Famous in Moscow, a remarkable theater center called "The Cherry Orchard" is the state budgetary institution of culture of the capital. This theater is led by its founder and permanent creative mastermind Alexander Vilkin. Throughout its existence, the theater does not cease to follow the basic principles and ideals. His repertoire is also formed on the basis of the best works of classical and modern drama.
Alexander Vilkin - founder of the team
The Cherry Orchard theater, which is now famous on Sukharevskaya Street, appeared in Moscow in 1995, when the talented director Alexander Vilkin created his own troupe. And today this theater team works under the guidance of its founder, Honored Art Worker of Russia and People's Artist, winner of various awards in the field of art and literature.
Vilkin Alexander was also awarded the Order of the Pomeranian Vulture for outstanding services and achievements in the development of the Polish theater of modernity. He is a very talented and versatile person. At one time, Vilkin played the main roles in the theater, having worked for more than 25 years on the stage of the famous Taganka. He also worked on television and acted in films. As a director, A. Vilkin staged over one hundred remarkable performances in various theaters in the country. Today, a talented director is also a professor at the Theater Institute. B.V. Schukin. Vilkin always dreamed of his own stage for his native theater. However, his dream came true only in the year of the jubilee. Twenty years after its founding, the theater finally moved to its own building, which solemnly opened the doors in the center of Moscow on Malaya Sukharevskaya Square.
About the name of the center
The Cherry Orchard Theater on Sukharevskaya is closely connected with the play by A.P. Chekhov. It is no accident that its name is identical to the name of one of the plays of the classic of Russian literature. Founding the collective, A. Vilkin, as an artistic director, strove to create his own artistic space, where creative questions were based on civil and moral principles, which the great Russian writer A. Chekhov preached in his plays, as in life.
Theater repertoire
From the very first day of its foundation, the Cherry Orchard Theater on Sukharevskaya invariably includes performances based on the best works of famous playwrights of the past and present. Here you can see performances of different genres and art movements. The spectator will find sparkling French farce and an ironic and sad tragicomedy, a multi-layered psychological drama and an emotional, philosophical and paradoxical theater of absurdity in Cherry Orchard . This metropolitan collective plays beautiful performances not only on the plays of Chekhov, but also on Gogol, Ostrovsky, Jean-Baptiste Moliere, Albi Edward, Becket Samuel and many other famous authors.
Professionals not only positively respond to productions of The Cherry Orchard, ordinary viewers also admire them. Today, the theater’s repertoire includes 19 performances, where there are also children's performances. In summer, the season is closed, but already in mid-September, the Cherry Orchard Theater on Sukharevskaya will begin to work in full force. The playbill is already on the site of the theater center, and tickets are on sale.
Where is
This cultural center is located in the capital on Malaya Sukharevskaya Square, 10/31. Next to it there is a metro station with the same name, so it’s not difficult to get to the place. In addition to the subway, the Cherry Orchard Theater on Sukharevskaya can also be reached by the Garden Ring or by public transport to the above metro station. Then, after walking along Sretenka Street, just a hundred meters, you will find yourself in the Cherry Orchard Theater.