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Comedy. Top Ten Theatrical Comedies

Comedy is one of my favorites theatrical genres it has been for many millennia. And this is not surprising. Translated from Greek word denotes a drunken procession with singing, in its origins a rite dedicated to the god Dionysus.

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

Comedy performances in Moscow

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

A Nightmare on Rue Lursin is a mesmerizing French vaudeville at the Theater of Satire directed by Alexander Shirvind. Men's comedy Ladies Night. For women only, it captivates with an already stellar cast of actors, including Gosha Kutsenko, Mikhail Politseymako, Pyotr Krasilov. The ideal husband in the Moscow Art Theater. A. P. Chekhov - a toothy performance based on the works of Oscar Wilde.

And also - Ma-Mure - in the Theater Russian Army. Birds - in the Theater Et Cetera. Rhinoceros - in the Theater Workshop P. N. Fomenko. Poplars and wind - in the Satyricon Theater and many others interesting performances. Each performance is a discovery, and it must be seen by buying a ticket for the performance.

Now comedy can safely be classified as one of the most popular genres in the world. theatrical art. Such productions attract the attention of a large number of today's domestic viewers.

It should be noted that comedy is not exclusively a theatrical genre. After all, she appeared at about the same time, both on stage and in literature. At the same time, this direction was already quite widespread in Ancient Greece and Rome, as well as some other countries ancient world. During its existence this genre has undergone significant changes. Over the years, many of its branches and sub-categories have appeared, such as sitcom, romantic comedy, black comedy and many others. At the same time, each country in the world still has its own characteristics and features of the comedy genre associated with religion, lifestyle, traditions and customs. After all, the main meaning of such productions and literary works is a witty derision negative traits character of people and vices of society. In addition, in each era, its own shortcomings or features seem ridiculous and absurd. And in the twentieth century, this incredibly bright and revealing genre also penetrated the cinema, where it began to enjoy no less success than on the theater stage. But even today the number of those wishing to buy tickets for a performance from the Comedy section is not decreasing at all. After all, only here the audience can enjoy lively emotions and watch the rapid change of funny events in real time. This stage direction has long been known in our country. In Russia, as well as in many other parts of the world, professional productions of this direction came largely from the folk performances of jesters, buffoons and wandering artists. Subsequently eminent domestic writers and playwrights created many magnificent comedy plays that have become real world classics of the genre. And at the present time in Russia there are many literary creations of this direction created for the stage. But at the same time, in the repertoire of domestic drama theaters, one can almost always find performances created on the basis of classical and modern foreign plays. It should be noted that performances of this type require special skills and data from the participants, an excellent ability to make people laugh and wonderful feeling humor. Therefore, they often take part famous actors, and the names of the best Russian representatives of the comic genre are heard by almost every viewer.

Currently, on the posters of most metropolitan drama theaters, you can almost always see productions of this type. Also exist and are in great demand and musical comedy performances that combine humor, dramatic acting with vocals and choreography. At the same time, notable premieres of this type are constantly held in Moscow, as well as tours of interesting domestic and foreign theater groups. Therefore, it is often incredibly difficult to understand the whole variety of such events. To make it easier for the viewers to choose, an extremely convenient and comfortable section of our site was created. Here are all the programs of this type, which will be organized in the city in the near future. If you need Additional Information about an event or you want to place an order for tickets for a comedy, then you just need to contact the qualified employees of our company. They will select for you the most best places And suitable date staging. Moreover, in most cases, the company is ready to give you the opportunity to attend a performance, even if it is a premiere or exclusive, and there is very little time left before it starts. Delivery of the order will be carried out by our own courier service at a convenient time and place for you.

Laughter is a serious matter, therefore, in order to choose the right comedy and laugh heartily, let's first understand the intricacies of the genre.

Commonly distinguished sitcom, comedy of manners and comedy of masks. In the situation comedy, they laugh at the curious situation in which the characters found themselves: “The Barber of Seville” by Monsieur Beaumarchais, “The Tradesman 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 Government Inspector" and "Marriage" by Mr. Gogol.

