“Jeans to the theater is just disrespectful to others! If you have money for a ticket, there will be money for beautiful clothes! I read this cry from the heart in the blog of a theatergoer, for whom every trip to the theater is a big event. It is carefully planned, eagerly awaited, a budget is released for it, a wardrobe is planned for it. Each time is different, but always solemn, emphasizing the trepidation of unity with the beautiful.
And then I remembered myself. I was born and raised in a village, I lived in a small town, but I was always drawn to beauty. Stretched out from under the goats and cows. Stretched from the hayloft and rural disco.
A trip to a cafe or, God forbid, to a restaurant or a theater is not for you to go to a bakery. Even by taxi, which our people do not use due to simplicity and poverty. This is an action that requires preparation. But that was before. The more mature I became, and the more democratic performances I went to, the more I understood that all this entourage is more likely for you alone. And that he is purely Russian.
Do you remember how Frosya Burlakova decided to wear her mother's evening dress to a Moscow restaurant? It was her own experience of the moment. A girl from the Siberian wilderness in a metropolitan institution is an event. But for Muscovites, this is practically everyday life. Cinema from the Soviet 60s, and today it is even more relevant.
Cafes and restaurants are everywhere where you can just drop in for a bite to eat. These are not VIP-luxury-elite establishments from which you will be thrown out or not let in for inappropriate appearance, dropping out from the general background created by a mass of women and men discharged to smithereens who broke a piggy bank for the sake of such case. You don't need to dress up any more. And thank God! But there are those for whom it is still sacred.
During the last trip to the theater to the musical, I deliberately looked at the audience very carefully. There were those who, like me, wore the base in the form of simple trousers and a turtleneck with a scarf. But there were also women who obviously dressed up on purpose. Velvet dresses with cleavage, high heels, hair and make-up for the occasion. And they tended to look down on people like me with subtle snorting glances. I practically heard them. Well, of course, they are so confused, while others are with a ponytail and without beads.
A few years ago, I came across a photo from a London theater where a spectator, who was present at a performance with one big world star, took a picture of the auditorium. And it amazed me! First, the people in the hall were with food! With normal food: ketchup burgers, melted cheese sandwiches, and so on.
And secondly, they were in everyday clothes, in which they go in ordinary life. T-shirts, jeans, leather jackets, jeans, sneakers and sneakers... People came to the show. People watched the performance, and not at how their neighbors on the stalls were dressed. And it is very possible that these people go to the theater regularly, weekly, watching many, many productions, focusing their attention on the stage and acting. They don't have to worry about what a lady in a fur boa might think who might want to dress up. And the lady does not cast contemptuous glances at the youth in jeans and sneakers. Her solemn or freakish appearance is only her decision and her business.
And, in my humble opinion, life is easier for you and for theatrical figures, who should be understandably annoyed only by calls on mobile phones.
By the way, it is very interesting how the actors themselves relate to the audience in jeans or any other everyday clothes? Do they consider it an insult to the moment of unity with art?
And how do you feel about this? Do you think that it is necessary to dress up in a theater or a restaurant?
Author: theater girl without beads and heels
