The Central House of Actors is a unique creative association that has no analogues in the whole world. Organized by Alexander Moiseevich Eskin in 1937 as an acting club, as a place for recreation and informal communication between theater people.

Over the years of its existence, the House of Actors has become the center of the creative life of the intelligentsia, providing professional and social support to theater workers, both beginners and veterans of the stage. After the fire of the house on Tverskaya (Gorky St., 16), the Actor's House occupies premises on Arbat, 35, which, by Decree of the President of Russia, was transferred to the CDA for free use.

This House has become a place for live actors' communication, an attractive center for the creative intelligentsia of Moscow and Russia as a whole: The House of Actors provides creative teams with its halls and stages for rehearsals of performances and their distribution free of charge. Here began the biography of those who now make up the pride of the modern theater.

The P. Fomenko Workshop Theater, Quartet I, the A. Kalyagin Theater, and the A. Dzhigarkhanyan Theater began under the Arbat roof. The projects of O. Menshikov, M. Kozakov, O. Aroseva, I. Muravyova, L. Gurchenko, T. Dogileva, O. Mysina were implemented.

A major role in the formation of the House was played by Margarita Aleksandrovna Eskina (1933-2009), who headed the House from 1987 until her last day. It was under her that the acting community managed to defend the building on Arbat, 35. The creative life of the acting club found its unique expression.

Today, the Central House has 5 theater venues operating simultaneously: the Big Hall, the Small Hall, the Chamber Hall, the Living Room, and the Art Salon. It's constantly boiling here creative life: evenings, premieres, presentations of new books, seminars, exhibitions, master classes, festivals.

The House of Actors actively cooperates with Russian foreign centers of science and culture, annually forms creative groups and sends them to perform in front of their compatriots. Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava are the permanent foreign addresses of the House's theater living rooms.

The theater lounge of the Actor's House operates not only in European cultural centers. Her addresses can also be found in the Russian outback. Every year, festivals of Russian theaters are held here, uniting the acting community of the vast country within the framework of the Arbat Meetings project.

The CDA has a Youth Projects Bureau, whose activities are aimed at revealing the creative potential of aspiring actors. It includes a series of evenings: “Initiation as a Tartist”, “Meeting freshmen of theater universities”, “Students are joking” - traditional April Fool’s evenings.

The life of an actor from his first steps to creative maturity is the focus of the House. Every month, stage veterans are provided with financial and creative assistance. The House of Actors has numerous clubs and sections for professional interests.

Particularly popular among actors are the “Actors' Gatherings,” organized by L. Chernovskaya, which unite actors from different theaters. This is a classic skit, performed “for our own people” in the relaxed atmosphere of an acting club. Since 1992, at the House of Actors there has been a Center for the Development of Children's Intelligence and Creativity for Children of Actors (Children's School), which provides a comprehensive preschool training course.