In the comedy of manners, the characters of the characters, their hypertrophied trait or passion are ridiculed. In Russia, this type of comedy is not very favored, because for the first time they get acquainted with it not in the theater but at school - this is Mr. Fonvizin's "Undergrowth", Mr. Griboyedov's "Woe from Wit". And everything that "passed" at school leaves a sad aftertaste, even if it's a comedy. Although there are also classic comedies of manners that are widely known, but are not included in school curriculum. For example, "Tartuffe" by Molière, "The Power of Money" by Mirbeau, "School of Scandal" and "Rivals" by Sheridan.

Two Carlos, Goldoni and Gozzi, are considered classics of the Italian comedy of masks. Carlo Gozzi is 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". And Carlo Gozzi is also known for Trufaldino from Bergamo in Servant of Two Masters. And Carlo Goldoni is known to Moscow theater-goers for the play "Carnival Joke", based on his comedy "The Innkeeper".

Some viewers believe that the main thing is to choose not a genre, but the “right venue”, for example, the Theater in the South-West and go there to all the performances in a row. Others prefer one day to 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, in the Vakhtangov Theater on "Mademoiselle Nitush". 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, a comedy of masks, with a choice of a proven “set” and go to the Theater in the South-West for the “Carnival Joke”, based on Carlo Goldoni’s comedy “The Innkeeper”.

There are those theater-goers who one day choose a writer of funny plays for themselves and go to the theater "on the author." For example, we love the American Ken Ludwig, known for "Borrow a Tenor" and "Diva". Or the French comedian Georges Feydeau. Georges Feydeau's play "The Ladies' Tailor" has been staged for a long time and willingly, and Eldar Ryazanov even filmed his "Key to the Bedroom" (2003). For such viewers there is a direct road to Moscow Theatre of Drama named after A.S. Pushkin, where both Feido's "Ladies' Tailor" and "Lend a Tenor" by Ludwig are staged. In the first comedy, a little love affair young husband leads to the fact that he has to impersonate ... a ladies' tailor! It's hard to go wrong with Borrow the Tenor - it was a success on Broadway, won nine awards, including two Broadway Tony awards, has been translated into eight languages, and is a success all over the world.

Chekhov's Moscow Art Theater puts on another play by Ludwig - "Primadonnas" - a sort of "run in bags for money": two unemployed actors find out that a millionaire old age is looking for nieces lost in childhood in order to give them his millions. The guys decide to take a chance and play a comedy with dressing up.

We also love the American playwright Neil Simon. Only on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theater were his plays "Banquet", "Chapter Two" and "Manly Divorce" successfully staged.

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

If you like British humor, then go to "Too Married Taxi Driver" English playwright Rhea Cooney directed by Alexander Shirvindt. Ray Cooney's most famous comedy made 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 on the stages of many theaters around the world. He is one of the highest-grossing playwrights, with more than 100 million tickets already 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 the French playwright Eugène Scribe. The good old classics, on which more than one generation of spectators have died of laughter, are “Secrets of the Madrid Court” at the Branch of the Maly Theater on Bolshaya Ordynka. The very name of the play has already become a phraseological unit or, as they would say now, a hashtag. “Secrets of the Madrid court” means the intricacies of secrets and intrigues, reminiscent of a tangled ball of multi-colored threads, where, pulling one, you can suddenly pull out several others. The French Princess Margarita, smart and charming, will unravel a tangle of a dozen palace intrigues with love secrets, free her brother-king from Spanish captivity, find love and become the Queen of Navre.

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

So, the top ten comedies on Moscow stages that you need to watch:

"Too Married Taxi Driver".

Laughter is The best way not only for relaxation, but also for cultivating the best spiritual qualities. It allows you to expose the vices of human nature, to demonstrate the illogicality of prejudices, to show what in our life is a real value, and what is trifles. And at the same time, information is perceived very easily.

