In the early 1920s, after the Russian October Revolution of 1917, the so called "travelling" theatres appeared in Russia. They trouped around Moscow in some wagons and carried all their decorations with themselves. These theatres played cheap performances "for commoners" and accompanied them with various religious and philosophical discussions and disputes. The Moscow Theatre of Trade Unions was one of such companies at first. It was, maybe, thanks to the famous actor and director, Yevsey Lubimov-Lanskoy, the company of actors did not split but became a strong and harmonious team with modern and quite interesting repertoire.
In 1940, Yuri Zavadsky, the famous student of Konstantin Stanislavsky and Yevgeny Vakhtangov, headed the company. He invited his students to the Theatre including Vera Maretskaya, Nikolay Mordvinov, Rostislav Plyatt and later Ludmila Orlova, Faina Ranevskaya, Leonid Markov and other good actors who made the Russian theatre famous. Since the late 1930s, the Theatre was named The Mossovet Theatre. Its repertoire included the best plays of world literature. Yuri Zavadsky looked for new names among both Soviet and foreign young authors. He was the first Moscow theatre-lover who discovered Tennessee Williams and Jean-Paul Sartre for Russian audience. Such world famous directors as G. Yankovskaya, Kama Ginkas, Gary Chernyakhovsky, Mark Vail, Sergey Yursky (director and actor) started their "Moscow" life in the Theatre.
From the mid 1980s, Pavel Khomsky, the famous director who headed theatres in Riga, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and Moscow, became the main director and then art director of the Theatre.
Today, the Theatre's repertoire has about 25 shows of different genres and drama trends from its own version of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar to the ironic novella The Reserve by Sergey Dovlatov, once forbidden and exiled from the USSR. The Theatre has two stages to perform on: the Main Stage and the Indoors Stage seating 1,200 and 120 people correspondingly.
The Theatre's company is a constellation of stage talents undoubtedly popular. The Theatre continues a traditional Russian art trend of realistic psychology and at the same time has avant-garde experiments. It is a spectator-oriented theatre that focuses on those coming there who think about life and loves every aspect of it.
The history of the Satire Theatre's building began in distant times of the 1917 Russian Revolution when the Nikitins' Circus existed. Then, after the Circus moved out because of no food for animals, the Moscow Music Hall moved in. Later the music hall circus was transformed into the Operetta Theatre and only then into the Satire Theatre.
In 1963...
From 1901, the location of the contemporary building was occupied by a theatre of the French entrepreneur Charles Omon, later by a light genre theatre, and after the 1917 Russian Revolution by the Theatre of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
In the 1920s, the building was handed over to the Meyerhold Theatre. A new building was c...
6 Malaya Dmitrovka. Today, this place is known to everybody: Moscow residents and visitors, avid theatre-goers and those who go to the theatre maximum once or twice per year. The Lenkom Theatre (the Theatre or the Lenkom, for short) is situated there. The abbreviation Lenkom was unofficially used even at the time when the Theatre was officially kno...
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