The theater belongs to the category of art where the actor’s talent is “exposed” to the public. There are no takes here, you can’t hide behind special effects, and at each performance, the artists are left alone with their most beloved and devoted critics - the public.
Live game, real emotions, not caused by digital stimulants, and the energy of the scene will never be replaced by movie theater screens, even if they have category 8D. For the most avid theatergoers, there are even free theaters in Moscow, the most expensive city in the world.
Theater Mansion
Many Muscovites remember the times when they had to queue at night to get to the Taganka Theater, Moscow Art Theater, Satyricon and other scenes of the capital. It is hard to imagine that in times of crisis and capitalist relations, when art has to survive, you can join it without money.
Today, 50 theaters in Moscow give performances for free, either as part of charity events, or by providing part of the seats in their auditoriums.
The small theater "Theater Mansion", comfortably located in the basement of an old Moscow house, gives free charity performances. Since the founding of this scene in 2000, the Chekhov International Laboratory has staged 30 free performances in which actors from various theaters and cinema participate.
For the first time the “theater laboratory” announced itself in 2001 at the festival of international drama in Bergen. The head of this project is the famous Czech scholar Viktor Gulchenko. To get to his productions, you must first sign up. So you can get tickets to all free theaters in Moscow. To do this, you need to specify the name and number of spectators, the date, time and name of the production. Arriving at the performance on the appointed day, it is enough to give your name to the theater administrator to go through.
It is important to remember that the number of seats for such performances is always limited, so you should take care of their order in advance.
"Amazing Theater Studio"
No less popular with theatergoers is this experimental studio, the main mission of which is the free training of children and adolescents in acting and oratory. Adult education is paid.
For those looking for free theaters in Moscow, this the only opportunity to be not only a spectator, but also a critic, as its graduates participate in the productions of the studio. The studio has a small room, so you can sign up for performances either on the project website or by sending an email request in advance. The founder of Amazing Theater Studio, Yury Martynychev and his colleagues, with each set of new students, allocate 10 places for free training for the most talented applicants.
To become a student, you need to find out about the date of the next set, sign up and go through it. All students take part in performances and perform in front of a real public.
"Event"
In the list of 50 scenes of the capital, the “Events” collective provides free admission to theaters in Moscow. This very young theater gives the public a choice - you can come to the performance for free, and after it make a charity contribution in the amount of from 100 to 500 rubles.
You don’t have to do this, charity is voluntary, but to get to Hamlet, Antigone or other performances, you will have to worry about tickets in advance. Free applications can be left on the theater website or by calling. You must specify the name and number of participants.
The repertoire of the “Event” theater is so large that you can choose a performance to your liking, having previously known whether it will be shown for free and when.
Other theaters in Moscow
Free theaters in Moscow provide an opportunity for the poor to join art. “Our Theater Project” does not have a large hall and often performs in museums in the capital, on corporate parties or other people's stages, but it’s very difficult to get a ticket for their performance. There are only 70 places in the project’s own premises, but they are never empty. The theater’s repertoire includes Ostrovsky’s plays, sparkling comedies, Bulgakov’s phantasmagoria and much more.
The Home Theater in Shchepkin’s House employs actors from Sovremennik and P. Fomenko’s studio, as well as RATI students and artists from the Modelteatr troupe. In their repertoire - the play "Classics Game", during which viewers get acquainted with the life and work of Gogol, Shakespeare, Chekhov and Rachmaninov. The theater provides only 10 free seats, which can be obtained by ordering by e-mail.
The theater of literary improvisation often pleases Muscovites with free performances. In addition to a large repertoire and excellent acting, he offers viewers to become investors of new productions and thereby their participants. Everyone who makes charitable contributions receives free tickets for the premiere of a new performance.
"25th row"
The 25th Row Theater Studio often pleases Muscovites and guests of the capital with its free productions. The studio is organized by talented actors, graduates of the Schukin School, GITIS and MITRO.
The aim of the project is to create a special theater space on the stage of the Vysotsky Center, located on Taganka. The performances of these talented guys tend to find funny and good even in deadlock situations.
The tragicomedy of the Soviet playwright Galina, written in 1982, was a great success. The events of the play touch on the Olympic Games in Moscow, for the sake of which unwanted elements were evicted over 101 km. The play is about meeting people from different walks of life in one hut and about the manifestation of human qualities in difficult situations.
You can pay for the ticket after the performance, if you like the performance. A symbolic sum of 300 rubles will go to the development of the theater space, which was organized with such love by talented youth.
The Bolshoi Theatre
Muscovites became available free theaters in Moscow (for the New Year, during significant productions and other holidays) due to the rapid development of digital technologies.
Taking an example from the best scenes of the world, the Bolshoi Theater organized its own YouTube channel, where you can not only watch its repertoire, but also “be” at performances in real time without leaving your home. Now all Internet users have an “entrance” to the country's most famous theater.
So far, for online viewing, there is access to 8 productions, but this list will be constantly updated.
To the theater for student
Everyone knows that students are not rich people, and entertainment in the capital is very expensive. It is in order to introduce this part of youth to art, there are theaters for students for free. Moscow is a city of art.
To get a free ticket, you need to line up at the theater box office one hour before the start of the performance. In the event that there are places, upon presentation of a student ID a countermark will be issued. It may turn out that the ticket will be "standing", but for the sake of a good performance, you can stand.
You should be aware that even with a student ID card they may be denied a counter-lock if very famous actors are involved in the performance or in the performance. Among the theaters that admit students to their performances for free, are scenes known throughout Moscow:
- Theater of Nations.
- Theatrical art studio.
- The Satyricon.
- Theater of the Moscow City Council.
- Meyerhold Center.
- "Lenkom."
- Pushkin Theater.
- Theater on the Taganka.
- Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov.
- Workshop P. Fomenko and others
It should be noted that free tickets are in great demand, therefore, in some theaters there is a special list for students, which can be accessed only by appointment.
Theaters of the capital for students
Theaters for schoolchildren in Moscow provide tickets for free either during school holidays or under the program “With the whole family to the theater”. Thanks to such actions, during the spring and autumn holidays, almost 100,000 Moscow families were able to visit the best scenes of the capital.
Also, a good school tradition is going to the free theaters for children in Moscow as a whole class. 49 theaters of the capital take part in charity productions, on the stages of which children can see the performances “The Old Man Hottabych”, “The Kid and Carlson”, “People and Cats” (Kuklachev Theater) and many others.