It is not surprising that people are happy to parse many wonderful comedies into quotes, and colleagues, family, friends or loved ones perceive the offer to go to the theater for a comedy production with considerable enthusiasm. And this trend is unlikely to change in 2019, so the KASSIR.RU website offers announcements for all comedy productions that will be staged in Moscow theaters in the near future.

How to choose an interesting comedy?

Comedy productions have many features to contrast:

classic comedies, remakes and contemporary works;
regular plays and musicals;
domestic works and foreign;
for different age audiences.

To choose a performance, check out the posters. They offer enough information about each comedy:

time and place of setting;
duration, number of acts;
actors and director involved in the production;
a brief history of the troupe;
ticket price, the possibility of purchasing at a discount;
recommendations regarding the age limit for spectators;
actual description of the storyline.

Ticket prices for different productions vary significantly. It depends not only on the features of the hall (capacity, a certain sector in the auditorium), but also on what day you visit the theater, as well as on how famous stars take to the stage.

A comedy premiere has a huge impact on pricing. People tend to get to the premiere performance much more actively, so the demand for tickets, and, accordingly, the price of tickets is higher. Although comedy is the genre where you can always find a production, tickets for which are available to both pensioners and students. Depending on the sector in the auditorium, one and the same production can be watched by someone for 5 thousand rubles, and for someone - for 500.

The choice of comedy is also influenced by who you go with. IN friendly company quite fun to watch a performance on adult themes. For example, wonderful choice will turn out to be "Too Married Taxi Driver" or "Conversations of Middle-aged Men". If there are any doubts about the choice, then bet on the classics.

Even those who have already watched "The Taming of the Shrew", "The Dog in the Manger", "The Night Before Christmas" or "Pygmalion" more than once, will just as sincerely laugh at the misadventures of the characters in these works. Classic is the most perfect choice you can make for a ticket gift set.

A special segment is family comedies. For example, “Kid and Carlson” is a play based on a funny story by Astrid Lindgren, which both kids and their parents enjoy watching.

Where to go for comedy?

A significant number of funny productions are easily staged on different stages, because the main importance for funny comedy have not specifications scenes, and story line and skill of the actors.

Therefore, a comedy on the stage of the Satire Theater, the Satyricon Theatre, the Moscow Sovremennik Theater or the Anton Chekhov Moscow Art Theater can be just as comic as a performance that takes place in much less famous institutions. Many troupes on posters indicate that performances are held at different venues, but this does not make the level of the work worse.

Benefits of buying tickets on the KASSIR.RU website

We offer a schedule of all cultural institutions for several months in advance, which will give you the opportunity to plan your leisure time. We will provide information in advance about both local troupes and tours, as well as news about the production of interest, if any.

Filters on the site allow you to find an acceptable leisure option, taking into account several factors:

place of setting;
date of;
genre;
theater or a specific actor;
ticket price.

Cooperation directly with theaters, houses of culture and other venues where troupes perform allows you to sell tickets without additional price mark-ups. If you are interested in purchasing tickets for the best seats (for example, for a gift to a respectable person), then the site provides the possibility of purchasing a ticket in installments.

There are two versions of the site - standard and mobile. This makes it easy to choose a comedy, purchase or book tickets as soon as the idea of going to the theater and watching a funny production arises.

Theater connoisseurs can choose the best seats in the hall themselves! We offer several payment options - cash, non-cash and even in installments. You can get tickets without leaving your home or office - either on email or delivered by courier.

How to buy tickets for a comedy?

The KASSIR.RU website has a fairly simple operation algorithm. You can:

Choose comedy.
Choose a seat in the auditorium, taking into account own capabilities and preferences.
Pay or book a ticket.

To attend the performance, you just need to print out your ticket and take it with you. The booked ticket within the city will be delivered by a courier. Courier delivery is an opportunity to receive an input document cash on delivery and pay in cash.

