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History of the Vakhtangov school
The history of the Vakhtangov school - the Higher Theater School, and now the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute - goes back almost nine decades.
In November 1913, a group of Moscow students organized an amateur theater studio and invited as its director a young actor of the Moscow Art Theater, a student of Stanislavsky, the future great Russian director Evgeniy Bagrationovich Vakhtangov.
The studios offered Vakhtangov a production of a play based on B. Zaitsev’s play “The Lanins’ Estate.” The premiere took place in the spring of 1914 and ended in failure. "Now let's study!" - said Vakhtangov. And on October 23, 1914, Vakhtangov conducted the first lesson with students using the Stanislavsky system. This day is considered the School's birthday.
The studio has always been both a school and an experimental laboratory.
In the spring of 1917, after a successful exhibition of student works, the "Mansurovskaya" (named after one of the Moscow alleys on Arbat, where it was located) the studio received its first name - "Moscow Drama Studio of E.B. Vakhtangov." In 1920 it was renamed the III Studio of the Moscow Art Theater, and in 1926 - the Theater named after. Evgeniy Vakhtangov with his permanent theater school. In 1932, the school became a special secondary theater educational institution. In 1939 it was named after the great Russian actor, Vakhtangov’s favorite student Boris Shchukin, and in 1945 it was given the status of a higher educational institution. Since that time, it has been known as the Higher Theater School (since 2002 - Theater Institute named after Boris Shchukin) at the State Academic Theater named after. Evgenia Vakhtangova.
The authority of the Institute’s teachers is very high both in our country and in the world. Suffice it to remember that Vakhtangov’s methodology for educating an actor had a huge influence on the pedagogy of the great Mikhail Chekhov.
The Vakhtangov School is not just one of the theater institutes, but the bearer and custodian of theatrical culture, its best achievements and traditions.
The teaching staff of the Institute is formed only from graduates who pass on Vakhtangov’s precepts from generation to generation, and the principles of the school - from hand to hand. The permanent head of the school from 1922 to 1976 was Vakhtangov’s student, student of the first intake, the outstanding Russian actor and director Boris Zakhava. The current Artistic Director of the Institute is People's Artist of the USSR, Vakhtangovite, famous theater and film actor, Professor V.A. Etush served as rector for 16 years (from 1986 to 2002). Since June 2002, the rector of the institute is People's Artist of the Russian Federation, leading actor of the Evg. Vakhtangov Theater, professor E.V. Knyazev.
The school is rightfully proud of its graduates. Among them are many outstanding actors of Russian theater and cinema, whose work has already become history. These are B. Shchukin, Ts. Mansurova, R. Simonov, B. Zakhava, A. Orochko, I. Tolchanov, V. Kuza, O. Basov, V. Yakhontov, A. Goryunov, V. Maretskaya, A. Gribov, A .Stepanova, D. Zhuravlev, N. Gritsenko and many others. On the modern Russian stage there are M. Ulyanov, Y. Borisova, Y. Yakovlev, V. Etush, V. Lanovoi, A. Demidova, A. Vertinskaya, O. Yakovleva, K. Raikin, A. Kalyagin, A. Shirvindt, L .Maksakova, I.Kupchenko, M.Derzhavin, V.Shalevich, E.Knyazev, S.Makovetsky, M.Sukhanov, E.Simonova, O.Barnet, I.Ulyanova, N.Usatova... This list is constantly updated. There are theaters whose cast is almost entirely made up of Vakhtangovites. This is primarily the Theater named after. Evg. Vakhtangov, as well as the Taganka Theater under the direction of Yu. Lyubimov. There are many graduates of the School in the troupe of the Lenkom Theater under the direction of M. Zakharov, in the Satire Theater and in Sovremennik.
Without Vakhtangov actors it is impossible to imagine the work of such outstanding masters of Russian cinema as I. Pyryev, G. Alexandrov, Yu. Raizman, M. Kalatozov and others. Among the most famous actors of Russian cinema are the “Shchukinites” O. Strizhenov, T. Samoilova, R. Bykov, V. Livanov, A. Mironov, A. Kaidanovsky, L. Filatov, N. Gundareva, L. Chursina, Yu. Nazarov, L. Zaitseva, N. Ruslanova, N. Varley, A. Zbruev, N. Burlyaev, I. Metlitskaya, Y. Bogatyrev, N. Volkov, L. Yarmolnik, V. Proskurin, L. Borisov, E. Koreneva, A. Tashkov, Y. Belyaev, A. Belyavsky, A. Porokhovshchikov, E. Gerasimov, A. Sokolov, S. Zhigunov and others.
