Returned mystical show poster. Returned - description, reviews, opinion

Entrance to the theater is strictly 18+ and is possible only upon presentation of a passport. The barcode on the ticket can be presented from a mobile device or from a printed ticket. The exact entry time is indicated on the ticket. Entrance to the show is by several groups, each of which enters at its own time. This is due to strict rules and instruction.

Special offer:
Tickets for entry at 20:00 at a price of 3,500 rubles (the time of entry to the show differs).

VIP ticket

The holder of one of the 6 VIP tickets will be able to see an extended version of the show, a guaranteed personal theatrical experience with the heroes of the play, as well as access to a personal bar in Captain Alving's secret office.

group ticket

Designed for a group of 4 people with the possibility of saving 15% *.

In order to order a group ticket, you need to send us an email to the address with the following information:

• Show date and entry time only 19:00)
• Number of tickets
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* discount applies to tickets with entrance at 19:00.

Jacob's table

You can book one of the 4 tables for two in the Ibsen Bar area. The price of the reservation includes a privileged seat and a deposit on the bar menu. The reservation is valid from 18:30 until the end of the bar. A table reservation is not a ticket to the show.

Ticket with open date

The immersive show Returned, which premiered in Moscow on December 1, 2016, is being extended for a new season. Immersiveness is a new concept for the Russian public, it implies the complete immersion of the viewer in the action of the performance, the freedom of choice to independently determine their own path, build their own story and respond to what is happening. The format originated in New York. "Returned" is the first in Russia and only the fourth in the world successful project of this genre, comparable in scale to the famous shows in New York and Shanghai. In the new season, the creators of the project, in their usual manner, have prepared new surprises for the sophisticated Moscow public. The acting team will be enriched by stars who will first undergo special trainings under the strict guidance of the creators and authors of the project. New faces in the acting team are called upon to reveal the plot twists and the meaning of the play by the Norwegian classic in a new way. The first to take part in the production that captivated the Moscow audience will be theater and film actress Kristina Asmus. On April 27 and 28, 2019, the talented actress Tatyana Babenkova, the star of the series "Policeman from Rublyovka" on TNT, will join the cast of the show. You will be able to appreciate the new reading of the role of Regina and once again immerse yourself in the exciting events taking place in the house of the Alvings. We look forward to seeing you at the show! Ticket categories: Entrance ticket Entrance to the theater is strictly 18+ and is possible only upon presentation of a passport. The barcode on the ticket can be presented from a mobile device or from a printed ticket. The exact entry time is indicated on the ticket. Entrance to the show is carried out by several groups, each of which enters at its own time. This is due to strict rules and instruction. Special offer Tickets for entry at 20:00 at a price of 3,500 rubles. (they differ in the entry time to the show). VIP ticket The holder of one of the 6 VIP tickets will be able to see an extended version of the show, a guaranteed personal theatrical experience with the heroes of the play, as well as access to a personal bar in Captain Alving's secret office. Jacob's Table You can book one of the 4 tables for two opposite the Ibsen Bar. The price of the reservation includes a privileged seat, 2 glasses of champagne and snacks. The reservation is valid from 18:30 until the end of the bar. Does not give the right to visit the Show. Journey through the House The owner of the only ticket for the evening will take a walk through the mansion, accompanied by one of the inhabitants. Only for you the House will reveal its secrets, inaccessible to others. Before purchasing this service, we recommend visiting the performance.

Before the start, viewers enter the waiting area, where there is a real bar, where you can have a drink and a snack before a difficult journey that threatens with emotional shock. After that, they are given masks and given detailed instructions: do not take off the masks, be silent, do not touch anyone, but be prepared to be touched. Returned is distilled immersive theatre. So now in Russia it is customary to call all fashionable interactive productions. But in its purest form, such “immersiveness”, that is, immersion and involvement of the audience in what is happening, as it was conceived in America in the last century, we have, perhaps, not been shown before. That is, there were successful experiments, but here all the laws of the genre were observed almost for the first time to the last detail, as in the New York production of Sleep No More, exemplary for that kind of performances, by the famous British band Punchdrunk.

The producers of our show, Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov and the choreographer Miguel, decided to invite foreigners to stage the performance. The directors of The Returned are Americans who spent half a year in Moscow, accustomed our actors, and then us, the audience, to a new type of theater for our country. To do this, a mansion in the center of Moscow, where a bank with drywall used to be located, was completely vacated and brought to a historical look, that is, they recreated the atmosphere of a mysterious house from the end of the century before last, where bad things happen on different floors. Spectators wearing masks and encouraged to walk through these living rooms, closets, laundry rooms and mysterious spaces, they must explore the space themselves. And this is where the very ideal immersiveness is manifested, when no one leads the audience by the hand, they decide for themselves where to go, which storyline to follow, which hero to join. That is, complete freedom is provided, from which many viewers may even become uncomfortable and unpleasant, because it is in the psychology of our people that they are led somewhere and by someone. And here you have to do it yourself, real democracy.

