The play "Scissors", reviews of which are in this article, is a production of the Atelier Theater. It was founded by the production company Independent Theater Project. The performance has been on stage since the 2013/2014 season.
Performance Feature
The performance "Scissors", reviews of which are mostly positive, was staged in the year of the 20th anniversary of the existence of the "Independent Theater Project". In such an original way, its creators decided to mark this round date.
Scissors is an ironic detective based on the play by Paul Portner. The performance has long been successful on various theatrical platforms of the world. In particular, in Europe and the USA. She has a rich history. One has only to say that in Boston she does not leave the repertoire of 35 years.
Its main feature is that the audience becomes almost the main characters. It is they who investigate the crime that occurred on the scene and try to figure out which of the actors is guilty. That is why the performance "Scissors" received so many reviews. With this format, viewers are not often faced.
Production at the Atelier Theater
On the stage of the Atelier Theater, this ironic detective was staged by the Lithuanian theater director Dainius Kazlauskas. He managed to almost completely erase the line between the audience and the actor. Give the viewer a full voting right.
During the play, an almost unbelievable action takes place for a modern theater. A few years ago, this could not even be imagined. The captain, who leads the investigation, begins to attract viewers to solve the mysterious murder. "Scissors" - a performance investigation, which will not leave anyone indifferent.
The main thing is that the audience ultimately has to determine who was guilty. This very unusual interactive format immediately fell in love with a large audience.
The actors have prepared several endings of the play. Which of them to play out depends on which verdict the court passes and who is found guilty.
A separate difficulty in the performance of this performance is that the audience does not just vote for the perpetrator, but also make full-fledged remarks that leave the actor no room for maneuver. To solve this problem, the director specifically went on an internship in the United States, where he studied with American directors of "Scissors".
Cast
A large role was played in the success of the play "Scissors" cast. Indeed, on the stage are the real stars of the domestic theater.
The main male role is in the comedian Georgy Dronov. He is well known to lovers of Russian television series. He played in Voronin, Sasha + Masha, and Timur Bekmambetov ’s Night Watch in the city’s fantasy embodied the image of Tolik, a Night Watch analyst. On stage, he participated in the performances "Savage", "Boeing Boeing", "Moulin Rouge Hospital".
Actress Marina Dyuzheva
In the play "Scissors" Marina Dyuzheva complements the acting duet. On her account - many roles in feature films, including Soviet ones. The audience remembers her from the comedy by Aleksey Korenev “For family reasons”, the adventure detective Alexander Faynzimer “Tavern on Pyatnitskaya”, the lyrical comedy by Mikhail Kozakov “Pokrovsky Gates”.
In the theater, she already played with Dronov in the play "Boeing Boeing". From her last roles, it is also worth highlighting the plays "The driven horses are shot, isn't it?" and Girls from the Calendar.
The very action of the play takes place in a hairdresser. Therefore, all actors first of all passed the necessary training.
The plot of the play
At the very beginning of the production, a murder takes place. The victim is the mistress of a beauty salon. The weapon of crime is very unusual - scissors. Everything is under suspicion: both visitors to the hairdresser and the masters themselves. The investigation of this mysterious crime takes place against the backdrop of a discussion of current and contemporary events that are now taking place in Moscow and in Russia. Because of this, part of the text is constantly changing; there is a lot of improvisation in the play.
This is just what the audience likes. After all, they begin to live in the same temporary space with the actors, constantly discussing secular news, the latest events from the world of politics, sports successes.
Exclusive
This production is truly unique for the domestic scene. It is often called exclusive. The creators of the play "Scissors" admit that television is not asleep. Therefore, they have to create new ways of communicating with the viewer. Each time to prove that the theater is alive, despite the fact that it was buried more than once. Especially after the birth of television and its massive development.
The creators of "Scissors" are trying to learn from the scriptwriters of Western television series, who already today have mastered the skill to quickly make such original and unexpected plot twists that the audience is puzzled even if a few minutes ago they were sure who the main villain was.
The creators of "Scissors" believe that the theater was created primarily for people. And by no means for critics. Therefore, one of the most important problems for them becomes: "And what are we going to surprise and win the audience with today?"
Another feature of the “Scissors” - a minimum of fashionable modern innovations. Nobody flies on stage, nothing explodes. But even without this, the audience is in constant tension and excitement.
The main thing in this production is live communication, which is increasingly becoming very difficult to achieve. Especially when the dialogue is between the actor and the viewer. The dialogue is not internal, not platonic, but quite physical and real.
Performance reviews
Almost no one is indifferent to the play "Scissors". Reviews about him therefore make it possible to present a full-fledged picture of what is happening on the stage, how the average viewer perceives it all.
Many say that this is a fun and very dynamic production. She can make a very diverse family laugh at jokes all evening. Agree, not every work of art can do this.
Well-known actors play excellently, note in the reviews, and when the performance becomes interactive and begins to attract viewers to action, the production is not forgotten at all.
Others, on the contrary, believe that the play has very few advantages. One of them is, of course, interactivity. And the second is the brilliant game of the leading actor Dronov. Especially considering that he has to improvise most of the action.
The flip side of the coin is the vulgarity that pervades this performance. Jokes on the topic "below the belt" are indecent. However, most of them are not very funny. The hall is liked only because of the topic of sex. In addition to jokes, actors often begin to schematically depict scenes of intercourse, which makes the performance even more provocative.
In addition, many still do not like the way they arrange interactive on the stage, comparing what is happening with a regular booth. Or with a children's holiday, at which semi-professional animators work.