The last point of recommendations - if you got your portion of pleasure from the play, advise it to your friends. Today, many people, due to employment or family upbringing, have lost their skills cultural recreation Therefore, they find it difficult even to name a way of pleasant and useful spending of free time. Comedy performances are the best way to rediscover and truly love the theater!

That day was remembered by the actors of the theater, guests and spectators of the theater for a long time. On the stage, the events of the production of "Number 13" based on the play A unfolded in the theatrical sky that evening new star- was born new theater comedies in Moscow… This event happened in 2009, on January 31st.

Student production

The director of the very first performance was graduate student Sergei Efremov, who since 2011 has been officially appointed director and artistic director Comedy theatre. But in 2009, after graduating from an educational institution, students of several courses decided to combine their creative efforts in order to create a single thesis. This is how the production of "Number 13" turned out.

But after that memorable performance in 2009, the newly-made theater "lived" for only one season. And there was no building of its own yet, and even a name! Because everything happened on the stage Theater Institute them. B. Schukin. And the performance "Number 13" was soon removed from the repertoire, because the students who played in it graduated educational institution and released.

Further development of the young theater

But the director and future director of the theater continued, with maniacal persistence, to look for opportunities for his performance "Number 13" to be on stage again! And life led him to the Moscow theater "Romen", in which he, together with Alexander Klimushin, decides to stage the production.

They restore the scenery, purchase costumes and everything necessary for the performance at their own expense. Soon, together with the Art-Voyage agency, they will organize creative festival"Student Wednesday", where the play "Number 13" is again staged. The performance went brilliantly and was a huge success. The performance continues to live on the stage for some time, but then for 6 months its show is suspended - for a number of financial reasons.

In 2010, the festival "New Premiere" takes place and again on the stage "Number 13". In the same period, a student troupe was formed and the theater already officially declares itself as the Moscow Comedy Theater, but does not yet have a status as such. Appears new production"Love at the rate" (based on the novel by N. Kolyada) directed by Vyacheslav Ivanov.

And in 2011, in May, the theater acquires an official status, with director Sergei Efremov at the head.

And to this day, the Comedy Theater in Moscow welcomes guests. Address: Nakhimovsky Avenue, 35.

Repertoire of the Comedy Theater (Moscow)

For its beloved fans and spectators, the theater puts on performances that delight and surprise lovers of good comedy again and again:

"Number 13" - artist Akinf Belov, the roles are played by: Anton Kostochkin, Nikolai Bystrov, Nikita Zabolotny, Ekaterina Fursenko, Marina Sokolova, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Timur Eremeev, Irina Gorbacheva, Alexander Sazonov, Ekaterina Efimova, Sergey Efremov;
"Love at the rate" - the roles are played by Marina Slastenova, Ekaterina Efimova, Sergey Efremov.
In 2013, the third production of The Story of Adventures appeared, directed by Sergei Efremov. Roles performed by: Miroslava Karpovich, Alexei Yagudin.

In the fall of 2017, a number of performances are planned to be shown at the Comedy Theater (Moscow):

- "Too married taxi driver";

- "Little Red Riding Hood";

- « masculine, singular".

The theater tours a lot in the cities of Russia (Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar, St. Petersburg and others). In 2013, an international project was organized jointly with Poland.

Comedy Theater (Moscow) together with the Collegium Foundation of Eastern Europe(Poland), and together with the H. Modrzejewska Theater in Legnica created their first Polish-Russian project. The name of the project is "The First Polish-Russian drama school", which is also headed by Sergey Efremov. He is supported by the stars of the world theater - and others.

Moscow theater poster

In other theaters of the capital there is something to see! Watching a comedy movie is easy, not easy to be a spectator of a really good comedy performance.

The best performances of the autumn season 2017 performed by actors from Moscow theaters:

Intellectual comedy "Kant" in Academic theater them. Mayakovsky.

New Year's story "Happy New Year ..." in Sovremennik.