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Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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On September 6, the People's University Theatre "Glagol" of SPbPU opens its 55th season with the play "Second Lieutenant Kizhe".
The theatre was founded in 1971 at the Physics and Metallurgy Department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute thanks to Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Chemistry Alexander Maksimovich Borschevsky, who became its first director and manager, and two students, Mikhail Budnevich and Mikhail Kogan. The theatre's first performance was "The Adventures of Robinson at LPI".
The completed 54th season was also notable for its anniversaries. The performances celebrated their 30th anniversary "Second Lieutenant Kizhe" (premiered on December 10, 1994) and "The Three Musketeers, or Sorry, but I Don't Speak French" (premiered on April 8, 1995). Those Glagolits who started "The Musketeers" and still participate in the performance received thanks from the Directorate of Cultural Programs and Youth Creativity of SPbPU. This is the artistic director of the People's University Theater "Glagol", Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation Konstantin Gershov; actor and director of "Glagol" Vitaly Belodubrovsky (graduate of the hydrotechnical faculty of St. Petersburg State Technical University in 1994); actors Konstantin Zubritsky (graduate of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after M. I. Kalinin in 1983); Semyon Golod (graduate of the Faculty of Technical Cybernetics of St. Petersburg State Technical University in 1992); Vladimir Sozonov (graduate of the Electromechanical Faculty of St. Petersburg State Technical University in 1997), sound engineer Alexander Samunin (graduate of the Faculty of Technology and Materials Research of St. Petersburg State Technical University in 2001).
The play about Daniil Kharms “It’s funny in 2000…” turned 20 years old (the premiere took place on March 27, 2004).
The actors also celebrated their creative anniversaries. In honor of the 45th anniversary of service to the theater of actress Olga Zaitseva (graduate of the Physics and Metallurgy Faculty in 1982), and the 40th anniversary of service to "Glagol" of actor Andrei Munin (graduate of the Physics and Metallurgy Faculty in 1993), a collective benefit performance was given on stage.
Polytechnic graduates Dmitry Motorin, Vasily Solomin, Vladimir Sozonov, Tatyana Mironova, Alexander Samunin, costume designer Yulia Spelman, and actors Vsevolod Sukhov and Anna Snegireva celebrated their 30th anniversary of service to the theatre.
Maria Rozhdestvenskaya (graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Management-2006) has been playing on the stage of “Glagol” for 20 years, actor and teacher of the studio Mikhail Alemaskin (graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Management-2011) for 15 years, actress Galina Gerling
Irina Gumarova (graduate of the Humanitarian Institute-2016), Anastasia Omelchuk (graduate of the Civil Engineering Institute-2018), Ksenia Bobko (graduate of the IIOP-2017) have been delighting viewers for ten years.
In total, 49 performances were given in the 54th season, 39 of which were plays. 10 actors, interns and studio members performed in the project. "Musical Break". For the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the theater staged musical and poetic composition "Shards of Silence", in which five generations of polytechnicians met on one stage. Evgeniya Pavlova, Igor Samoilov and Pavel Sobolev took part in the flash mob
17 Polytechnic students joined the theatre troupe during the season. And right now the studio is recruiting.
"Every year, Glagol recruits polytechnic students, mostly first-year students, to the theater studio," said Konstantin Gershov, artistic director of Glagol. "During the season, they attend classes in acting training, stage movement, vocals, and stage speech. In November, the students present a concert-presentation, Look Who's Come, and in May, an application for a new play. The entire set of 13 studio students from last season was accepted into the theater troupe. In October, they are scheduled to premiere the play, Towards the Sun, based on the poems and short stories of Alexander Volodin."
Konstantin Gershov also reported that during the anniversary season the Glagol Theatre plans to stage two new plays and take part in several theatre festivals.
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