Various scenes take place inside the house for three hours, the characters of Ibsen's play wander around the rooms, then join at one point, for example, in the dining room, where the main action takes place, as in a real psychological theater. At the same time, the viewer can simply wander randomly, there are even many hidden rooms and labyrinths. You can find something interesting for yourself, spy on the heroes, living and dead, watch rather explicit scenes, for example, young people who indulge in an orgy in the laundry room (all this is a spectacular choreographic scene that can resemble an erotic scene from Titanic) thanks to misted windows). But you have to be prepared, because someone can suddenly grab your hand, take you somewhere to a separate place, blindfold .... But I will not give out all the secrets of this mansion, for example, this interaction happened to me, and it was very unusual, which is what I wish you.

The most rational move for the viewer is to choose any character and follow him. For the late captain Alving, the mistress of the house Fru Alving, or their son Oswald who arrived from Paris, or for the maid Regina, who turns out to be a noble lady and the illegitimate daughter of that same dissolute captain, who turned out to be not at all pious, but quite a dubious person. But for me personally, the most interesting figure is the rather dissolute pastor Manders, who experiences his sinfulness very emotionally, which is worth one scene of his sexual act with a picture depicting a naked woman. In general, this story is about lust and morality, about what Ibsen wrote. This is a performance about skeletons in the closet that haunt, about the secrets of the past, which result in hereditary sins, suffering and illness. About the fact that nothing goes unnoticed. It is precisely about these ghosts and returnees that the mother of the family correctly speaks in one key monologue: “This is something outdated, like ghosts, from which I can’t get rid of ... all sorts of old obsolete concepts, beliefs and the like. All this no longer lives in us, but still sits so firmly that we cannot get rid of it. And, indeed, you will have to answer for everything. And the vice is nearby, And who does not have this? And every viewer should definitely feel it.

At least, the audience themselves become participants in this show, and it is precisely this that the ghosts, who shyly spy on all this and inevitably project what is happening on their inner experiences, may even be revealed. Such a good session of psychoanalysis. Because, indeed, it is better to go through all this alone, from beginning to end. Only in this way you can feel everything to the end, maybe understand your ghosts. Try it, experience it for yourself. "Returned" in Dashkov lane. But do not forget that this is not some kind of attraction or simple entertainment, everything here is much more emotional and, of course, it can hurt your nerves.

In recent times, traditional arts have been constantly looking for new forms to compete with the Internet. The concept of interactivity in fashion. They try to involve the viewer in what is happening in all available ways. In the cinema, there are 360, and 3D, and virtual reality. The viewer is able to influence the development of events - for example, to choose the ending of the film. And if he was not satisfied with the one already proposed, lose another in a computer game. However, if Stanislavsky had known how the work of actors in the modern theater would change, he would have rewritten his system.

In the new play-show "Returned", which will premiere in Moscow on December 1, the actors play in the middle of the audience. The performance was made by American directors Victor Karina and Mia Zanetti from the New York theater company Journey Lab, and choreographer Miguel, known to the general public from the expressive TV show "Dances", and Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov - he is worth for most of the projects of the TNT channel. After 50 performances in the Russian capital, the production will travel to New York. Is it worth it to go and what kind of experience is this, the RG columnist experienced firsthand.

Intrigued, we gathered in a semi-dark bar. In the summary of the show, it is recommended to come in comfortable clothes and shoes and it is strictly punished to follow the rules. You cannot, for example, touch the actors yourself and even beat them! But the most terrible rule for a journalist is not even to take off the mask, but that you can’t talk for three hours. Another difficulty is the lack of mobile phones and the ability to take selfies with the characters. But in the basement bar, you could still take a selfie, and as soon as we went to take pictures, a huge black man with red hair and a beard approached us. "I'm Jacob the carpenter," he introduced himself, kissed my hand in an old-fashioned way, and answered the proposal to take a joint photo: "I already have one photo," then the carpenter took out a shabby picture of a century ago. "I'm here with my mother, with others I don't take pictures of women.

Meanwhile, the first group should have already entered the mansion. As "pioneers" we were admonished by the directors, saying that we have to "live each one's own experience", trying to understand the story "about forgiveness and about love"; and choreographer Miguel.

