Imagine that they suddenly announced to you that a kindergarten will be held in kindergarten on the occasion of the end of the year, the transition of the child to the next group and asked to prepare a speech. There are a lot of questions related to the name of this event:
- What is a skit?
- What presentation on it needs to be prepared?
- How to dress on this day?
Skits are at school, at a university, at a research institute, at a house of culture, a club, and just with friends. But acting skits are considered the most interesting. These are funny concerts in which everything is possible. The most unexpected roles and props, often an interactive game with the audience, a buffet with wine. The obligatory solemn part on the occasion of the organization of the skit is the closing or opening of the theater season, initiation into students, congratulation of someone on conferring the title, anniversary of the theater, director, author of the play, and much more. The celebration takes place with humor, teachers take part in it, no officialdom - only jokes, practical jokes and laughter.
An indispensable attribute of such holidays is cabbage - or a literal head of cabbage, or a symbolic reminder of it (perhaps the slang name of dollars).
The history of the emergence of skits: three versions
The word "skit" - originally Russian, came from the name of the vegetable. So before they called pies with cabbage, various dishes with it, as well as gatherings, during which cabbage was fermented throughout the winter. It was customary to invite all the youth to a party, immediately ditties were composed, funny stories and jokes were told. From the peasant milieu the name of humorous evenings began.
The founders of modern skits were the actors of the Vakhtangov Theater - in general, a very fun theater. In the 1920s, they gathered at BV Shchukin’s house for friendly parties, where, in their words, they “wondered” - they played short performances in which they expressed their opinion about the theater life, the acting profession and everything connected with it . Satire, parodies, clowning - the main genre of such gatherings. The Schukins served guests pies with cabbage, and this is how the second meaning of the word “skit” appeared.
There is a third version of the origin of the concept of “a fun theatrical evening”: during Lent in the acting environment, starting in the mid-nineteenth century, it was customary to gather in a narrow circle and give vent to those talents who did not find application on the stage. Creative people could play the roles of Hamlet, Juliet, sing the arias of Mephistopheles and Lucia, read their poems and prose, perform mazurka and other dance numbers, parody their own performances - all under the same motto that was chosen for the skit for this day.
A synonym for a skit is a theater party, an evening of humor, a fun concert, a satirical revue. This genre is now in full bloom: cabbage festivals are held in St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod, university students like to arrange them, and a culture of intelligent fun holidays is being fostered in educational institutions under the auspices of RONO.
What is a skit in school
The teacher can spend a fun evening at the close of a quarter or a year based on the material covered. If it is Russian, funny scenes with distortion of spelling and spelling rules are being prepared.
A. Livshits and A. Levenbuk did something similar when they parodied idlers in their radio program “Baby Monitor”. Here's a song they composed to remember the spelling of an unchanging ending in some words:
We went a meter
View on a kangaroo.
And for a long time, having removed my pension,
laughed at the kangaroo.
You can arrange a humorous competition by dividing the guys into two teams and giving them the task to compose the words from the word "skit". Which team will get more of them, that won.
What is a student skit
As the famous song says, students cheerfully live in between sessions that happen only twice a year.
Just after the session, a favorable time for the skit comes. Especially after graduation, when former students receive a bachelor's or master's degree. On the official part, passing in the afternoon, all serious. And in the evening on the stage all that was restrained for the day spills out: the joy of being recognized by a specialist, and the regret of parting with friends, and responsibility in the profession.
This day can not do without parodies of associate professors and professors. But they, too, were once students and may even participate in some scenes. At the evening, the spirit of unity, familiarity reigns and everyone is considered talented. This is a student fraternity generated by the alma mater - a university or technical school.
Conclusion
Even if you did not know before what a skit is, you probably took part in it. At the wedding there are humorous numbers about family life, for which amateur actors from among relatives are dressed up as characters. In a school concert, the guys perform with a number of a humorous genre in which they make fun of flaws, laziness and absenteeism. The atmosphere of the skit is filled with the KVN contest, which everyone loves so much.
Arrange a skit in a close circle of friends. Reveal your talents, try something new. That is how some performances began, the variety show opened and the Russian custom of the cabbage party was born.