Workshop of Peter Fomenko

The Moscow Theater “Pyotr N. Fomenko Workshop” was founded in July 1993 by a decree of the Mayor of Moscow. However, the fomenki themselves ^{[ clarify ]} consider the date of birth of the "Workshop" in July 1988, when Peter Fomenko recruited a group of students to his training workshop at the directing department of GITIS . Graduates of the Fomenko Workshop in 1993 formed the basis of a young theater. Today the theater troupe has three generations of fomenok. ^[one]

In 1997 , the premises of the former Kiev cinema on Kutuzovsky Prospekt were transferred by a decree of the Moscow government "P. Fomenko Workshop". It was two small rooms that could hold no more than 100 spectators. The recording of some performances was half a year ahead, because they could not hold everyone. In 2005, with the support of the Moscow government and VTB Bank , the construction of a new theater building began. By January 2008, the theater moved to a new room on the Taras Shevchenko embankment ^[1] .

The new multi-level building of the theater is located on the high slope of the Moscow River. On the roof of the building there is a lawn and a flower garden. The building is faced with natural stone using aluminum and steel panels. The interior of the theater was equipped according to the requirements of Pyotr Fomenko himself. The theater has two stages and two halls for 450 and 150 seats. The Great Hall is a classic theater with boxes, an orchestra and an amphitheater. Transformable proscenium allows you to arrange an orchestra pit or increase its depth so that the action of the play can unfold directly in the hall. A complex of elevation and release mechanisms and transformable shields are installed in the two-tier room of the small hall, with which you can not only change the dimensions and proportions of the hall, but also open it to the external space - the embankment and the panorama of Moscow City ^[2] .

In total, over the years of the theater’s existence, 50 performances have been created, and currently the repertoire includes 34 ^[3] . The performances of the “Workshop” repeatedly became laureates of various theatrical awards : the prizes named after Stanislavsky for the play “One Absolutely Happy Village” (2000); The National Theater Award “ Golden Mask ” for the play “One Absolutely Happy Village” (2001), “War and Peace” (2002), “Three Sisters” (2006); independent theater prize " Crystal Turandot " for performances "Three Sisters" (2005), "The Most Important" (2007). Also, the theater performances have repeatedly become laureates of the theatrical prize “ Chaika ”, the awards “The High Season”, received prizes and awards at various international theater festivals.

Over the years, theater performances have taken part in various Russian and international theater festivals: Golden Mask (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006), the International Chekhov Festival (1998, 2007), the Christmas Festival in Novosibirsk (1997, 2001), the Vologda Festival “Voices of History” (2001, 2005), Sevastopol Festival “Chersonese Games” (1993), Polish Festival “ Contact ” (1993, 1996), Venice Biennale (1995), Festival in Avignon (1997), Belgrade Festival BITEF (1997, 2004), Bonn Theater Biennale (1997), Autumn Parisian (1998, 2002, 2003) and Autumn Madrid com (2002, 2003, 2006) festivals, the festival in the Lincoln Center in New York (2004), the International Theater Festival in Zagreb (2004, 2007), the Rome Theater Festival Russkij Festival (2004), the Festival of Russian Culture in Belgium " Europalia ”(“ Europalia.Russia ”(2005)), the festival“ European Culture Days in Karlsruhe ”(Germany, 2006), the Ibero-American Festival in Bogota (Colombia, 2006), the International Arts Festival in Greece (2007). In addition, the theater has toured extensively in the cities of Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Europe, Latin America, the USA, China and Japan. ^[one]

Since 2008, Workshop has been conducting charitable tours in Sevastopol with the support of VTB. The purpose of the trip is to support the theater of the Black Sea Fleet and draw attention to its problems. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Today on the playbill of the theater, first of all, the production of Pyotr Naumovich Fomenko: “ Wolves and Sheep ” by A. N. Ostrovsky (1992), “One Absolutely Happy Village” by B. B. Vakhtin (2000), the performances of Leo Tolstoy’s “ Family ” Happiness ”(2000) and“ War and Peace. Beginning of the novel. Scenes ”(2001),“ Three Sisters ” by A.P. Chekhov (2004),“ Bride Out ”by A. N. Ostrovsky (2008),“ Triptych ”by A. S. Pushkin (2010), etc., as well as works other directors: “Motleyk” by P. Gladilin (2002) (removed from the repertoire after the death of the leading actor Yury Stepanov in 2010), “The house where hearts are broken” by B. Shaw (2005), “The Most Important” by the novel M Shishkin's “Lady of the Hair” (2006), “Ulysses” by J. Joyce (2009) ^[7] , “After the Curtain” by Brian Friel (2010) - director Yevgeny Kamenkovich ; “The Poisoned Tunic” by N. Gumilev (2002) and “The Rhinoceros” E. Ionesco (2006), “ Alice Through the Looking Glass ” by Lewis Carroll (2010) - director Ivan Popovski ^[8] ; “ White Nights ” by F. M. Dostoevsky (2003) - director Nikolay Druchek , “Five Evenings” A. Volodin ^[9] , “Auburn” (2010), “Theatrical Novel” by M. Bulgakov (2012)

• Petr Fomenko
• Ivan Verkhovykh
• Nikolay Druchek
• Sergey Zhenovach
• Evgeny Kalintsev
• Evgeny Kamenkovich
• Mindaugas Karbauskis
• Priit Pedayas
• Ivan Popovski
• Andrey Prikhodko

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