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A masterly, sparkling performance “The Too Married Taxi Driver” based on the longest-running play – more than 9 years in the repertoire of London’s West End – by the English playwright Ray Cooney. A cheerful mess of a sitcom, a farce of ambiguous situations, an intricacy of events and anecdotal dialogues in piquant circumstances.
The main character, John Smith, is the main adventurer, the spring and the victim of the intrigue, the taxi driver is a bigamist: with one of his wives, Mary, he registered a marriage in the city hall, with the other, Barbara, he got married in a church. The wives, unaware that they have the same husband, live on opposite streets, four minutes from each other if you use a taxi.
For the first time, Alexander Shirvindt staged the play “Too Married Taxi Driver” on the stage of the Satire Theater ten years ago. Then theater critics noted in their notes that it was not often that they saw such a loud audience laughing. It was an unqualified success. Ten years later, this performance is still popular and regularly attracts full houses. The story that unfolds on stage tells the story of a simple London taxi driver with the ordinary name John Smith.
At first, John appears to the public as a conscientious worker and an exemplary family man. He is not even alien to nobility and compassion: he stands up for a helpless old woman in front of hooligans. For which, ironically, he gets hit on the head by a cunning pensioner and ends up in the hospital. It is from this moment that all the fun begins, since the victim tells the doctors and police two completely different places of residence. It soon becomes clear that there is no mistake here. A London taxi driver turns out to be a bigamist who has been living a double life for many years, deftly maneuvering between his two wives.
Who is it suitable for?
For adults, theater and comedy lovers.
Performance Too Married Taxi Driver Theater of Satire. Having read the title of this performance by the Satire Theater, you probably thought that a stylistic error had crept into it. According to linguistic rules, one cannot be “a little married,” “well married,” or, as the play’s author, Ray Cooney, claims, “too married.” In language - no, but in life, it turns out, it is possible.
This production by Alexander Shirvindt was especially loved by the audience, because the performance was created in one of the most popular stage and “film” genres today: the sitcom, or sitcom. The story of the main character does not make theatergoers think about life values and does not raise deep philosophical problems: it looks like one big joke, the hero of which becomes an ordinary person.
London taxi driver Joe Smith, if we consider his life from the point of view of the Criminal Code, belongs in prison. He's a bigamist. His wives are diametrically opposed women in character and habits. The first is extravagant, sensual, sexually attractive - in general, the dream of every man. The second is a stern, practical and quarrelsome lady, who has long been a bald spot not only for Joe himself, but also for his neighbors. Of course, neither the first nor the second wife even realizes that she has a rival. So poor Smith has the hardest time in this situation: she is forced to rush between two families and two women, dividing her life into two equal halves.
And everything would be fine, because a person gets used to not such inconveniences. Let His Majesty Chance intervene - in the person of the old woman, who uses her handbag as a weapon and hits Joe on the top of the head with it. The taxi driver ends up in the hospital, where he miraculously avoids publicity and the inevitable meeting of his two halves. However, the police are keenly interested in his person, and throughout the rest of the performance the hero has to make titanic efforts to keep the secret. But the secret, as we know, inexorably becomes apparent. This is what happens, and, ironically, both spouses and the police are the last to know.
Why are sitcoms so popular? Probably because in our generally gloomy and trouble-filled life, it is much easier to be puzzled by something than to sincerely laugh at something. The task of a comedian is much more difficult than that of a tragedian. But laughter is very important - scientists have proven that it increases life expectancy. And observing a person who is currently much worse off than we are has truly healing properties. Alexander Shirvindt is an excellent comedian and an equally talented director of plays in the comic genre. Book tickets for “The Too Married Taxi Driver” - and you will see for yourself.
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The plot of the play Too Married Taxi Driver begins with a banal accident. A typical man with the common name John Smith (analogous to the Russian name Ivan Kuznetsov) fights off an old woman from hooligans, who rewarded him with a strong blow to the head with her bag. Once in the hospital, the hero accidentally indicates two addresses of his residence. At the same time, both women living at the indicated addresses report to the police the disappearance of their husband John Smith, who works as a taxi driver. Indeed, John Smith is a bigamist. He married only one in a nearby church, and officially married the other woman. And they live next to each other. So the main character was faced with the task of not getting confused and not spilling the beans. John Smith, in his assistant notepad, compiled a coded schedule of family visits. There were no problems with providing for them; they were all working people. One of the wives meets her husband from the day shift, and the other waits from the heavy night shift. But no one knows about it until the end of the finale. Both parties involved are working with the police to investigate this complicated case.
