Short plays for school production. Theater club lesson for primary school children
CHARACTERS
TSAR
IVAN TSAREVICH
NURSE
THE GIRL-THE WATER
PRINCE ARSALAN
PRINCESS AYGUL
PRINCESS GOLD
VILLAIN SORCERER
(Fairy tale play in 2 acts. Motive by D. Rodari)
CHARACTERS
GRANDMOTHER
DAD is her son
MOM - her daughter-in-law
GRANDSON
GRANDDAUGHTER
CATS PEOPLE: NEIGHBOR CAT, SAILOR CAT, JUDGE CAT
CATS-CATS: RED CAT, WHITE CAT
(The play is a fairy tale in 2 acts.)
CHARACTERS
MASHA
VANIA
MOTHER
THE GOOD WITCH
OLD FOREST MAN
BLACK CATERPILLAR (no words)
BEAR
MAMA BIRD
CHICK
BUTTERFLY (no words)
Fairy tale play in 2 acts
(Based on English fairy tales)
CHARACTERS
GUARD
MISTRESS
JACK - country boy
JENNY - the guard's daughter
GIANTESS
Dwarf Queen
FAIRY
GHOST
CHARACTERS
PRINCE ARTHUR
QUEEN
KING
ELIZA
PRINCESS MARIANNE
PRINCE AUGUSTINE
(Children's play-fairy tale, possibly for a puppet theater)
CHARACTERS
BEAR
HARE
MOUSE
FOX
WOLF
(A play in two acts based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm)
CHARACTERS
TAILOR
PEASANT WOMAN
GIANT
GIANT'S WIFE
KING
QUEEN
PRINCESS
CHARACTERS
NARRATOR, aka WHITE ELDER
LISTENERS,
they are:
MOON GIRL
BEAR
WOLF
HARE
ANAHAY - evil spirit
FOX
FROG
SHAMAN GEK
MOON
(Fairy tale play in two acts)
CHARACTERS
TSAR
MINISTER
VASILISA THE WISE
ELENA THE BEAUTIFUL
Ivan Tsarevich
VASILY, Tsarevich
KOSCHEY, Emperor of the 25th kingdom, 25th state
1 – ROBBER
2 – ROBBER
3 – ROBBER
ATAMANSH
CAT BAIYUN
NURSE
(Fantasy on the theme of Georgian fairy tales)
CHARACTERS
TSAR
QUEEN TINIKO
CHONGURIST TORNIKE
KAJI - water spirit
DEV
GVELESHAPI - serpentine dragon
MOTHER PASHKUNZHI - half-beast, half-bird with the head of a lion and the wings of an eagle
BABY PASHKUNJI - just like his mother
(delusional fantasy)
CHARACTERS
SASHA
MOTHER
ALEXANDER'S GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
MASTER
KNIGHT
ORACLE
PERFORMER
PAGES
LADIES
CAVALIERS
DWARF
DRAGON, (no words)
MRS DOMNELLA
PRINCE
CLASSMATES
(Tale for puppet theater)
CHARACTERS
SHOEMAKER
THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE
SHOPKEEPER
TIM
VOLUME
MEG
CROW
CAT
(Based on English fairy tales.)
CHARACTERS:
ELF
KLOOTI - old witch
CAT TOM
KATE
JANET
(A fairy tale play in one act, possibly for a puppet theater)
Based on the fairy tales of Beatrix Potter.
CHARACTERS:
JOHNNY is a city mouse.
TIMMY WILLY - country mouse
LIZZIE – Johnny's older sister
KITTY is Johnny's middle sister.
BEATRIX - Johnny's younger sister
ROBIN - Johnny's middle brother
RICK - Johnny's younger brother
CAT
COOK
COOKS
(Fairy tale play in 2 acts)
CHARACTERS:
SOLDIER SEMYON
TSAREVNA
PRINCE
QUEEN
EVIL WIZARD
EVIL WITCH
THE OLD WOMAN is a good sorceress.
TWO FROM THE CASTER
LISA - maid
(Fairy tale play based on Mordovian fairy tales in 2 acts)
CHARACTERS:
YURTAI – tailor
IMPORTANT
MOTHER IS IMPORTANT
BEAR
GUY NAY-NAY is an unkind creature
BABA YAGA
VIR-AVA - mistress of the forest
VED-AVA – mistress of water
(fairy tale play in 2 acts)
CHARACTERS:
IVAN TSAREVICH
VASILISA THE BEAUTIFUL
KOSCHEI THE DEATHLESS
TSAR
NURSE
STOLNIK
BABA YAGA
BOYAR'S DAUGHTER
MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER
BEAR
(Fairy tale play in 2 acts)
CHARACTERS:
BABA YAGA
DUNYA
KIKIMORA
Goblin
WATER
ESHKIN CAT - (simply Cat)
(Play in 2 acts)
PERSONS:
KING
PRINCESS AUGUSTINE
PRINCE
QUEEN
Jester
A fairy tale play in 2 acts, in prose and verse, for children aged 5 years and older.
The prince and princess saw each other in a dream and fell in love. And they would be happy in reality, but the evil magician Dragon also loves the princess. Using evil witchcraft, he separates the lovers and lures the princess into his house. The princess wants to run away from him, but the all-seeing magic diamond of the magician finds her everywhere. And only the skin of a white monkey can hide the princess from the evil sorcerer. Putting on the skin of a white monkey, the princess runs away from him into the forest. In the forest she is met by a prince who mourns the loss of his bride and takes the monkey to his palace. A lot more happens to our heroes, but in the end, as it should be in a fairy tale, the evil spell is dispelled and good defeats evil.
A fairy tale play in 2 acts, in prose and verse. For children over 5 years old and adults.
ROLES: female - 2; men's - 4.
It’s sad in the kingdom-state because the king’s most perfect daughter, Nesmeyana. And the king issues a decree: whoever makes the princess laugh will marry her! Who will make her laugh? A merry fellow, a passer-by, Ivan or an overseas prince?
A fairy tale play in 2 acts. In verse. For younger children.
ROLES: female - 7; men's - 1; and also - Girlfriend cars, geese-swans, baby frogs, little mice and a hut on chicken legs.
The play in verse is written based on the plot of a Russian fairy tale. The girl Masha runs after the swan geese, trying to save her brother Ivanushka. On her way she comes across a stove, an apple tree, and a milk river. Everyone is trying to help Masha. Baba Yaga's mother mouse and her little mice help her, as does the hut on chicken legs. In the end, even the swan geese, whom the evil Yaga keeps at her beck and call and does not feed at all, help her...
A fairy tale play in 2 acts, in prose and verse, written for the songs of the fairy tale heroes. For children from 6 years old and adults.
The merchant Martiros comes to the city of Alep to profitably sell his goods there. But he meets scammers who deceive him of this product. And in Aleppo, Martiros meets a girl named Narine, who helps him return the goods and find love...
A play-fairy tale in 2 acts. Half in prose, half in verse, for children from 8 years old and adults.
Roles: female - 5, male - 4.
A funny play in prose and verse about how Baba Yaga’s three daughters, after spending too much time as girls, got ready to get married.
A play-fairy tale in 2 acts.
Roles: female – 3, male – 2.
A traditional fairy tale in all aspects: naughty Nastenka is taken into the forest by Baba Yaga. Elder sister Alyonushka comes to her rescue.
The play is simple to stage and, subject to the laws of the genre, is ready to withstand more than one year of distribution. The children's playbill of the Vologda Drama Theater played for more than ten seasons.
The lyrics of the song numbers prompted some musical theater groups to create a musical from the play.
The wonderful music of the songs for the play was written by the head of the Vologda drama school, Dina Fedorovna Bortnik.
A fairy tale play in 2 acts, in prose with verses for songs. Children from 6 years old.
ROLES: female - 5; men's 4.
The play is composed of two one-act acts, “The Wolf, the Fox and the Summer Miracles” and “The Wolf, the Fox and the Autumn Miracles” (Summer Tale and Autumn Tale). If in the first act the Wolf helps the Fox in her machinations, for which he is punished, then in the second act he comes to his senses and refuses to help the red-haired cheat. Moreover, he helps the Squirrel, the Bear, the Hare, the Goblin and the Mermaids to bring the deceiving Fox to clean water...
or "Ivan Tsarevich, Gray Wolf and others"
A fairy tale play in 2 acts in prose with lyrics, for children from 7 years old and adults.
ROLES: female - 4; men's - 4.
The gray wolf accidentally eats Ivan Tsarevich's horse, and therefore decides to help him get rejuvenating apples for the Tsar Father. However, Koschey demands a high price for the apples - a golden-maned horse, which is owned by Elena the Beautiful and also the Wise. And a mess begins in which Baba Yaga, the learned cat and the mermaid who sits on the branches participate. And Elena, although beautiful, is quite wise. Koschey was defeated by common efforts, everyone is happy and hopes to be happy...
A fairy tale play in 2 acts in prose.
For children from 5 years old and parents.
ROLES: female – 2, male – 4.
Although the author uses the theme of the Russian fairy tale “Rejuvenating Apples,” the play is quite original, both in plot and characters. The action is played out by “buffoons”, who, as the narrative progresses, turn into one or another character in the fairy tale.
A fairy tale play in 2 acts. In prose and with verses for songs of heroes. For children from 6 years old and adults.
ROLES:
women's - 5; men's -5.
The fairies raising our never-sleeping beauty are unhappy with their student. Instead of sleeping peacefully and waiting for the prince to appear and wake her up with his kiss, the princess runs through the forest, does housework, dreams of the sea that rustles outside the windows of her castle, so beautiful and alluring. It never occurs to anyone that the sea can promise trouble: pirates penetrate the princess’s castle and kidnap her. And the prince, who has appeared to wake her up with a kiss, has no choice but to make his way onto the pirate ship and engage in battle with the pirates...
A fairy tale play in 6 scenes in prose and with poems for songs.
For children over 6 years old.
ROLES: female – 2, male – 6.
The play is a journey from beginning to ending. Together with the main character, the viewer walks through the fairy tale from one character to another, doing good deeds, making mistakes and performing feats. At the end of the play, the hero awaits victory over Koshchei and the love of the beautiful Vasilisa.
A fairy tale play in 2 acts. In prose. For children from 8 years old and adults.
ROLES: female - 2; men's -2.
Everyone knows the fairy tale about the Frog Princess, in which the immortal Koschey turned Elena the Wise into a frog, and how Ivan Tsarevich saved her. But that was a long, long time ago in ancient times. What if Koschey and Yaga live today? Such inconspicuous grandparents walk through the forest, picking mushrooms, and no one would even think that they are Baba Yaga and Koschey. And if Koschey, having met the girl Lena in the forest, suddenly, accidentally turns her into a frog, then who will free her from the hated frog skin? After all, we don’t have princes anymore. The Ivans still meet, but they are not princes at all...
A fairy tale play in 2 acts, in prose. For children from 6 years old and adults.
Based on the Italian fairy tale "Evil Fate".
ROLES: female - 8; men's - 3.
Princess Santina has an evil fate. Because of this, all the misfortunes befall her and her family. So they would have fallen on the head of the poor princess all her life, but her kindness and hard work force even her Evil Fate to take pity on the unfortunate one and help achieve the love of the prince and happiness for her sister, mother and herself...
A play-fairy tale, a culinary recipe in 2 acts, in prose and with verses for the characters' songs. For children over 5 years old and their parents. Based on English fairy tales.
ROLES: female - 2; men's - 2.
Every Englishman is well aware that naughty children are put into his sack by the terrible Mr. Myakki and taken to his scary house in the forest, where his sweet wife Mrs. Myakki cooks soup from them for her beloved hubby. Tom does not believe this until he himself finds himself in the house of a terrible cannibal. But is this cannibal really that scary? And is he really a cannibal? The kindest Mrs. Sally, Mr. Myakki’s wife, cannot treat children so cruelly, even if they are very spoiled. One way or another, Tom saves himself, saves his sister Mary, and moreover, they become good friends with Mrs. and Mr. Myakki.