Poster - Central House of Actors named after. A.A. Yablochkina

		12+ Love songs sung on different languages. Actors drama theater Any musical composition is performed in its own way - completely original. Artists of Andrei's Theater Crafts Workshop...More 12+ Love songs sung in different languages. Drama theater actors perform any musical composition in their own way - completely original. The artists of Andrei Shchukin's Theater Crafts Workshop turned each song into a small performance with its own plot and passions, understandable to everyone without words. World hits performed by Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bochelli, Michael Jackson, Alessandro Safina, Laura Pausini, Stevie Wonder, and national songs Georgia, Spain, Italy and African countries now sound in the original arrangements of the performers. The sincerity, enthusiasm and humor of young performers, their amazing voices and unique plasticity invariably evoke delight, admiration and stormy applause from the audience. Performers: A. Kiseleva, A. Slepchenko, A. Divina, R. Kagita, A. Fedorov, O. Demidova, S. Kravchenko, L. Zamulina, A. Berbekov, F. Lebedev, R. Sarnatsky. Andrey Shchukin is a director, teacher, professor of the department of plastic expressiveness of an actor, teacher of stage movement and fencing at the B. Shchukin Theater Institute. As a director he staged more than 10 performances, and as a plastic director he took part in more than 60 theatrical productions. Duration of the performance - 1 hour 30 minutes.Collapse	Tickets: from 1000 ₽
	Central House of Actor named after A. A. Yablochkina Central House of Actor named after A. A. Yablochkina MOSCOW, Stary Arbat st., 35, metro station Smolenskaya, metro station Arbatskaya,, RU	Workshop of theatrical crafts of Andrey Shchukin Musical and dramatic performance. The young king of Navarre, Ferdinand, and two noble lords vow to devote themselves entirely to science for three years and to shun...More Workshop of theatrical crafts of Andrey Shchukin Musical and dramatic performance. The young king of Navarre, Ferdinand, and two noble lords vow to devote themselves entirely to science for three years and shun female society. The king announces a decree punishing anyone for communicating with a woman. Soon after the decree, the French princess and her ladies-in-waiting come to the king on a diplomatic mission... King Ferdinand - Alexey Lysenko French princess - Anastasia Slepchenko Biron - Dmitry Yeletsky and Andrei Fedorov Longueville - Sergei Kravchenko Rosalina - Liliya Zamulina and Anna Kiseleva Maria - Olga Demidova Don Adriano de Armado - Asker Berbekov Jacqunetta - Anastasia Semina and Olga Shtanko Presenter, page Mole, shepherd Bashka, French diplomat Boyer, Mercat - Roman Sarnatsky Composer - Dmitry Volkov Designer - Sergey Vinogradov Costume designer - Daria Aleshina Head of post - Ivan Radchenko Director - Andrey Shchukin. Dear spectators, we draw your attention to the fact that the administrator has the right not to allow latecomers into the auditorium after the start of the performance. Duration of the performance - 1 hour 30 minutes.Collapse	Tickets: from 1000 ₽
	Central House of Actor named after A. A. Yablochkina Central House of Actor named after A. A. Yablochkina MOSCOW, Stary Arbat st., 35, metro station Smolenskaya, metro station Arbatskaya,, RU	Musical performance for children and adults Hedgehog and the night stars Workshop of theatrical crafts by Andrey Shchukin Based on the book by Sergei Kozlov “Tales of the Hedgehog and the Little Bear.” Musical performance for children...Read more Musical performance for children and adults Hedgehog and the night stars Workshop of theatrical crafts by Andrei Shchukin Based on the book by Sergei Kozlov “Tales of the Hedgehog and the Little Bear.” A musical performance for children and adults about love, friendship and fidelity. This philosophical, surprisingly touching and tender performance is a wonderful opportunity to relax with the whole family. Because any viewer - be it a child, a teenager or an adult - will find consonance with his thoughts and feelings, recognize himself in the characters... The play is addressed to children who ask many questions to adults and baffle even the wisest of them. He also addresses teenagers who are just beginning to explore the world of adults and think about moral and spiritual values. It will be of interest to those adults who remember their childhood... Characters and performers: Hedgehog - A. Berbekov Bear - F. Lebedev Bunny - A. Slepchenko / A. Divina Donkey - R. Sarnatsky Owl - A. Kiseleva Ant - S. Kravchenko Director and author of the dramatization - Andrey Shchukin Composer - Dmitry Volkov Light - A. Matveev Sergei Kozlov (1939–2010) - Soviet storyteller, poet and screenwriter. Graduated from the Literary Institute named after. A.M. Gorky in the direction of "Poetry". He worked as a turner, a singing teacher, a typographer, a fireman, went on geological expeditions and was a tour guide in the Pushkin Nature Reserve in Mikhailovsky. He began writing fairy tales in the 1960s. His most famous works are the story and script for the cartoon “Hedgehog in the Fog” of the same name, as well as scripts for several more cartoons about the Hedgehog and the Little Bear, stories about the Lion Cub and the Turtle, and poems for the cartoon “How the Lion Cub and the Turtle Sang a Song.” Andrey Shchukin is a director, teacher, professor of the department of plastic expressiveness of an actor, teacher of stage movement and fencing at the B. Shchukin Theater Institute. As a director he staged more than 10 performances, and as a plastic director he took part in more than 60 theatrical productions. Dear spectators, we draw your attention to the fact that the administrator has the right not to allow latecomers into the auditorium after the start of the performance. Duration of the performance - 1 hour 20 minutes.Collapse	Tickets: from 500 ₽
