Ekaterinburg, Drama Theater: address, poster, website

Ekaterinburg today is one of the largest cities in Russia. He owes his greatness to the Soviet period of the history of our country, during which a small provincial town of the Perm province turned into one of the industrial centers of the union. During the time, while on the map the settlement was listed as Sverdlovsk, it managed to become also a major theatrical center. Today, the capital of the Urals occupies the third place in terms of the number of sites, second only to Moscow and, of course, to St. Petersburg. According to official statistics, the city has 27 theaters and its own institute of this direction. At the same time, according to folkloric calculations, the number of scaffoldings on which various troupes play exceeds 4 dozen! The largest of them are called "academic". It is believed that Yekaterinburg is the "supplier" of talents for the capital scenes. The Drama Theater can rightly be called one of the leading institutions in this direction. Further in the article we will get acquainted with the history of this institution.

Uneasy start

Yekaterinburg enthusiasts always liked performances, and the city itself was popular with the tour companies and the entreprise so that in 1843 a special wooden building was built for their performances. Two years later it was rebuilt into a stone one, it still exists - in it there is a cinema "October". In troubled times, people always tend to the beautiful. Acquired in such a "turbulent" time his scene and Yekaterinburg. The Drama Theater, which today is considered one of the favorite cultural places in the city, originated in 1912. The unstable situation in the city (he was the center of the revolution in the Urals) did not greatly influence the scene, everyone wanted to see the shows. Therefore, performances were given even during the execution of the royal family (the Reds were in power), and when the All-Russian Government of Admiral Kolchak occupied Yekaterinburg. The Drama Theater continued its work and when the Communists returned again. Last, contrary to the bike about their lack of spirituality, and increased the number of urban scenes.

After the revolution

Industrialization and the construction boom of the 1920s touched seriously many areas of the country. Thanks to the active construction of metallurgical and machine-building "giants", the whole Urals, in particular its capital, Yekaterinburg, has risen to an absolutely new industrial level. The dramatists wanted for themselves builders and metallurgists. Their aspirations were heard. First, in 1928-1929, the building of the present-day Oktyabr movie theater, and then the first city theater, elected the "Red Torch" actor's team. Having played the season, the troupe left already Sverdlovsk and moved to Novosibirsk, where she stayed. A year later, a new drama theater in Yekaterinburg opened the doors. The premiere performance was shown on October 2, 1930, and he was called in the spirit of the times - "The First Horse". We put it on the play of the revolutionary playwright Vsevolod Vishnevsky.

First frames

In the first performance, which was presented by the Drama Theater (Ekaterinburg, the photo of the institution can be seen above), the composition of the involved troupe was already solid. The status of the "academic" institution was acquired later, in 1977. In the theater staff there were such stars of the scene of the time as Vsevolod Georgievich Ordynsky and Mikhail Aleksandrovich Betsky. Both later became honored artists of the RSFSR. The company was assembled by Moritz Mironovich Shlugleit, a famous theatrical figure and administrator, who before that worked in the famous Moscow theater Korsha. The presence of stars in the starting lineup attracted less well-known actors, who at that moment just did not have time to light up, as is now customary to say. However, not everything was smooth. In the first season of the Drama Theater (Ekaterinburg), the poster of which at that time was no less saturated than it is now, was not an independent unit. The institution, according to the fashion for universality and gigantomania, was part of the United Spectator Organization. In addition to him, it included the Lunacharsky Opera Theater and the newly formed Young Spectators Theater. The enlarged entertainment company in just one year could show its inconsistency, and already since 1931 the SATD goes on a free voyage, while its leadership is changing. Shlaglayt transfers his duties and powers to an equally talented successor who was the director of the theater in the next 10 years. Thanks to his work, the troupe was replenished with a whole galaxy of great actors, some great ones, some of them received the title of People's Artist of the USSR.

Classics and revolutionaries

During the first decade of its existence, the Sverdlovsk theater, contrary to fashion, did not succumb to innovative currents, and built its repertoire, relying on the school of Russian dramatic art. On stage, at the request of time, they gave performances dedicated not so long ago to the past revolution. This is the already mentioned "First Horse", as well as "The Death of the squadron", "Love the Spring", "Plato Krechet". Do not forget about the classics - put "Woe from Wit", "Marriage of Figaro", "Anna Karenina." The popular performances were "Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich" and, of course, "Othello". The directors of the theater did not hesitate to use modern foreign prose as well. Residents of Sverdlovsk first in the Union saw performances on the works of Karel Capek. In 1939, a year after the death of the Czech writer, the premiere of the fantastic drama "Mother" was held on the main stage of the capital of the Urals. The success was such that for the next season, another of his plays "The Means of Makropulos" was staged . It dealt with immortality.

