Kursk Drama Theatre: history, repertoire, troupe

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Kursk Drama Theater is one of the oldest cultural centers in the country. It has been in existence for over two hundred years. The repertoire of the Kursk Drama Theater includes both classical plays and works by contemporary playwrights.

History

The Kursk Drama Theater was opened in 1792. It was built at the expense of the local nobility. The initiative to open a theater in the city belonged to the governor-general of Kursk A. A. Bekleshev. It was here in 1805 that the legendary actor, whose name the Moscow Theater School is named after, made his debut - Mikhail Shchepkin, who at that time was a serf. Such artists as V. I. Kachalov, V. F. Komissarzhevskaya, K. A. Varlamov, A. A. Yablochkin and others. In 1911, the Drama Theater of Kursk was named after M. Shchepkin, and in 1937 - Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The troupe traveled and continues to go on tour abroad, actively participates in festivals. The Kursk Drama Theater is an active participant in various festivals. In 2012, he celebrated his 220th birthday. On this occasion, a great creative evening took place.

Repertoire

Kursk Drama Theater offers the following repertoire for its viewers in the 2015-2016 season:

"Hungry people and aristocrats".
The Marriage of Figaro.
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
"Seven Screams in the Ocean".
"Alpine ballad".
"Young people".
"Ordinary story".
"I want to act in films."
"Savage".
"A man came to a woman."
"School of temptation".
"Leopold the Cat's Birthday".
"Squaring the circle".
Romeo and Juliet.
"Don Juan, or the Stone Guest".
"Number 13".
"Young lady-peasant".
"Nightingale Night".
"Lysistrata".
Chmorik.
American Roulette.
"Those free butterflies."
"Mousetrap".
Khanuma.
Woe from Wit.
"Truth is good, but happiness is better."
Cinderella.
"Chic man".
"Athenian Evenings".
Cyrano de Bergerac.

Troup

Actors of the Kursk Drama Theatre:

Alexander Shvachunov.
Elena Gordeeva.
Eduard Baranov.
Lyudmila Akimova.
Valery Egorov.
Lyudmila Mordovskaya.
Evgeny Setkov.
Evgeny Poplavsky.
Daria Kovaleva.
Valery Lomako.
Victoria Lukyanova.
Svetlana Slastenkina.
Viktor Zorkin.
Lyudmila Skoroded.
DmitryBarkalov.
Natalya Komardina.
Yulia Gulidova.
Inna Kuzmenko.
Maria Nesterova.
Maria Zemlyakova.
Larisa Sokolova.
Andrey Kolobinin.
Oksana Bobrovskaya.
Gennady Stasenko.
Sergei Repin.
Roman Lobyntsev.
Lyudmila Manyakina.
Marina Kochetova.
Sergei Malikhov.
Galina Khaletskaya.
Lyubov Sazonova.
Alexander Oleshnya.
Olga Legonkaya.
Ekaterina Prunich.
Elena Petrova.
Dmitry Zhukov.
Sergey Toichkin.
Olga Yakovleva.
Lyubov Bashkevich.
Nikolai Shadrin.
Alexey Potorochin.
Maxim Karpovich.
Elena Tsymbal.
Sergey Bobkov.
Mikhail Tyulenev
Arina Bogucharskaya.
Nina Polishchuk.

Artistic director

Yuri V. Bure-Nebelsen received his directing education at GITIS. His teacher is M. O. Knebel. He began his career with the Volgograd Theater of Musical Comedy. There he was a director and worked exclusively with the comedy genre. The next stage of his creative path was the theater named after I. S. Turgenev in the city of Orel. Yuri Valeryevich came to work at the Kursk Drama Theater in 1982 by invitation. He started here as a director. He impressed the audience with his talent as a director from the very first performances. For his work, Yu. Bure was repeatedly awarded prizes and diplomas. His productions are always a hit with the public. Oneof his brightest performances was the drama of M. Yu. Lermontov "Masquerade". For her, Yuri Vasilievich received the State Prize of Russia. Yu. Bure was appointed artistic director of the theater in 1991 and still holds this position. Thanks to this man, an acting department was opened at the Kursk College of Culture. Yu. Bure himself supervises the students. Yuri Vasilyevich has already staged more than a hundred performances on the stage of the Kursk Theater.