Ramt history. History of the building
The Russian Youth Academic Theater (RAMT) is a temple of art, where traditions and experience are uniquely combined with modern trends, new forms and genres. The idea of creation belongs to Natalya Sats, who in the acute post-revolutionary times tried to look into the future of dramatic art with new eyes.
History of creation
The Youth Academic Russian Theater (first name - Moscow, opened in 1921 with the play “Adalmina’s Pearl.” Topelius’s tale was staged by the unknown but gifted director I. Novikov. A. Vesnin was appointed as the designer and chief artist, who not only prepared sketches of costumes and scenery, but also wrote advertising posters, and also created the first version of the theater emblem.
The theater was renamed for the second time after the premiere of “Seryozha Streltsov” by author V. Lyubimova in 1936. Central children's theater known and loved not only in Moscow, but throughout Russia. The touring group traveled all over big cities countries and friendly states. In 1992, the theater received the name that we can still see on posters today - Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT). In 1987 it was given academic status.
Let us quote artistic director A. Borodin’s statement about the title: “According to Dahl, “youth” includes such age concepts like childhood and adolescence. With our name we envision a unique repertoire for all viewers. “Young children with their parents, teenagers and senior citizens will always find performances that suit their interests.”
Unique building
The building (the modern Youth Academic Russian Theater) was originally planned as a dramatic institution and was built according to the design of F. M. Shestakov in 1821 according to all the rules of a stage room. Acoustic data, location of the stage and auditorium correspond high standards design. The Moscow architect I. O. Bove, who led the reconstruction of Moscow after the fire that destroyed part of the capital in 1812, took part in the project.
The building is an architectural monument and historical heritage. Initially, artists from touring theaters from Yaroslavl and St. Petersburg played there. Creative nobles who had serf theaters brought performances to be shown to the Moscow public. The building at that time was known as the Shelaputin drama. In the middle of the century, A. N. Ostrovsky often gathered the Artistic Circle in this room. The New Imperial Theater occupied for several years convenient platform for performances, but abandoned it for unknown reasons. Until 1917, Zimin’s opera operated here; after 1921, M. A. Chekhov had the stage and directed the 2nd Moscow Art Theater. After the Great Patriotic War The Maly Theater operated in the premises.
Alexey Vladimirovich Borodin
In 1980, Alexey Borodin took over the management of the theater. Was born famous director in 1941 in China, in the city of Qingdao. Until the age of 80 he worked as the chief director at the Kirov Youth Theater. In 1987 he received the title of People's Artist. Since 1971 he has been a teacher at RATI (academy
Alexey Vladimirovich came to the Russian Academic Youth Theater with his production team: director E. Dolgina and set designer S. Benediktov. The first performance on new stage Based on Hugo's novel Les Misérables, he receives the State Prize. In 1983, Borodin opened the Small Stage with a production of Ostrovsky’s play “Poverty is not a Vice.”
Significant events
The production based on B. Akunin’s novel “Ernest Fandorin” was such a success among the audience that the author wrote a dramatization of “Yin and Yang” (two versions) for the theater. Alexey Borodin stages both performances, where the younger generation of actors works alongside the stage masters.
An event of grandiose scale is the “Coast of Utopia” in 2007. The trilogy of short stories received a super prize at the competition theatrical productions"Golden Mask". After the project was shown in Spain, the Murdo observer called the performance a masterpiece.
In the 2009-2010 season, the Youth Academic Russian Theater produced 13 performances. This list includes productions by Borodin himself and a galaxy of young directors within the creative laboratory.
Repertoire that can be seen today
"Scarlet Sails". Performance for seniors school age and teenagers based on the story of the same name by A. Green. The idea is how to preserve the dream in a world where everyone has forgotten about the miracle. Young Assol and brave Gray, through the storms of the ocean and human mistrust, strive for the light of their beacon.
“The Shore of Utopia” is a project of three productions. Philosophy of revolution - what is it? Destruction of the old or the fight for the freedom of each individual?
"Fearless gentleman." Fairy tale-mystery based on the stories of Carnival characters of folklore.
"Buddenbrooks." Dramatization of T. Mann's autobiography, life old Europe, way of life and concepts of several generations of one family.
"On the road". Romantic story about two lovers based on Rozov's play. There is only love in the world, everything else is just a carousel of unnecessary or simply everyday events.