Many graduates of the institute became widely known thanks to television - A. Lysenkov, P. Lyubimtsev, A. Gordon, M. Borisov, K. Strizh, A. Goldanskaya, D. Maryanov, S. Ursulyak, M. Shirvindt, Y. Arlozorov, A Semchev, O. Budina, E. Lanskaya, L. Velezheva, M. Poroshina and many others.
The Vakhtangov school gave the Russian stage famous directors - N. Gorchakov, E. Simonov, Y. Lyubimov, A. Remizova, V. Fokin, A. Vilkin, L. Trushkin, A. Zhitinkin. The famous Yuri Zavadsky made his first directing and teaching experiments within its walls. She raised the great Ruben Simonov, to whom the Evg. Vakhtanogov Theater owes the most brilliant era of its existence.
The school helped and is helping the birth of new theater studios and groups. This is, first of all, the Yuri Lyubimov Theater on Taganka, which arose from the graduation performance “The Good Man from Szechwan” by B. Brecht; Moldovan youth theater "Luchaferul" in Chisinau; Theater-Studio named after R.N. Simonov in Moscow; theater "Sovremennik" in Ingushetia; studio "Scientific Monkey" in Moscow and others.
History of the B. Shchukin Theater Institute
October 23, 1914 is considered the birthday of the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute. On this day (October 10, old style), Evgeny Vakhtangov gave his first lecture on the system of K.S. Stanislavsky to the students of the Commercial Institute who had gathered around him. From this day the story began. But there was also a prehistory.
Evgeniy Bogrationovich Vakhtangov (1883 - 1922), a student of K.S. Stanislavsky and L.A. Sulerzhitsky, an employee of the Moscow Art Theater and a student of the First Studio of the Moscow Art Theater (1912), staged his first professional performance based on the play by G. Hauptmann “Feast of Peace” at the Studio in the fall 1913. In this production he expressed his attitude towards the world and the theater. But his teachers, seeing in him only a student, and not an independent creative person, intervened in the production: they broke it and corrected it. Vakhtangov developed into a creative personality very quickly. Already by 1911 he was thinking independently and freely. Having become acquainted with Stanislavsky’s work on the system, he wrote down: “I want to form a Studio where we would study. The principle is to achieve everything yourself. The leader is everything. Check system K.S. on ourselves. Accept or reject it. Correct, supplement, or remove lies.” (Vakhtangov. Collection of materials, M.VTO, 1984, p. 88).
The desire to test the Teacher’s discoveries, his dependent position in the theater and the First Studio forced Vakhtangov to look for opportunities to organize his own studio. The meeting with students of the Commercial Institute took place in the late autumn of 1913, against the will of Vakhtangov. They themselves chose and found him, offering to lead their amateur club and stage a play. Vakhtangov agreed. The meeting took place on December 23, 1913 in an apartment rented by the Semenov sisters on Arbat. Vakhtangov came solemnly, festively dressed, and even embarrassed the future studio members with his appearance. Vakhtangov began the meeting by declaring his devotion to K.S. Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theater, and called the dissemination of Stanislavsky’s system his task.
At the first meeting, we agreed on staging B. Zaitsev’s play “The Lanins’ Estate.” In March 1914, the premises of the Hunting Club were rented, where they were going to perform a performance.
Vakhtangov immediately got down to business, but, realizing that the amateurs had no experience, he began to practice exercises with them according to the system. The classes lasted two and a half months. The performance took place on March 26. The performers played their roles with gusto, but their enthusiasm did not reach the audience through the stage. Vakhtangov ran behind the scenes and shouted to them: “Louder! Louder!” - they didn’t hear him. After the performance he said: “So we failed!” But even here they did not believe him. We went to a restaurant to celebrate the premiere. In the restaurant, the performance designer Yu. Romanenko invited everyone to join hands and form a chain. “Now let’s be silent for a minute, and let this chain forever connect us with each other in art” (Chronicle of the School, vol. 1, p. 8). Vakhtangov suggested that amateur students begin to study the art of theater. To do this, it was necessary to find a room where one could work. With this we parted ways until the fall. But when Vakhtangov came to the theater, an angry scolding from K.S. Stanislavsky awaited him, who had received information from newspapers about the failure of Vakhtangov’s work. He forbade Vakhtangov to work outside the walls of the Moscow Art Theater and his studio.