	Central House of Actor named after A. A. Yablochkina Central House of Actor named after A. A. Yablochkina MOSCOW, Stary Arbat st., 35, metro station Smolenskaya, metro station Arbatskaya,, RU	“Why don’t I cry? Because I laugh!” These Tsvetaeva lines became the leitmotif of the performance. According to the author Elena Isaeva, the play “About My Mother and About Me” is “practically an interview with myself.” Read more “Why don’t I cry? Because I laugh!” These Tsvetaeva lines became the leitmotif of the performance. According to the author Elena Isaeva, the play “About My Mother and About Me” is “practically an interview with myself.” Relationships between mother and daughter, teenage complexes and how to deal with them, psychology of survival, searching for one’s own life path, first love and last love - this is told with a kind smile and hidden sadness. The radio play based on this play became a winner International festival European Broadcasting Union "Europe Prize" in Berlin. The version, written specifically for Teatra.doc, was one of the highlights of Lyubimovka - 2003 and grew into the performance that you will see. Directed by Elena Morozova and Diana Rakhimova. Cast: Mom - Diana Rakhimova, Lena - Polina Raikina. Elena Isaeva (born 1966) - poet, playwright, screenwriter. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and worked in newspapers and radio. Author of seven collections of poetry and two collections of plays. Her works are published in the magazines “Friendship of Peoples”, “New World”, “Youth”, “Modern Drama”. Elena Isaeva’s plays have been staged and are successfully performed not only in Russian theaters, but also abroad. Secretary of the Moscow Writers' Union, head of the literary studio "Cow's Ford" at MSTU. Bauman. Dear spectators, we draw your attention to the fact that the administrator has the right not to allow latecomers into the auditorium after the start of the performance. Duration of the performance - 1 hour 30 minutes.Collapse	Tickets: from 300 ₽
	Central House of Actor named after A. A. Yablochkina Central House of Actor named after A. A. Yablochkina MOSCOW, Stary Arbat st., 35, metro station Smolenskaya, metro station Arbatskaya,, RU		Tickets: from 500 ₽
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	Central House of Actor named after A. A. Yablochkina Central House of Actor named after A. A. Yablochkina MOSCOW, Stary Arbat st., 35, metro station Smolenskaya, metro station Arbatskaya,, RU	A musically eccentric fantasy played on nails, knives and a vacuum cleaner. In our time modern technologies electronic music fills theaters, concert venues and nightclubs.Read more A musically eccentric fantasy played on nails, knives and a vacuum cleaner. In our time of modern technology, electronic music fills theaters, concert venues and nightclubs. At the same time, we have a growing desire to hear something real, that music, the creation of which you can see right now, having witnessed its birth! In the play “Soundtrack,” the most ordinary objects that we use every day begin to sound. And miraculously, these sounds form the favorite melodies of world hits. Performers: A. Berbekov, F. Lebedev, R. Sarnatsky, A. Kiseleva, A. Kalinichenko, A. Somov, A. Skipin, A. Slepchenko. Alexander Zhigalkin (born 1968) Russian actor and theater, film and television director, screenwriter and producer. Associate Professor of the Department of Acting, Variety Faculty, RATI. Member of the Russian Television Academy. He is best known for his directorial work in the popular television projects “6 Frames”, “Thank God, You Came!”, “Daddy’s Daughters”, “Voronins”. Andrey Shchukin is a director, teacher, professor of the department of plastic expressiveness of an actor, teacher of stage movement and fencing at the B. Shchukin Theater Institute. As a director he staged more than 10 performances, and as a plastic director he took part in more than 60 theatrical productions. The duration of the performance is 1 hour 20 minutes. Collapse More details Workshop of theatrical crafts by Andrey Shchukin Our story about three talented people who at the beginning of their journey suffered failures in their creative careers. The technician writes music, but no producer wants to take on his promotion. A cleaning lady dreams of being an actress, but at every casting she is rejected, explaining the refusal by saying that she is not beautiful enough. The waitress plays small, inconspicuous roles in theaters and barely makes ends meet. Each of them persistently pursues their goal, and one day fate gave them a chance, connecting them together with the help of the magic of music. Cast: Roman Sarnatsky, Daria Pitsik, Anastasia Lipyanskaya, Anastasia Semina, Ekaterina Frolova. Andrey Shchukin is a director, teacher, professor of the department of plastic expressiveness of an actor, teacher of stage movement and fencing at the B. Shchukin Theater Institute. As a director he staged more than 10 performances, and as a plastic director he took part in more than 60 theatrical productions. Dear spectators, we draw your attention to the fact that the administrator has the right not to allow latecomers into the auditorium after the start of the performance. Duration of the performance - 1 hour 10 minutes.Collapse	Tickets: from 800 ₽