Competition against the background of a global tragedy

In 1941, the number of spectators at the Sverdlovsk drama theater increased dramatically. In the city, in connection with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, many enterprises, enterprises and organizations were evacuated. In addition to the organized settlers, there appeared a mass of refugees from all over the Union. It would seem that, according to the laws of the market, the troupe should have become easier to work - the demand for spectacles has grown many times, in addition, among the "new" citizens there were many people of art. However, in the theater, as in the country, there was a difficult situation. In addition to the fact that the leaders changed every couple of years, serious competitors appeared. Among the evacuated organizations were the Moscow Art Theater and the Central Theater of the Red Army. Rivalry with the Moscow stars for the hearts of the audience went with varying success. On the stage of SADT, patriotic performances were shown, at the behest of the times: "Field Marshal Kutuzov", "Front", "A Guy from Our City". However, again, they did not forget about the classics either - they put Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya". This performance in 1944 received the first prize at the All-Russia show.

All for the front!

Sverdlovsk, which became a very important center of engineering and metallurgy, worked, as they say, for wear and tear. His contribution to May 1945 is truly invaluable. Do not lag behind the working people and actors. In addition to fairly frequent prime and constant competition, the theater was engaged in front-line work. Special concert brigades during the Second World War spent a total of one year and a half at the front and gave about 2000 concerts in front of the soldiers. The work was conducted in the rear - in hospitals. The actors of the Sverdlovsk troupe took part in about 16,000 speeches before the wounded and workers of defense enterprises, conducted jointly with colleagues from other cultural institutions. Work directly in his hometown was also aimed at winning. In addition to raising the spirit of the workers of local factories, the troupe is engaged in material recharging of the "people's struggle". In the defense fund, actors contributed 824,000 hard earned rubles. His share was also received by the Fund for Assistance to Children of the Front-line soldiers - Sverdlovsk cultural figures sent 90 thousand rubles to them.

Repertoire opal and revolution

Any war, even victorious, brings changes in society. Two years after the victory, the Sverdlovsk Drama Theater, along with yesterday's competitors - the Moscow Art Theater, the Central Television and the other scenes - falls into disgrace. In 1946, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party adopted a resolution on the repertoire of cultural institutions and measures to improve it. Now the performances should be ideological and "moral", and not contain sedition, which was seen in most classical works. As a result, the theater's repertoire policy changes abruptly. A whole series of favorite performances is being closed, and they are replaced by performances on, to put it mildly, the bad plays of contemporaries, the only plus of which is the following: "Ilyich's behests". However, diamonds and among modern authors are sought. A play by the author of the "Kuban Cossacks", Nikolai Pogodin, "The Velvet Season" is staged for a short time. The life of the play is short-the Soviet press did not like the production. See the audience and the "Girls" three-time winner of the Stalin Prize - Vera Pogodina. The play was staged before the official publication of the play. The first Sverdlovsk actors show "The Road of the First" by Afanasy Salynsky. Moscow Drama Theater for this work will put the play "The Brothers" only three years later.

Period of awards

The time of any censorship is short, and after a decade the opal is coming to naught. Sverdlovsk Drama Theater returns to the classics. In the early 70-ies of the 20th century, the company's tours are held in Moscow. Sverdlovsk actors showed to the public public "Boris Godunov", "Mindaugas" and "Time in captivity". The performances were accepted on "hurray" not only by spectators, but also by critics. And past merits do not go unnoticed. So, in 1977 the Theater was recognized as one of the best in the Union and received the title of "academic", and three years later was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Becoming the Sverdlovsk Academic Drama Theater, the stage did not change its name any more, although the city itself is already referred to in a different way.

New time

In the early 1990s, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. After him, Sverdlovsk disappeared from the map - it was returned to its historical name. However, this did not affect the Theater at all. The institution was founded in the USSR, and therefore, by and large, has nothing to do with Ekaterinburg. The only thing that the Drama Theater (Ekaterinburg) has replaced is the address. The scene moved from the 10th house along Vainer Street, where it was from the very opening, to the 2 nd house on October Square.

Modern life

Today the Sverdlovsk Academic Drama Theater is again a holding company. True, it is not as gigantic as it was in the 1930s. However, nevertheless, he occupies a dominant position in the new Uniform Spectacular Organization. Has today the Drama Theater (Yekaterinburg) official website (uraldrama.ru). On the pages you can learn more about the history of the institution. In addition, the site of the Drama Theater (Ekaterinburg) contains information about the staging performances, tours, ticket prices.