2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25
St. Petersburg is still famous for its cultural traditions. Being the cradle of the Russian professional theater, it preserves the theatrical traditions of the past and introduces new, modern trends in European scenography, without sliding into low-grade and consumer goods. Of the many theaters in the city, one of the most popular can be distinguished - "Comedian's Shelter". About him and will be discussed.
A Brief History
The history of the theater in Russia began in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov with the creation of the court theater. Peter I and his sister Natalya Alekseevna made the theater public for the first time. In addition, they founded the first theaters on the banks of the Neva: Peter I - the Opera House on the Moika, his sister - in her estate, where Chernyshevsky Avenue and Tchaikovsky Street now intersect. Anna Ioannovna continued theatrical traditions. It was with her to the German troupe, which appeared inPetersburg under Pyotr Alekseevich, an Italian one was added. Ballet and opera began to develop. Under Elizaveta Petrovna, a French troupe was invited to the northern capital, and on the basis of the theater of Fyodor Volkov, the first composition of the Russian professional theater was formed. In addition to tragedies and fairy tales, comedy appeared on the stage. Under the following emperors, theatrical art continued to develop rapidly.
After the revolutionary events of 1917, the nationalized theaters began to demonstrate the appropriate repertoire. Satire, revolutionary and symbolic creativity appeared on the scene.
With the formation of the Soviet state, the theatrical repertoire gradually began to move away from revolutionism and symbolism towards industrial and patriotic themes, the classics also returned to the stage.
Modern St. Petersburg theatrical art presents a variety of topics in the repertoire and staging genres. Interest in the conventional, allegorical and symbolic theater is returning again.
Theatrical history
The Comedian's Shelter is relatively young. It was founded in 1987. The idea of its founder Yuri Tomashevsky, an actor and director, was very bold for those times - to create a "one-actor" theater. And his experiment was a success. The theater became very quickly popular among the inveterate theater-goers of the city. Yuri Tomashevsky turned to the poetry of the Silver Age. This move was winning and unlike anyone else.
In the mid-90s. as artistic director and director of the Shelter Theatercomedian" in St. Petersburg, Tomashevsky was replaced by Viktor Minkov. It was under him that the theater got "its own house" - on Sadovaya Street, in the very center of St. Petersburg. Since that time, the theater has been switching to traditional classical productions with the usual composition of the troupe. The Comedian's Shelter Theater in St. Petersburg begins to function according to a new model: a synthesis of contract European theater and traditional Russian, but without a permanent troupe.
Innovative project by Viktor Minkov
The Comedian Shelter Theater in St. Petersburg can be attributed to innovative projects in the theatrical life of the city. In addition to the fact that it does not have a permanent troupe, here the brightest and most interesting productions of famous directors are presented to the audience, and film and theater stars of our time shine on the stage. Some go for big names, but most go for quality art.
The director is very sensitive to the selection of repertoire, focusing on a subtle and intelligent critic. Its theater shows the best examples of domestic and foreign classics, the best modern plays. And this year, the first ballet performance will be staged at the Comedian's Shelter.
House for theater
The "Minkov project" received its premises only in the tenth year of its existence. The theater "Shelter of the Comedian" settled at the address: Sadovaya Street, 27. This is a corner house with Flour Lane.
In the first half of the 19th century. the two-storey building was the property of the merchant Tairov and his heirs. And at the beginning of the 20th century, shortly before the events of 1917, the house housed the Empire cinema, owned by Vladimir Kondratiev. Since 1922, the building housed a state cinema, which changed its name: "Agitator" - "Empire" - "Temp" - "Saturn".
The house where the Comedian's Shelter Theater is now located in St. Petersburg is quite small in size: only two floors, and the first one is the basement. The facade is divided by a cornice into two tiers. On the ground floor there are rectangular, slightly rounded arches at the top - passages to the courtyard. There are no special decorations on the facade. Perhaps only the frieze under the upper cornice, reminiscent of consoles, and the smoothed shape of the corner of the facade with rustication. And from the side of the Sadovaya entrance is decorated with a modest portico on thin pillars with a triangular pediment.
Whom to see? What to see?
If you have a desire to see the theatrical works of your favorite film actors, such as Daria Moroz, Yulia Snigir, Andrey Noskov, Alexander Demyanenko, Zoya Burak, Viktor Bychkov and others, or get acquainted with the work of amazing directors - Yuri Bergman, Konstantin Bogomolov, Andrey Mighty and others, you are here!
The poster of the "Comedian's Shelter" is very diverse. The Comedian Shelter Theater presents both classical and modern plays to the audience. Texts used in his performancesMarina Tsvetaeva and A. S. Pushkin, Mikhail Bulgakov and Sukhovo-Kobylin, Niccolo Machiavelli and William Shakespeare, Beaumarchais and Rostand, A. Ostrovsky and F. M. Dostoevsky, Alexei Arbuzov and Viktor Rozov and others. Here you can see everything: from comedies, dramas and tragedies before ballet.
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