A building of the Shchors Theatre (the Theatre, for short) was inaugurated in 1951. Before the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War (the term used in Russia to describe the portion of World War II), the Theatre was assigned to Zhytomir and was named the Zhytomir Drama Theatre. Officially the Theatre was established on 5 March, 1929.
In 2003, the Theatre was renamed after Vladimir Magar instead of Nikolay Shchors. Vladimir Magar (1900–1965) was directly connected with the Theatre in contrast to Nikolay Shchors who was a hero of the 1917–1923 Russian Civil War. Magar was a USSR People's Artist and a chief director of the Theatre from 1929 to 1965. He was awarded a title of the USSR People's Artist in 1960.
From 1929 till his dying day, Vladimir Magar directed the Ukraine Shchors Music and Drama Theatre in Zaporizhia. Such productions as Ustym Karmaliuk by Vladimir Sukhodolsky (1937), The Loss of Squadron (1937, 1953), Bohdan Khmelnytsky by Alexander Korneychuk (1939, 1954), Shchors by Yuri Dold-Mikhailik (1938, 1960), My Thougts… by Yuri Kostuk (1964) and others were directed by Magar. He was on the stage in most of his performances. His roles included Bozhenko in Shchors, Gavrilo in Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ribakov in The Chimes of the Kremlin by Nikolai Pogodin, Illarion Groza in The Diary Pages by Alexander Korneychuk. Also Magar leaded the Theatre's Studio.
In 2004, the Theatre was awarded a status of academia theatre.
The building of the Theatre is very interesting. The facade has eight massive columns above the granite stairs. The building gable is decorated with a plaster statue of a girl holding a harp with hammer and sickle on it in her hands. Two young Komsomol members (the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) with a bandura (Ukrainian string instrument) are at the girl's feet. There are happy people in national dresses dancing against the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station and factory chimneys on the bas-relief (just below the main composition).
Inside this huge building there are halls with marble columns, parquet and boxes. The Theatre seats up to 1,000 people. The Theatre's building is a Socialist Realism style work of art: bas-reliefs and pilasters, molding and painting, crystal ceiling lamps, floor decorated with a unique marquetry depicting dams and blast furnaces.
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A very interesting composition technique was used — a visual transformation of the same architectural shape depending on perception conditions.
During the day, it looks like a usual pavilion. At night, ...
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