Theater in the South-West description and photos - Russia - Moscow: Moscow (Topic)

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The South-West Theater was founded in 1977 by the People's Artist of Russia Valery Belyakovich. Initially it was an amateur studio theater in the outskirts of Moscow. The actors were students, workers and employees. They built the theater building themselves, on their own. The theater hall had one hundred spectators.

In 1985 the theater was awarded the title of "People's Theater". In 1986 the theater received the Moscow Komsomol Prize. In 1987 the theater took part in a theatrical experiment - the transition to self-financing and self-sufficiency. The theater has become a regular participant in theater festivals and various shows, both in Russia and abroad. The theater is well known in Poland, Finland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Austria, Holland, USA and Japan. The theater in the Southwest was characterized as representing new Russian art during the period of glasnost.

In 1991, the theater received the status of the State Theater under the Moscow Committee for Culture. Since 2011, the theater's artistic director has been Oleg Nikolaevich Leushin. The troupe of the theater includes young actors: Olga Avilova, Dmitry Astapenko, Mikhail Belyakovich, Nadezhda Bychkova, Viktor Borisov and others.

The theater's performances captivate the audience with the brightness and novelty of the director's decisions, the coherence of the ensemble play, the extraordinary sincerity of the actors, civic spirit, and entertainment. The director's solution of performances in modern rhythms, in streams of light and music, reveals classical pieces in a new way. Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekhov and Gogol get a new, sometimes amazing sound. The theatrical playbill contains many different performances: Gogol's The Marriage, Camus's Caligula. Shakespeare's Macbeth, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. "At the bottom" of Gorky. "Too married taxi driver" Ray Cooney, "King Oedipus" Sophocles, "Dogs" Sergienko and many others.

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