Theater "Samara Square"

Theater "Samara Square" was established in 1987 as a theater-studio at the House of Youth of the OK Komsomol. In 1993, the theater received the status of Municipal Theatre. Currently, the theater has a full name: Municipal institution of culture of the city of Samara "Theater "Samara Square". The founder and artistic director of the theater is Yevgeny Borisovich Drobyshev, who graduated from the B.V. Shchukin Higher Theater School in 1985. Drobyshev’s first performance “Demonstration” became a major theatrical event that went far beyond Samara. It was a political pamphlet, a play consisting of political anecdotes. Local authorities decided to close the theater. A commission specially arrived from Moscow saved the theater – the country just announced publicity. The young troupe led by Evgeny Drobyshev experimented a lot. Experiments in the synthesis of drama and plastic were particularly successful. Author’s performances – “Night on Ivan Kupala” and “Playing Bidstrup” were repeatedly awarded high awards at Russian and international festivals. The theater toured a lot and successfully: Moscow, Sochi, Nizhny Novgorod, Izhevsk, Ufa, Kiev, Gatchina. Foreign tours of the theater - USA, Germany, Hungary, Austria. The history of the Samarskaya Square Theatre allows you to study the history of the country since 1987, all stages of development from the Soviet era to the market economy. The Drobyshev Theatre was an experimental youth studio, a private theater, a theatrical unit of the Igor Kyo Illusion Show, an entertainment theater, and a state theater. In 1993, the theater took under its wing the municipality of Samara, allocates the building of one of the oldest cinemas in the city, which required reconstruction. The departure of the mayor of the city - O.N. Sysoev to Moscow, turned the reconstruction of the theater into a long-term construction. For thirteen long years, the troupe of the theater rehearsed in a dilapidated building, and for several years almost without heating, played on rented stages in the houses of culture and clubs of the city. And only in October 2007 the theater opened its doors to the audience. Currently, the theater has in the repertoire of Russian and foreign classics, plays of modern playwrights. The theater prefers the comedy genre, expressing its view of modernity. 19.12 Feng Shui, or Manual for My Husband's Mistress. 21.12 "The Skull of Connemara." From 27.12 New Year performances for children.