And yet, on October 23, 1914, the first lesson of the new studio took place. It was called at different times: “Student Studio”, “Mansurov Studio” (located at 3 Mansurovsky Lane) and “Vakhtangov Studio”. But she worked secretly so that Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theater did not know about her.
Vakhtangov built the House. The studios did everything with their own hands, since Vakhtangov believed that the House becomes yours only when you drive at least one nail into its walls.
While studying Stanislavsky's system, Vakhtangov changed the order of the elements of the system, proposing a path from simple to complex: from attention to the image. But each subsequent element contained all the previous ones. When creating the image, all elements of the system had to be used. We did exercises, sketches, excerpts, improvisations, and independent work. Performing evenings were shown to selected viewers. And in 1916, Vakhtangov brought the first play to the studio. It was “The Miracle of St. Anthony” by M. Maeterlinck. The play was satirical, but Vakhtangov suggested staging it as a psychological drama. This was natural, because the studio members were not yet ready-made actors; in mastering the image, they followed Stanislavsky’s formula “I am in assumed circumstances.” Therefore, Vakhtangov demanded that they justify the behavior of the embodied image. The performance was shown in 1918, and it was actually a graduation ceremony for the first group of students.
The first studio members were students of the Commercial Institute, including B.E.Zahava, B.I.Vershilov, K.G.Semenova, E.A.Aleeva, L.A.Volkov. Gradually new studio members came to the Studio: P.G.Antokolsky, Yu.A.Zavadsky, V.K.Lvova, A.I.Remizova, L.M.Shikhmatov. In January 1920, B.V. Shchukin and Ts.L. were accepted into the studio. Wollerstein (who took the pseudonym Mansurova). Everyone who wanted to become a studio member first went through an interview, which determined whether he could become a studio member according to his moral and intellectual level. And only after this the applicant was examined. Vakhtangov, building a theater and wanting to have a permanent school with it, looked closely at the students and determined which of them would be a teacher and which would be a director. The main thing was to develop independence in students.
In 1919, Vakhtangov underwent two operations on his stomach. They did not produce results - cancer developed. Wanting to save the studio, Vakhtangov turned to his teachers at the Moscow Art Theater and asked to take his studio into the number of studios at the Moscow Art Theater. In the fall of 1920, the Vakhtangov Studio became the Third Studio of the Moscow Art Theater. Having transferred to the Academic Department, the studio received its own building on Arbat, Berg’s small, dilapidated mansion, which the studio members turned into a theater with their own hands. On November 13, 1921, the theater opened with the play “The Miracle of St. Anthony” by M. Maeterlinck in a new, satirical solution. For the theater of the Third Studio, the Moscow Art Theater staged Vakhtangov and his famous “Princess Turandot” by C. Gozzi, in which the direction of the Vakhtangov theater was most clearly expressed. He himself will call it “fantastic realism.” Staged in the traditions of the Commedia del Arte theater, “Princess Turandot” amazed Moscow in 1922 with its theatricality, freedom of acting, and the imagination of the director and artist (I. Nivinsky). “Princess Turandot” turned out to be Vakhtangov’s last performance. On May 29, 1922 he died. The studios were left without a leader and had to build the theater that their leader aspired to, alone. The studios managed to defend their independence, not to lose buildings, not to destroy the school existing inside the studio, and in 1926 received the status of the State Theater named after Evgeniy Vakhtangov.
For many years, until 1937, a small Vakhtangov school existed inside the theater. Future actors were accepted into the school on the basis of their need for the theater. Admission to school meant admission to the theater. They studied and worked in theater performances right away, from their first year. And the teachers were Vakhtangov’s students: B. Zakhava, V. Lvova, A. Remizov, L. Shikhmatov, R. Simonov...
In 1925, B.E.Zahava (1896 - 1976) was appointed head of the school, who led the school until his death.
In 1937, the school moved to a newly built building on B. Nikolopeskovsky Lane, 12a, and separated from the theater. She had the rights of a technical school, but with a four-year period of study. The artists who graduated from school went to different theaters around the country. In 1939, Boris Vasilyevich Shchukin (1894 - 1939), a brilliant artist of the Vakhtangov school, teacher, and director, died. In his memory, in the same year, the school was named after B.V. Shchukin. In 1945, the school was equated to higher educational institutions, retaining its old name. Since 1953, targeted courses began to study at the school - groups of students from national republics, who, in most cases, became the founders of new theaters. The tradition of national groups continues to this day. Now there are two Korean and Gypsy studios studying at the institute. In 1964, from the graduation performance “The Good Man from Szechwan” by B. Brecht, the current Taganka Theater was formed, headed by Y.P. Lyubimov, a graduate of the school, an actor of the theater. Vakhtangov and a teacher at the school. In 1959, a correspondence directing department was created, which produced many famous directors.
