Sovremennik

Современник
250px Sovremennik theater, main entrance
Address	Chistoprudny Boulevard 19A Basmanny District, Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55°45′42″N 37°38′45″E / 55.76167°N 37.64583°E / 55.76167; 37.64583
Public transit	Chistye Prudy, Turgenevskaya, Sretensky Bulvar (Moscow Metro)
Opened	1956
Website
www.sovremennik.ru

Moscow Sovremennik Theatre (Russian: Московский театр «Современник») is a theatre company in Moscow founded in 1956. "Sovremennik" means "Contemporary".^[1]

History

The Sovremennik Theatre^[2] was founded by a group of young Soviet actors during the Khrushchev Thaw. Among the founders, all of whom graduated from Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio, were Oleg Yefremov, Galina Volchek, Igor Kvasha, Liliya Tolmachyova, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev and Oleg Tabakov. The debut production was Victor Rozov's play Forever Alive. The theatre's first artistic director, Oleg Yefremov, left in 1970. It was then led by Galina Volchek until her death.^[1]

Actors

• Georgi Burkov (1970−1971)
• Oleg Dahl (1968−1971, 1972−1975)
• Leonid Filatov (1985−1987)
• Valentin Gaft (1969−2019)
• Lyudmila Gurchenko (1964−1966)
• Igor Kvasha (1957−current)
• Andrey Myagkov (1965−1977)
• Marina Neyolova (1974−current)
• Viktor Pavlov (1962−1965)
• Oleg Tabakov (1957−1983)
• Anastasiya Vertinskaya (1968−1980)
• Galina Volchek (1956−2019)
• Oleg Yefremov (1956−1970)
• Yevgeny Yevstigneyev (1956−1992)