A fairy tale play in 1 act about friendship. In prose and poetry. For children from three to one hundred years old.
Little Fox and Little Hare are friends. But they only want to be friends together, with each other, so that there are no extraneous people. So they drive away both the Hedgehog and the Little Bear. But the Wolf intrudes into their friendship. He doesn't consider himself a third wheel at all. Moreover, he considers the Bunny the third wheel, and wants to make soup from him. So the Little Hare and the Little Fox would have disappeared in the Wolf’s big pot if the Hedgehog and the Little Bear had not come to their aid and proved to the whole world that in friendship there are no superfluous people.
The play is a fairy tale in 1 act. In prose.
For children over 6 years old and adults.
ROLES: female - 3; men's - 3.
One of the plays about the Fox and the Wolf. "Spring Tale".
Squirrel and Hare found a sleigh with a scarecrow of Maslenitsa in the forest, on the skiing hill. And in the sleigh there is a tub of pancakes and a pot of butter. The fox wants to take the find from them. Calls the Wolf for help. And Belka and Bunny wake up the Bear. Spring brings peace to the forest dwellers.
An edifying tale in 2 acts based on the tale of Toelius.
For younger and older children.
ROLES: female – 6, male – 2.
The play is based on Topelius' fairy tale "The Magic Pearl of Adelmina". But at the same time, the play is an absolutely independent work. Rather, the author was influenced by the enduring love for the dramaturgy of Evgeniy Schwartz. True, this made the play somewhat edifying and, as it seems to the author, overly prim and verbose. However, when reading the play, the listeners perceive it with interest. Staged and running at the Voronezh Youth Theater.
A fairy tale play based on Kazakh fairy tales.
A play in prose and with verses for the characters' songs.
For children 6 years and older.
The somewhat detective plot makes it interesting for adult viewers as well.
ROLES: female -2; men's - 3. + Karakhan's nukers and khan's judge's nukers.
Ilyas is in love with Malik. But Malik’s stepmother wants to marry her to the rich man Karakhan. One thing holds her back - the word given to Ilyas’s father. And then someone in the night steppe kills Father Ilyas. The Khan's judge, the biy, promises to find the killer. And he finds it. Biy punishes the culprit, and Ilyas marries Malik.
The play is a fairy tale in 2 acts. based on the fairy tale by V. Gauf.
ROLES: female - 3; men's - 4.
I think there is no need to introduce the plot of this work - who has not known this wonderful story told by Wilhelm Hauff since childhood?
Ah, two left!
Plays for school theater
Irina Batyuk
© Irina Batyuk, 2017
ISBN 978-5-4485-8282-0
Created in the intellectual publishing system Ridero
Shakespeare is resting!
Joke for school theater
Characters:
Lesha Romanov – “Bayun”, 14 years old – master of practical jokes, aspiring playwright.
Mikhail Gulyaypole – “Cricket”, 14 years old – Lesha Romanov’s best friend.
Sergey Dobrovsky – “Anchor”, 15 years old
Vanya Ivanov - “Ivan Ivanovich”, 14 years old.
Georgy Boytsov – “Kettlebell”, 14 years old.
Ekaterina Zhelezneva – “Catmetal”, 15 years old.
Yulia Korobkina – “Korobochka”, 14 years old.
Snezhana Krasavina – “Sidney”, 14 years old.
Vera Razina - “Atamansha”, 14 years old.
Lina Valentinova - “Valentine”, 14 years old.
Sveta Sorokina - “Mata Hari”, 14 years old.
The action takes place in the present day.
Prologue
The action takes place on the proscenium. Lesha Romanov is sitting at the table on the left and laughingly writes something.
Lesha. (breaking away) All! Shakespeare is resting! (stretching) Finished another masterpiece. ( rearranges sheets) If, my dear, you were filmed in Hollywood, we would take all the Oscars... Although on the other hand, why do we need so many identical Osiks... So, lie down, dear, rest before you go to the rest of the table to wait for yours the author is ripe for fame. (flipping through) It’s just super here ( laughs), Great! ( flips through) Hey Lekha! ... (laughs, notices the viewer) Hello! You're probably thinking what kind of weirdo is sitting there laughing to himself. I am Lesha Romanov, just Bayun to my friends. This is because I write plays in secret from everyone, and everyone, in turn, pretends that they know nothing about it. When I grow up, I will definitely become famous. In the meantime, I’m making joke after joke for my friends. I think so - if you didn’t get a single draw in a day, then you can put an end to it - a day spent aimlessly. What about friends?! No, they are not offended... It seems to me so. Do you know what they are? Real! Judge for yourself. ( Misha appears) For example - Mikha Gulyaypole, he got a funny surname from his ancestors and he himself is his best friend, always next to his cheerful whistle, for which they called him a cricket. ( Misha leaves. Sergei appears) And this is Anchor, the brake is too simple for him, but according to his passport, Seryozhka Dobrovsky. It is not surprising that no one has ever seen him angry; his kindness is directly proportional to his defenselessness. (Sergei leaves. Ivan appears) Ivan Ivanovich... It’s strange that some parents have a limitless sense of humor. It wasn’t enough for them to have a last name; they also give their son the same name. When Vanya introduces himself as Ivan Ivanov, he immediately automatically becomes Ivanovich as well... Therefore, the best friend is a book, it doesn’t tease and brings a lot of benefits, except for myopia and glasses. ( Ivan leaves. Georgy appears) Gosha Boytsov – sport has replaced everything in life: hardware is in first, second and third place... It’s a weight, even in Africa. (Gosha leaves. Katya appears) Another fan of metal - Katerina Zhelezneva - really sings, a fan... That’s what she says: “I’m not Katerina Zhelezneva - I’m Catmetal.” ( Katya leaves. Julia appears) The box is ours. The sweetest creature. Yulenka Korobkina. The best gift for her is a piggy bank. No one knows how many of them she has. And what he’s saving for, he won’t admit on pain of death. ( Julia leaves. Snezhana enters) Snezhanochka Krasavina is a top model of the fifth school, she comes to the board as a model demonstrates on the catwalk. Every day in a new outfit. Unattainable, proud and imperturbable... She loses her temper at the sight of a broken nail and then it’s better to stay away from her. (Snezhana leaves. Vera enters) Our Atamansha and her name is appropriate - Verka Razina. ( sings)“From behind the island onto the river, la-la-la-la-la-la-la, Stenka Razin’s painted boats float out.” Where the strength is in your hands, it’s almost like it’s going to hit you like that and don’t look at the fact that the girl... she’s not good with humor... (Vera leaves. Lina appears) Lina Valentinova is a romantic person, dreams of great love like Romeo and Juliet, like Othello and Desdemona, most importantly with a beautiful tragic ending, like in Hamlet: everyone died. (Liina comes out. Sveta enters) Mata Hari! Svetka Sorokina! The homicide department is resting! He will find out everything and spread it around the world faster than a telegraph. It's time to get out... ( leaves).
Sveta comes to the table and finds the manuscript. Reads, laughs...
Sveta. Again Bayun scribbled on the play... Well, it seems funny... I’ll take it to read. And I'll return it tomorrow. He won't even notice. I always do this, I’ve never declassified it yet (hides the manuscript, leaves).
Action 1
Recreation area in the park. Early spring. Birds are singing. Misha appears.
Misha (whistles). Eh! That's good. Spring!! Holidays!! If you want, go for a walk! If you want, sleep! Freedom!!! It looks like I'm walking alone and everyone is still sleeping. ( Calling) Lekha! Get up - great things await us! Woke you up?! Did you write all night? ….. ( calling) Girya, are you at least awake? It's me Mishka! Where I am? In our place... Well, okay, I'm waiting.
Katya appears.
Kate. The Talker bird is smart and quick-witted!
Misha. Katka! Hello!
Kate. Catmetal! My friend, Cricket.
Misha. You know - freedom of thought has made us stick together - so many plans...
Kate. Just say adventure...
Misha. Everything is legal: first, you can go to the skating rink before it’s closed...
Kate. Yes, spring class, I've been waiting all winter.
Misha. Secondly, you can go hiking on horseback...
Kate. Extreme. Great! I just feel sorry for the horse...
Misha. Third -…
Kate. Micah! They won't let you into space. We’d better go to a concert: a group from the capital is coming to us on tour.
Misha (offended) Yes! Definitely, I’ll just buy some cotton wool for earbuds...
Appears. Sergey.
Misha. Hurray the men's regiment has arrived!
Kate. Now you will save twice as much hay for your cow!
Seryozha. Misha. Do you have a cow?
Misha. No, it’s Katya’s tongue that has a sting….
Kate. Well, Mishka, I’ll show you the sting now ( runs after Misha)
Seryozha. A-and you are the one fooling around. ( sits down and takes out a crossword... gradually goes into himself, decides)
Vanya enters.
Misha. Save Vanya - Catmetal is coming...
Ivan. ( without looking up from the book) With what score?...
Kate. Here you can say the third world war ( snatching the book) but he can’t part with the book... What are we reading?
Ivan. Give it back... Well, I closed it...
Kate. Dostoevsky - “The Idiot”...
Misha. Well, you’re too much... why do this, maybe a person likes serious books...
Sergey. Guys. Five letter word. A person with limited mental abilities or a novel by Dostoevsky..... ( pause) do not know?
Everyone starts laughing. Vanya takes the book.
Misha. What an idiot I am!
Vera enters.
Faith. But I like this! Self-criticism is a useful thing, and most importantly it is pleasant for your comrades.
Kate. Forward to the barricades! Faith is calling!
Ivan. Vera is right! Haha to you, but I don’t remember the page!
Kate. Do you see how Dostoevsky affects you...
Misha. I completely withered away. I would read something light and relaxing.
Ivan. For example? Comics…
Faith. We are not so primitive... You can read detective stories...
Vania. Same to me classic..
Faith. Don’t tell me... I read something like this recently... The plot is super...
Kate. Well... don't delay.
Lina and Snezhana appear. Join everyone.
Faith. So that's it. One cool godfather killed his brother in order to take over his company and married his widow. And he would have gotten away with everything, but his nephew suspected something and returned from England, abandoned his studies, and began to dig. While he was figuring it out, he pretended to be a little out of his mind, so that the guy wouldn’t suspect. Then his father began to appear to him in a dream, supposedly punish the offender. Well, the nephew broke up and brought everyone out into the open...
Misha. What's a detective without corpses?
Faith. There are more than enough corpses. Nephew's bride and her dad. His mother, his best friend, his godfather himself, and his nephew at the end... but I completely forgot, poor Yorick was also there...
Seryozha. Shakespeare's tragedy - six letters.
Ivan. ( Seryozha) Hamlet... Hamlet!
Seryozha. Thank you, it's fine.
Lina. These are real feelings! It’s not a pity to die for these!
Snezhana. And I don’t look at books on principle?
Faith. Announce the principles!
Snezhana. Wrinkles on the forehead - once! Wrinkles around the eyes - two! Wrinkles...
Misha. Three in the brain!
Snezhana. You understand a lot. Beauty is power...
Ivan. I quote: Beauty will save the world.
Snezhana. Did Versachi say that?
Vania. Dostoevsky.
Snezhana. I'm not interested in Russian couturiers.
Characters:
Artist
Parent
Teacher
Friend
Critic (aka Customer)
Police officer
Classmate
Leading
+ Sound engineer
Introduction
Q: A child comes into this life knowing nothing about himself or the world around him. He has no ideas about good and evil, about conscience and honor, about honesty and lies, about happiness and unhappiness. About your capabilities. Picasso once said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as an adult.
Phenomenon 1
Q: “There is a sun in every person, just let it shine” (Socrates)
Scene 1. The artist's childhood
R: How stupid you are! What will become of you in the end? You're the worst in your class. Well, your father will ask you when he comes. He will teach you how to study properly. Mathematics. Or better yet, English.
X: I don’t want to, I won’t...
R: But look, everything is falling out of your hands! And all the same - to draw. Remember: Every loafer like this determines his own destiny, there is no point in blaming others for your own failures, because I’m not warning you in vain.