After the death of B.E.Zahava, the school was run by an official from the Ministry for a whole decade. He morally and artistically failed to manage such a complex organism as the school. And in 1987, People’s Artist of the USSR V.A. Etush was unanimously elected to the post of Rector. At the moment, he is the Artistic Director of the Institute. Under Rector Etush, the school entered the international arena: students and teachers began to travel with their work to different countries of the world and teach classes in schools in different countries. A special fund “Vakhtangov 12a” was also organized, which always supports the school in difficult times.
In 2002, the school was renamed the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute.
The educational theater hosts graduation performances every year from autumn to spring, and the performers often receive prestigious awards for the best performance. M. Aronova, N. Shvets, D. Vysotsky were awarded such prizes in different years. For a number of years, the first prizes have been awarded to the institute's performances at the festival of student performances in Brno (Czech Republic).
The Shchukinskoye School is a higher theater educational institution, into which only every hundredth applicant is admitted. For those who have won this colossal competition, the trials are just beginning. Every year, Freshers' Day is held here, where senior students visually show newcomers what they will experience over the next four years. Who ran the Shchukin School a hundred years ago? Why are only graduates allowed to teach at this institution? How to enter one of the most prestigious universities in Russia?
Let's study!
On October 23, 2014, the Shchukinskoye School celebrated its centenary. The first years of the existence of this educational institution occurred at a difficult time for Russia. It was created in 1914. The founder, Evgeny Vakhtangov, is a student of Stanislavsky, the same one who chronically did not believe in acting. According to legend, the former ward of the famous theater reformer uttered a significant phrase: “Let's learn!” It was with her that the Shchukin Theater School began its existence.
Zahava
At that time, the educational institution was just a small theater studio. But it was not for nothing that the great Stanislavsky assured that no one could teach according to his system better than Evgeniy Vakhtangov. The first productions brought enormous fame among Moscow theatergoers. In 1922, viewers saw the famous production of Princess Turandot. But the studio founder did not live to see the premiere. And the next leader was Boris Zakhava. The talented actor and director headed the Shchukin Theater School, albeit intermittently, for almost half a century. It was he who laid down the basic teaching principles that guide teachers within the walls of the legendary university today.
Boris Shchukin and teaching features
Only those who were once its students and successfully completed their studies can teach at this university. The leaders are confident that this is the only and main way to preserve the theater school, for which the Shchukinskoye School is famous, in its canonical form. By the way, the well-known name was given to this establishment only in 1939. Boris Shchukin is one of the favorite students of the studio founder. This man is one of the brightest representatives of the Soviet realistic school. He worked in the theater for more than twenty years. Shchukin is also known for being one of the first actors who were able to embody the image of Lenin on stage. There is an opinion that it was precisely because of these merits that the school was named after him.
Achievements
The Shchukinskoye School was transformed into an institute in 2002. Over the hundred years of its existence, the educational institution has produced such an impressive galaxy of talented actors that it is rightfully considered a record holder among other Russian theater universities. People call it "Pike". The big competition is stable every year.
Famous Alumni
From the walls of this institute came such celebrities as Yuri Lyubimov, Andrei Mironov, Vladimir Etush, Nikita Mikhalkov. Among the younger generation, Sergei Makovetsky and Maxim Averin should be noted. Of course, this is not a complete list.
The duties of artistic director, as you know, are performed by Vladimir Etush. The rector of the Institute is Evgeniy Knyazev.
Directing department
Until the end of the fifties, only those who dreamed of acting fame sought to enter the Shchukin School. This university did not graduate any other specialists. In 1959, future directors also began to be trained here. However, the form of training at the directing department is only by correspondence. The competition for it is not so severe - only three people per place. The rules by which the admissions committee works are such that yesterday’s schoolchild, dreaming of the laurels of Zakharov and Meyerhold, cannot enter the directing department at the Shchukinskoye School. Those who have professional experience as a theater director are accepted here.
People from all over the country come to study at the directing department, and not at all in order to conquer the capital. After all, applicants are welcome in their home theaters. And it is in their homeland that students will subsequently complete their diploma theses.
