Performance “Adult games. Psychology of family relations in the play "Adult games"

Sentimental comedy based on the play by Neil Simon "The Banquet"
Director - Sergey Artsibashev
Cast: Daniil SPIVAKOVSKY, Olga PROKOFIEVA, Tatyana Augshkap, Viktor Zaporizhsky, Alena Yakovleva, Nikolay Kachura

Sentimental comedy "ADULTS" based on the play "Banquet" by one of the most repertory modern playwrights Neil Simon was staged by the famous director Sergei Artsibashev.

The action takes place in Paris today. Luxuriously served table in a luxurious restaurant. The famous Parisian lawyer arranges dinner party... His guests are wealthy prosperous men, beautiful sexy women ... BUT neither the lawyer nor his wife are at the reception. Who called all these people, and most importantly why? Intrigue - like a mountain road - turn around the corner. But one thing remains unchanged - human feelings, without pretense and falsity.

This performance is played by the middle generation of actors - those who played little and were imprudently unnoticed before. The genre of comedy is revealed by director Sergei Artsibashev in the individualities of the actors and in the peculiar construction of duets. Outwardly serious, but in fact rushing about and painfully jealous Claude Pichon (Alexander Shavrin), graceful, dressed with impeccable taste Mariette Livier (Olga Prokofieva), uninhibited, eccentric Yvon Fouchet (Tatyana Augshkap) - they all work very accurately in the director's style drawings. Artsibashov's discovery was the hilariously comic Daniil Spivakovsky, who plays Albert Donais. A light, talented comedian who knows how to play a serious feeling with his timid intonations.

N. Agisheva, Moscow News. :

"Bravo, Spivakovsky!" - viewers wrote on the Internet after the premiere and were not mistaken in their choice. Without detracting from the merits of the other creators of the production, one cannot fail to recognize the work of Daniil Spivakovsky in the role of Albert as a real discovery ... GITIS graduate Spivakovsky has been in the theater since 1992, but this is the first time he received such a role. His thin, awkward and funny Albert, who still adores his Yvon, eventually turns an unpretentious comedy into a real drama about a man who loved too much to be happy ... "

Light sentimental comedy, absolutely in the spirit of Neil Simon, intrigue worthy of the pen of Agatha Christie and the constellation best actors Russian theater will make unforgettable two hours spent by you in the company with our heroes.

Today, we all really need such a play and such a performance - where there is a victory of good over evil!

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Reviewed by: Artyom

The performance is weak both in acting and material. Frankly the most boring play, without deep psychological immersion. If you just want to spend an easy evening in the theater, then I do not advise you to go to this performance. I read that thanks to this performance, Spivakovsky was noticed. I can not agree with this, he plays weakly in the play.

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Reviewed by: Ludmila

The performance is weak, the dramaturgy is about nothing, the actors are simply bored to play, "they are serving their number." Spivakovsky alone, by virtue of his talent and conscientiousness, took the rap for everyone, tried to revive the half-dead content. in General, another "chess"

Performance duration: 2 hours with 1 intermission

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Lots of family problems didn't happen yesterday. The problems of loneliness and divorce have always existed, but somehow they did not attract much attention. If they get divorced, then there is a reason. Perhaps someone is to blame for this or something is changing in the relationship. Whether this is good or bad is not worth judging. But getting it right is another matter.

And a little sentimental, sometimes funny, somewhere lyrical comedy "Adult Games" will help in this. Actors not only played a huge number of performances in the country, but also visited this comedy abroad. The wonderful main composition of the performance for two hours first creates an atmosphere of mystery, in the spirit of the well-known Agatha Christie, and then gradually leads the viewer to a climax and denouement.

The cast of the play

The director of the production of "Adult Games" Sergei Artsibashev built the performance on the peculiar personalities of the actors and some elusive similarity of characters. A tragicomic figure is the sincere and awkward Albert Donais, who buried the artist in himself. He was talentedly played in a duet with the eccentric and uninhibited Yvon Fouche (Daria Feklenko), his ex-wife by comedy.