Classical music sounded in the mansion (composer - leader of Therr Maitz Anton Belyaev). The mask that we were given slightly pressed on the glasses, and our head was spinning unusually. It was only later that I was advised to wear glasses over the mask - it's more convenient. Wandering around the empty rooms, the decorations of which looked like someone carefully worked at a flea market, I tried to find a catch. Stir up hay, look into the closet, pull the handles of closed doors. She clutched the massive number in her hands like a weapon, remembering that the main thing, if anything, was to restrain herself and not hit the actor with it. However, it still didn't look like a panic room. Or rather, the rooms, because one could lose count trying to determine how many there were on the four levels of the old house. And new doors opened and closed ... Living room, dining room, bedroom, chapel, shelter, library, doctor's office ...

Meanwhile, actors appeared among us. It was easy to identify them - by their costumes and the absence of masks. Most of all I wanted them not to say anything, but just start dancing. But no, the scene between Pastor and Frau Alving had already played out in the living room, from which it became clear that her son Oswald was returning home. So what does Henrik Ibsen have to do with it - this is his play "Ghosts"! Most of the guests from our stream (there are four streams every evening, 30-50 people each, who, respectively, enter the show at 19.00, 19.30, 20.00 and 20.30) have already run after the heroes to another room, and only a few were moving in the other direction - along its trajectory. It must be said that prior to this scene, it was possible to watch Frau Alving getting dressed and combing her hair - in the bathroom upstairs. Touch the jewelry on the table, touch her dress. Other spectators saw each their own - 18 actors during the evening play all the scenes twice.

Actors were taught how to communicate with people in ... the Moscow metro

Walking around the mansion, you also make your way through a series of smells. The living room smells of cigars, the dining room smells of food, the prayer room smells of candles. But in the room where a strange orgy suddenly broke out, it smelled only of smoke. I sat down on the sofa. Nearby was a half-naked actor, a young man, but already with a vicious face, a girl lay down on his knees, her hair spread over my skirt. Ahead, another girl asked a masked spectator to unbutton her dress. And then everything happened in the wrong strobe light ...

Actors took some of the people in masks by the hand, with someone they locked themselves in the room. For those six months that the rehearsals of the performance were going on, the actors, and they were recruited at a serious casting - several people per place, were taught to delicately interact with people in ... the Moscow metro. How to touch, meet eyes, not frighten, understand whether a person is ready to interact, or wants to be left alone - alone with his feelings. Even at the casting there was a task - make people follow you. So the acting work in the play-show "Returned" is really impressive. Nobody "split". One can only imagine how difficult it is to keep in character when you are among masked people, sometimes at a distance of 20 centimeters from them - all the boundaries of personal and personal space are violated. My own experience happened at the level of interaction of views. Just with Fru Alving. At that very moment, when in the room where her son slept, she made a decision for herself - either to escape, or to poison herself. She looked at me long and searchingly, as if asking for advice, and I barely perceptibly shook my head: "No!" Then she put down the vial of poison-colored pills.

You can exit Returned. Tired of walking or from what he saw and experienced, go down to the bar. And then climb back. Tickets cost from five thousand rubles, but if you are a VIP guest, then you are entitled to drinks for free. Moreover, you are guaranteed an exclusive personal experience - a private performance of an actor (not to be confused with a private dance). You can leave the "Returned", but then the entrance back is already prohibited. At some point, I wanted to leave the mansion, and I went down to the bar and took off my mask. However, I was given to understand that the final is expected. I took a breath and returned. I immediately saw how a real theatrical finale of the famous Ibsen play was being played out in the hall. How fantastically the actors play, who are only a meter or two from me and from others. And I realized that, nevertheless, the authors did the right thing, not limiting themselves only to choreographic numbers. Most of all, it is captivating that the performance, contrary to the expectations of some, was without cheap attractions. It turned out to be a really innovative way of telling a story. It was as if I re-read Ibsen, and, as always happens in this case, I discovered something new in his play. And I also understood how the concept of "interactive" differs from "immersive" - ​​and this is how the new show is presented.

The word immersive is hard to translate into Russian, - the creative producer of the show Anastasia Timofeeva explained to me, - but it means capture, immersion, while interactive is just interaction.

After the performance, a huge red-haired man appeared at the bar.

What's your name, carpenter? - I asked again, remembering that during the performance he did not betray that we already knew each other.

Actor Igor Korovin, - he extended his hand to me quite modernly. - Nice to meet you.