Acting department
Future directors stay within the walls of the institute for no more than two months a year, which cannot be said about those who study acting here. For future artists, in addition to the specialized discipline, the following subjects are studied:
- plastic expressiveness;
- musical expressiveness;
- scenic speech.
The acting department also has a department of history and philosophy.
Admission rules
The specialty exam is carried out in three stages:
- Reading Krylov's fables, two or three poems and an excerpt from prose.
- Checking musical, rhythmic and voice data.
- Performing a small stage sketch.
If an applicant has passed the exam in his specialty, he is allowed to take the Russian language and literature (in writing), as well as a colloquium, which is aimed at identifying the level of knowledge in the field of culture, art, literature and national history.
The institute offers preparatory courses. Enrollment in them is carried out after an audition, during which it is necessary to read an excerpt from a prose work, a poem or a fable. Training in preparatory courses is conducted on weekends and consists of seventy-two
Educational theater
During their studies, students present their first works to the audience. The educational theater of the Shchukin School is a full-fledged unit employing a whole team of professionals. Students produce their diploma works together with directors and teachers. For seventy years, the educational theater of the Shchukin School has been preserving the traditions that were laid down by the students of the founder of this legendary university. The thesis reveals the creative individuality of each student. Inveterate theatergoers in Moscow have the opportunity to see performances by talented and young actors. This is a tradition that the Shchukin School has not changed throughout almost its entire existence.
Performances with the participation of students have been a stunning success more than once. The history of the institute is known for cases when, in order to get to see one of the theses, Muscovites stood in long lines at the box office for hours.
The repertoire of the educational theater is updated annually. On the educational stage, plays based on the works of both Russian and foreign authors are staged. Among them are “Mr. de Moliere” (based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov), “Poverty is not a vice” (A.N. Ostrovsky), “Farewell to Matera” (based on the story by Valentin Rasputin).
How to get there?
In the very heart of the capital is the Shchukin School. The address of this educational institution is Bolshoi Nikolopeskovsky Lane, 15, building 1. You can walk from the Arbatskaya metro station within ten to fifteen minutes.
Shchukinskoe: admission rules, entry requirements, required documents, program, list of required literature, tuition fees, contacts
About the Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukina. Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukina is a representative of the Vakhtangov School of Acting, which was founded in November 1913 by a group of students as an amateur theater studio. A young actor from the Moscow Art Theater, a student of Stanislavsky, Evgeniy Bagrationovich Vakhtangov, was invited as a leader. In the spring of 1914, the premiere of the studio’s play “The Lanins’ Estate” took place, which ended in failure, in response to which E.B. Vakhtangov said “Let’s study!” On October 23, 1914, he taught the students the first lesson in the Stanislavsky system. This day is considered the founding day of the Institute. B. Shchukina. Vakhtangov’s studio combined a school and an experimental laboratory and bore the name of one of the Arbat lanes in which it was then located - “Mansurovskaya”. In 1926, the studio received the name of the Theater. Evgeniy Vakhtangov with his permanent theater school, which in 1932 became a secondary specialized theater institution. In 1939, it was named after the actor, E. Vakhtangov’s favorite student, Boris Shchukin. In 1945, the school received the status of a Higher Educational Institution and from that moment on it was known as the Higher Theater School named after. B. Shchukin at the State Academic Theater named after. Evgenia Vakhtangova.
Faculties of the Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukina: acting, director
Acting department of the Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukina. Acting department of the Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukina trains students in the specialty “acting art” and the specialization “Artist of dramatic theater and cinema.” The duration of study at the acting department is 4 years with full-time study.
Training at the Shchukinsky acting department can take place on a budgetary or commercial basis, depending on the results of entrance examinations.
Feature of the Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukin is that there is no system of workshops here. Each course is staffed not by the “master” and his assistants, but by the entire department of acting skills. The artistic director of the course organizes all educational and creative work on his course and is responsible for it.
International relations of TI named after B. Shchukin: International exchange is supported, students from South Korea, the USA, France, Israel, Estonia, Latvia and the CIS countries study at the institute
Famous actors who graduated from TI named after. B. Shchukina: Andrey Mironov, Georgy Vitsin, Sergey Makovetsky, Konstantin Raikin, Maxim Sukhanov, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Vladimir Simonov, Yulia Rutberg, Yuri Chursin, Kirill Pirogov, Evgeny Tsyganov, Nikita Mikhalkov (expelled from the 4th year for filming films, transferred to directing) 
Rules for admission to the acting department of the Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukina:
Requirements of the Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukin for applicants: completed secondary education, age up to 20-22 years.
