same breath.

Moscow, st. Bolshaya Ordynka, 69

The premiere took place on 22.03.16.

Small theater presents a new play directed by Andrey Tsisaruk "Late love" based on the play of the same name by A. Ostrovsky. Perhaps this is one of the most touching works of the classics. The once famous, but now impoverished, Moscow lawyer Margaritov rents a room with his adult daughter Lyudmila. A bookcase, a desk, a hanger, a table and a bench - this is the uncomplicated interior of the "boondocks". But even in this unremarkable atmosphere of measured life, passions are sometimes played out. The daughter is in love with the master's son Nikolai, a dissolute and riotous guy. To save her beloved, Lyudmila is ready to deceive her father and go to steal an important document. Where will her desperate act lead? Through subtle acting, the audience will be led through the labyrinths of the human soul, made to sympathize, laugh, empathize, tremble and hope ... A play about love - real, funny, venal, timid and strong. About late love ...

Moscow, st. Bolshaya Ordynka, 69

The premiere took place on 20.12.15

"Chanterelle. Love"- the first opera premiere of the 50th anniversary season Children's musical theater them. Natalia Sats... The play is based on Leoš Janáček's opera The Adventures of the Cheat Fox. The seemingly simple life of the main character Chanterelle in the retelling of the theater actors becomes as complex as the life of each of us. “The story of Chanterelle, who lives, falls in love, raises children, and then dies - this is a parable about the cyclical nature of life, that winter turns into spring, spring - into summer, summer - into autumn, and so from year to year, always. There is no pathos in this, but only this is the point, ”says the director of the play, Georgy Isahakyan. The play is addressed primarily to adolescents, teenagers, young people who are just entering adulthood, thinking about its meaning, about love, about losses and about their place in this huge, complex and beautiful world ...

Moscow, Vernadsky Ave., 5

The premiere of the performance is 16 and 17.10.16.

Another extraordinary premiere in theater them. N. Sats- play "Love Kills" based on the opera by Juan Hidalgo de Polanco on the text of the great Pedro Calderón de la Barca “Celos aun del aire matan” (“Jealousy kills with just a glance”). This opera, which is an outstanding but little-known phenomenon of the “Spanish baroque opera-zarzuela”, was staged a few times during its three and a half centuries of existence and even today remains the most majestic masterpiece of this genre, preserved in its entirety. The play was created by director Georgy Isahakyan in collaboration and thanks to the enthusiasm and encyclopedic knowledge of one of the best Baroque harpers in Europe, Grammy award winner, Andrew Lawrence-King. The famous conductor described this opera production in an interview with Nezavisimaya Gazeta as follows: Love Kills is a Spanish-Spanish opera: a bright, dynamic, explosive mixture of tragedy and comedy, with fiery rhythms and wonderful melodies. And I am sure that the audience will love her from the first sounds. "

"Woe from Wit" directed by Alexander Yatsko is a rare example of a modern, but respectful attitude to the classics. The actors are dressed in costumes like from a stylish boutique, but at the same time they thoughtfully pronounce the text of Griboyedov's comedy without distortion. The reduction affected only six princesses of the Tugoukhovskys: it would be cramped for them on the small “Stage under the roof”. Woe from Wit at the Mossovet Theater is a chamber story of young people, fashionable and uncompromising.

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Experiment of the famous theater

The French director proposed an avant-garde version of reading Gogol's text. The whole phantasmagoria is played by punks - in black leather suits with heavy metal rivets, with sophisticated tattoos, colored mohawks on their heads. The puppets on the stage are just as unusual for the Moscow audience. Together with the performers, they appear as a kind of centaurs, and at some moments the actor conducts a dialogue with the doll, which he himself controls.

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A great play played without words

In this interpretation, not a single word of Gogol sounds, there are no words at all in it. Director Sergei Zemlyansky is known for converting literature into plastic art. In just an hour and a half, the actors in the dance will transmit simultaneously a satirical and lyrical story about the life of people in a provincial city where they live with their weaknesses and hopes.

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Classic production with puppets

Gogol's play is only slightly abbreviated, focusing on human relations rather than satirical cartoons. Puppet characters are charming in the first place, and therefore evoke not only sympathy, but understanding. Unexpected decisions arise when puppets interact with characters played by actors in a "live plan" (as in puppet theater they speak of a technique when an actor plays a role exclusively by means of dramatic theater).

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This is just the beginning

They are just talking about the war, and they only gather about it, flaunting it. The world is represented by Moscow and St. Petersburg families with Natasha and Andrey beginning to grow up. The masterpiece of director Pyotr Fomenko takes almost four hours, but it is perceived in one breath. The actors barely have time to present the events of the incomplete first volume of the great novel, playing several diverse roles and demonstrating the enchanting skill for which the audience fell in love with the Fomenok.

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A great actress talks about a great poet

Alla Demidova does not just present the poems of Anna Akhmatova, which she often did in her reading programs. She talks about Akhmatova and acts by reading the text in mise-en-scènes and scenography by Kirill Serebrennikov, surrounded by modern sound design and video animation. The neon inscription in Latin, adorning the Fountain House in St. Petersburg, "God preserves everything" becomes an important detail of the design, which lasts only an hour, but is extremely saturated with meanings of the production.

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A performance for advanced teens and their advanced parents

Evgeny Mironov tried on the role of the Narrator, who in the incredibly beautiful performance of the world theater star Bob Wilson wears a red wig and dangles his legs, sitting on an oak tree above a learned cat. He ironically comments on what is happening, then driving around in a red convertible instead of shipbuilders, then instantly aging, sharing with the public the little-known "Tale of the Bear". The play is a reason to look at the poems learned from childhood with a fresh look from a foreign visionary director.

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Theater as a garden

Of course, in order to accept this performance, one must accept the manner of play of Renata Litvinova, who does not play Ranevskaya here, but lives in this way, ironically over her own intonations and gestures. Nevertheless, she takes pity on her "idiot" heroine. The garden itself, as interpreted by director Adolf Shapiro, is a theater. New actors are replacing the old masters, who are represented here by Nikolai Chindyaykin and Sergey Dreiden, and the usual curtain with a seagull does not open, but breaks up into segments, cutting the space of the entire legendary stage of the Moscow Art Theater, becoming like flowering trees in a cold spring.