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As part of the festival "Theatre Boulevard" The Sovremennik Theatre has a new space, the Green Yard. It hosts free creative meetings, film screenings, plays and cartoons featuring artists from Sovremennik and the Moscow Oleg Tabakov Theatre.
The opening was attended by the artistic director of the Sovremennik Theatre, People's Artist of Russia Vladimir Mashkov. "The theatre is going on holiday, but Sovremennik, which this year shares the same stage with the Oleg Tabakov Theatre, has decided to extend the holidays for you," he noted.
Elena Millioti, an honored artist of Russia who has served at the Sovremennik Theatre since 1962, also invites you to the Green Yard: “You will enjoy yourself, come to us. It is such a joy that many performances have remained in my memory on film.”
Poetic atmosphere
In August, the performances of Sovremennik and the Moscow Oleg Tabakov Theatre are not on stage, but the theatre does not part with the audience: on August 2, the Green Yard venue opened. To the sounds of melodies from Soviet films performed on the piano, the audience sits down in front of the big screen.
Here, in the heart of noisy Moscow, a poetic and peaceful atmosphere reigns – greenery, soft twilight, cozy armchairs are conducive to heartfelt meetings in the summer theater. While the stages and halls of Sovremennik and the Moscow Theater of Oleg Tabakov are waiting for the new season, the audience is offered a new format.
On the big screen
A rich program awaits visitors to the Green Yard. As Vladimir Mashkov says, the actors of Sovremennik and the Oleg Tabakov Theater have done a lot for cinema, for the human soul, so throughout the month they will show films with the participation of actors – those who are currently serving there, and their great predecessors.
Oleg Efremov, Oleg Tabakov, Galina Volchek, Igor Kvasha, Evgeny Evstigneev, Liliya Tolmacheva, Viktor Sergachev and other masters of the stage will shine on the screen. The program includes the films Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) by Elem Klimov, Once More About Love (1968) by Georgy Natanson, Beware of the Car (1966) by Eldar Ryazanov and other cult films.
Among them is Oleg Efremov's first directorial work, "A Bridge Is Being Built" (1965), in which the entire young team of the Sovremennik Theatre took part. Vladimir Mashkov emphasizes: "It seems to me that this is an amazing, honest and very bright work of great masters."
Viewers are also invited to television performances: “The Lower Depths” (1972), “Echelon” (1988), “Hurry to Do Good” (1982), “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1992) and other productions that have been preserved on film and allow us to see the history of the theatre.
In the morning, cartoons voiced by Oleg Tabakov, Valentin Gaft, Marina Neyolova will be shown for children. Among them are the series "Prostokvashina", "Alice in Wonderland", "38 Parrots", "Bobik Visiting Barbos" and other animated films familiar from childhood. Children's films await young viewers – "Pippi Longstocking", "Timur and His Team", "Mary Poppins, Goodbye" and others.
Important dates
"On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Sovremennik Theatre, which will be celebrated in 2026, you will see our founders on the screen. August 17 marks the 90th anniversary of Oleg Tabakov's birth – we will arrange amazing screenings. Oleg Pavlovich starred in more than 120 films, and you will see his best works," invites Vladimir Mashkov.
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Other dates with thematic screenings and meetings will not go unnoticed: the day of the end of the Battle of Leningrad (August 9), Viktor Rozov's birthday (August 21), the day of the defeat of German troops by Soviet troops in the Battle of Kursk (August 23), Russian Cinema Day (August 27), and Konstantin Simonov's memorial day (August 28). A marathon of the series "Liquidation" starring Vladimir Mashkov is planned for August 24, as well as a meeting with the creators of the project.
"Forever Alive"
"Green Yard" opened with a showing of the TV version of the play "Forever Alive". In 1956, it was with this play that the history of the Sovremennik Theatre began. On the screen, viewers got acquainted with the TV play in 1976, it was staged by Oleg Efremov with the young and older generations of actors. The TV version can be seen again on August 21.
"I was lucky: I took part in the first performance of the Sovremennik Theatre – it was then called not Sovremennik, but the Studio of Young Actors," recalls Elena Millioti. – Oleg Nikolaevich Efremov, who created this studio together with his friends who graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School, were involved in it – Evgeny Evstigneev, Oleg Tabakov, Liliya Tolmacheva and others. I played a small role in the 1956 performance of a girl who came to see the main character off to the front. This performance meant a lot to our theatre. It ran for a very long time, was dearly loved by everyone, many generations of artists passed through it. It opened every season at the Sovremennik Theatre."
"Forever Alive." All about the first performance of the Sovremennik Theatre
It is symbolic that this performance opened the Green Yard. "Forever Alive" is about the masters who will come to life on the big screen for a new generation of viewers for a month. The artists remained on film – and therefore forever in history and memory.
"Green Yard" is open from August 2 to 31 every day except Monday. All events are free, the current program can be found onproject website.
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