H: I understand, but...
R: No, it looks like you don’t understand. Never take drawing seriously, because you will never become an artist, and you will live in poverty.
H: But I don’t think so...
R: Who are you to have your own opinion? Still quite green, so to speak. Being an artist is not a profession; drawings will never make you successful, wealthy and independent. Or maybe you hope to get married successfully, huh? Dreams, dreams of stupid girls!
H: Anyway, I know what I want to become. More than anything else, I like to draw! This is the only thing I want to do...
R: Still, you are unbearably stupid. I’ll tell my father, at least let him get through to you... (leaves)
X: (still sits and draws) (raises his eyes into the hall) I was never loved and understood, and I believed that I was ready to live without it.
Scene 2. School years
U: Yes. What are you drawing?
H: I draw God
W: But no one knows what God looks like.
H: Now they’ll find out!
T: The topic of the lesson is landscape, so take a blank sheet of paper and complete this task.
X (quietly): It seems to me that we should trust more those who teach, and not those who command.
T (wails loudly): Teachers work too hard and get too little. They demand a miracle from doctors and teachers, and if a miracle happens, no one is surprised. So this is not in your case - the miracle did not happen. So stop drawing random things and start studying seriously!
The artist sighs, but takes a blank sheet of paper and begins to draw the ocean.
U: Why are the lines so crooked? Where is the right perspective? What a wild combination of colors, is that how I taught you to mix paints?
H: There is nothing more satisfying than pointing out people's shortcomings.
W: I've had enough. Give me the diary. Tomorrow I go to school with my parents.
X (to himself, quietly, with sadness): Going home is more sickening than going to hard labor. (desperately, into the hall, with hope) And you know... I was given life, but every life has its own destiny. One person only spends his life submissive to fate, while another person creates fate himself, for which sometimes he has to turn his whole life inside out.
Scene 3. Youthful dreams. Meeting on the street. Friend's opinion.
D: What people! My school friend! Is she still the same restless artist, only from the word “Bad”?
Kh: Hello, hello... Why are you doing this? The day will come when my works will find their admirer, and then I will be able to expand my studio, buy more paints, more canvases, and from the window I will watch the raging ocean and draw inspiration from it...
D: Yes, the field of dreams is as spacious as the ocean itself. If a person has developed the habit of leaving home to dream, then the day will come when he will leave home to throw himself into the water. (*Les Miserables)
Kh: Well, are you still reading Hugo and looking for your inspiration in literature? And How? Did the books you read bring you a lot of money?
D: (proudly) I am a future philologist! Serious profession! (somewhat sarcastically) But your works are almost never exhibited in galleries, critics don’t particularly praise you, you earn negligible money from your paintings... And, frankly speaking, your appearance is unimportant. Our dreamer! Was she being stubborn? All dreamers are fools. Maybe you’ll come to your senses and think about getting a real profession? Well... or at least look for a wealthy man.
X: It’s ordinary girls who like the smell of money, they firmly believe in the story of Cinderella, dream of a rich groom, a magnificent wedding, beautiful outfits, shiny trinkets or whatever else... What nonsense! Their life is unbearably boring and monotonous! Dummies!
D: For many, this is enough to become happy.
Kh: Well, I decided to go my own way, so you don’t understand me. You just reproach.
D: If suddenly people start praising you, it means you’ve finally done something worthwhile.
X: People don’t like to praise and never praise unselfishly.
D: So what then? The basis of all human relationships is, in one way or another, selfish interest. Well, stop drawing, it’s not serious!
Kh: I’ve been hearing this phrase from my parents for many years now, and now from you too... Maybe that’s enough? You don’t understand me, but one day my work will be appreciated, I believe. In the meantime, everything is for the better: you will relax from the praise and, what’s more, they will start using you. (sighs doomedly) Is what I’m doing really not worthy of approval?
Scene 4. Poverty. Despair, sluggish attempts to draw. Alcohol (?). I imagine the sound of the surf (sound)
X: Only malingerers and clowns suffer noisily. Both are for selfish purposes. My path is different, and I am still a Creator.
The light goes out. The sound of a shot.
A policeman comes into the door with a flashlight in his hand, all the previously mentioned “close ones” are crowding behind him, looking around in horror, whispering.
Policeman looking at paintings
P: Oh, look! Was the victim an artist?
ALL: well...as an artist...is this...so...nothing...
P: (not paying attention, thoughtfully evaluates) but it’s really, really good! My wife is a Critic and collects such works, the whole house is littered with works of “potential geniuses”, she would probably like it...
Phenomenon 2
Q: It's good to have talent. But it’s bad if your ambitions are much greater than the talent you have.
Scene 1. The Artist's Childhood.
R: Honey, what are you drawing?
X: Myself. Today the teacher told us that self-irony makes it easier to accept the inevitable criticism of other people. The best way to respond to their caustic remarks is to laugh at yourself.
R: Self-irony? But this is great work! Not a drop of irony! Only talent! Pure talent! Let me show this to your father.
X: Do you really think my work is good?
R: Of course, honey! We will definitely put it in the most prominent place. You are so gifted!
X: Mom, sometimes I don’t have time to complete the assignment for the lesson and the grade is reduced a little...
R: I always said that geniuses cannot be pushed, they do not know how to work under pressure.
Kh: But still, the teacher praises me more often and shows my drawings to other children as an example.
R: I'm so happy about your success! By the way, dad and I are giving you these paints and brushes. They are much more expensive than usual, but our golden girl doesn’t mind anything! (gives paints and brushes, hugs, kisses, squeezes).
H: Oh... thank you! So beautiful! New! But the girls in the class will probably say that they are Chinese...
R: Oh, dear, remember, everyone envy the capable, harm the talented... But don’t believe them, you are a real Artist with us and all your drawings are magnificent! I’ll still go show this to my father (leaves)
X: (left alone) hmm, what? The drawing is really good. Compared to what I saw from Picasso and some other famous artist, it’s very good. And I’m still little!
Q: So the young artist developed a clear awareness of her genius, and it became so strong that she completely forgot about other necessary qualities for a true Creator.
Scene 2. A parent enrolls a child in an art school. The Teacher and the Parent discuss the conditions, the Teacher looks at the Artist’s abilities, and allows her to participate in the lesson that has already begun. The artist sits next to her classmate.
U: Hello.
R: Hello. I would like to send my child to your school. As far as I know, this is one of the best art schools in our country. This, of course, is too small for my daughter...
U: A little small? Why?
R: Don't be surprised. But we don't need one of the best, but the best! My daughter is a genius! Such talented children are very rarely born, but God blessed us! And you will agree with me when you see her paintings.
W: Very interesting! We have many talented children, but geniuses at such a young age? I already want to look at her work.
R: Yes, we have them with us. And I see you don’t have much money at school. The classrooms are dark, the floors are a bit old. What about the materials? Paints, easels, paper? I want my little genius to have the best, you know, geniuses cannot stand frames, imperfections, or limitations. I don’t think that Pushkin would have become what he became if he had been deprived of benefits. I can provide your school with everything it needs.
U: (quietly) Yes, extra funds never hurt. (loudly) Well, show me your work. (looks at the Artist’s work, turns it over in his hands) (thoughtfully, stepping aside, scratching the back of his head, looking around furtively) A little bit of innocent flattery wouldn’t hurt. And what? There really are always not enough funds. And here it’s nice for mommy, her daughter too, and even more so for us. (loudly) Yes! The drawing really deserves the highest praise! How the colors flowed, and the idea itself... Simply incredible! You have been accepted into our school! You can start training right now. Today we are doing sketches again, open your albums. (To the Artist) Young talent, why are you sitting and doing nothing?
X: (with a grin) Drawing sketches is for ordinary people, it even enhances their mediocrity. Although I have nothing against it - for most people it is a necessity. But not for me. I can do everything myself and much better than those who diligently follow all the established rules. Just look at this squalor! (nods at Odnoklassniki’s work)
U: Perhaps the work is still average, but this is just a sketch, an exercise. Look, they are made with care. To whom less is given, less is required, but diligence is required from everyone to create something beautiful. That's it, start drawing. (leave with parent, discussing financial issues)
X: He who is too zealous in small things usually becomes incapable of great things. *(La Rochefoucauld) (laughs) It’s terrible to be born mediocre.
O: (red with indignation) What? Mediocrity?
X: Yes, compare our works! It's immediately obvious that mine is better!
O: What?
H: In everything!
O: And you seem to have nothing more than conceit! What kind of talent is there? Do you think that since you come from a wealthy family, you can do anything? Not everything in life can be bought. People aren't born geniuses; by God, they become them. And for this you will have to work hard on your technique.
H: You will still remain mediocre. And you shouldn’t be offended by the truth, you need to look it straight in the eye. I generously reveal them to you.
O: Oh... good. It seems like no one can open your eyes at all. I just won’t contact you again.
Scene 3. Meeting with the Customer (the same Critic)
The customer is restlessly pacing around the studio, waiting for the Artist. When she finally appears, she rushes to shake her hands.
Z: And here you are! I'm incredibly glad to meet you! I have been looking for an opportunity to order a painting from you for a long time. You know, having a painting with your signature in your living room nowadays is a sign of refined taste. And you also happen to be a very charming woman. To tell the truth, I was a little tired of waiting and was afraid that you wouldn’t come...
X: I won’t come? From what?
Z: (smiling embarrassedly) we agreed on two, but now it’s almost three.
X: (stretching languidly, walking around the room imposingly) Punctuality was invented for those who have nothing to do. Are you by any chance one of those people?
Z: No, come on, I’m a famous art critic.
H: Oh, I don’t care at all what the critics write. I think that even those who express their negative opinion about my works, deep down in their souls also admire them, they are simply afraid to admit it to themselves.
Z: (confused) Yes, everyone has their own opinion, but...
X: (interrupting) Admit it! Was it easy to become a famous critic by writing articles about my paintings? It is always easy to write about something worthy. For example, in a recent article one journalist wrote: “She, like a ray of sunshine in a dark kingdom, illuminates the faceless, gray world of contemporary art.”
Z: (quietly) A ray of sunshine...
H: Yes! But the sun cannot shine forever, it also needs rest (lounges on a chair). So... who are you there...
Z: I am the one who from now on prefers to stay away from the scorching rays of your vanity. That is... I meant, fame. So, for your information, there are different opinions about you. Recently, my colleague wrote an article about how your work has become empty, soulless, made like a carbon copy. Frankly, I laughed at statements like hers. But now it begins to seem to me that your paintings have never been distinguished by their fullness.
X: What do you understand about art? My paintings are being bought! They can be bought for crazy amounts of money! Yes, I don’t try too hard, but people like it! If they are ready to pay a tidy sum just for my signature, how can I refuse them this?
Z: But I admired your works... but now I’m disgusted by them, because I know what a selfish and unceremonious person is behind them. Believe me, you will soon become sober from your imaginary talent. And I have the opportunity to take care of it. (leaves)
Scene 4.
On the projector there are pictures of newspapers with critical articles, disturbing music. Maybe an article where a former teacher talks about the mediocrity of his student and so on.
The lights are dim. The artist sits in a daze, looking in the mirror
X: An artist creates beauty. And I will hide behind my art, even rather behind my name, and look at me, what I really am... Vice always leaves its mark on a person’s face. Art is a mirror that reflects whoever looks into it. And everyone, even the bravest, is sometimes afraid to look at himself. What I see now is terrible. But I’m rich and famous, everyone around me admired me. Where has all this gone? And what does it profit a man to gain the whole world if he loses his own soul! How could I allow my soul to become so ugly? There is no escape from yourself. My ambitions ruined my talent and spoiled my character. However, I am the Creator, and everything about me had to be beautiful. Especially the soul.
The light goes out. The sound of a shot.
Conclusion
Morality
Q: Some people destroy their talent because of praise,
Others lose their gift without praise.
Let the judges decide who is to blame here
“Everything is better in moderation,” Euripides said.