Until the very climax of the performance, the mysterious handsome Anre Bouville walks around the hall until the regal Gabrielle (Alena Yakovleva) appears, creating a complete duet in which they reveal themselves from an unexpected side. And, finally, the serious but jealous Claude Pichon (Alexander Shavrin) and the height of grace Mariette Livier, played by actress Olga Prokofieva, beloved by everyone for comedic roles.

Who is who, or plot plot

The scene is a luxury restaurant in Paris. The table is set for six people. On stage, Claude Pichon with a glass of champagne. Albert Donais enters through the double doors. A conversation ensues in which they try to figure out who else is invited to a dinner party by the lawyer who handled their divorce proceedings and why. Over time Entrance door opens and another man appears. This is Andre Bouville. He, as it turned out from the conversation, is also divorced, moreover, his wife also died. But the divorce case was also handled by Paul Gerard.

All three men begin to assume that three following person there will be women. Although they do not exclude the possibility of the arrival of a lawyer with his wife. But then, who else will be with them? André goes out to get cigarettes, and Claude goes to the bathroom. Albert stays in the restaurant. And at that moment the charming actress Olga Prokofieva enters the room. Stop! In the play, it is Mariet. She came to Gerard's dinner party.

While talking about the dinner guests and explaining why she came too, Mariette begins to flirt a little with Albert, letting him know that after the divorce, it's time to go out in public. So, leaving the hall of the restaurant and returning to it, all those invited to the dinner party gathered. Moreover, these are three couples, the divorce process of which was handled by the lawyer Gerard.

Games start

And Gabrielle, Andre's ex-wife, gathered everyone in the restaurant. She is alive and beautiful, but for Andre she is dead, because she said that she would give a divorce only over her corpse. As it turns out in the course of the play, the couples broke up, but really each of them still cannot answer the question why.

Left alone in the restaurant hall, the couples in the course of the play could, without falsehood, sincerely show their feelings. Communicating with the former half, each hero of the play resurrects his memories and begins to understand what mistakes he made. To some extent, the games suggested by Gabrielle help with this.

At first, she asks everyone to just walk around the hall and stop at some point. And somehow the divorced spouse finds himself standing in front of his ex-wife. So there is a magnet! They continue to be attracted by something inexplicable, rather, at the subconscious level. By the way, in the reviews for the play "Adult Games", many paid attention to this silent scene - the former spouses frozen against each other.

Q&A game

The second was a question and answer game. There were two questions to be answered here. The first was the question that the former spouses did the worst thing to each other in a while. life together. Answering it honestly, each hero experienced his situation and realized how stupid and biased it was. This is the inability to understand and accept your partner, from the revelations of Claude and Mariel. Or excessive dissolution in your partner, as it was in family life Gabrielle and Andre. This is the burning of bridges between Yvonne and Albert due to a love letter misunderstanding.

And how touching were the answers to the second question about what was the most good and pleasant thing former spouse or spouse. Yvon and Albert returned to their memories and admitted that even on the day of parting, their breakfast was held in the same warm atmosphere. But if they had dealt with the letters (understand at that time Yvon that the husband burned the letters only because he wrote others, warmer and more passionate), there would not have been this stupid divorce.

Afterword

The curtain is drawn, the audience slowly leaves the hall. What does everyone think about after the play "Adult Games"? Reviews vary, as always. Some of the scenes brought a smile to some, and tears welled up during others. But many have changed their view of the fact that "you cannot step into the same river twice."

In a review of the play "Adult Games", some viewers, who obviously had experience of divorce, came to the conclusion that you can try to start with " clean slate". And it is better to try to maintain relationships without burning bridges.

In hundreds of reviews for the play "Adult Games", the audience was made to think by Andre's phrase, where he talks about Gabrielle and her half-mad dream. That it was because of her desire to play games during the dinner party that some of the characters learned a useful lesson and were able to understand themselves and their relationships.