"Attack of the clowns" in the City Garden

"Attack of the Clowns" The name itself speaks for itself. 100 minutes of continuous laughter, a string of all kinds of surprises. And most importantly, the humor of this program is very understandable, recognizable and close to people of all ages, different professions, different nationalities. This show "Masks" was successfully performed in many countries (USA, Japan, Colombia, Israel, Germany, Denmark, Scotland). To paraphrase the classic, we can say that a gesture is thin, like a hint, while words are thick, like circumstances. Therefore, anyone who wants to translate their impressions of "The Masks" into the language of words runs the risk of being made a fool. I will risk. “Masks” managed to use in their performance the principle of perpetual motion, the wheels of life. As a result, the performance looks like a scale, where all possible comic notes and accords are collected. Before us is not just a dozen and a half concert numbers and tricks, but a special playing field of "endless clowning", in which familiar and beloved characters tell their stories in mimic short stories that turn into one another. As the saying goes, it becomes clear "what they are hinting at": this is an unambiguous statement that the whole world is not just a theater, but material in order to reveal the comic side of any everyday situation, turn it upside down and shake it , discover the essence of things. After all, when everything - both great and small - is tested funny - only that which does not crumble under an ironic gaze is true. To do this, you just need to find a fulcrum at the intersection of funny and serious angles of view.Here, for example, “Those who were late for the train” (what exquisite rhythm changes!): The audience, exhausted, waits for the final of the joke, believing that the topic has already been exhausted, but at this moment another “latecomer” appears on the stage - even more funny, than the first. Unlike Zhora, in which one feels a sense of urgency, imperiousness, posture, Usatyi (B. Barsky) is enchantingly absurd and fussy, although harmless. Zhora condescendingly observes how the Moustached Razor runs, grieves, tears the hair on his head and then, having come to his senses, tries to return it to its place. This is a spectacle from which it is impossible to tear yourself away: surprise, annoyance, irreconcilable resentment, anger, proud melancholy, reproachful bewilderment. The spectators crawl out of their chairs, unable to perceive such an avalanche of other people's emotions. Malevolence, mockery, wary attention and you never know what else! After all, the miracle is that it is impossible to give a name to every feeling, mood. They are elusive, fleeting, ephemeral, momentary and are present only on the stage and only at that moment.Each short story of the play contains euphoric lightness, which is based on the fantastic skill and plastic technique of the actors. Deliev in dance seems lighter than a balloon and makes everyone believe in his weightlessness, making ballet jumps and slow falls. This technique, of course, helps the "Masks" dominate the audience. But in addition to it, there are many more surprises that we enjoy as a child, and many traps that we fall into with delight, sometimes without noticing it ourselves. The viewer comes to the performance in anticipation of jokes and tricks, and he is offered to look into the mirror world. They tease, scare, provoke - but he still thinks that he is being amused. And this is his right - to think so, because the play "Attack of the Clowns" is a spectacle akin to a puff pie, and everyone can bite into the layer that is more tasty for him: some laugh loudly and in every possible way demonstrate their healthy sense of humor, often not burdened by intellectual excesses, others laugh less loudly and begin to find out for themselves the belonging of literary, folklore and cinematic quotations. For others, this is just a holiday. As for children who are always waiting for a clown, and he comes. Watch on youtube: Dying Swan Dance Magic tricks No smoking