The Romen Theater is a cultural heritage of Russia

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

For more than eighty years, the Romen Theater has been welcoming its audience and giving them a holiday, joy and love.

Nikolai Alekseevich Slichenko, artistic director of the theater, thanks to his unique talent as an actor, teacher, leader, managed to create a troupe that the audience of all countries of the world applauds standing.

From the history of the theater

The musical culture of the gypsies has become close to the Russian people since the people appeared on the territory of Russia. Gypsy songs and dances could not leave indifferent either the common people or the intelligentsia.

Perhaps for this reason, in 1930, the idea of forming a gypsy theater appealed to everyone, including the leadership of the country. During the first year of its existence, the creative team was considered a studio. Only after the successful premiere of the musical and dramatic performance in three acts "Life on Wheels", it was decided to rename the studio into the gypsy theater "Romen".

In the difficult war years, the theater troupe, like all the actors of the country, gave performances at the front and supported the spirit of home front workers. Most of the proceeds from the concerts went tohelping the army.

The Romen Theater has not changed its address since 1969. It was then that it was decided to place the famous theater on Leningradsky Prospekt 32/2 in the concert hall of the Sovetskaya Hotel and in the building located next door.

In 2005, the theater premises were reconstructed and the facade of the building was restored. The hall was equipped with modern sound equipment, lighting equipment.

Mission of the theater

Throughout all the years of work, the theater troupe shows a surprisingly reverent attitude towards the traditions of its people. The foundation for this was laid by the composer Bugachevsky, who for thirty-seven years led everything related to the musical part in the work of the theater.

He collected and recorded folk tunes of gypsies living in different parts of Russia. "Gypsy Folk Songs and Dances" was the name of the collection released by the composer. And today this edition is the most complete collection of gypsy music in existence.

Preserving the original musical culture of the gypsies is one of the main tasks that the team is called upon to solve.

The Romen Theater, represented by its leaders and the entire troupe, has taken on other important missions from the first days of its existence. One of them was the enlightenment of his people. Introducing people of other nationalities to the gypsy culture is another important task facing the theater team.

Troup

The creative team of the Romen Theater is unique, if we take into account the number of actorsdynasties working here. The founders of the first were the oldest actors of the theater, such as Lyalya Chernaya, N. Pankova, M. Cherkasova, V. Polyakov and many others.

Later, the theater troupe was replenished by a galaxy of young talented actors, who later also became the founders of theatrical gypsy dynasties. These include O. Yankovskaya, L. Mushtakova, O. Petrova, N. Slichenko and many other actors.

Today, the theater employs a lot of young families who give themselves completely to art, putting a part of their soul into what they do.

Repertoire

The Romen Theater can truly be proud of its repertoire. Many plays written by the theater's first playwrights I. Rom-Lebedev and I. Khrustalev still live on the stage of the theatre. They have become a kind of gypsy classic.

Until 1937, performances were performed in the Romani language. But it was decided that the language spoken by the actors from the stage should become Russian. This significantly increased the number of theater spectators, allowed to expand the repertoire, including the classics of Russian and foreign literature.

Thanks to the efforts of talented directors and theater actors, musicals, musical comedies and fairy tales, dramas, musical and romantic fantasies, and parables have been staged on stage.

The Romen Theatre, whose repertoire is so diverse and close to people of different cultures, has been met with storms of applause in every corner of the Earth for more than eighty years.

Theatrical poster

This year the theater season in Moscowthe theater "Romen" begins. The playbill of the theater invites the audience to visit the grandiose show "We are Gypsies", in which the entire troupe is involved, including the artistic director of the theater Nikolai Slichenko. For many years, this performance has been a kind of hallmark of the team.

In the list of upcoming performances, premieres are announced - the parable "The Oath", the musical comedies "Horseshoe of Happiness", "King of Diamonds", the musical-romantic fantasy "The Bells of Love".

Performances, without which the audience simply cannot imagine the Romen Theater, will also be played in the season. First of all, these are productions such as Gypsy Paradise, Grushenka, The Gypsy Countess and many others.

There is a lot of music in the performances, dances are performed, gypsy songs are rarely performed from the stage.

In each new theatrical season, the viewer expects from the actors of the Romen Theater a masterful game, unforgettable impressions. It has never happened so that the expectations of the public did not come true.