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In 1937, an acting club appeared, in which theater workers spent time relaxing and informal conversations. The Central House of Actors was founded by A.M. Eskin; since the late 80s, his daughter, Margarita, has been its director.

The institution was renamed in 1964 into the “Central House of Actors named after A. A. Yablochkina” in honor of the famous theater actress. Alexandra Yablochkina was one of those who actively promoted the idea of ​​​​creating the House of Actors; for many years she led the Russian Theater Society. For most of her life, Alexandra Alexandrovna performed on the stage of the Maly Theater.

First address creative association there was a house on Tverskaya Street. But a year after the fire in 1990, the House of Actors of Moscow was located in house No. 35 on. Now theater groups can rehearse their performances here free of charge. Many famous actors, theaters and projects began their creative activity in these halls.

Theaters from other Russian cities come here to the Arbat Meetings festival. Groups are also sent from the Central House of Actors on Arbat to perform in cultural centers of other countries. The Central House of Actors in Moscow holds “Actors' Gatherings” - these are kind of skits for employees from different theaters. Performances take place in a very relaxed and free atmosphere.

Studios at the Central House of Actors

Back in 1992, the Center for the Development of Children's Intelligence and Creativity was opened here. Programs for children have now been developed of various ages. The following children's studios of the Central House of Actors operate:

• For preschoolers: classes take place on Saturdays or Sundays, they are aimed at developing creative and intellectual abilities, imagination, memory and other skills. The programs also prepare children for secondary school.
• For schoolchildren: theater studios of the Central House of Actors are represented by a wide variety. Children here learn acting, stage speech and movement, vocals, dancing, etc.

Poster

The Actor's House in Moscow has several venues where theatrical events take place: these are three halls - Big, Small and Chamber, as well as the Living Room and the Art Salon. Festivals, evenings, exhibitions, master classes, seminars, and presentations are regularly organized here. The poster for the House of Actors in Moscow is usually prepared 1-2 months in advance. Tickets can be purchased on site at the box office, or booked online one day before the event.

Panoramic view of the Central House of Actors in Moscow:

History of the building

The actor's house on Arbat is now occupied by a mansion resembling a castle. The house was built in 1913 by the architect V. Dubovsky in the neo-Gothic style. The construction customer is Anna Filatova. On the side towers, the author of the project decided to install the figures of two knights in armor, which made the house recognizable. Some believe that the knight on the wall is a prototype of Bassoon from M. Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita,” and the restaurant of the Actor’s House on Arbat is mistaken for the restaurant of the All-Russian Theater Society from the same work.

The building occupied almost the entire block. It housed a women's gymnasium, a boarding school and apartment building. The interiors of the house were quite luxurious: marble staircases with oak railings, electric elevators, sewerage and running water in the bathroom of each apartment.

After the 1917 revolution, rich apartments were occupied prominent figures Soviet power, and some of the apartments were made communal. Large-scale renovation work was carried out in the 70s, as a result of which a significant part of the interior decoration was destroyed. The premises were occupied by the USSR Ministry of Culture, and a jewelry store was located on the ground floor. Since the beginning of the 90s, the “House with Knights” has been transferred to the use of the Central House of Actors.