"In the Burning Darkness" Peace and joy reign at the school for blind teenagers; like all people, they know how to love passionately and enjoy life. But one day a newcomer comes to the group who fiercely resists his illness. Is he right? Vallejo's play - our life. People often turn a blind eye to the cruel truth so as not to destroy their inner world.
The Russian Academic Youth Theater (address: building 2) has in its repertoire such performances for children and adults as “ The Cherry Orchard", "Wizard Emerald City», « Magic ring", "Gupeshka", "Deniska's stories" and others.
Theater clubs
Since 1957, clubs for fans of dramatic art have opened at the theater.
- Arts Club.
- Theater section.
- Family club.
- Theater Dictionary.
The Russian Academic Loves RAMT has brought these small organizations of Melpomene fans under its wing; grateful viewers do not miss a single premiere, rejoicing at the success of their favorite actors, well-deserved awards and recognition.
May 22nd, 2017 , 12:13 am
The Central Children's Theater was founded in 1921 ( modern name- Russian Academic Youth Theater) and over the years has staged over 400 performances. But the theatrical history of the Poltoratsky mansion began in the 19th century.
Apartment house on Theater Square built in 1821 by order of Konstantin Poltoratsky. The project by architect Alexander Elkinsky was implemented by Fyodor Shestakov with the participation of Osip Bove. In the 1840s, the house passed to the merchant Bronnikov, and under him the halls and mezzanine of the house began to be rented out to the theater of the Moscow Artistic Circle. Later, the building was rented by the artist and director Mikhail Lentovsky, who completed the construction of the third floor and equipped an almost new auditorium for 1500 seats.
Theater history merchant Pavel Shelaputin continued at home; the Imperial Theater opened for young actors who did not find roles in the Bolshoi and Maly theaters new theater. A private performer gave performances on this stage. Opera theatre Zimina and private theater Konstantin Nezlobin.
New imperial theater. 1900: https://pastvu.com/p/15790
After the revolution, the building was transferred to the Moscow Art Theater Theater-Studio 2, where Mikhail Chekhov staged mainly classical repertoire, ignoring modern Soviet drama. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, the second Moscow Art Theater was “a complex, most interesting creative organism, an arena for the collision of dissimilar and sometimes polar opposite individuals and artistic aspirations.” Disagreements in the leadership did not contribute to the survival of the theater during the years of tightening censorship, and in 1936 a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks appeared on its closure: “The so-called Moscow Art Theater 2 does not justify its title of Moscow Art Theater and in fact is a mediocre theater, the preservation of which in Moscow is not caused by necessity.”
The building on Sverdlov Square was transferred to the “Moscow Theater for Children” under the direction of young Natalia Sats (the theater was previously located on Tverskaya Street in the former Ars cinema). The year of its foundation - 1921 - is considered the year of founding of the Central Children's Theater and its successor - the Russian Academic Youth Theater. “Adalmina’s Pearl” is the first performance of the new theater, which from the first days fulfilled a pedagogical mission, sometimes involving children in the performance, opening the door to a fairy tale for them.
There was enormous interest in the performances; it happened that children sat two on one chair. “Yes, you have to love this difficult task, you have to love these frozen, attentive faces, warmed by the reflections of the footlights, the cries and remarks of the sociable hall, the high sound of children’s applauding hands...” - this is how the writer Lev Kassil described the atmosphere of the children's theater. In the 1936 season, the staff included 375 employees plus an orchestra of 28 musicians; composer Dmitry Kabalevsky, writers Valentin Kataev and Evgeny Schwartz collaborated with the theater.
Central Children's Theatre. 1936-1940: https://pastvu.com/p/274779
And then a dark streak came - in 1937 Natalia Sats was repressed as the wife of an “enemy of the people”, many artists left, and in 1939 there was a fire, the historical interiors were destroyed in the fire. Soon the war began and the actors became part of the front-line concert brigades of the Voronezh, Stalingrad, 3rd Ukrainian fronts, and part of the CDT troupe was evacuated to Siberia, where in 1942 they produced seven premiere performances. Theater employees donated their savings to build the tank.
Only in 1947 was the Central Children's Theater able to return to its stage on Sverdlov Square. In the 1950-1960s, the CDT was one of the most popular theaters in the capital; Anatoly Efros staged plays here and Oleg Efremov played.
