Youth Theater in St. Petersburg is one of the oldest theaters operating in Russia for children. He has a very rich and diverse repertoire. There are performances for kids, and for teens, and for adults, and classical plays, and modern, and good old works in a new way.
History
Youth Theater in St. Petersburg opened in 1922. It was founded by Alexander Alexandrovich Bryantsev. His name is the theater today. Alexander Alexandrovich led the Youth Theater for four decades. A. Bryantsev created a theater that would be of interest to young children, adolescents and youth. This principle is still valid.
The first performance of the theater was the tale of P. P. Ershov "The Little Humpbacked Horse". She is in the repertoire to this day. This performance is the hallmark of the Youth Theater. For many years, the emblem of the theater was the Little Humpbacked Horse.
Even in the difficult war years, the theater continued to delight the audience, although many artists left to fight or participated in the front lines as part of the front-line brigades. In 1942, the Youth Theater was evacuated to the city of Berezniki, which did not have its own troupe. Petersburg Theater pleased with its performances of local residents.
The theater returned to Leningrad in the summer of 1944.
In the 40s-50s The repertoire included not only fairy tales and classical works, but also the corresponding time of a statement on military subjects.
The theater moved to the building on Pioneer Square in 1962.
TUZ troupe was famous throughout the country. Many famous artists began their career here: B. A. Freindlikh, V. P. Politsimako, N. K. Cherkasov, G. G. Taratorkin, O. V. Volkova, N. I. Drobysheva, B. P. Chirkov and many others.
The name A. A. Bryantsev was assigned to the Youth Theater in 1980.
Since 2007, the artistic director of the theater is A. Ya. Shapiro.
The theater building is ideal for children's performances. Here is a good roomy auditorium. TYUZ (St. Petersburg) is designed for 780 seats. A photo of the hall is presented in this article.
The stage of the theater is big. It is equipped with modern lighting equipment. The turntable and ring can rotate at a speed of 1 meter per second. On the stage there are three lifting and lowering platforms. The height of their rise above the tablet is 1.4 meters. They sink to a depth of 1.3 meters below the scene level.
Performances
TYUZ (St. Petersburg) offers its viewers the following repertoire:
- "Dandelion Wine, or Freeze."
- "Deniskins stories."
- "The Little Humpbacked Horse".
- "Fathers and Sons".
- "Tom Sawyer".
- "The Nutcracker Master Drosselmeyer."
- "Crazy money."
- "Children of Bambi."
- "King Lear".
- "Pollyanna."
- "Start. Figure one."
- "The Wizard of Oz".
- "Judas from Golovlev."
- "Old-world landowners."
- "Raising Rita."
- "Letuchkina love."
- "About Ivan the Fool."
- "All mice love cheese."
- "Lenka Panteleev. Musical."
- "Plum".
- "Hoffman. Visions."
- "The man in the case."
- "Poor people."
- "A guy from the past."
- "Down the mountain."
- "Frost."
- "Dance of Delhi."
- "Dear Elena Sergeevna."
- "The Tale of Mr. Sommer."
- "Little tragedies."
- "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
- "Rhinos."
- "Drawings on the ceiling."
- "Danish History".
- "A white-sailing boat sailed."
- "Miracles in Momi House."
- "Notes by Aksenty Ivanovich Poprishchina".
- "Beckett. Plays."
- "The promise at dawn."
- "Dembel train".
"Rainbow"
Youth Theater in St. Petersburg He is the organizer of various projects, including several festivals. One of them is called "Rainbow". It is held every year. In 2016, it will be held in the second half of May - from the 18th to the 24th. This festival was first held in 2000. Here you can see the best performances of the world. "Rainbow" gathers participants from many countries: France, USA, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Great Britain, etc. World-famous directors take part in the festival: Dmitry Krymov, Andrey Moguchy, Lev Erenburg, Kama Ginkas, Nikolai Kolyada, Nina Chusova and many others. The main idea of Rainbow is to search for modern youth plays and progressive directors.
Troupe
The Youth Theater in St. Petersburg brought together wonderful artists on its stage.
Troupe:
- A. Vvedenskaya.
- B. Ivushin.
- D. Arbenin.
- A. Dyukova.
- I. Sokolova.
- N. Shumilova.
- Y. Bushin.
- A. Lyubskaya.
- I. Senchenko.
- A. Veselov.
- T. Makolova.
- S. Azeev.
- M. Kasapov.
- I. Batarev.
- A. Swan.
- B. Chistyakov.
- S. Byzgu.
- A. Kazakova.
- Yu. Nizhelskaya.
- R. Galiullin.
- L. Zhvania.
- A. Ladygin.
- K. Taskin.
- N. Borovkova.
- S. Dreiden.
- E. Prilepskaya.
- O. Glushkova.
- A. Zolotkova.
Other.
Reviews
Youth Theater (St. Petersburg) receives positive and negative reviews from the audience. The audience praises such theater performances as “Miracles in the Moomin House”, “Deniskins Tales”, “Beginning: Figure One”, “Letuchkin Love”, “Dance of Delhi”. They are very interesting for both children and adults. They make viewers of all ages rejoice and be sad, laugh and cry. The actors of the Youth Theater, according to the audience, are wonderful, they cope with any roles perfectly, perfectly reveal their images. The public leaves negative reviews about the performances: "Polianna", "Little Tragedies". The direction of these productions is incomprehensible to the audience, they have an unclear plot. There is nothing to bear for themselves. The theater hall is comfortable, you can clearly see and hear everything that happens on the stage, from almost anywhere. The location of the Youth Theater is also successful, according to the audience: it is surrounded by a large garden. Also pleasing is the fact that there are no problems returning tickets. You can always solve this issue, if suddenly the audience couldn’t go to the play for some reason. The main thing is to contact the cash desk with this issue in advance, and it will be decided. The exterior of the building, upon close examination, leaves much to be desired. He needs a good redecoration. Although the room is very beautiful, interesting for its architecture both inside and out.
Many viewers visit the Youth Theater constantly, over the years, and are his loyal fans. There are even those who love this theater from the 80s of the 20th century, from their childhood, and now bring their children here, introducing them to the theatrical art.
Where is it and how to get there
In the center of the historical part of the city at the intersection of Gorokhovaya, Zvenigorodskaya, Poddezdochny Lane and Zagorodny Prospekt streets, there is a youth theater (St. Petersburg). His address is Pionerskaya Square, house number 1. It is easiest to get to it by metro. Get to the station "Pushkinskaya" - "Zvenigorodskaya". You can also get to the theater by minibus with numbers 90, 25, 258, 177 and 139, by tram number 16 and by trolleybus numbers 8, 17, 3 and 15.