Reviews for the play “Catch Me ... Can You?” quite contradictory - they scold and praise him, often they are perplexed, having mixed up with almost the same musical and inattentively reading the poster.
This comedy has nothing to do with the Broadway musical production adapted for the Russian audience. There are no magnificent scenery, impressive extras, songs and dances. The action is tied around the three main characters, whose dialogues and relationships will amuse the audience to tears.
What theater is the performance in
“Catch Me If You Can” is a performance at the Central House of Artists - it is so often written in announcements of tabloids on the Internet, portals of online cash desks 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 on the Russian stage.
The comedy, in which the beloved and famous artists are involved, is called “Catch Me ... Can You?”, The performance was staged by the Millennium Theater and has nothing to do with the western musical.
The Millennium Theater, or the Millennium Theater House (that is its full name) is one of the oldest and most successful entreprise theaters in our country. Unlike many other creative associations of directors, artists, technical personnel, and artists, Millennium not only carries its productions around the cities, but also has a relatively permanent venue in the capital, located in the Central House of Culture of Railwaymen, on Komsomolskaya Square, in a house under number 4.
“Catch me ... Can you?”, A performance at the Central House of Artists, has reviews not only on specialized portals, theater forums, and on resources dedicated to event announcements and ticket sales. This community of enterprises has its own pages on all social networks, where you can get acquainted first-hand with the repertoire, find out where and what kind of performance will be going on, clarify the specific composition of the artists on a specific date, as well as read the views of the audience and take part in discussions.
Who is the author?
Reviews for the play “Catch Me ... Can You?” sometimes wonder about the authorship of the plot. You can ask about it directly on the pages of the Millennium on social networks or with the participants of the production, delaying after the curtain in the hall.
The authorship of the plot is “covered in legends” and “covered in fog”, as one of the artists said with a smile after the premiere. In fact, everything is simple - the comedy is based on jokes dedicated to everyday scenes of the man’s earlier return from a long business trip. However, the director replaced the male character with a female one. It turned out so funny that the audience will not recognize the “jokes with a beard” familiar to everyone without exception in what has been happening on the stage since childhood.
Part of the play was based on the play Trap for the Husband, but the performance does not completely follow its content.
What is the performance 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 arrives from a business trip who finds a 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 comedy of positions.
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 social networks of the Millennium and various forums. A wife finds her husband in an ambiguous situation, but not in an unambiguous 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 set logical traps, giving a lot of arguments. The guest amusingly comments on everything that is happening.
Who is the director?
"Catch me ... Can you?" - a play by Nina Chusova, graduates of two institutes. First, a native of Voronezh graduated from the State Institute of Arts in her hometown, receiving a diploma in dramatic actress.
After working for some time at the Gorky Samara Theater, Nina Vladimirovna 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 for the play “Catch Me ... Can You?” note the quality of the production, the lack of protractedness in the development of the plot, the dynamism and skillfully built series of very funny and less explosive jokes.
Meanwhile, this wonderful comedy is far from the only work of Nina Vladimirovna. For many years she has been the chief director and artistic director of the Aquamarine Moscow fairy tale theater, actively collaborates with various communities involved in entreprise, takes part in festivals and has more than one award.
Who is on the stage?
The disadvantage of each entreprise production is that the composition of the artists employed on the stage is variable.
This fact is indicated by the reviews of the play “Catch Me ... Can You?”. Dobronravov is an artist whose game many spectators want to see, but it is he who is involved in some performances, while in others the same actor plays the same role. He is also talented, the performance with him also turns out to be funny, but those who "went to Dobronravov" are disappointed. For some viewers, such a replacement is so frustrating that they either return tickets or leave almost immediately after the start of the performance.
Most often, such incidents occur during a tour in provincial cities. Local organizers do not pay attention to such subtleties, and spectators (especially women) do not buy tickets at all for the performance, but solely for the sake of their beloved artist.
Avoiding such a situation is easy. It’s enough to clarify who will be busy in the next play “Catch Me If You Can.” Actors also do not like such an organization, as it creates a somewhat tense atmosphere.
The comedies are occupied by Tatyana Vasilieva, Elena Safonova, Nikolai Dobrynin or Fedor Dobronravov, Maria Bolonkina or Elena Silova, Philip Vasiliev.
How does it look?
Although the composition of the artists does not affect the quality of the performance, this nuance acts quite noticeably on the perception of the performance by the audience.
In the performance of the Central House of Artists “Catch Me ... Can You?”, The actors reveal their hero in different ways:
- Dobronravov - in the first act there are a lot of dialogues reinforced with plastic tricks, 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 bustle, on the contrary, he behaves as if he was not caught "on the hot."
This must be taken into account when going to the theater. Both versions of the play are good, but the humor of Fedor Dobronravov’s employment is more “wretched”. His hero is simpler, he is a guy "from the people", although, of course, "with a sly one."
The husband, performed by Nikolai Dobrynin, is an intellectual, a kind of philosopher. There is no "antics", facial expressions, but the speech is extremely expressive.
Simply put, going to a play with Dobronravov, 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, the easy start has a serious continuation, or, on the contrary, the difficult set in perception gets an unjustifiably blurry ending.
There is nothing like this in this performance. It does not carry a hidden meaning, does not touch upon deep life issues, and does not raise philosophical topics, as, say, the beloved film Toy with Pierre Richard.
This is a simple comedy for relaxation, absolutely not annoying and the same in both acts. That’s why the performance “Catch Me ... Can You?” Is good, the audience’s reviews note his unobtrusiveness, exceptional positiveness, ease of viewing and a 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 the break between the first and second actions the amount of time that he considers necessary. In the same city, but at different venues, the performance may not be the same. Somewhere, the break will last five minutes, and elsewhere - all twenty.
The action itself lasts 1 hour 43 minutes. Accordingly, going to the theater, you must have in stock at least a couple of free hours.
Are there any restrictions?
This production has a status of “16+”, probably due to the theme of the action taking place on the stage. In fact, there are no scandalous jokes, naked bodies, black humor or anything like that that can offend someone’s morality or affect the fragile souls of adolescents.
This is a family light comedy full of humor and amusing scenes, a kind of “everyday story”, which you can go without any fear with your children, with elderly parents, or during a romantic date.
In which genre?
Provincial posters and portals of online box offices 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.
Tragifars is different from comedy of positions, intellectual humor from everyday, and each person has his own understanding of what is funny. Therefore, situations arise when the audience is dissatisfied and, of course, write about this in the reviews of the event. As a rule, they go to laugh, but find themselves in a serious, filled with grotesque and artistic techniques, performance.
In the case of this performance there is nothing like it. This is an absolute classic comedy, intended exclusively for relaxation and not affecting any global issues. You can safely go to the performance on Friday evening, after a hard working week, a lot of positive emotions, a sea of laughter and an excellent vacation are guaranteed.
What do they say?
This production is perhaps the only one about which it is written that it is very short. The play “Catch Me ... Can You?”, The duration of which is more than an hour and a half, according to most reviews, could well hold the audience for much longer.
In assessments of acting, opinions differ, which should not be surprising. Fans of Fyodor Dobronravov do not enjoy the presentation of the character by Nikolai Dobrynin.
All viewers who published reviews about their perception of the performance note not only his kindness and positivity, but also that what is happening on the stage is completely neutral and understandable to every person, both a professor from the university and a locksmith from the factory.
In general, according to reviews, the performance is good for relaxation, it is worth going to it. The price of tickets for it is quite affordable. In Moscow, you can buy them by paying about 1300 rubles. In the province, the price depends on the organizers, but, as a rule, it is lower than the capital.