Central Children's Theatre. 1972: https://pastvu.com/p/112274
All Soviet years The theater was obliged to fulfill certain ideological government orders, but at the same time it found the opportunity to create performances that introduced viewers to the treasures of world culture and taught them to “think and suffer.”
View from Bolshaya Dmitrovka, here is the service entrance to RAMT.
In 1980, Alexey Borodin was appointed to the post of artistic director, who still heads the troupe to this day. The current name - Russian Academic Youth Theater - appeared in 1992, expanding the range of the audience. In its repertoire you can find not only productions for schoolchildren, but also for older viewers, for viewers of any age.
The season opens at RAMT oldest performance repertoire - “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, which was played over 600 times. The troupe tours a lot, and not only abroad, but throughout the Russian outback, reaching Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Foyer interior 1900-1936: https://pastvu.com/p/39137
Foyer interior from 1936: https://pastvu.com/p/39135
“Flowers for Algernon” (2013), director Yuri Grymov
Yuri Grymov: “A sensual experiment in the field of human relations. This story is not related to the achievements of science. I moved away from this as much as possible, saw it alive and humane, absolutely biblical, and therefore - about people and timeless.” IN leading role- Maxim Kerin.
The story by Daniel Keyes was originally published in the April issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and science fiction"for 1959. Keyes subsequently expanded the story into a full-fledged novel, which won the Nebula Award for best novel in 1966. The main character, Charlie Gordon, a 32-year-old mentally retarded cleaner in a bakery, volunteers to participate in an experiment to improve intelligence. After a successful operation on a mouse named Algernon, they decide to perform a similar operation on some mentally retarded person. The choice falls on Charlie, as he shows a desire to learn to read and write better, to become smarter. Charlie's learning speed is many times faster than his learning speed ordinary people- and after a few weeks he speaks several languages fluently and enjoys reading technical literature. Despite the apparent initial success of the experiment, the behavior of the mouse gives serious cause for concern - its intelligence begins to fade away as quickly as it grew. After some time, Algernon dies. In the novel main character trying to the last, using his still powerful intellect, to find a positive way out of this situation. But Charlie's mental level declines as quickly as it rose and returns to its original state.
“House with a Turret” (2016), director Ekaterina Polovtseva
Ekaterina Polovtseva: “Sometimes you need to go through the pain of loss again in order to let go, forgive yourself for not being there, not helping, not saving, being helpless and confused. In order to ultimately come to light and love.” Cast: Maxim Kerin, Maria Ryshchenkova, Alexey Blokhin, Taras Epifantsev, Anna Kovaleva, Nikolai Mokhnatkin, Alexander Pakhomov, Lyudmila Pivovarova.
The performance was staged according to autobiographical story Soviet playwright Friedrich Gorenstein. The father of the future writer was shot before the war as an enemy of the people, and his mother died in evacuation. The boy found himself among people indifferent to his grief. He will spend several years in orphanage and after that he will never outlive his orphanhood and loneliness. “The House with a Turret” was his first story, published in 1964 in the magazine “Yunost”. And indeed the only work published in the USSR. Gorenshtein's prose was uncomfortable in the country socialist realism.
Director Ekaterina Polovtseva staged a tough and realistic performance. This goes to the credit of Irina Ukolova, who worked on the set design, costumes and lighting. The props are carefully selected and authentic to the era, although this story is timeless and could have happened in any era and anywhere.
“Democracy” (2016), director Alexey Borodin
Alexey Borodin: “It really frightens me that people today have completely abandoned the discussion, stopped hearing each other, stopped accepting different points vision... We have lost the habit of conducting dialogue, hence the endless vicious circle of the same problems, the inability to correct the same mistakes. It seems to me that the theater is exactly the place where people come together and can enter into dialogue.” Cast: Ilya Isaev, Pyotr Krasilov, Alexey Veselkin, Alexey Myasnikov, Andrey Bazhin, Alexey Blokhin, Oleg Zima, Alexander Doronin.
The play, based on the play by English playwright Michael Frayn, tells about the political situation in Germany in the 1960s-1970s, when Chancellor Willy Brandt took the first steps towards bringing together the two German states formed after the Second World War - the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. It's interesting that there are only men on stage, female roles not included in the performance. "Democracy" is a synthesis of spy detective and psychological drama.
