The Stage Molot Theatre, Perm
The Stage Molot — is a theatre in Perm, founded in 2009 by Eduard Boryakov. The mission of the theatre is to take a modern man as a character of the plays, follow his thoughts and feelings and to react important events going on in the city and the world.
The modern theatre Stage Molot opened on 11 December 2009 in Perm. The art director of the theatre has become the manager of the Praktika Theatre in Moscow, Eduard Boryakov. Eduard Boryakov is a theatral, record, and movie producer, a director, the creator of the biggest Russian theatre festival, the Golden Mask, and the art director of the Praktika Theatre Center in Moscow.
The main director is Damir Salimzyanov. Damir Salimzyanov – an Honoured Artist of the Udmurt Republic, a director, the author of plays for children, staged in numerous Russian and foreign theatres.
The Stage Molot puts on plays the works by the best contemporary authors: Vladimir Sorokin, Ivan Viripaev, Yulia Klavdieva, Pavel Pryazhko, Kshishtoph Bizie, Yelena Fanaylova, Linir Goralik, Anna Yablonskaya, Yaroslava Pulinovich, German Grekov, Denis Retrov. The theatre cooperates with notable Russian and western directors. There is no permanent company in the theatre, so the plays are performed by the actors of various theatres and companies from Perm and other some cities.
There have been played ‘’’14 premieres’’’ on the stage of the Stage Molot Theatre, including such as Chukchi, Zasada, Sobiratel Pul, Agatha returns home, Somewhere and nearby, Communicants, Natasha’s dream, The Heat and some other; a series of poetic plays by the works of the modern poets Vera Polozkova, Elena Fanaylova, and Vera Pavlova. We have created three festivals which we hope will become annual: poetic festival СловоNova, the theatre festival for children Bloshaya peremena, the contemporary movie and theatre festival Tekstura. In 2010 during the festival SlovoNova the theatre introduced two poetic plays on the verse by the poets from Perm and Moscow: Oh, Moscow you give me aches all over; Pro Perm. Stage Molot works hard on being clear and comprehensive for the audience. The theatre strives to go beyond the flat world of the scene and hall. Stage Molot is a new cultural heart and the ground for numerous events: first readings, nights of poetry, discussions, training, film exhibitions, and DG-sets. There is a café in the theatre where you can discuss the just seen play in comfortable atmosphere with a cup of tee. The bookstore The main Books is to open in meanwhile. Stage Molot is the theatre of the new sort characters. We can meet them at home, at work, at school and at public transport for it’s time to let them to show and know themselves. Stage Molot is the theatre of the new kind of viewers, those who are not afraid of a new, unusual look at the world. Those, who are ready to see themselves in the characters and the characters in themselves.
The repertory of Stage Molot
- Chukchi (P. Pryazhko, dir. F. Grigoryan)
- Sobiratel Pul ()
- Zasada (Yu. Klavdiev, dir. Yu. Muravitskiy)
- Agatha returns home(plot — Linir Goralik, dir. E. Boyakov, F. Grigoryan)
- Black suits (verse Elena Fanaylova, dir. E. Boyakov)
- Poems of love (verse Vera Polozkova, dir. E. Boyakov, E. Shevelyaeva)
- Communicants (D.Retrov, dir. V.Ageev)
- Natasha’s dream (Ya.Pulinovich, dir. D.Salimzyanov)
- Somewhere and nearby (A.Yablonskaya, dir. D. Salimzyanov)
- Cast (G. Grekov, Yu. Muravitskiy, dir. A. Barashkov)
- Heat (N. Moshina, dir. D. Salimzyanov, Ya. Kolchanov)
- Human.Doc. The paintshop of Andrey Radionov (dir B.Pavlovich)
- Just a game (dir. D. Salimzyanov)
Quote: «The idea of Molot has been given to Eduard Boriakov by the philologist from Perm Vladimir Abashev, who knew a lot about the local mythology. As Abashev says, the old Perm is situated on a giant swamp. The cast iron remains of it are buried somewhere at the territory of the Motovolikha Plant. “The grandiose artifact” and “memorial of the industrial age” as heavy as 630 ton has dug into the body of the city more than a century ago. There is one more thing that connects Molot and the real past of Perm: it was called Molotov sometime before.» — Liubov Mulmenko, 2009.
