Pushkin Theater, Magnitogorsk: history, repertoire, reviews

Drama Theater. Pushkin (Magnitogorsk) was founded in the first half of the 20th century. Initially, the repertoire included performances based on plays by Soviet playwrights of the time. Today, you can see different performances here.

History of the theater

The Pushkin Theater (Magnitogorsk), photo of the building of which is presented in this article, began its creative career in the 1930s. At that time, the city was just starting the construction of a metallurgical plant. Initially it was an agit brigade, in which the best representatives of amateur performances performed professional artists - navvies, rebuilders, concrete workers, electricians and so on. Performances played directly in the shops, on construction sites, in hostels. In the early years, the head of the musical part was occupied by the remarkable Soviet composer Matvei Blanter.

The city committee of the Komsomol in 1932 decided on the basis of the propaganda team to create a theater of working youth (TRAM). He was the very first professional in Magnitogorsk. The capital's Small Theater took patronage over him. He sent his directors here. The first performance of a professional Magnitogorsk theater was the play "The Street of Joy".

In 1935, TRAM was transformed into a drama theater. In 1937, he received the name of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. During the war many actors left for the front. Nevertheless, the theater continued its work. The remaining actors created brigades and went to military units and hospitals to raise the morale of the defenders of their country by their creativity. In 1967 the theater received a new building. Years of the 1970s were marked by the fact that at that time the repertoire included performances based on the works of the great Russian poet, whose name is the Magnitogorsk drama, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.

The eighties were hard for the theater. And in the end, in the summer of 1990, it was closed. And in the autumn of the same year it opened again, but it was reorganized into the New Experimental Drama Theater. Its director was Vladimir Dosayev, who in a short time turned it into a successful one and introduced it into the number of the most interesting in the country.

From 1993 to 2007 the Magnitogorsk Drama was the organizer of the festival "Theater without Borders". Troupes from different cities and countries gathered here. In 1997, the Magnitogorsk Drama once again became the Pushkin Drama Theater.

In 2008 there was a big event. The staging of the "Thunderstorm" of the Magnitogorsk theater was awarded the "Golden Mask" prize in the nomination "Best Performance of Small Forms".

Today the Drama Theater conducts active tour activity, goes to prestigious festivals in different countries and invariably brings awards. Since 2010 the position of the main director is occupied by Maxim Kalsin. The repertoire of the theater consists of classics, as well as contemporary plays by foreign and Russian playwrights.

Magnitogorsk Drama is among the most famous in the country. According to the magazine Forbes, it is among the top ten most interesting provincial theaters, which are recommended to visit foreigners who come to this city.

Repertoire

The Pushkin Drama Theater (Magnitogorsk) offers its audience the following performances:

• "Matador".
• "The Time of Women."
• "Dark alleys".
• "The Siren and Victoria."
• "Inventive in Love".
• "Interrogation."
• "By magic".
• "How Ivan went for happiness".
• "Two on the swing."
• "Storm".
• "My poor Marat."
• "A cat that walked by itself."
• "Divas".
• "Winter".
• "The Marriage of Figaro."
• "If you go for a long time ...".
• "Orange peel".
• "Dance of Delhi."
• "Amadeus".
• "Crane".
• «№13».
• "Forest".
• "These free butterflies."
• "One day in Miami."
• "Queen of beauty".
• "Three Little Pigs, or Adventures of the Restless."
• "Romeo and Juliet".
• "I thought my heart had forgotten ...".
• "Run".
• "M. Tsvetaeva. My wildness and quiet ... ".
• "No rules".
• "Halfway."

"My poor Marat"

One of the premieres of 2015, which the Pushkin Theater (Magnitogorsk) first showed on its stage on May 5, timed it for the anniversary of the Great Victory, is the play "My Poor Marat". He was put on the play by Alexei Arbuzov. The heroes of the play are very young, almost children, Marat, Lika and Leonidik. The action takes place in besieged Leningrad.

War - a difficult period in the life of any person. In this terrible time, nerves are exposed. Everything is experienced more sharply. Values are re-evaluated. No horror film can compare with the war. And it is in such difficult conditions that each person shows what he really is and what he is worth. In the play, the experiences of the heroes are very sharply illustrated. "My poor Marat" offers the viewer a number of problems, such as loyalty, duty, love, sacrifice, friendship. What will the heroes of the play show themselves in monstrous conditions?

«Snow-white miracles»

The Pushkin Theater of Drama (Magnitogorsk) offers small viewers from December 24, 2015 until the end of New Year's holidays to see the Belgrade show "Snow-white Wonders". Boys and girls are invited inside a huge snowdrift, where cheerful little people live. They are called Belgians. They are inventors, scoundrels, dreamers and inventors. They make a camera out of a box of matches, then hide in their holes and throw snowballs, or they take huge straws and arrange an orchestra. They can quite unexpectedly find themselves on the seabed, where colorful fish and jellyfish live. There is in this tale the character of Chistyulya. He does not like pranks, he likes only order. He believes that for those who are hooligans and arrange a mess, Santa Claus will not come to the celebration.

Troupe

The Pushkin Theater (Magnitogorsk) gathered on its stage wonderful actors.

The troupe includes the following artists:

• A. Votyakova.
• A. Kohan.
• M. Sergey.
• D. Sochkov.
• V. Bogdanov.
• Yu. Duvanov.
• I. Pogorelov.
• Yu. Shengireev.
• N. Saveliev.
• L. Gushchina.
• V. Shengireev.
• L. Lyamkina
• A. Berdnikov.
• I. Panov.
• E. Shchegohikhin.
• T. Busygina.
• E. Lukmanova.
• E. Savelyeva.
• I. Bill.
• N. Lavrov.
• D. Gazizullin.

Also presented in the team are other performers.

Main director

Maxim Kalsin is an interesting person whose biography deserves to be put on the play. He was born in a small town where there was no theater at all. Up to 30 years, Maxim was very new to this kind of art. By the time he visited theaters only a few times. First he graduated from the Historical Faculty of Moscow State University. But he did not defend the thesis, because he realized that he did not want to lead the life of a historian-he would sit in libraries, take part in conferences, and so on. Then Maxim decided to change his life and started to do business. He owned a network of bookstores. But at the age of 30 he realized that he was not doing his own thing, he left everything and entered the VGIK for the director's department. In the Pushkin Theater (Magnitogorsk) he came in 2010. Now he is happy that he can create, feels himself in his place and understands that he is doing his own thing.

Reviews

The Pushkin Theater (Magnitogorsk) receives various reviews from the audience, but most of them are enthusiastic. The most beloved performance of the audience is "Thunderstorm". Spectators write that this is a spectacle that causes delight. When you look the first time, you find a lot of surprises. Actors of the theater, in the view of the audience, are talented and remarkably convey the feelings and emotions of their characters. The repertoire of the theater is wide, and everyone can find a production to their liking.

Where is

The Pushkin Theater (Magnitogorsk) is located at: Lenin Avenue, house number 66. It stands at the intersection with Gagarin Street. Its location is shown on the map presented in this article.