Students of Vyoshenskaya in the Museum Class “We Go to the Theatre”
20.03.2018
Over 200 students of the Sholokhov District learned about the theatre art secrets in the excursion and exhibition centre “People’s House”, where the exhibition “I Had the Wit of Living My Life through So Silly” from the collection of the State Central A.A.Bakhrushin Theatre Museum has been running since February 16.
The exhibition is devoted to the life and work of the great theatre and cinema actress Faina Ranevskaya. The children saw portraits of the well-known figures of art, poets, directors – friends and acquaintances of Ranevskaya, each bearing a witty comment about the person pictured, photos of the actress in different roles. Here, in the improvised cinema they saw fragments of the films “Cinderella”, “Foundling”, and learned that housekeeper Freken Bock in the cartoon about Carlson speaks in the voice of Faina Georgiyevna.
The excursion was followed by the museum class, where the young visitors got into the world of theatre and followed a fascinating way from the cloakroom to the premiere of the play. In the decorative workshop the children took part in preparations for the performance: they became property masters, decorators, costume designers, entrepreneurs, ushers and makeup men. Six tables worked simultaneously: a theatrical poster and tickets for the premiere were created, details of the stepmother's necklace were being stuck together and a royal crown was being created. The artists were preparing costumes for Cinderella, Stepmother and Fairy, and the property masters painted the stained-glass windows of the royal palace all colours of the rainbow.
Having finished the process of preparation of the costumes, props and the scenery the boys and girls turned into actors and performed the episodes of the play. All the class members took part in the performance: some of them were starring, others became guests of the royal ball. Court ladies and gentlemen were to master noble manners and perform a polonaise – a ceremonial procession dance, which centuries ago opened the parties in the noble society.
The premiere is always a success, and at the end of the meeting with the world of theatre the whole troupe was photographed for memory.
The cycle of museum classes “We Go to the Theatre” will end late in March.
