School of Dramatic Art
Ul. Sretenka, 19
Metro Sukharevskaya/
The "School of Dramatic Art" opened on February 24, 1987 with the premiere of the play "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Anatoly Vasiliev. For a generation this performance has become a kind of artistic manifesto, the revelation of a new theater - a living thing, filled with improvisation, in contrast to the traditional, psychological theatre. The founder of the "School of Dramatic Art" has offered the actors, and the audience throughout the theater community with a unique artistic model.
The Theatre-Lab concept, in contrast to the repertory theater is focused on the search for the possibility of a permanent experiment. The unity of practice and study and the nature of dramatic art realized in the laboratory performances, as well as in large-scale productions. The Theatre-School Concept carries a value of theater as the highest school of acting. Using daily discipleships (Schools) that produce new theater technology, and a new artistic style; where the style is part of the actor, it is his nature, it is possible to talk about a new artistic direction, in fact, the origin of the theater.
Today, the "School of Dramatic Art" is a creative organism that possesses a unique expertise and experience, developing the best traditions of the Russian stage, running from the Stanislavski, and opening up new ways of theater.
The new building of the theater is on Sretenka designed by Anatoly Vasiliev, Igor Popov (School of Dramatic Art), Boris Thor, Sergei Gusareva (Mosproekt 2, Workshop number 6). The theater itself was opened to the audience on May 4th, 2001. The multifunctional building can be compared with the city or the city-theater. Four auditoriums "Arena", "Globe", "Tau-room", "Grotto Hall", as well as all of the major functional blocks are connected to each other Atrium: the lobby viewers, under a transparent dome - like "internal street".