Saratov Drama Theater (russian: Саратовский академический театр драмы имени И. А. Слонова) is located in the city of

Saratov Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream (north) of Volgograd. Saratov had a population of 901,36 ...

, Russia. It is one of the oldest theaters in Russia.Saratov Drama Theater
/ref> Saratov Drama Theater was founded in 1859. Before its establishment, acting troupes from Moscow and St. Petersburg periodically visited Saratov, but only played private functions for the city's wealthier inhabitants. In 1859, Franz Schechtel (ru: Франц Осипович Шехтель), a wealthy merchant of German descent, opened his private home theater to the general public. In the first decades of its existente, the theater burned down and was rebuilt several times. The city did not originally possess its own troupe, but actors from other cities soon began to visit the new theater. Many notorious 19th-century actors, including Piotr Medvedev (ru: Пётр Михайлович Медведев), Nicolay Sobolschikov-Samarin (ru: Собольщиков-Самарин, Николай Иванович), Alexandr Lenskiy (ru: Александр Павлович Ленский), Mariya Savina (ru: Савина, Мария Гавриловна), Vladimir Davydov (ru: Владимир Николаевич Давыдов), Pelageya Strepetova (ru: Стрепетова, Полина Антипьевна), and Vasiliy Kachalov (ru: Качалов, Василий Иванович), played in Saratov. In 1915 a large group of professional actors moved from

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to Saratov. Among them was Ivan Slonov, one of the most famous actors in the Russian Empire at the time. He would go on to perform at Saratov Dramatic Theater for 30 years, until his death in 1945. After the 1917 Revolution, the theater changed its name to Karl Marx Drama Theater. In 1968, a new theater building was erected. In 1991, with the fall of the Soviet Union, it changed its name to Ivan Slonov Dramatic Theater. Nowadays, it is one of the oldest and most famous theaters in Russia. Its repertoire consists of both classical plays and contemporary authors.Theater Website (Саратовский государственный академический театр драмы им. И. А. Слонова)
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Ronald Harwood Sir Ronald Harwood ( né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for ''The Dresser'' (for w ...

, 2006 Image:SarDrama Дом Бернарды-1.jpg, ''

The House of Bernarda Alba ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' ( es, La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with ''Blood Wedding'' and ''Yerma'' as a "rural trilogy". Garcia Lorca did not include ...

'' by

Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblemat ...

, 2006 Image:SarDrama Хлам-1.jpg, ''The Trash'' by Yosef Bar-Yosef (''Cooper, his daughter and the art of photography''), 2008 Image:SarDrama Женитьба 1.jpg, '' The Mariage'' by Nikolai Gogol, 2010 Image:SarDrama Женитьба 4.jpg, '' The Mariage'' by Nikolai Gogol. Agafya (actress Tatiana Rodionova), Podkolyosin (actor Igor Bagoley), 2010 Image:SarDrama Чайка 7.jpg, ''

The Seagull ''The Seagull'' ( rus, Ча́йка, r=Cháyka, links=no) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. ''The Seagull'' is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises th ...

'' by Anton Chekhov. Masha (actress Tatiana Rodionova, Sorin (actor Youriy Koudinov), 2010 Image:SarDrama Чудо Святого Антония 2.jpg, ''Le Miracle de saint Antoine'' by

Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

. Saint Antoine (actor Youriy Koudinov), Abbot (Vladimir Aoukchtylaknis), M. Gustave (Andrey Sedov), 2011

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