Theatrical Moscow is preparing for a large-scale robbery. And we are not only about theft of spectator attention, but also about the production of the Hollywood Spot "Comedy on how the bank is robbed." While the artists warm up the ligaments and check the cable strength, the correspondent "MK" visited a special rehearsal and learned from the producer Dmitry Bogacheva, whether there is a place for improvisation in Strict Broadway Musicle.
If it were not for the scene and the auditorium, it would be possible to think that we are at the Space Plant. Somethingleal from behind the corner will run away Stage managers with radio microphones and conspiringly report: "Before the start of 3 minutes. What's the readiness? You have 30 seconds! " The fact is that the projects of Broadway Moscow are not traditional in the understanding of the Russian spectator performances. These are full-scale Hollywood blockbusters with a bunch of special effects, rapid change of actions, clow-like apias and a dramatic intrigue.
To be honest, I also did not understand how this is possible without fascinating and editing until I saw everything with my own eyes. On the stage, the decoration of the prison chamber was built, several artists in the artantic robe are played by a commissal scene series. You do not understand what they do to what and why they do, but involuntarily press from laughter because of the game of words and associative allusions. Who are these people? What do they plunge? And why are there so many? Questions flas out in the head outbreaks, and the scene is already over.
Immediately preheated attention of journalists take the main people of the company: theatrical producer Dmitry Bogachev and director of the Russian version of the project Anna Shevchuk.
"The British, who invented" ... As the bank robbed, held a whole year in improvisations, were looking for ways to express them, "Shevchuk shares with us. - We rehearsed less, but all kinds of clown exercises also included in the creative process. It is necessary to understand one thing, the basis of the acting existence here is a game. And I really like that the audience is given the opportunity to read.
"Dmitry, you said several times for the rehearsal that the project's creators constantly improvise, but the Russian version is still a franchise. That is, the guys have a specific canva and a very dynamic plot, inside which they must exist. Is there a place here for improvisation?
- You see, this genre itself "Theater Clowning" implies improvisation. This is one of the attributes characteristic of this genre and originating the beginning of another comedy del art. When the area artists have entertained random spectators, they interact very tightly with the audience and built their behavior on the stage depending on the audience reaction. There did not work the "Fourth Wall" rule. And since the reaction of the viewer is unpredictable, artists should be able to improvise. Unlike the "show went wrong" such precedents are smaller, because there is a more dense story story.
- That is, there is no time to improvise?
- Basically, yes. But there are scenes where it is written right in the text "Improvisation is possible here." And then the artists know where it is possible and where there is no. Because if not in those places improvise, then everything can really go wrong.
Yes, and God with her, with this variability. Test artists already there is nothing. For example, each show participant has a non-one role. So if real people are 10, then fictional characters as much as 40! And one of the actors, under the code name "all others," performs 15 characters in the play. Diva give the speed of changing and the talent of reincarnation. After all, in one of the scenes, one person is forced to be at once three characters. Not just to represent someone, but to talk, argue and even fight.
By the way, over a couple of hours on stage, more than 150 suits are replaced, dozens of decorations, blood flows, unfundless chase, personal dramas unfold. And for what? All for the sake of diamond weighing 1 kg, who are trying to kidnap the heroes of the performance.