“Our people - we will be numbered” (2016), director Egor Ravinsky
Egor Ravinsky: “For me, this is a story not so much about human greed, pride and fear, but about a person’s desperate attempt to control his life, “to grab this world by the horns,” “to grab fate by the tail.” In this story, good and evil “blur”, become almost inseparable from each other, white turns into black and vice versa...” Cast: Alexander Grishin, Ramilya Iskander, Daria Semenova, Tatyana Matyukhova, Mikhail Shklovsky and other actors.
Merchant Samson Silych Bolshov decided to declare himself bankrupt, transferring his fortune to “his man” - clerk Lazar Podkhalyuzin, and at the same time marry his only daughter Lipochka to him. The story of fictitious bankruptcy subjugates the whole family, one scam gives rise to another, bringing the merchant into a debt trap. Yegor Ravinsky staged the play in a classical manner, with historical costumes and scenery, without trying to modernize the plot. Or it could, because over the past century and a half a lot has changed in Russia, but not the morals of the enterprising part of the population. Samson Silych, pay your taxes and sleep well.
“Ricky” (2017), director Vladimir Bogatyrev
Vladimir Bogatyrev: “Ricky might not have fought the insidious Naga, who violates the laws of the Jungle. But everyone chooses their own path. Our performance is a conversation with young viewer about the sacrifice of a loner who is forced to become a hero, about whether it is necessary to risk one’s peace, and sometimes even one’s life, in order for the world to become kinder and fairer.” Cast: Yuri Trubin (Ricky), Alexander Devyatyarov (Teddy), Anastasia Prokofieva (Nagaina), Iznaur Ortsuev (Nag), Alexandra Arons (Chuchundra) and other actors.
The author of The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, traveled a lot across countries and continents, but his love was India, a country that the writer called “paradise on earth.” The plots of many of his stories were born there; the story about Rikki-Tikki-Tavi also takes place in an Indian village. Ricky the little mongoose who announced great war powerful rivals - two cobras who know no pity.
“For children you need to play the same way as for adults, only even better,” Konstantin Stanislavsky once said. Creators new production about the adult life of the inhabitants of the Indian jungle added drama to the play in the spirit of a tough documentary series about wildlife National Geographic and did without a happy ending. Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you. In general, as advised to act in similar cases children's writer Samuel Marshak, the authors speak to children “without cooing and without preaching.”
The Russian Academic Youth Theater is located next door to the Bolshoi Theater; its stage remembers the performances of Fyodor Chaliapin and Leonid Sobinov. It was here that Ostrovsky’s artistic circle gathered and the brightest balls were held late XIX century. Nowadays, RAMT hosts Summer ballet seasons, representing masterpieces of world choreography. In the photo: rehearsal of the ballet “Swan Lake”.
The building of the Russian Academic Youth Theater at 2, next to the legendary theaters, is memorable to many residents and guests of Moscow for the Children's Theater located within these walls until 1992, which was founded back in 1936 by Natalya Ilyinichna Sats.
The pompous building itself was erected in 1821 according to the architect’s design with the assistance of. The customer was Major General Konstantin Markovich Poltoratsky. They organized balls in local halls that thundered throughout the Mother See of the capital.
Photo 1. Teatralnaya Square, 2 in Moscow
History of the theater venue
In 1840, the building was bought by the merchant of the 1st guild P.A. Bronnikov. It was during his tenure, from 1869 to 1882, that the Artistic Circle was located here, occupying the mezzanine and several halls. Its honorary members were Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, and Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin.
In 1882, when the premises were leased to entrepreneur Mikhail Valentinovich Lentovsky, the building was significantly rebuilt. Then the third floor appeared, and the auditorium was expanded and it could accommodate about one and a half thousand people. The project was carried out by architect Boris Viktorovich Freidenberg.
Photo 2. The building of the Russian Youth Theater on Teatralnaya
In 1886, the building at No. 2 on Teatralnaya Square became the property of the hereditary nobleman Pavel Grigorievich Shelaputin. That is why you can find references to this building as the “Shelaputin Theater”.
In 1898 the premises were rented Russian state to house the New Theater here, which was one of the Imperial Theatres. It existed until 1907, until it was abolished. In addition to him, the private opera of Sergei Ivanovich Zimin also gave performances on this stage, which became the basis for the creation of a modern opera on Bolshaya Dmitrovka.