V. SOLLOGUB “TROUBLE FROM A TENDER HEART” OR “WHO THE DEVIL GUESSED TO STAY IN THIS HOUSE”
Vladimir Sollogub’s brilliant vaudeville has been on the stage for more than 150 years and is interesting to both inexperienced and adult viewers. Count Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sollogub (1814-1882) is a famous Russian writer, author of “secular” stories, essays, memoirs about Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol and VAUDEVILLES. This genre was the most beloved in Russia in the first half of the 19th century, and “Trouble from a Tender Heart” is the most famous, first staged in 1850. The author is a brilliant expert on the laws of this genre. In the finale, virtue and justice always win.
VLADIMIR SOLLOGUB “TROUBLE FROM A TENDER HEART”. VAUDEVILLE.
Characters:
Daria Semyonovna Boyarkina.
Masha, her daughter.
Nastasya Pavlovna, her niece.
Agrafena Grigorievna Kubyrkina.
Katerina Ivanovna, her daughter.
Vasily Petrovich Zolotnikov, farmer.
Alexander Vasilich, his son.
PHENOMENON 1
DARIA SEMENOVNA Oh, my God! Still no pink dress. Well
is this what it is? The dress was ordered for this evening, but you will receive it tomorrow morning."
Everything is so here, everything is so. Such a shame: I would just beat someone! Nastya!
Nastya! Nastenka!
NASTYA I'm here, aunty.
DARIA SEMENOVNA. Well, thank God! Where have you been, mother? It's all in my head
nonsense, but there’s no point in thinking about auntie; did you send to marchande
de modes?
NASTYA Sent it, auntie.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Well, what about Mashenka’s dress?
NASTYA Ready, aunty"
DARIA SEMENOVNA So why don't they carry it?
NASTYA Yes, auntie"
DARIA SEMENOVNA So why are you grumbling?
NASTYA(quietly) Without money, auntie, they don’t give it away; they say there's already too much
must.
DARIA SEMENOVNA What, do you want to be rude to me, mother? Here
gratitude: I took an orphan into my home, I feed and clothe her, and she
He still says sarcastic things to me. No, honey, I won’t let you forget. What?
They brought crackers, huh?.. They're spinning the ice cream." Eh?.. You won't think about anything. Well,
are you standing rooted to the spot? You see, Mashenka hasn’t combed her hair yet; give it to me
hairpins.
MASHA Here I should put rings on my forehead “like this” Mama, how do you like it?
whatever I want, if they don’t bring me a dress, I won’t go out for anything; I'll stay in mine
room, I'll say I'm sick. As you please.
DARIA SEMENOVNA What you? What you? Lost her mind! I'm making an evening for you, and
you won't be there; will you order me to dance instead of you? We will have the most
first wives" that is, gentlemen.
MASHA Yes! That's exactly how they'll go.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Why, mother, won’t they go?
MASHA What did they forget here? After all, there is now a better ball than yours;
I told you to put it off, but you want everything your own way.
DARIA SEMENOVNA It's time for you to get married, Mashenka, otherwise these evenings
My strength is not enough. Look, Prince Kurdyukov will be there today, try to help him
I'll like it.
NASTYA Oh, auntie, he's an old man!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Nobody is asking you. Well, old man, he has money
him young.
A servant enters with a letter
Who is this from? “well” (with annoyance) Excellent, incomparable” Prince Kurdyukov
sorry, it can't be.
MASHA Well, what did I say!
DARIA SEMENOVNA What, Mashenka, should I send for a pink dress? After all
there will be no prince.
MASHA of course, send "What do you think? That I am because of your
I'm going to walk around the old man without a dress, or what?
DARIA SEMENOVNA Oh, Mashenka, at least you would be ashamed of people.
MASHA Yes, he is French, he doesn’t understand.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Well, I'll go get the money and send for the dress.
MASHA It's high time... well, well, go ahead.
DARIA SEMENOVNA So she raised herself a bride - ruin and nothing more!
(Leaves.)
PHENOMENON 2.
MASHA(to the hairdresser) Here it’s still “like that”! Nastya "Nastya" what are you talking about
do you think?
NASTYA So, about nothing, something sad"
MASHA What nonsense! Look, has this hairstyle stuck with me?
NASTYA Stuck.
MASHA Very pestering?
NASTYA Very.
MASHA Right" Well, what are you going to wear?
NASTYA Yes, I’ll stay like this, why should I dress up?” no one will notice me.
MASHA You should at least put a ribbon in your hair" I have a lot of old ones in my closet
ribbons
NASTYA No, why?
MASHA As you want.
ZOLOTNIKOV(behind the scenes) Is Daria Semyonovna at home?
MASHA Oh, what a shame, man! (the hairdresser runs after her).
Phenomenon 3.
ZOLOTNIKOV Sorry" I scared someone here. (to the side) Oh, this one
daughter. (aloud) But the hostess is not at home, apparently?
NASTYA No, sir, at home; I'll go tell her.
ZOLOTNIKOV Neither, nor, don't worry; It’s you that I need.
NASTYA Me?
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes; let me take a good look at just you.
Turn around a little, like this “incomparable” I couldn’t wish for anything better than you.
NASTYA Yes, I don’t know you at all.
ZOLOTNIKOV You'll meet me soon. What year are you?
NASTYA Eighteen
ZOLOTNIKOV Great. Tell me, do you have any suitors?
NASTYA No with.
ZOLOTNIKOV Why aren't they looking, fools! Are you thinking about marriage?
NASTYA Sorry, I don't have time.
ZOLOTNIKOV No, you're not angry. I am Zolotnikov, farmer. Have you heard
May be? A man who has become rich, my speech is a little harsh. A,
however, I take an active part in you; Believe it or not, for you on purpose
I came from Kazan to make you an offer.
NASTYA You?
ZOLOTNIKOV Don't think that I'm talking about myself. First of all, I
fifty years; secondly, my face is far from attractive; thirdly, at
My wife is in Tambov. No, sir, I want to marry my son, and precisely, if
to tell the whole truth, I would really like to marry him to you. Of course
if you fall in love with each other. You don't love anyone, do you? Tell me the truth"
NASTYA Nobody, sir.
ZOLOTNIKOV Well, you don’t like it. I'll introduce my son to you. He is a kind little guy.
The heart is only tender. Just give me your word that you will not be away from me
offers.
NASTYA Listen, words are no joke: once you give your word, you have to keep it, and I
I don’t know your son.
ZOLOTNIKOV So what? He's waiting here in the living room.
PHENOMENON 4.
ZOLOTNIKOV Eh, yes, no way, here comes the hostess! Ege-he-he, how she has changed!
Thalia was just a glass, but now, thank you God" Daria Semyonovna,
do you recognize me?
DARIA SEMENOVNA(looking) Guilty, sir.
ZOLOTNIKOV Remember well.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Let me" No, I can't.
ZOLOTNIKOV Thank you, Daria Semenovna. Let me ask you, do you play?
Are you still playing piano?
DARIA SEMENOVNA And, father, where should I go?
ZOLOTNIKOV Do you remember, in 1919 in Kazan?
DARIA SEMENOVNA My God, Vasily Petrovich!
ZOLOTNIKOV I am a great sinner. This is the time. Became a different person.
(points to the vest) There was nothing here - it appeared. (points to head)
There was a lot here - almost nothing remains. Daria Semyonovna didn’t recognize it!
DARIA SEMENOVNA God brought us to meet. Am I so old to you, father?
I seem like you to me? Yes, I heard you got terribly rich.
ZOLOTNIKOV Out of grief, Daria Semyonovna. How you refused me, remember I
He entered into business, into trading, to his misfortune, became rich, and out of despair, he got married.
DARIA SEMENOVNA From consistency, that's right; and here with what destinies?
ZOLOTNIKOV There are some things to do, but I brought my son.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Do you have many children?
ZOLOTNIKOV One son in total.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Married?
ZOLOTNIKOV No, still single.
DARIA SEMENOVNA I ask you to humbly sit down. Nastenka, look, they’re lit
Are there candles in the living room? Sit down please; What the hell were we talking about?
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes about my son; I want to marry him.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Oh, be careful, Vasily Petrovich! In Petersburg
the girls are all good-looking; and when they get married, it’s immediately obvious that upbringing
not that, not at all. I have a daughter, so I can brag about it.
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes, I spoke to her just now.
DARIA SEMENOVNA And no! You spoke to my niece, the orphan,
which I hold out of mercy. I am a mother, Vasily Petrovich... but I will tell you that
my daughter was brought up this way, prepared this way"
MASHA(backstage) Mommy!
DARIA SEMENOVNA What, my dear?
MASHA The dress was brought.
DARIA SEMENOVN And now, my friend; and such an innocent child will be put to shame.
ZOLOTNIKOV This is what I need. My good little Sasha, only in
there is still wind in his head; They told him that he had two million."
DARIA SEMENOVNA Two million?..
ZOLOTNIKOV Two million. Believe me, his heart is so tender,
As soon as he sees the skirt, he will melt; every day I am in love; what will you become
do! Well, it would be okay for a prank, but in the summer, in Tambov, I decided to get married
on some kind of intrigue. Fortunately, the hussar turned up, otherwise I would have been with him forever
cried. I see things are bad: take my son with me to St. Petersburg, and to you, Daria
Semyonovna, from old memory I know that do not refuse good advice; and you,
I heard, daughter. Who knows? Maybe our children will meet and fall in love."
If it’s not us, it’s our children, Daria Semyonovna, isn’t it?
DARIA SEMENOVNA What an old thing to remember!
ZOLOTNIKOV will not return, truly. Well, let's admire the children"
Let me kiss your hand.
DARIA SEMENOVNA With pleasure.
ZOLOTNIKO B And the hand has aged; do you sniff tobacco?
DARIA SEMENOVNA For the eyes, Vasily Petrovich.
MASHA Mama, come here; How obnoxious you are!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Now, now, my angel “Now I’ll bring her to you” No
be too strict.
PHENOMENON 5.
ZOLOTNIKOV Lord, what a change! She didn’t recognize me,” here’s a lesson for you,
Vasily Petrovich "For thirty years I remembered her with pleasure" imagined
her former beauty. And that’s what drove me to come here!
Ah, right is worse than a slap,
Like having not seen each other for thirty years,
You will find an old woman in the ruins
Love is an enthusiastic subject.
Oh! Dasha! In previous years
This is not how you and I met;
(With a sigh) Then you smelled the flowers,
Now - you sniff tobacco!
PHENOMENON 6.
ALEXANDER(throws himself on his father’s neck) Father, hug me. I agree"
be it your way, “I’m not marrying her,” I like her, I really like her. I
satisfied, I'm glad, I'm happy, prosperous" Father, hug me.
ZOLOTNIKOV Oh wait!
ALEXANDER No, hold me.
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes, listen!
ALEXANDER No, hug me: like this" again. It's over, it's decided, I
I will fulfill your will: I will marry her, and it is her, not anyone else, but
her! That’s what I came up with, here’s my father, “Hug me again.”
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes, listen!
ALEXANDER Eyes, waist, hair “what character” You can see now. Father,
bless!
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes, get off me, please." We were mistaken, it's not her.
ALEXANDER Why not her? She, she, she! I don’t want her to be not her!
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes, I was mistaken myself: do you think that I spoke there in the living room with
daughter"
ALEXANDER Well, yes.
ZOLOTNIKOV That's the thing, she's not a daughter.
ALEXANDER Why not a daughter? Wasn't she born without a father and without a mother?..
Is she someone’s daughter?.. She was some kind of mother, and so was her father.
ZOLOTNIKOV She's a niece.
ALEXANDER Doesn't matter.
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes, they tell you that she is a niece.
ALEXANDER R Yes, even if she were an uncle, I’ll still marry her! Yours
there was the will" the father's will is the law.
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes, I predicted another one for you.
ALEXANDER No, my father’s will is the law!.. I don’t want another.
ZOLOTNIKOV Don't make any noise, they're coming here.
ALEXANDER So don’t let them go,” tell them not to come.
ZOLOTNIKOV Just look.
