The Kursk Drama Theater is one of the oldest cultural centers in the country. It has existed for more than two hundred years. The repertoire of the Kursk Drama Theater includes both classic plays and works of modern playwrights.
History
Kursk Drama Theater was opened in 1792. It was built at the expense of the local nobility. The initiative for opening the theater in the city belonged to the Governor-General of Kursk A.A. Bekleshev. It was here that in 1805 the legendary actor made his debut, by whose name the Moscow Theater School - Mikhail Shchepkin, who was at that time a serf, was named. On the stage of the theater, such artists as V.I. Kachalov, V.F. Komissarzhevskaya, K.A. Varlamov, A.A. Yablochkina and others. In 1911, the Kursk Drama Theater was named after M. Shchepkin, and in 1937 - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. The troupe left and continues to go on tour abroad, actively participating in festivals. Kursk Drama Theater is an active participant in various festivals. In 2012, he celebrated his 220th birthday. On this occasion, a great creative evening took place.
Repertoire
The Kursk Drama Theater repertoire to its audience in the 2015-2016 season offers the following:
- "The townspeople and aristocrats."
- “The Marriage of Figaro.”
- "The Picture of Dorian Grey".
- "Seven screams in the ocean."
- "Alpine ballad."
- "Young people".
- "Ordinary story."
- "I want to act in films."
- "Savage".
- "A man came to a woman."
- "School of temptation."
- "The birthday of the cat Leopold."
- "Squaring the circle."
- "Romeo and Juliet".
- "Don Juan, or Stone Guest."
- "Number 13".
- "The young lady-peasant."
- Nightingale Night.
- "Lysistrata."
- Chmorik.
- American Roulette.
- "These free butterflies."
- "Mousetrap".
- "Hanuma."
- "Woe from Wit."
- “Truth is good, but happiness is better.”
- "Cinderella".
- "Fabulous man".
- "Athenian evenings."
- "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Troupe
Actors of the Kursk Drama Theater:
- Alexander Shvachunov.
- Elena Gordeeva.
- Eduard Baranov.
- Lyudmila Akimova.
- Valery Egorov.
- Lyudmila Mordovskaya.
- Evgeny Setkov.
- Eugene Poplavsky.
- Daria Kovaleva.
- Valery Lomako.
- Victoria Lukyanova.
- Svetlana Slastyonkina.
- Victor Zorkin.
- Lyudmila Skroded.
- Dmitry Barkalov.
- Natalia Komardina.
- Julia Gulidova.
- Inna Kuzmenko.
- Maria Nesterova.
- Maria Zemlyakova.
- Larisa Sokolova.
- Andrey Kolobinin.
- Oksana Bobrovskaya.
- Gennady Stasenko.
- Sergey Repin.
- Roman Lobyntsev.
- Lyudmila Manyakina.
- Marina Kochetova.
- Sergey Malikhov.
- Galina Khaletskaya.
- Lyubov Sazonova.
- Alexander Oleshnya.
- Olga Lyogonkaya.
- Ekaterina Prunich.
- Elena Petrova.
- Dmitry Zhukov.
- Sergey Toichkin.
- Olga Yakovleva.
- Lyubov Bashkevich.
- Nikolay Shadrin.
- Alexey Potorochin.
- Maxim Karpovich.
- Elena Tsymbal.
- Sergey Bobkov.
- Mikhail Tyulenev
- Arina Bogucharskaya.
- Nina Polishchuk.
Hudruk
Yuri Valerievich Bure-Nebelsen received a director's education at GITIS. His teacher is M.O. Knebel. He began his career with the Volgograd Theater of Musical Comedy. There he was a director and worked exclusively with the comedy genre. The next stage of his career was the theater named after I.S. Turgenev in the city of Orel. Yuri Valerievich came to the Kursk Drama Theater in 1982 by invitation. He started here as a director. Amazed the viewer with his talent as a director from the very first performances. For his work, Yuri Bure was repeatedly awarded prizes and diplomas. His productions are always popular with the public. One of his most spectacular performances was the drama of M.Yu. Lermontov's "Masquerade". For her, Yuri Vasilievich received the State Prize of Russia. Yu Buret was appointed artistic director of the theater in 1991 and still holds this position. Thanks to this man, the acting department was opened at the Kursk College of Culture. The students are led by Yu. Bure himself. On the stage of the Kursk Theater, Yuri Vasilyevich staged more than a hundred performances.