How to get to the Actor's House on Arbat

Address: Arbat, 35, between Kaloshin and Krivoarbatsky lanes. You can get here by public transport. The nearest stop is “October Cinema”, it is located on a parallel street - . It is reached by buses No. M27, M2, 39. To get to the Central House of Actors, you need to go down Bolshoy Nikolopeskovsky Lane.

Since the building is located in the central part of the pedestrian street, you can get here by bus from different directions:

• To the beginning of Arbat street: No. m2, m27, n2, A, 15, stop “Arbat Gate”.
• Towards the end of Arbat: No. B, S12, t10, t39, t79, 64, stop “Smolenskaya Square”.

The Smolenskaya metro station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line is located 700 meters from the Central House of Actors named after. A. A. Yablochkina, at the end of the pedestrian street. At the beginning of Arbat there is the Arbatskaya station of the Filevskaya line, from which it is about 800 meters to the Moscow House of Actors.

You can get to the House of Actors on Arbat by taxi: Yandex services offer their services in Moscow. Taxi, Uber, Gett, Maxim, Taxi Lucky.

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X Would you like to dine in a relaxed atmosphere, at the next table with famous actors, poets, pop figures? Do you want to decorate an ordinary evening with the spirit of bohemia and creativity? Then the House of Actor restaurant is the perfect place for you.
N The name of this institution justifies itself 100%: “The Actor’s House” is the house where actors gather to take a break from a hard day, talk about art, hold a creative meeting or celebrate a special event. This is facilitated by the very location of the restaurant - it is located on Stary Arbat, 35, opposite the Theater. Vakhtangov. The staff here is proud that the “House of Actor” is known and loved by all the actors in Moscow, because it arose back in 1937! True, at that time the restaurant was located in a completely different place - on Tverskaya Street (Gorky Street in those days), and was known to city bohemia as the VTO restaurant (the famous All-Union Theater Society), it was a great honor to get there!.. Unfortunately, the building is on Tverskaya burned down in 1990, the Soviet Union also collapsed, but the restaurant, beloved by actors and Muscovites, was revived on Arbat, a street symbol of the culture of the new Russia.
T Since the "House of Actor" was originally conceived as an acting club, its menu is based on the acting preferences. Mostly Russian and European cuisine is presented here, but there are also some Caucasian dishes that are especially loved by visitors (for example, Ossetian pies, which are prepared here according to signature recipes). In the “House of Actors” you will be treated to simple, high-quality, inexpensive dishes, but incredibly tasty and satisfying - after all, the club is intended primarily for communication, which means that meals should not interfere with people’s ability to do so.
B Most of the recipes have been preserved from the WTO restaurant. These are, for example, the exquisite “Pike-perch Orly”, “Brizol”, cutlets “Admiral”, which Plyatt, Utesov, Yanshin once ordered on Gorky Street... “Herring in Borodino style” - aromatic herring fillet in a thick nutty-tomato sauce sauce is a dish with a special history; its recipe was invented by the famous Jacob Rosenthal, a former restaurant director, whom his friends nicknamed Beard. Also on the menu you will find well-known modern names: one of the most luxurious appetizers is called “Big greetings from M.A. Eskina (director of the Central House of Actors)”, “Shirvindt Omelette” is prepared according to a recipe given by Alexander Shirvindt himself.
N Oh, don’t think that this cozy, in some ways even extravagant place is some kind of transcendental haven of stars, and mere mortals don’t even dare to dream about it. Anyone who wants to have a delicious dinner, and maybe get lucky! - take a souvenir photo with your favorite actor, you can always go into a quiet Arbat lane, go up to the sixth floor - and now the “House of Actor” opens its doors to you!..

The Central House of Actors was created in 1937 as an acting club, as a place of relaxation and informal communication between theater people. Over the years of its existence, the House of Actors has turned into a center of creative intelligentsia, performing enormously important work in professional and social support of theater workers, both young and veterans of the stage.

After the fire of the building on Tverskaya (Gorky St., 16), the House of Actors occupies a building on Arbat, 35, which, by Decree of the President of Russia, was transferred to the House of Actors for free use.

This House has become a place for live actors' communication, an attractive center for the creative intelligentsia of Moscow and Russia as a whole. In the house on Arbat, not only everything that was on Tverskaya was continued, but also a huge number of new projects were implemented. The House of Actors has numerous clubs and sections for professional interests.