ALEXANDER And I don’t want to look.
PHENOMENON 7.
DARIA SEMENOVN And here is my Mashenka, Vasily Petrovich; please love
Yes, I'm sorry. (in ear) Stay straight! (loudly) She's shy to me. (on
ear) Yes, sit down well. (out loud) Excuse her, Vasily Petrovich:
She’s not a secular girl, she’s all about needlework and books.
MASHA (in her mother's ear) Stop it, mummy!
DARIA SEMENOVNA No, I tell her: “What are you doing, Mashenka, at your age?
you’re spoiling it,” in your summer you should look for pleasure, have fun,” and she told me
says: “No, mamma, I don’t want your secular pleasures, what’s in them”
A woman’s job is not to dance and not to flirt, but to be a kind wife, gentle
mother."
MASHA Mama, I'll leave"
DARIA SEMENOVNA Would you believe it, I handed over the entire household to her -
let him get used to it, and in his free time he plays music, draws, whatever
you have this head that you came without a teacher, you know, this
Apollo Velbedersky?
MASHA(out loud) Torn it up. (in ear) Mommy, I'm tired of you!
ZOLOTNIKOV And here, madam, is my son. (to his son) Bow down!
ALEXANDER Don't want.
DARIA SEMENOVNA It’s very nice to meet you: this is your first time visiting
to us in St. Petersburg?
ALEXANDER Yes!
DARIA SEMENOVNA How long are you planning to stay here?
ALEXANDER No.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Why is this so?
ALEXANDER R So.
MASHA AH, mamma, your questions are not very modest: maybe they
unpleasant.
DARIA SEMENOVNA But where can I be able to talk to young people? That's your business
keep young people busy. Let's go, Vasily Petrovich; no matter how many years
See you, have something to talk about" (in the ear) Let them get acquainted; without us
it will be more free.
ZOLOTNIKOV Certainly.
DARIA SEMENOVNA And you, darling, manage here without me; it's time
get used to it: today you’re a girl, and tomorrow you might live in a house yourself.
Everything is in the will of the Lord.
(kisses her on the forehead and speaks in her ear) Don't forget! Two million! (Aloud)
Let's go, Vasily Petrovich.
phenomenon 8
.
MASHA(to the side) He seems to be completely uncouth. Oh, what a pity!
ALEXANDER(to the side) Well, how can you compare her with that one! That one has eyes
waist, hair" However, this one is decent, so-so.
MASHA Would you like to sit down?
ALEXANDER No, sir, why!
Silence
MASHA How do you like our St. Petersburg?
ALEXANDER(absent-mindedly) What-o-s?
MASHA Do you like St. Petersburg?
ALEXANDER Petersburg, or what? Famous city, sir!
MASHA When did you arrive?
ALEXANDER On the very day of magnetic illumination, we deigned, of course,
hear?
MASHA Yes, I heard it, but I didn’t see it."
Silence
Have you already been to Passage?
ALEXANDER Why, I ate hearth pies downstairs.
MASHA You like?
ALEXANDER Pies or what?
MASHA No" Passage.
ALEXANDER nice walk.
MASHA Why don't you sit down?
ALEXANDER Do not worry! (to the side) Eyes, what eyes! Where is
I had eyes that I didn't notice her eyes!
MASHA We have a wonderful opera this year.
ALEXANDER R They say, sir.
MASHA Are you perhaps a musician yourself?
ALEXANDER Why, sir! I play a little.
MASHA On pianos?
ALEXANDER R Mainly on the horn.
MASHA A!
ALEXANDER And you, sir? (getting pampered)
MASHA I sing a little.
ALEXANDER Really? It is so pleasant! (aside) I don't know why she
I didn't like it the first time. She is very, very nice" And what a manner
beautiful. (To her) I really don’t know if I dare ask you.
MASHA How, sir?
ALEXANDER I say "I don't know if I dare to ask you..
MASHA What?
ALEXANDER R I don’t know if I dare to ask the first time." Encourage,
Please.
MASHA(flirty) Why? What do you want?
ALEXANDER Dare I ask "for example" (to the side) Yes, this is lovely, but
not a girl" (to her) Make me happy, please let me listen.
MASHA Yes, we are waiting for guests.
ALEXANDER You'll have time.
MASHA I really don't have a voice.
ALEXANDER Give it a try.
MASHA(flirtatious) Unless only for you" (walking to the piano)
ALEXANDER R (aside) For you, for me "She said for you" I told her
I liked the "Yes, this is not a girl" charm!
MASHA Just accompany me, please; I have a new romance here.
ALEXANDER With pleasure (sits at the piano)
MASHA
Tell me what's in the shadow of the branches,
When nature rests
The spring nightingale sings
And what does he express in song?
Why is everyone secretly worried about blood?
Tell me, tell me what the word is
Familiar to everyone and forever new?
Love!
Tell me what you're talking about in private
In thought, is the girl telling fortunes?
What secret trembling in a dream
Does he promise her fear and joy?
Call that illness strange
In which there is eternal joy.
What should she expect? What does she want?
Love!
When from life's melancholy
You, tired, languish
And, despite the evil sadness,
At least you call upon the ghost of happiness"
What delights your breast?
Aren't those unearthly sounds
When did you first hear -
I love?!
ALEXANDER(jumps up from his chair and runs to Masha) Oh, what a voice! What
for your vote! What feeling! What a soul! You drove me crazy; I'm delighted
Now I’ll go crazy if you don’t allow me to hope.
MASHA How to hope?
ALEXANDER Don't you know anything?
MASHA No.
ALEXANDER you don't know that your old woman was in love once before
at my old man?
MASHA How, and mommy too? I wouldn't have thought that. Yes she is not for me
talked about it.
ALEXANDER Yes, they never talk about it. Here, father, I made it up,
so that I would be on you" or you would be for me. It doesn't matter" but it depends on you.
Well, in love, in love, completely in love. Well, if you don't agree, I
I will be the most unfortunate mortal.
MASHA So say it.
ALEXANDER Father wishes my happiness; he only thinks about me
happiness; Yes, and I wish myself happiness - who doesn’t wish themselves happiness! Only you,
maybe you don’t want my happiness?
MASHA Have mercy" why?
ALEXANDER How? Do you want my happiness?.. Really?
MASHA Of course.
ALEXANDER So can I hope?
MASHA I depend on my mother.
ALEXANDER It’s not about mummy, it’s about mummy; you tell me about yourself
tell me "can you like me?
MASHA(simply) Why not?
ALEXANDER Marya" as per the priest?
MASHA Petrovna.
ALEXANDER Mashenka! I am the happiest man in the world, I will become you
love, love, love like no one has ever loved before, and never will!
MASHA Just wait.
ALEXANDER Why wait, why wait? This is hypocrisy; I do not want to wait; I
I love you, we love each other, we will be happy; we will have children;
make of me what you will; order, dispose, only allow
prove my love to you.
MASHA You are truly a strange person. However, listen, today we have
dance night.
ALEXANDER Do you want to dance with me? Don’t exact it as best I can.
MASHA All the same, but, you see, I don’t have a bouquet.
ALEXANDER So what? What do you need a bouquet for?
MASHA It's in fashion: holding a bouquet in your hands." Don't you understand?
ALEXANDER No.
MASHA Well, I’ll tell you: go get a bouquet, only of fresh flowers.
ALEXANDER But where will I go?
MASHA Where you want: that's your business. And I need to receive guests" Before
goodbye (extends hand)
ALEXANDER(kissing the hand) What a hand!
What kind of pens are, simply wonderful!
I would be ready to kiss forever.
MASHA
Well, go ahead, bye
Bring me flowers.
ALEXANDER
What kind of weirdness is this?
What good is a bouquet to you?
What do you need other people's flowers?
You yourself are the best flower!
PHENOMENON 9.
ZOLOTNIKOV Where are you going, crazy?
ALEXANDER Father, I congratulate you on the bouquet!.. Hug me! I will fulfill
your command "Your desire is law for me! Yes! I will marry her" I
happy.. I have been completely reborn" From fresh flowers.
ZOLOTNIKOV So what happened?
ALEXANDER What happened? I am in love at your command. Will
paternal - the law! Yes! You want me to get married whenever you want, even today."
Parent, bless.
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes, explain first.
ALEXANDER No, hug, hug like a parent... That's it! It's over! I
I'll marry her!
ZOLOTNIKOV But who is she wearing?
ALEXANDER On it!
ZOLOTNIKOV On your niece?
ALEXANDER On my daughter.
ZOLOTNIKOV On Nastenka?
ALEXANDER On Mashenka, on my Mashenka, on Marya Petrovna. For all
she is Marya Petrovna, and for me Mashenka!
ZOLOTNIKOV But how did you tell me that you were in love with someone else, with your first one?
ALEXANDER First?.. no! It seemed so to me; however, she too
very, very, very nice girl. Only this you yourself, my father, to me
appointed, and besides, she sings, “she sings like that! Father, did you hear Grisi?
ZOLOTNIKOV No, I haven't heard.
ALEXANDER And I haven’t heard, so that’s how he sings. Well, let's go!
ZOLOTNIKOV How are we going?
ALEXANDER Yes, let's go for bouquets, for sweets... She wants this, she
ordered; Well, take your hat - let's go!
ZOLOTNIKO In Yes, go alone.
ALEXANDER No, I won’t go alone: I won’t find anything; Let's go back now.
ZOLOTNIKOV At least explain it.
ALEXANDER Dear, I'll explain everything. Don't forget that fate depends on it
of my life. Well, let's go.
PHENOMENON 10.
KUBYRKINA This is your blotter, mother, of course.
KATE Boudoir, mommy
KUBYRKINA Well, anyway, General Akhlebova has exactly the same one;
Tell me how everyone lives in St. Petersburg!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Haven't you been here for a long time?
KUBYRKINA Fifteen years; It's a joke! I just have to admit,
yours is expensive.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Yes, not cheap.
KUBYRKIN And, for mercy’s sake, why don’t you take it” beef sirloin 34 kopecks!
Is it unheard of! Trustee, I rented an apartment like the one we have in Tambov
the solicitor would not want to live “Whatever you do, you’re such a fool”
KATE Cherte, mamma.
KUBYRKINA Doesn't matter.
MASHA(To Katya) Was your dress made at home or in a store?
KATE Of course, in the store.
MASHA(aside) Lied; Now it’s clear that she’s at home. (To her) Where’s the cape?
did you take it?
KATE In Passage.
MASHA Very nice.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Do you, Agrafena Grigorievna, play cards?
KUBYRKINA Passionate hunter, mother, not out of interest, but just like that,
small.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Do you travel a lot now? The balls have begun"
KUBYRKINA Unfortunately, my Katenka fell ill; it’s good that it’s nature
strong, she recovered quickly, otherwise the doctor was afraid that a relapse would occur.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Relapse, mother.
KUBYRKINA And, mother, relapse, recitation - it’s all the same. Where is yours
room, Marya Petrovna?
MASHA Here, on this side.
KUBYRKINA Ah, let me be curious.
MASHA Please.
KUBYRKINA Let's go, Katenka.
KATE I’ll come now, mummy; I’ll just fix the curls.
PHENOMENON 11.
KATE(alone in front of the mirror) How mannered this Mashenka is! What is it made of?
does your nose lift? This is the importance of what lives in St. Petersburg. Am I worse than her? Well,
what?.. just nothing, just no worse.
I myself am seventeen years old,
And ask anyone
There is no better place in St. Petersburg
Katya from Tambov!
Against other young ladies
I'm no worse!
I am no less than them,
Narrower at the waist
Thick hair in a braid,
And besides, since childhood I
I learned all the secrets
Female coquetry;
I know, I love pranks,
How to lie with your heart,
How probably yourself
Make you love
And my eyes and gaze
Always playing tricks:
They will give you a smile,
They will enrage you with ridicule.
I myself am seventeen years old,
And ask anyone
There is no better place in St. Petersburg
Katya from Tambov!
SCENE 12.
