"Stagecoach". The Tolyatti Theater plays like an adult

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

The city of Togliatti is different in that there will always be people who can do interesting, amazing things. The fruits of labor of such people will be discussed further.

Stagecoach is a theater in Tolyatti, which was founded as an amateur theater 25 years ago. Tatyana Vdovichenko, who at one time was a theater director, and now works as a stage director at the Moscow Provincial Theater, stood at the origins of this business. Also, this merit can be attributed to Irina Mironova, in the past - a theater teacher, and now the director of the Youth Theater "Stagecoach".

It is difficult to say how many actors were on staff at the time of the opening, but it is known for certain that until 2001 all the artists studied with Zinovy Korogodsky, professor and People's Artist of the USSR. The stagecoach theater in Tolyatti was already one of the most serious in terms of the quality of the cast. 25 years after the opening, the theater staged over 60 different plays and performances for all age categories. The special style and creativity are preserved in the modern Stagecoach.

Togliatti Youth Theater

For 16 years, the creative team of the theater has been staging more than 20performances every year. The stagecoach theater is called a repertory theater, it works with a fixed list of performances.

The year 2008 was significant for the history of the theater, when Viktor Martynov, a talented director and master of acting art, was appointed to the post of artistic director. And just 4 years later, Stagecoach received the status of the Theater of the Young Spectator. The event was also marked by the fact that the theater itself moved to a new address.

To date, 20 actors are working on the stage of the Stagecoach Youth Theater, whose age varies from 18 to 40 years. The vast majority of actors have a directing education, which undoubtedly helps them to perceive what is happening on stage more widely. There is no need to talk about how wide the genre diversity of the repertoire is. On the posters of the modern theater "Stagecoach" you can find announcements of various musicals for children and adults, comedies and tragedies of a social nature.

Promising projects and educational activities

The theater provides an opportunity for each actor to prove himself: since 2009, the “One Rehearsal Premiere” festival has been held on the basis of Stagecoach, during which each actor can act as a director and stage his own production with the participation of his colleagues.

Today, the stagecoach theater pursues many goals for the development of the cultural environment in the city. Of course, the team is working not only on the development of a large number of types of theatrical art, but also on their promotion in order to satisfy aestheticthe needs of the population. The atmosphere of creativity has a positive effect on the development of humanism and spiritual growth of the individual. The theater is also fighting to ensure that the traditions of the theatrical repertoire are preserved and all the necessary conditions are created for a favorable rest for the city residents. At the same time, the theater group itself does not forget about its professional growth, as evidenced by the long-term high level of presentation of material on stage.

From theater marathon record holders to international festival laureates

"Stagecoach" - a theater in Tolyatti - also set a record: in 37 hours, the actors showed on stage 16 productions in a row, without a break. This theatrical marathon was noted in the Russian Book of Records (2013). Then many bright performances were shown, among which I would like to highlight the productions of Journey to the Emerald City and Running Around the Horse, as well as the comedy The Servant of Two Masters. Later, the performance received the "Grand Prix" at the All-Russian Theater Festival.

In the fall of 2014, the cast of the theater represented the Samara region at the Actor's House in Moscow. At the same time, the Theater of the Young Spectator "Stagecoach" staged 3 of its biggest premieres. These are performances based on the works of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time", Vladimir Orlov's "The Golden Chicken" and "Mary Poppins" based on Pamela Travers. It is worth mentioning the production in the genre of metamorphosis "Transformation", the achievements of which make one admire: 3 awards of the festival "Samara Theater Muse", the title of the best performance at the "Teatromagiya-2014" - the Samara International Festival.

The poster, past whichimpossible to pass

The stagecoach theater in Tolyatti was included in the Russian Book of Honor. Later, director L. Dmitriev staged the drama "The Night After Graduation" (according to V. Tendryakov). The performance immediately received the title "Premier of the Year".

Stagecoach could not miss the significant event for Russia in 2015 - the 70th anniversary of the victorious end of the Second World War. On this occasion, in April, the premiere of “First. Our". The play was written based on the novel by B. Okudzhava. The production was directed by V. Martynov, and later he staged "The Tale of Ivan the Peasant's Son, the Beloved Beauty and Koschey the Immortal".

It is also impossible to pass by the plays “The Block” directed by U. Zubarev, “Evil Performance”, otherwise called “… It would be better for this man not to be born” directed by P. Zubarev and “Far Far Away” directed by V. Martynov on Russian fairy-tale folklore.

Stagecoach today

The theater's victories do not end there. For example, P. Zubarev received the nomination "Best Actor" at the International Festival. F. M. Dostoevsky. He also received the award of the regional-scale festival "Samara Theater Muse". The jury noted his performance of the role of Shkolyar in the production of “First. Our". The directors themselves also did not go unnoticed: they were not spared the award for a special approach and interpretation of the novel "The Scaffold", for which the performance of the same name became the laureate of the 1st degree at the "Teatromagiya" festival. A year later, a performance for children based on the fairy tale by Jan Olaf Ekholm "Ludwig the Fourteenth and Tutta Karlsson" was shown. According to many residentscity, the best theater in Togliatti - Stagecoach. The poster is constantly updated with new performances.

25th theater season closed. He was remembered for such performances as "The King Amuses" by V. Hugo, "The Return of Peter Pan" by J. Barry, "The Metamorphosis" by F. Kafka and "The Viennese Chair" by N. Kolyada. Continuation and a new season starts in September 2017. The new season will be an anniversary for Stagecoach: the theater turns 25!