On Arbat, 35, the atmosphere of a cozy home has been created, where everyone is equal: young and old, folk and ordinary actors, where everyone is united on mutual respect.

The Actor's House provides creative teams with its halls and stages free of charge for rehearsals of performances and their distribution. Here began the biography of those who now form the basis of modern theater. Under the Arbat roof, the P. Fomenko Workshop Theater, the A. Kalyagin Theater, the A. Dzhigarkhanyan Theater began, the projects of O. Menshikov, M. Kozakov, O. Aroseva, I. Muravyova, L. Gurchenko, T. Dogileva, O. Mysina.

Monthly only on Great hall 5-6 creative evenings of directors, actors, playwrights, critics, and theater groups take place. Traditionally, evening presentations of books about theater figures, creative seminars, exhibitions of works by theater artists, annual exhibitions of works by theater production departments, evenings, dedicated to memory outstanding masters of the national stage.

In a situation where touring activities have practically been curtailed, the House of Actors provides its venues for theater groups from Russia and actors from the CIS countries. Almost every month the Actor's House welcomes guests. Behind Lately actors from St. Petersburg showed their performances here, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Orel, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk, Petrozavodsk, Yekaterinburg, Vologda, Zlatoust, Ulan-Ude, Kharkov, Tashkent, Odessa and other cities.

In turn, the House of Actors has repeatedly organized charity trips for the “stars” of the Moscow stage to Russian cities: Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tyumen, Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, Petrozavodsk. Proceeds from the performances went to financially support the stage veterans of these cities.

On International Theater Day, March 27, the House of Actors is holding an International Theater Meeting of Outstanding Actors of the Former Soviet Union, strengthening the long-standing traditions of cultural ties, providing the opportunity for the Moscow theater community to communicate with their long-time friends: Donatas Banionis and Regimantas Adomaitis from Lithuania, Mikk Mikiver from Estonia, Vija Artmane and Lilita Ozoliņa from Latvia, Kakha Kavsadze, Sofiko Chaureli, Otar Megvinetukhutsesi from Georgia, Jamal Seidakhmatova from Kyrgyzstan, Ada Rogovtseva from Ukraine, Rostislav Yankovsky from Belarus and others.

House of Actors co-founder and co-participant of a number of international and Russian festivals and competitions: International Festival of One-Man Shows, International Festival of Graduation Performances theater schools“Podium”, Russian festival of theatrical skits “Funny Goat”, Russian acting song competition named after Andrei Mironov.

IN last years The House of Actors actively cooperates with Russian foreign centers of science and culture. The House of Actors annually forms creative groups and sends them to perform in front of their compatriots. Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava - these are the permanent foreign addresses of the theater living rooms of the Actor's House.

IN different time Elina Bystritskaya, Yulia Borisova, Vera Vasilyeva, Olga Aroseva, Olga Yakovleva, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Svetlana Varguzova, Margarita Terekhova, Olga Ostroumova, Vladimir Etush, Vladimir Andreev, Vasily Lanovoy, Alexander Kalyagin, Sergey Yursky, Alexander Lazarev, Yuri Vedeneev performed before their compatriots , Yuri Vasiliev, Fyodor Chekhankov, Sergei Makovetsky, and others. Creative youth are always widely represented.

Every year the House of Actors organizes a tourist trip for a group of actors (up to 40-50 people) abroad.

The actor's house takes care of the younger generation. Since 1992, at the House there has been a Center for the Development of Children's Intelligence and Creativity for children of actors, which provides a harmonious, comprehensive course of preschool training, and for schoolchildren - classes in theater studios.

Recently, a special youth program, aimed at revealing the creative potential of a novice actor. It includes a series of evenings: “Initiation as Artists” - a performance of graduates opening their first season in a professional theater, “Runway” - new names that have brightly declared themselves, “Graduate Cabbages”.