ALEXANDER Here's the bouquet" I got it with great effort.. Here's another (drops everything) Oh my God R
my! Who do I see? Katerina Ivanovna!
KATE Alexander Vasilievich! Oh! (faints on a chair)
ALEXANDER She feels bad" she feels bad! I scared" This is for me" Help!
Help!
KATE Don't shout!
ALEXANDER woke up "woke up" Katerina Ivanovna!
Katya faints again
Phew, another seizure; she'll suffocate in the corset... Are there any scissors?
cut the cord" Oh, by the way.. (takes it hastily from the dressing table
scissors)
KATE(jumping up) Don't come near! Do not touch! What do you need? Why do you
Here? It's not enough for you that you deceived me, that after all your promises,
assurances that you abandoned me, an orphan? Go, don't show yourself to me!
ALEXANDER Here you go! How am I still to blame?
KATE He asks “is he guilty?” Yes, you are a monster, not a man! You
Don Juan is shameless!
ALEXANDER What is Don Juan?
KATE None of your business! Answer, explain your action. I really don’t
I know how I’m still talking to you. Well, please tell me "Do you live in our
village"You pretend to be in love, look for my hand, and when I, like
an inexperienced, defenseless girl began to feel inclined towards you"
ALEXANDER Please don't look at me like that"
KATE When I agreed to your proposal, I entrust my fate to you,
you suddenly leave without saying a word, without saying goodbye, without even getting drunk
I drink tea “just like a thief” (crying) Oh, I’m unhappy! What did I do?
ALEXANDER No, please, no, please, look at me
KATE If you please"
ALEXANDER(to the side) Wow, the abyss "Pretty again" (Her) What,
I mean, I wanted to ask? Yes, let me ask you what you wanted from me
do?
KATE Like what "I thought that you would be my husband. Is that good? Well
Tell me after this, who are you like?
ALEXANDER“I look like my mother,” but that’s not the point. What kind of husband did you want?
make me?
KATE What kind of husband? Ordinary.
ALEXANDER What kind of ordinary one?
I would really like to know
Which husbands exactly?
A week after the wedding,
Would I, sinner, be with you?
Everything is split between wives and husbands,
How will the Lord bless them?
But what about the husband, tell me yourself,
Will the hussar share with you?
KATE What hussar?
ALEXANDER What? Don't know which hussar? But that hussar repairman,
who was visiting your village!
KATE Yes, he is my brother.
ALEXANDER Which brother?
KATE Second cousin.
ALEXANDER I know these brothers! Thank you for this kind of brotherhood; servant
obedient!
KATE You forget"
ALEXANDER No, on the contrary, I really remember" Don't pretend - I'm still
I know.
KATE What do you know?
ALEXANDER I know that he wrote letters to you.
KATE Not true!
ALEXANDER That's great! I read it myself, and what kind of letters are these? "Angel
my, Katenka! “My angel,” where do they learn, hussars, to write such letters?
KATE So you were angry about this?
ALEXANDER Not enough, or what? What else would you like?
Katya laughs.
Well, why are you laughing?
KATE For mercy's sake, you are so funny!
ALEXANDER Who am I funny? No, I'm not funny, I'm offended" Maybe you
Explain why you received hussar letters?
KATE Nothing could be easier.
ALEXANDER Well, try and explain!
KATYA I don't want to.
ALEXANDER Katerina Ivanovna, please explain.
KATE You're not worth it.
ALEXANDER Katerina Ivanovna! I beg you, explain" don't be cruel.
KATE Well, then listen; Do you remember Katenka Rybnikova?
ALEXANDER What was your guest? For mercy's sake, she is Avdotya.
KATE This is the older sister, and that one is the other; these letters to her, I only
betrayed. He even wanted to marry her.
ALEXANDER How, really? Ah, Katerina Ivanovna! I'm a fool, a villain,
wicked, slanderer! Torment me, beat me! Guilty without guilt! And for what
Did these hussars get into my head? Forgive me, Katerina Ivanovna!
KATE No, it's too late now.
ALEXANDER Katerina Ivanovna, are you innocent?
KATE Well, of course! However, as you wish.
ALEXANDER R (throwing himself on his knees) Katerina Ivanovna, be generous,
don't make me die of grief.
KATE(crying) No! I'm a poor girl, I love the hussars" Every one of me
may offend" I am destined to be forever unhappy - to love forever yes
suffer alone.
ALEXANDER(on his knees) Katerina Ivanovna, forgive me.
KATE You won't be jealous anymore?
ALEXANDER R Never, Katerina Ivanovna "only"
PHENOMENON 13.
ZOLOTNIKOV(at the door) Bah! What news!
Katya runs away
ALEXANDER Father, it’s her, Katerina Ivanovna, Katya Tambovskaya! I
the monster of the human race, the hussar, wrote letters to Rybnikova, wanted to get married
on Rybnikova, and she, my Katenka, loved and suffered for me"
ZOLOTNIKO Yes, at least speak Russian.
ALEXANDER She suffered, father, but she loved for me.
ZOLOTNIKOV You, brother, are out of your mind!
ALEXANDER Father, hug me.
ZOLOTNIKOV Get off, you idiot; crushed everything!
ALEXANDER No, I must, I want, I decided to make amends
crime" I am obliged to Katenka; I cannot do otherwise: I will marry
Katya, on my Katya.
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes, marry whoever you want; I'm finally tired of you. I'm giving you
give me a quarter of an hour to come to my senses, and then I’ll order you to have him examined at the provincial
board and put him in a madhouse. There will be no patience! Do you hear
I wish there was an answer in a quarter of an hour!
ALEXANDER R Father! Just hug me.
ZOLOTNIKOV Get away from me, you ass!
SCENE 14.
ALEXANDER(alone, walking around the room) No! Here's the situation" here's the situation. I
I’ll marry Katerina Ivanovna, that’s decided; this is my sacred duty.. But
I asked for Marya Petrovna’s hand; I excited her imagination" And what a girl
Marya Petrovna! Charm, ideal, death of reason. , I really wanted it
would like to get married! Yes, here’s Nastenka, my niece, and it wouldn’t look bad on her
marry" That's the situation! They won't allow you to marry three, but one is not enough! Here
it is a tender heart! This is what it leads to! And then the priest came with a knife;
It was easy for him, he married his mother, but what about me? Just killed
killed! Katenka, Nastenka, Mashenka; Nastenka, Mashenka, Katenka" What do I need?
do? I'm dying in my prime! (falls into a chair with a large back, so
it is not visible.)
PHENOMENA 15.
DARIA SEMENOVNA I can’t get enough of your Katenka, Agrafena
Grigorievna: a beauty in the full sense!
KUBYRKINA Much mercy, Daria Semyonovna. Why don't you look at strangers! On
your Mashenka, I’m having tea, you won’t have time to stop looking at her. Just now we talked about her with
General Akhlebova. That's a girl, you could say she's a girl!
DARIA SEMENOVNA She kept everything to herself, but you raised yours at home?
KUBYRKINA At home, Daria Semyonovna.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Please tell me exactly what techniques are in big
She lived in the light of time... and what modesty, how she behaves!
KUBYRKINA I'm already pleased that Daria Semyonovna is with you
Mashenka got closer. Believe it or not, it’s been a month since we arrived, and I’m already
I think that Katenka has won a lot. Who should we learn from if not yours?
Mashenki? Here is an exemplary girl and what a beauty!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Belle femme, you want to say.
KUBYRKINA Yes, mother, it doesn’t matter" Well, there’s nothing to say, it’s a sight for sore eyes
your Masha.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Do you think your Katya isn’t fun to look at?
KUBYRKINA What manners!
DARIA SEMENOVNA What a bon ton!
KUBYRKINA What a pleasure!
DARIA SEMENOVNA What kindness in conversation!
KUBYRKINA One cannot help but congratulate
DARIA SEMENOVNA From the outside you will be happy.
KUBYRKINA I'm surprised she's not married yet! Grooms, I think, and
can't be counted!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Yes, there are - fourteen generals have been wooed.
KUBYRKINA(to the side) He's lying" he's just lying!
DARIA SEMENOVNA There were colonels and captains, the prince was alone. Just me
Mashenka is not in bondage, let her choose. After all, she will have to live together, and not
to me. However, as a good friend, I can tell you a secret: today I
She talked to Mashenka.
KUBYRKINA Really? It was a happy day, and I told Katenka
Today.
DARIA SEMENOVNA My daughter is marrying a rich man; yeah that's not the point -
a good person. Have you perhaps heard about Alexander Zolotnikov?
KUBYRKINA What? What a nonsense! My daughter is marrying Zolotnikov; They
We've been engaged for a long time, but now we've decided again.
DARIA SEMENOVNA No, sir, excuse me... he immediately asked for Mashenka’s hand.
KUBYRKINA No, not Mashenka, but Katenka.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Little girls, they tell you!
KUBYRKINA No, sir, Katya" Your Mashenka, of course, is a sweet girl,
however, where can she compare with my Katenka! Although it is not very noticeable,
however, everyone knows that she is a little lopsided.
DARIA SEMENOVNA How? My little Mashenka is lopsided! Do you have eyes?
lopsided! I will order her to undress in front of you. Crooked! That's great! Not
Why did you get this from the fact that your daughter is all covered in cotton wool?
KUBYRKINA what? Is my daughter on cotton wool? I have a cotton wool coat, not my daughter
daughter is not a salop. My daughter is born as she is, but she only wears a dress
for the sake of decency. She has no one to deceive.
DARIA SEMENOVNA And it doesn’t deceive; Zolotnikov for nothing is not far
smart, however, and not such a vulgar fool as to marry your daughter.
KUBYRKINA And why?
DARIA SEMENOVNA But because everyone knows that your daughter ran after
a hussar officer who laughed at her and abandoned her; and then the poor one
an orphan was slandered, who was not guilty either in soul or in body. Noble
deed! The hussar told it himself.
KUBYRKINA You dare say this to me.. You! Don't you think?
everyone knows that your lopsided girl is in love with an Italian singer? Shame,
they say, looking at her is like sitting at the opera... everyone laughs!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Do you seem to be forgetting yourself? I won't let you in
I command.
KUBYRKINA I won’t go myself; and without you we will find, thank God, an acquaintance:
General Akhlebova is better than you, and may she find pleasure with me.
DARIA SEMENOVNA And I can’t hold back, mother, I can’t hold back!
KUBYRKINA Goodbye, mother, I’ll go get Katenka. You don't have my leg
will!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Good riddance!
KUBYRKINA But your daughter won’t marry our fiance... she won’t!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Yours will stay in the girls!
KUBYRKINA I won’t allow you to joke with me; my uncle is a senator, I will find it
protect yourself! Leave quickly so that things don't get worse!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Yes, I tell you, yes I tell you, this is unheard of rudeness! Yes you
You can't deal with me like that! Goodbye, I won't see you again for ages!
SCENE 16.
ALEXANDER(from behind the chair) here she is! Here she is! What a thing it is!
One is lopsided, the other is on cotton wool. One loves the hussars, the other the Italians" and both
They tell me I'm a fool! (running out from behind the chair) But no, I’m not a fool! I don't
Let me fool myself. I'll do it my way! I will choose the third, that is, the first,
not one or the other, but the third, that is, the first! That's what it is, that's it
she, here she is! (seeing Nastya) Yes, here she is! Wait, madam, let me
tell you two words.
NASTYA To me?
ALEXANDER Are you angry with me?
NASTYA For what?
ALEXANDER Well, well, admit that you're angry?
NASTYA Not at all.
ALEXANDER Why! I showed you so much attention the first time, and
then he took up completely unrelated subjects.
NASTYA So what!
ALEXANDER R Let me ask first, do you have any relatives of the hussars?
NASTYA No.
ALEXANDER You don't sing Italian arias?
NASTYA I have no voice.
ALEXANDER What a priceless girl you are! Nastasya" as per the priest?
NASTYA Pavlovna.
ALEXANDER Nastenka! I solemnly offer my hand to you.
NASTYA Oh my god! You are certainly not healthy! Shouldn't I send for
doctor?