The carousel of dizzying events is famously twisted to the point of absurdity of situations. This is facilitated by a single space of events, when the living conditions of different wives, embodied by the artist G. Jungwald, are simultaneously visible. The different signature furnishings of each housewife and at the same time the same spirit of the standard of family life are incredibly comical. Their everyday habits, actions and words are banal and individual at the same time. Add here instantaneous actions, conversations and thoughts that mutually exclude these directions against the backdrop of a monstrous lie. The effect of unreal reality is colossal.
Visitors to our website have the unique opportunity to order tickets for the play Too Married Taxi Driver at the Satire Theater, we will deliver them at a time and place convenient for you. Always in stock, different price categories, call us and place an order!
Excerpt from the play
The plot of the play Too Married Taxi Driver begins with a banal accident. A typical man with the common name John Smith (analogous to the Russian name Ivan Kuznetsov) fights off an old woman from hooligans, who rewarded him with a strong blow to the head with her bag. Once in the hospital, the hero accidentally indicates two addresses of his residence. At the same time, both women living at the indicated addresses report to the police the disappearance of their husband John Smith, who works as a taxi driver. Indeed, John Smith is a bigamist. He married only one in a nearby church, and officially married the other woman. And they live next to each other. So the main character was faced with the task of not getting confused and not spilling the beans. John Smith, in his assistant notepad, compiled a coded schedule of family visits. There were no problems with providing for them; they were all working people. One of the wives meets her husband from the day shift, and the other waits from the heavy night shift. But no one knows about it until the end of the finale. Both parties involved are working with the police to investigate this complicated case.
The carousel of dizzying events is famously twisted to the point of absurdity of situations. This is facilitated by a single space of events, when the living conditions of different wives, embodied by the artist G. Jungwald, are simultaneously visible. The different signature furnishings of each housewife and at the same time the same spirit of the standard of family life are incredibly comical. Their everyday habits, actions and words are banal and individual at the same time. Add here instantaneous actions, conversations and thoughts that mutually exclude these directions against the backdrop of a monstrous lie. The effect of unreal reality is colossal.
Visitors to our website have the unique opportunity to order tickets for the play Too Married Taxi Driver at the Satire Theater, we will deliver them at a time and place convenient for you. Always in stock, different price categories, call us and place an order!
Excerpt from the play
“The Too Married Taxi Driver” is a light comedy play based on the play by Ray Cooney, which was written back in 1983. It reveals the double life of a simple taxi driver, John Smith, who has to work different shifts. But his bigamy would have remained a secret if, by chance, he had not gotten into trouble, after which he ended up in a hospital bed. At this time, his two lovers, Barbara and Mary, begin to call the police, describing their husband in the same way, confusing the police. The highlight of the scenes being played out is that the women and the policeman themselves do not know the secret of the taxi driver, it is only revealed before the eyes of the viewer, despite the fact that the characters have to unravel this unusual story throughout the entire production. The play is distinguished by an abundance of funny scenes with sharp jokes, unusual plots and unforeseen plot twists, which will not allow the viewer to get bored who buy tickets for the play “Too Married Taxi Driver” at the Satire Theater. This play is staged on the stages of different theaters around the world. So in the capital there was an opportunity to watch this performance and enjoy a pleasant pastime with incessant laughter throughout the entire performance.
The play “Too Married Taxi Driver” at the Satire Theater
A dizzying sitcom. An accidental accident knocks John Smith out of the schedule of his life and launches a series of absurd situations that, by the end, develop into one big absurdity. An ordinary taxi driver turns out to be not so simple after all. He has two houses and two wives who don’t even know about each other’s existence. The hero married the fighting Mary in the mayor's office, and he married the infantile Barbara in the church. He comes to one after the day shift, to the other after the night shift. He lives according to a clear coded plan, which he has never violated until now. After the accident, he mistakenly gives two different home addresses, and at the same time, two women report their spouses to the police as missing, both taxi drivers with the common name John Smith. Balancing between investigators, journalists and wives, the hero tries to get out of the current situation. But the more he lies, the more the situation becomes tense. The dynamic plot does not slow down until the very end, the lies multiply, bringing the comic situation to its limit.