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Reviews about “House of Actor”

Love's Labour's Lost.
This play has not yet been dissected into quotes, like “Hamlet” or “Romeo and Juliet”, and it has not yet been made into a film, as in the case of “Whatever, or 12th Night”, it has not been staged much at all, but what we saw , we really, really liked it!
The play "Love's Labour's Lost" staged by Andrei Shchukin's theater crafts workshop can be seen at the Central House of Actors on Arbat. The workshop team consists of graduates of the variety department of GITIS, and perhaps this is what determined the nature of the performance; the result was not just a musical comedy, but a theatrical skit on the verge of clownery.
I would also like to note that, despite the small size of the hall (only 3 rows), the music is real, live! Before the performance started, we got to see the musicians rehearsing, which was a wonderful added bonus:)
The impression of a skit is also created by a minimum of scenery and simplicity of costumes, but all this is overshadowed by the brilliant, sincere performance of all the actors!

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Performance "Love's Labour's Lost"
This comedy is not the strongest and not the most famous work W. Shakespeare, but at the same time the comedy is very easy to understand, which probably determined the choice for young actors.
According to the plot, the King of Navarre for some reason decided that the fair sex distracts him and his closest subjects from more important matters of national importance and introduces a moratorium on communication with women. And as usually happens, it is at this moment that events develop in such a way that the vow becomes impossible to fulfill.
Looking at the young team involved in the play, you understand that you don’t have to worry about the future of the theater.
The performance looks effortless, in one breath. Events unfold on stage, absolutely not straining the viewer, while not letting go of his attention.
The performance used live music and presented many comic moments that were understood by both the younger generation of spectators (there were some) and older spectators.
The set design of the performance is expectedly simple: the princess’s camp, depicted on black and white canvases. But this simplicity does not spoil the performance at all.
The walls of the theater themselves provide a good atmosphere and pleasant sensations; having been here once, you want to come back again and again.

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Performance "Now you are God again"
A deep and heartfelt performance about schoolchildren, in which everyone can see themselves. And it doesn’t matter how old you are, 15, 30 or 55. We all asked questions: “Is there a God?”, “Why do I need faith?”, “Why do people suffer?”, we all once did not receive support from loved ones or they just found themselves alone. This happens to the heroes of the play, they try to understand themselves, they open their hearts and unexpectedly find a friend.
I highly recommend this performance, it did not leave me indifferent.

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I chose the theater based on its convenient location - on Arbat, and the play "Ideal Style" - based on the famous actors playing there. Despite the fact that there are only 2 actors on stage during the action, the performance looks holistic and interesting. Only once will a male duet be diluted by a lady, but this is more of a bummer than a full-fledged one actor. The actors perform expressively, and it is especially interesting to watch them in the small theater hall, when they are almost at your fingertips.

And it seems that the speech really raises current topics of relationships, jealousy, love, etc., but... apparently, not in my typical manner. For me personally, the performance seemed too ordinary and modern or something. In some places there was swearing and vulgar jokes and phrases. Perhaps it is simply aimed more at a male audience. I enjoyed watching the performance of Maykov and Voskresensky, but the theme of the performance itself did not grab my attention.

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"Shadows" theater “De Utvalgte” (Norway)
Despite my super-busy theatrical life, I have not yet encountered Norwegian theater and, to my regret, the work of playwright Jun Fosse was completely unknown to me. But since they organized a whole festival in his name, then apparently Jun Fosse is significant for the Norwegians, just as Anton Chekhov is for us. So, the play “Shadows”. For the first ten minutes, it was perhaps difficult to get involved in the meaning of what was happening on stage: two elderly couples in almost complete darkness come, leave, sit on a bench together and alone, and above the stage on six egg-shaped screens the faces of children are projected and children's voices monotonously pronounce the text. The text, with constant repetitions and time jumps, gradually sucks the viewer into its space, into the space between life and death, where souls find themselves, a little frightened, not understanding where they are and what is happening around them. But here they meet childhood friends, lost lovers and long-dead parents. The idea of ​​incarnating immortal souls in the form of children is very successful: souls find themselves cleansed of the layers of life, of difficult memories, and only shadows of feelings remain with them. The creators of the play have a half-crazy dream: to wait until the children, whose faces and voices are recorded on video, grow up to the age of the elderly couples present on stage, then the play will receive its ideal embodiment. Well, we just have to wait seventy years...

