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OUR HISTORY
«School of Modern Drama» opened on 27 March 1989 with Semeon Zlotnikov’s play «Came a Man to a Woman».
In 1992 the theatre received the status of State Municipal Theatre.
In 2003 the theatre became a co-founder of Russian National Playwriting Competition «DEYSTVUYUSCHIYE LITSA» («Characters»)
Since 1992 «School of Modern Drama” occupies a historical building in the center of Moscow. Restauration and reconstruction of the building started in 2005.
Productions: «WHY ARE YOU IN A TUX?» after «The Proposal» by A. Chekhov (1992); «EVERYTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT AS YOU WISHED» (1993), «AN ALD MAN LEAVING HIS OLD WOMAN» (1995) and «WONDERFUL REMEDY FROM GRIEF» (2000) by Semeon Zlotnikov; «WITHOUT MIRRORS» by Nikolay Klimontovich (1994); «…YOURS PLAYFULLY, DON QUIXOT!» - a composition of Iosif Taykhelgauz after M. Cervantes, L. Minkus, M. Bulgakov and others (1997); «THE LOVE OF KARLOVNA» by O. Mukhina (1998); «ANTON CHEKHOV. SEAGULL» (1998); «NOTES OF A RUSSIAN TRAVELER» by Eugeny Grishkovets (1999); «BORIS AKUNIN. SEAGULL» (2001); «THE CITY» by Eugeny Grishkovets (2002); «SEAGULL. TRUE OPERETTA» music by Alexander Zhurbin, libretto by Vadim Zhuk (2004); «THOSE EVENING BELLS» by Ion Drutse (2004); «PAS DE DEUX» by Tatiana Moskvina (2004); «HOUSE OF WOMEN» by Alexander Demakhin (2005); «THE UNEXPECTED» by Fabrice Melkio (2006); «IN ONE’S OWN WORDS» (2006); «RUSSIAN JAM» by Liudmila Ulitskaya (2007); «FROM NOWHERE WITH LOVE» after Iosif Brodsky (2007); «LOVE IN THE PARADISE» by Andrey Maksimov (2007); «2õ2=5» by Ksenia Stepanycheva (2007); «MOSCOW. PSYCHO» (2008); «CAME A MAN TO A WOMEN. A NEW READING» by Semeon Zlotnikov (2008); «THE HOUSE» by Eugeny Grishkovets with the assistance of Anna Matison (2009)
Directorors: Serguei Yursky – «CHAIRS» by Eugene Ionesco (1994) and «PROVOCATION» by I. Vatsetis (2000) Boris Morozov – «MISSIS LEO» by Serguei Kokovkin (1995), Leonid Heifets – «ANTIGONE IN NEW YORK» by Yanush Glowatsky (1995), Viktor Shamirov – «NOTHING SPECIAL» by Valery Vetkhov (1998) and «LOST IN THE PARADISE» by Ned Rusetsky (1999), Boris Milgram – «KREMLIN, COME TO ME» by Alexey Kasantsev (2003) Àndrey Andreev – «BAD ADVICE» after Grigory Oster (2002); Ìikhail Kozakov and Vladimir Kachan – «FROM NOWHERE WITH LOVE» after verse by Iosif Brodsky (2007); Andrey Maksimov – «LOVE IN THE PARADISE» by Andrey Maksimov (2007); It was a stage of “School of Modern Drama” where Eugeny Grishkovets performed his famous productions «HOW I ATE A DOG» (2000), «A PLANET» (2001) è «SIMULTANEOUSLY» (2003).
Actors (in different years): Irina Alferova, Natalia Andreichenko, Said Bagov, Vasily Bochkarev, Tatiana Fasiura, Albert Filozov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Alexander Gordon, Liudmila Gurchenko, Olga Gusiletova, Eugeny Dvorzhetsky, Oleg Dolin, Lev Durov, Mikhail Efremov, Anna Kamenkova, Vladimir Kachan, Vadim Kolganov, Oscar Kuchera, Maria Mironova, Aleksey Petrenko, Liubov Polischuk, Liudmila Semeniaka, Vladimir Steklov, Eugeny Stychkin, Valentina Talyzina, Yury Chernov, Vladimir Shulga, Tatiana Vasilieva, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Anzhelika Volchkova, Serguei Yursky, Olga Yakovleva.
Tours: in Angarsk, Astana, Dnepropetrovsk, Ekaterinburg, Erevan, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Kharkov, Kherson, Kiev, Lipetsk, Magadan, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Noyabrsk, Odessa, Omsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Riga, Rostov-on-the-Don, Samara, Saint-Petersberg, Saratov, Sebastopol, Sochi, Tallinn, Tbilisi, Togliatti, Tomsk, Ufa, Vilnius, Vladivostok, Voronezh Cherkassy, Yakutsk, Yalta, Yaroslavl, and: in Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, Finland, France, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, Israel, Luxemburg, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland. |