History of the theater
Russian academic Youth theater is rightfully proud of its history and traditions. Anna Kern once visited the magnificent ancient building of the architect O. Bove in the very center of Moscow - on Teatralnaya Square. This house has always been known as the center cultural life Moscow. In 1840, the Artistic Circle met here under the leadership of A.N. Ostrovsky, in 1898 the Imperial New Theater opened. At the beginning of the twentieth century, F. Chaliapin and L. Sobinov performed on this stage, in S. Zimin’s private opera. From 1924 to 1936, the Moscow Art Theater II was located here, directed by Mikhail Chekhov.
Russian Academic Youth Theater
The history of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (formerly the Central Children's Theater) begins on July 13, 1921, when the country's first theater for children opened in the Ars cinema in Moscow with the play "Adalmina's Pearl". Then it was called the Moscow Theater for Children. Its organizer and first leader was young Natalya Ilyinichna Sats. In 1936, the theater was renamed the Central Children's Theater and in the same year it received its current premises - on Teatralnaya Square, next to the Bolshoi and Maly theaters.
In the 1950s, the theater was headed by associate K.S. Stanislavsky, a person who became a teacher for a whole galaxy of wonderful actors and directors, Maria Osipovna Knebel. With her, young Anatoly Efros came to the theater, revealing the talents of aspiring playwrights Viktor Rozov and Alexander Khmelik.
The most popular actress Valentina Sperantova has worked on our stage all her life. Sergei Mikhalkov, Viktor Rozov, Grigory Polonsky, Yuri Shchekochikhin wrote their plays especially for our theater. This is where we started our professional life Oleg Efremov, Oleg Anofriev, Gennady Sayfulin, Lev Durov, Irina Muravyova, Yan Arlazorov, Sergey Shakurov, performances were staged by Olga Pyzhova, Pyotr Fomenko, Georgy Tovstonogov, Pavel Chomsky, Sergey Yashin. Evgeny Dvorzhetsky and Igor Nefedov played on this stage.
Artistic directors in different time there were L. Volkov, V. Dudin, O. Pyzhova, V. Kuzmin, M. Knebel. And now for almost 30 years artistic director RAMTa is National artist Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Moscow Prize Alexey BORODIN.
In 1992, the theater changed its name and became the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT). The word “youth” did not appear by chance. In the dictionary V.I. Dahl’s word “youth” includes all periods of the formation of the human personality: childhood, adolescence, adolescence. And the theater’s repertoire fully corresponds to its name. Here you can find performances for all ages: children’s, which are attended by young spectators with their parents, teenagers and adults. This is the uniqueness of our theater.
RAMT experiments a lot with new forms, without forgetting the traditions of the Stanislavsky school. The repertoire is based on literary fairy tales and folklore, on classics, domestic and foreign and modern dramaturgy. Artistic sincerity is extremely important for the theater, highest level culture and intelligence. This is the position of everything creative team RAMTa.
Today in the RAMT playbill you can find performances based on the works of Mark Twain and Nikolai Nosov, Tennessee Williams and Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde and Evgeny Schwartz, F.M. Dostoevsky and A.P. Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov and Rudyard Kipling, Mikhail Zoshchenko and Boris Akunin, who wrote the plays “Yin and Yang. White Version” and “Yin and Yang. Black Version” especially for RAMT.
The RAMT troupe is rightfully considered one of the best in Moscow. This is confirmed by numerous acting titles, awards and theater awards. RAMT – regular participant theater festivals, winner of many theater awards and competitions. In his collection of awards State Prize Russia (the play "Les Miserables" by V. Hugo, 1985), the Moscow City Hall Prize (the plays "Berenice" by J. Racine and "Our Town" by T. Wilder, 1994; "The Diary of Anne Frank", 2001) and the National theater award "Golden Mask" (in the nomination "Innovation" - the play "Victory over the Sun", 1999, special prize Drama Jury – trilogy “The Coast of Utopia”, 2009).
The theater is loved by audiences and highly praised by critics. In February 2002, RAMT became the first winner of the prize of the Moscow Association of Theater Critics at the Oleg Efremov Charitable Foundation "For achievements in the field theatrical arts"The theater's performances invariably evoke a huge response from professionals and big interest from the audience. RAMT is a sold-out theater! We love our viewer, and he loves us back.