ALEXANDER You will be my doctor.
NASTYA Sorry, I don’t have time" (wants to leave)
ALEXANDER(holding) No, first decide the fate of my life. Not
just be embarrassed; tell me, will you be pleased for me to marry you?
NASTYA I wonder how you dare talk to me like that. I'm poor
girl, but I won't allow cheeky jokes.
ALEXANDER Yes, for mercy's sake, I'm not joking; I have a positive intention
marry you.
NASTYA Who told you that I shared this intention! Why are you
took me to marry the first person I met? I know in St. Petersburg
rich suitors are not afraid of rejection, but for me there is much more in life
except money. There, in the living room, they said now that you have two million, and,
I confess that on this occasion I heard so much that I felt disgusted.
However, it’s not difficult for you to get married, just say the word” and the brides will come running
from all sides, and what I need is not a wallet, but a person whom I could
love and respect. Farewell!
ALEXANDER Nastasya Pavlovna! Listen to me.
NASTYA For what? You've made a mistake about me: I'm not like others." Where can you understand
the pride of a poor girl who, for lack of other treasures, keeps
spiritual wealth? She will not exchange her soul for luxury that she does not need;
she may take pity and make her happy, because she values herself highly, but
will never sell himself.
ALEXANDER So you are refusing me, Nastasya Pavlovna?
NASTYA Decisively.
ALEXANDER And you don't give up hope?
NASTYA Not the slightest.
ALEXANDER Listen, Nastasya Pavlovna, I’m stupid, funny, impudent, ignorant
- whatever you want; Only, really, I’m not a bad person. I have a tender
heart; well, am I to blame; Well, believe me, I’m still thinking about how to get attached,
love well, and then that’s it! The soul, the soul whispers:
“Get attached, you idiot, get attached,” - well, and here, as if on purpose, fate
teases. Either a hussar turns up, or some Italian, and I’m a fool with
money! Well, what do I need in this money, tell me yourself... Everyone wants my money, but
Nobody wants me, I myself.
NASTYA(aside) He really is pathetic. (out loud) Look, don't
hurry up - maybe you'll find it.
ALEXANDER Yes, I want you, Nastasya Pavlovna; you open my eyes. I
I feel like a new person; have pity on my rich position.
NASTYA I told you my decisive answer. Rest assured that I
I spoke to you out of conviction, and not out of empty coquetry. Don't be mad at
me; this lesson may be useful to you; when you get too forgetful
with some women, you will involuntarily remember that there are those who do not
only deserve, but even demand, respect.
(Curts down coldly and leaves.)
PHENOMENON17.
ALEXANDER Wow, the abyss! It doesn't get any easier hour by hour. It was three just now
brides, and now not a single one!
ZOLOTNIKOV(at the door) Well, have you made up your mind?
ALEXANDER Wait, wait"
ZOLOTNIKOV Who should I congratulate?
ALEXANDER Not with anyone: she refused!
ZOLOTNIKOV Who, Katenka?
ALEXANDER No.
ZOLOTNIKOV Mashenka?
ALEXANDER Not really!
ZOLOTNIKOV So who?
MASHA(enters) Alexander Vasilyevich, what does this mean? Is it true that you
Did you propose to Katenka? Do you want to insult me? Only it's not like that
it will work out" I have a brother in the Caucasus.. You won't get rid of him. Do you hear
is it?
ALEXANDER I really don’t understand what you want.
ZOLOTNIKOV That's what she's like!
KUBYRKINA ( enters) She’s already here, but what do I care? I'll send you out, I won't leave you
together. Marya Petrovna, I left a handkerchief in your room. Let me
get.
MASHA(to the side) How unbearable! It arrived on time! (out loud) Now
I'll bring it, sir.
KUBYRKINA Sorry to bother you! (leaves)
KATE(enters) Alexander Vasilyevich, what did I learn? you wanted again
deceive me: you are wooing Mashenka. This is too much." This won't work for you.
in vain - my second cousin will stand up for me, will fight with you
pistols, he will kill, he will certainly kill!
ZOLOTNIKOV This one is good too.
DARIA SEMENOVNA(enters) That’s right, she’s already picked up the guy: but I
for what? Katerina Ivanovna, mummy is calling you.
KATE(to the side) It’s just the right time for her to come” (aloud) Where is she?
DARIA SEMENOVNA I think I’ve gone here, I’ll take you (to the side) And then
I won't leave you alone.
ALEXANDER Do you hear, father, what a story it is.
ZOLOTNIKOV Shut up!
NASTYA(walking across the stage) Ah, I thought you left.
ALEXANDER No, I’m going... I’m going." Nastasya Pavlovna, I’m in despair.
Kubyrkina, Katya, Masha, Daria Semyonovna run out of different doors and
rush at Alexander, quickly and almost simultaneously.
DARIA SEMENOVNA No, it can't stay like this!
KUBYRKINA This should explain itself!
MASHA Yes, sir, if you please tell the truth!
KATE I have suffered enough from you!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Did you get married to my Mashenka?
KUBYRKINA Did you marry my Katenka?
DARIA SEMENOVNA I won't let my daughter be insulted.
KUBYRKINA And I will complain; my uncle is a senator.
KATE Why are you widening your eyes?
MASHA Why are you standing rooted to the spot? Speak up, explain!
ZOLOTNIKOV(running out) Sasha, Sasha! Are you here? Sasha, you and I are lost!
Dead! Trouble has happened! I feel bad!
ALEXANDER(with fear) Father! What happened to you?
ZOLOTNIKOV Burst! Burst!
ALEXANDER Who burst?
ZOLOTNIKOV Tambov.
ALL Tambov!
ALEXANDER What, an earthquake?
ZOLOTNIKOV That is, not Tambov, but a Tambov farm-out, the deposits are all gone -
After all, my entire fortune was worth two million! I received the letter.
There is only one village left, and that one is being auctioned off." Sasha! We have nothing else.
ALEXANDER Well, thank God! And I was so scared: I thought that it was with you
cholera has arrived! So why shout like that? You won't have any money, but I
what, what am I supposed to do?
NASTYA(listening) Yes, he is a noble man!
MASHA Oh, poor Katerina Ivanovna!
KATE Oh, unfortunate Marya Petrovna!
KUBYRKINA I feel sorry for you, Vasily Petrovich, here! You can say"
unpleasant counterdance.
KATE Kontrdans, mummy.
KUBYRKINA Doesn't matter; all you have to do is humble yourself before Providence" Your son
young; Now he will settle down and marry Marya Petrovna.
DARIA SEMENOVNA No, your son was wooing Katerina Ivanovna; I'm with her
I don’t fight off suitors - let him live happily.
ZOLOTNIKOV Let me ask: who is marrying Sasha?
MASHA Certainly not me!
KATE And not me either!
ZOLOTNIKOV(to Nastya) Isn’t it you?
ALEXANDER No, father, she refused me even a rich man! Let's get out of here
It's time to come to my senses, money is making my head spin, so
I got crazy in my head. Now you have to be human yourself. What are you doing
you think I’m a blockhead, a chair, some kind of brute, I don’t feel what I do to you
must? You have done your best work for me, thank God, now it’s mine
queue. I will provide for you, I will feed you, I will go to anything, to the store, to
day laborers, shoemakers, artisans, farm laborers, journalists,
writers! (To the audience) Gentlemen, does anyone have a place? Without protection, you
you know, it’s difficult. Do not refuse, I will justify: honest, kind, loyal,
you will be satisfied! Well, let's go, father, let's be ourselves, and not an accessory to
your money. This lesson is worth all your wealth.
ZOLOTNIKOV Well, let's go.
NASTYA Wait, Alexander Vasilyevich, I’m to blame for you.
ALEXANDER You?
NASTYA I insulted you just now because I didn’t know your nobility
feelings.
ALEXANDER Don't talk, don't talk, otherwise your heart will go up again
bottom; Now I don’t even dare to get married.
NASTYA And only now I can agree to your proposal; in my
a lot of pride and I feel like I can replace everything you've lost. Here
my hand to you.
ALEXANDER R What do I hear?.. Nastenka" Nastasya Pavlovna!
ZOLOTNIKOV My daughter! Hug me" Well, you hug me too, only in
last time.
KATE How touching!
KUBYRKINA This is nonsense!
DARIA SEMENOVNA Tell me, Vasily Petrovich, how could this misfortune
happen to you?
ZOLOTNIKOV Yes, if you please see, mother, it didn’t happen, but it could have
just happen.
KUBYRKINA What does it mean?
ZOLOTNIKOV This means that last year I gave up on everyone
payoffs, and two million will go, so be it, for Nastenka’s pins.
You cheated, mother, sinful man! I wanted to help out my Sasha.
NASTYA So you deceived me?
DARIA SEMENOVNA This is out of hand!
MASHA What is Nastya like? After all, I did, I must have guessed.
KATE I knew everything in advance; however, I’m very happy!
KUBYRKINA It's like nothing else; we will not allow ourselves to be fooled; I have
uncle senator!
SERVANT the guests have arrived.
DARIA SEMENOVNA Let's go, Mashenka. We have nothing to do here. And you,
Mother, congratulations, master! She repaid me for my care! Conducted everyone!
NASTYA I fooled everyone, “They will really think,” This is unbearable! No,
I'd rather give up my word.
ZOLOTNIKOV Who said that the word is sacred? No, if of any kind
If you're afraid, you won't be able to live like that. No, let them say whatever they want, and we
a merry feast and for the wedding.
ALEXANDER Hurry up, father!
ZOLOTNIKOV That's the same! And you look at your wife, and knock the nonsense out of your head, and
You will have joy and consolation, and not trouble, from a tender heart.
ALEXANDER R:
Having finished my adventures,
Now at this decisive hour,
I must ask for mercy
For the writer and us.
We are afraid that we are tired
You will console us, gentlemen,
So that tender hearts are in trouble
It really wasn't a disaster!
The script for the play “The fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it, a lesson for good fellows!”
Enter the artists:1. The fairy tale is a lie,
yes there is a hint in it -
good fellows - a lesson.
2. Let there be many hints in the fairy tale,
Don't judge her harshly.
3. A fairy tale teaches all people
Be wiser and kinder.
4. A fairy tale is not a deception, but a mystery,
Don't make a mistake by accident.
5. A fairy tale is a treasure, a clear light,
An answer to any question.
6. Good fellow, come on,
Open the book of fairy tales!
7. You will enjoy
This is a magical read!
They go backstage to their seats.
Song "Alyonushka"
Buffoons appear:
1. Like in the village of Fly Agaric
Fences bloom in spring,
And if where the log lies,
It will grow into a hut.
There are enough miracles for everything -
The garden is digging itself,
And a hundred buckets at a time
Carries water in a sieve.
2. Thieves steal garbage there...
But where are those Fly Agarics?
Look for them on the map,
What a waste of time to drag a bug by the tail.
And it’s just like that with us
There won't be even a nickel.
3. You enter the village
Look at the geese!
Two geese
Dramatization of the fableDuration of the performance: 2 minutes; number of actors: from 2 to 5.
Characters:
First Goose
Second Goose
Pig
Cat
Crow
In the foreground, left and right, are bushes and trees. In the background is the sky. A Crow flies in and sits on a tree.
Crow (to the audience)
One day along the path along the edge
Two geese were walking - two girlfriends.
The crow flies away. The First Goose and the Second Goose emerge from behind the trees.
Geese (singing in chorus)
Lived with grandma
Two cheerful geese -
One is gray, the other is white,
Two cheerful geese…
A Pig comes out from behind the trees to meet the geese.
Pig
Oink-oink - for you!
First Goose
And to you - Ha-ha!
Second Goose (feignedly friendly)
Hello dear friend!
First Goose (feignedly friendly)
Oh, how glad we are to see you!
Second Goose
You are the joy of hearts and eyes!
First Goose
Gorgeous! Crazy mountain!
Second Goose
Queen of the barnyard!
Pig (touched)
I'm so pleased to hear this!
There is no one better in the whole world than you!