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Don't part with your loved ones
The play “Don’t Part With Your Loved Ones” was written by Alexander Volodin in the early 70s, and it would seem that today’s youth care nothing about the problems of married couples of those years sharing a sofa and a color TV during a divorce. But apparently the story of Katya and Mitya, who stupidly broke up because of an imaginary betrayal, but, as it turned out, could not live without each other, still excites hearts. Director Roman Shevchenko staged the old Soviet play very dynamically, filling it with Zemfira's songs and pseudo-documentary footage. The only decorations on stage are red chairs, adding additional dynamics to the breakup stories played out on stage. As I understand it, all the roles are played by students of the Institute Theater Arts(ITI), play masterfully, soulfully, with complete dedication. The performance, shown on the Small Stage of the House of Actors, keeps the viewer in suspense from the first to the last minute, not allowing one to be distracted for a second. Unfortunately, there was no program, and therefore the names of the actors remained unknown to me, but I hope a wonderful creative future awaits them all.

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Today, the Actor's House on Arbat operates for the theater community. This is where theater people meet and communicate. It has a long and not always happy history. The central house of the actor on Arbat was formed by Alexander Moiseevich Eskin in 1937. He was supported by many prominent theater figures. Initially, it was conceived as a kind of informal club for meetings and communication between people of art. For these purposes, the USSR government allocated and transferred a building on Tverskaya Street at house No. 16. There was a restaurant, a cafe, many employee offices and cozy rooms for creative evenings here (also known as a cinema hall). Even in the very restrained Stalinist era, an atmosphere of relaxedness, wit and creativity reigned here.

Freedom and Creativity Club

The atmosphere of freethinking, play and humor quickly formed into skits, in which Rostislav Plyatt, Maria Mironova and many other legendary actors took part with pleasure. In 1964, the House of Actors was named after the great actress Alexandra Yablochkina, since she was not only the “ruler of hearts” on stage, but also for a long time headed the central and Moscow branches of the theater society. From the moment the House of Actors opened until his death in 1985, Alexander Eskin was its permanent director. Besides him, the House always had public directors: Evgeny Ozerov and others. Margarita Eskina replaced her father as head of the CDA.

The fire of 1991 and the period of timelessness

The creative environment has not been spared either. In February 1991, the Actor's House was

It was set on fire and fell into complete disrepair. For almost two years the theater community had no shelter, until almost two years later the Ministry of Culture sheltered it in its building on Old Arbat. Since then, the Actor's House on Arbat has been known. As soon as the employees settled into the premises, the rooms were barely decorated and the meetings began, when claims arose about the transfer of the building to other hands: Rossvyazohrankultura decided to place its apparatus in most of the building. Boris Yeltsin's decision to transfer the building on Old Arbat to the Central Administrative District did not solve the situation. The decree was not accepted for execution by Rossvyazohrankultura.

New house on Arbat: formative times in new conditions

The actor’s house on Arbat withstood all external attacks, but inside the intense creative life did not stop: the country was changing, the foundations were changing. Not only were new types of art needed, in addition, in difficult times it was necessary to support stage veterans and help the development of promising youth. The actor's house on Arbat was supported by many famous creative people, Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov and President Dmitry Medvedev. Rossvyazohrankultura was abolished and the claims were annulled. Since then, life in the House of Actors has been calm, and a stable opportunity has emerged to continue the traditions Soviet theater and create your own new ones. The CDA is still headed by Margarita Eskina.

Meeting place: Arbat, 35, House of Actors

Today, participants in the theater community are not faced with the question of where to meet. The place is known and dear to everyone: Arbat, 35, House of Actors. The obligatory skit parties are held here for the opening of the season and for the birthday - February 14th. The actor's house on Arbat constantly welcomes foreign colleagues and holds various concerts. There is a restaurant in the CDA, where, upon prior request, mere mortals can hold a celebration. But the main thing is that the House remains a concentration of creative people, and many interesting projects have been born within its walls that delight viewers in Moscow and Russia. Visiting theater workers always come to the CDA, because where else if not here can you meet many colleagues at once.