The pig hugs and kisses the geese and dances off into the trees.
First Goose (with contempt)
What a nightmare!
Second Goose (with contempt)
What a horror!
First Goose
Now I can't sleep for three nights!
Second Goose
Why live with such an image,
It’s better to have a basket on your shoulders!
First Goose
The pig is fat!
Second Goose
The pig is dirty!
First Goose
She is the stupidest person in the village!
Second Goose
The sea will not wash away such a thing!
First Goose
And it smells like a bucket of slop!
A Cat comes out from behind the trees to meet the geese.
Cat
Mur-mur - for you!
First Goose (feigningly affectionately)
And to you - Ha-ha!
Second Goose (feigningly affectionately)
Hello dear friend!
First Goose
Oh, how glad we are to see you!
Second Goose
You are the joy of hearts and eyes!
First Goose
How elegant!
Second Goose
How slim!
First Goose
And the wool is so smooth and long!
Echoing Goose
Oh, what a ponytail!
First Goose
What legs!
Cat (flirty)
Purr purr! You flatter me a little!
Second goose
No, not at all!
First Goose
Not at all!
Cat
Love you!
The cat hugs and kisses the geese, and then, dancing, disappears behind the trees.
Second Goose (with contempt)
It's just creepy!
What a flea-ridden freak!
First Goose (with contempt)
And the tail is shabby, like a brush!
Second Goose
Old!
First Goose
Crooked!
Second Goose
Chroma!
First Goose
Skinny!
Second Goose
And the color of rotten borscht!
Geese (singing in chorus)
Lived with grandma
Two cheerful geese -
One is gray, the other is white,
Two cheerful geese…
Geese, singing a song, walk across the stage.
First Goose
It's time for us to say goodbye to you!
Second Goose
It was nice to chat!
First Goose
Yes, you are like a sister to me, -
Smart and sharp-tongued!
Second Goose
And you, my friend, are lovely.
You are my double, I’ll tell you honestly.
I'm delighted with you, but
You still have to say goodbye.
Geese kiss and hug. The second Goose is hiding behind the trees. The First Goose waves after her.
First Goose (to viewers)
This goose is a fool!
No smart thoughts, no figure!
And how chatty she is, it’s just creepy -
She bored me the whole way!
The first Goose goes in the opposite direction.
First Goose (singing)
Lived with grandma
Two cheerful geese -
One is gray, the other is white,
Two cheerful geese…
The First Goose is hiding behind the trees. A Crow flies onto the stage from a tree.
Crow (to the audience)
Alas, there are people too
They are very similar to those geese:
In the eyes of their speech, like honey,
And for the eyes - a complete litter.
The crow flies away.
Song "Fair"
Buffoons: 1. Like being in the village all day
Crazy stuff is happening!
2. Horses fly in the sky!
The cats on the fence are barking!
How a cat hired a dog
Dramatization of the fable
Duration of the performance: 2 minutes; number of actors: from 1 to 5.Characters:
Cat
Magpie
Master
Dog
Narrator
On the stage left and right there are two houses with porches.
Narrator
The cat was unhappy with his feeding,
He became lazy and was fired for it.
The door of the house on the left creaks open. The Cat flies out of it head over heels with a loud meow. After him, his bundle of things is thrown away.
Cat (grumpily)
Just think! Not a great honor
Serve all day and not eat enough!
With my talent and willingness to work
I'll find a better job.
I just need a chance.
The Magpie postman flies out from behind the house with a newspaper and flies past the Cat. The cat takes the newspaper and opens it.
Cat (joyfully)
And here he is!
(reads syllables)
Need a dog... Address... Phone...
Feeding twice a day... housing...
(with enthusiasm)
However!
I'll go and work as a dog.
With my mind and such a mustache
I'm much better than any dog!
The cat takes the bundle, goes to the porch of the house on the right and knocks on the door. The Master opens it for him.
Cat
I came to get hired based on an advertisement.
Boss (surprised)
But you're a cat!
Cat
Unfortunately!
Born a cat, not my fault.
I really need this work.
I can definitely handle it, just give me time!
Well, am I hired?
Master
No! Bark first.
Cat
Why bark? It’s clear that it’s true
That any fool can bark.
Yes, I have a lot of talents:
I can roll balls, play with a bow,
I can purr and catch mice,
I can rock and nurse babies.
I can still climb a tree.
How can a dog compete with me?
I'm much better, believe me...
The Dog appears with a newspaper and approaches the porch.
Dog
Woof! Woof!
Master (Dog)
You suit me perfectly!
The job is yours!
Narrator
Guard the house from the thief
The dog was hired without further ado.
And the cat was left on the porch with nothing.
The dog enters the house. The owner closes the door in the cat's face.
Cat (indignantly)
Why does he need a dog? Well, why?
The owner looks out the window.
Master
Because you don’t have the skill -
Although you are good to everyone, you can’t bark.
Narrator
This is how it happens: people sometimes
They've been looking for work for years,
Not understanding what's at work
Skill is not the same as hunting.
Song "Porushka Paranya"
Buffoons: 1. How we have a wedding in our village!
The bear is getting married!
2. And the bride is a fox!
Let's watch the matchmaking!
Bear and Fox
(or How the Bear Wooed the Fox)
Russian folk tale for reading and performance
Duration of the performance: 3 minutes; number of actors: from 1 to 3.Characters:
Bear
Fox
Narrator
Narrator
We lived in the thicket next door
And we knew each other since childhood
Brown bear and fox
Forests of local beauty.
It's not good to live alone,
And the Bear decided to get married.
Everyone recommended
Go to the fox to woo.
Bear
Knock-Knock! Fox maiden,
The Bear is knocking on your house.
Will you marry me?
Fox
Well, Bear! Wow!
I won't marry you
I'll find a better husband.
Look at your paws
Short and clubfooted,
Wool is like felt boots, and you
Not the hero of my dreams!
Bear
Well, okay! Well, let!
I'll marry another fox!
Narrator
And the Bear went home.
And the fox:
Fox
Oh my god!
I shouldn't be doing that! Rich bear -
He shovels honey.
Stop toiling around alone
I will become his wife.
Narrator
And the fox went to the bear.
Fox
Knock-Knock!
Bear
Who's there?
Fox
Neighbours.
I refused in vain
I agree to get married!
Bear
Should I marry you?
Am I my own enemy?!
You are a red fox
The redhead is shameless!
And I heard from the mole,
Your paws are unclean!
Get out!
Fox
These are the words
I'll marry someone else!
I'm leaving forever!
Narrator
She burst into tears from shame
And the little fox went home.
A Bear:
Bear
What a hysterical girl!
But it seems she's into me
Very much in love!
I shouldn't have gotten so excited,
I almost married her
After all, she is a beauty
And everyone likes it in the forest.
What a fool, what am I waiting for?
I'll go get married again!
Narrator
And the Bear went to the fox.
Bear
Knock-Knock! Who is home?
Fox
All!
Bear
That's it, dear fox,
I decided to get married again!
Marry me!
Fox
Get out of here! Leave!
Well, why are you standing there?
You'll see, even a mouse
This won't work,
Find a better groom!
Bear
I come to you with all my heart...
Fox
Yes, a small gift!
Leave!
Bear
Well, I'll leave
I'm going to woo the mouse!
Fox
The mouse will be happy!
Bear
You'll spend your whole life with girls!
Narrator
And the Bear left with nothing.
And the fox is completely alone.
Fox
What have I done?
The most important thing in life is family!
But Mishenka is handsome,
At least a little thick-skinned.
Where can I find this?
I'd better go for him!
Narrator
But when she came, the Bear didn’t want to,
He's fooling his head again,
And the fox to him for it
Pays with the same coin
Afterwards the tears fall into the pillow.
That's how they match each other!
Buffoons: 1. I had a beautiful chicken.
Oh, what a smart chicken she was!
She sewed caftans for me, sewed boots,
She baked sweet, rosy pies for me.
2. And when he manages, he sits at the gate -
He will tell a fairy tale, sing a song.
Dance "Bird Yard"
Three Klushi
Dramatization of the fable
Duration of the performance: 5 minutes; number of actors: from 2 to 8.Characters:
First Chicken
Second Chicken
Third Hen
Chickens
Cat
Boy
Rooster
Narrator
In the foreground on the right is a fence and a spreading pear tree, in the middle is a fence with a torn board, and on the left is a bush. In the background is the garden.
Narrator
On a hot day under the fence near the pear tree
Young blackbirds were sitting nearby.
Three hens and chicks come out from behind the right wing to the music. The hens sit decorously under the tree, and the chickens begin to play near them. While the chickens are talking, they play around and move further and further away from them.
Narrator
While their chickens are in the yard
We played on the trampled grass,
They, without annoying the restless ones,
They had a sedate conversation among themselves.
First Chicken (enthusiastically)
Oh, how good our little ones are!
Second Chicken (with affection)
They're so beautiful, you can't paint a picture of them!
At this time, the chickens play around and offend each other, but the mothers do not pay attention to this.
Third Chicken (proudly)
Yes, they have everything - both intelligence and education!
Not like those obnoxious creatures
That some mothers will be born,
Which just to feed quickly
And fly away from the nest in the same minute.
First Chicken (confused)
I think that being an orphan is hardly worse!
And there is no need to be surprised later,
That half was eaten by the cat,
And the one who unfortunately survived,
He steals and loiters around.
I can't wait for winter to come
And he will drive them away.
Second Chicken
You're right, godfather!
Their proximity is our only loss!
First Chicken (sympathetically)
Poor things! After maternal torture
Never expect anything good from them!
Third Hen (grumpily)
I think it's time to pass a law
What if the mother went away somewhere,
Remove the chicks and put them in an incubator,
To eradicate vice and evil natures
And raise them to be exemplary chickens!
Second Chicken (disdainfully)
They still won’t become like our children -
There are few talents.
Third Hen (arrogantly)
Yes, not everyone in the world
Fly high through life like we do.
First Chicken
But at least they will be able to say: “Ko-ko!”
For them, believe me, this is not enough!
Narrator
While these three were chatting,
Their chickens, walking around the yard,
A hole was found in the fence
And we got out.
The chickens go through the hole in the fence to the left half of the scene. The chickens don't pay attention to this.
Narrator
One was caught by a cat.
The Cat runs out from behind the bush, says “Meow!”, grabs the squeaking chicken and drags it off the stage.
Narrator
Another drowning in a spring on the path.
There is a gurgling sound and the second chicken disappears.
Narrator
The third one was hit by a passing tarantass.
There is a roar, neighing, a horse harnessed to a tarantass rushes past the chickens, and the third chicken disappears.
Narrator
The fourth fought with the fifth - he pecked in the eye.
Two chickens fight desperately and run into the bushes.
Narrator
Those who remained were driven back by the children.
A boy with a stick runs out from behind a bush, he chases the squeaking chickens and drives them back into the yard.
Narrator
No one noticed the loss from the cows,
While the rooster learned about the trouble
I didn't pluck all the fluff out of all three.
A Rooster appears on the fence, crows loudly, flies down and, with an indignant cackling, chases the chickens around the stage and pecks them. Chickens rush about, fluff and feathers fly.
Rooster (angrily)
There you are! So that the tails are not rubbed in vain,
And the children were properly supervised!
Narrator
And sometimes it happens to people
Such adventures with kids.
So that the children of others grow up no worse,
No chatter - they need supervision.
All the actors come out
1. Why do we need fairy tales?
What does a person look for in them?
2. Maybe kindness and affection.
Maybe yesterday's snow.
3. In a fairy tale, joy wins,
A fairy tale teaches us to love.
4. In a fairy tale, animals come to life,
They start talking.
5. In a fairy tale, everything is fair:
Both the beginning and the end.
6. The brave prince leads the princess
Definitely down the aisle.
7. Snow White and the mermaid,
Old dwarf, good gnome -
8. It’s a pity for us to leave the fairy tale,
Like a cozy sweet home.
9. Read fairy tales to children!
Teach them to love.
10. Maybe in this world
It will become easier for people to live.