Admission to the Theater Institute. B. Shchukina takes place in 4 stages: a qualifying round, a practical exam on the artist’s skill, an oral colloquium and the provision of Unified State Examination results in Russian and literature
1.Selection consultations (tours). Starts in April. Reading by heart programs from a number of literary works of various genres: short story, novella, play. Musical and plastic abilities are also tested.
Applicants who have passed the qualifying round are admitted to the entrance examination stage:
2. I round. Mastery (practical exam). Evaluated on a 100-point scale... Involves reading by heart a poem, a fable (required by I.A. Krylov), a prose passage, it is advisable to prepare several works of each genre). Performing simple stage sketches on topics proposed by the commission during the exam. Testing musicality, rhythmic and speech-voice data - you need to be ready to perform a song and dance, participate in special exercises to test plasticity; have a tracksuit and shoes
At the practical exam on the skill of an artist at the Theater Institute. B. Shchukin evaluates: the applicant’s creative and vocal abilities, their compliance with the chosen specialty and qualifications, and the applicant’s developed technique.
3. Oral colloquium. Tickets according to the proposed list of literature. Evaluated on a 100-point scale. Interview for professional guidance. Reveals: the general cultural level of the applicant, knowledge in the field of drama, theater. Conducted individually with each student.
At the oral colloquium of the Theater Institute. B. Shchukin is assessed: the cultural level, knowledge, aesthetic views of the applicant.
4. Unified State Examination results in Russian and literature for students graduating in 2017-2018.
The threshold for a positive mark is 41 points. If you have a higher education, graduated from a secondary educational institution (school) before 2009, have a secondary vocational education in your specialty of entry, or are citizens of neighboring countries, the applicant does not need Unified State Examination results. In this case, in addition to clauses 2 and 3, he takes general education exams at the Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukina: Russian language (essay) and literature (orally).
List of documents for the Admissions Committee of the Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukin for full-time applicants of the Shchukinsky acting department:
Acceptance of applications from applicants admitted to the competition is from June 15 to July 5.
Entrance exams are held from July 1 to July 15.
1. Application addressed to the rector (using a single form);
2. Certificates of Unified State Examination results in Russian language and literature or their copies, certified in the prescribed manner (they must be replaced with originals before enrollment). Persons who successfully passed the entrance exams, but for objective reasons did not have the opportunity to participate in the Unified State Exam during the final certification period, can take the Unified State Exam after the completion of the entrance exams in the direction of the University, in July of the current year. They will be enrolled upon presentation of the certificate;
3. Certificate or diploma (original);
4. 6 photographs 3x4 cm (photos without headgear);
5. Medical certificate (form 086/у), dated the current year;
6. Passport and its photocopy (to be presented in person);
7. Young men present a military ID or registration certificate and hand over copies of these documents.
In addition, applicants to the correspondence department submit to the Admissions Committee:
1. Certificate of employment;
2. A certified copy of the work record book or, in its absence, a copy of the employment contract.
Applicants who do not pass the competition may be offered paid training by decision of the Examination Committee. If the applicant has a diploma of higher education, according to the Law of the Russian Federation “On Education”, training is possible only on a commercial basis.
Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukin, the cost of commercial training at the acting department: 210,000 rubles per year
Topics and bibliography Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukina:
Topics for the literature exam.
1. Man and history in A.S. Pushkin’s story “The Captain’s Daughter”
2.Romantic hero in the poems of A. Pushkin and M. Lermontov
3. The meaning of the title of M. Lermontov’s novel “Hero of Our Time”
4. What historical events are reflected in L. Tolstoy’s epic novel “War and Peace”
5. Oblomov - “the most generalized Russian national type” (V. Soloviev)
6.Can Bazarov be called a hero of his time?
7. The image of the “little man” in Russian literature of the 19th century
8. “Eternal questions” in the novels of F. Dostoevsky
9. What do you know about the Silver Age?
10. Good and evil in M. Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita”
11. Prose of writers of the war generation (one of the works of B. Vasiliev, V. Bykov, Yu. Bondarev, G. Baklanov of his own choice)
12. What modern writers do you know?
Questions for the exam “Mastery of an Actor” Interview.
1. Read the following plays, in each play choose the role you would like to play.
Explain your choice.
1. N. Fonvizin “Minor”
2. A.S. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit"
3. A.S. Pushkin “The Miserly Knight”, “The Stone Guest”
4. A.S. Pushkin “Boris Godunov”
5. N.V. Gogol “The Inspector General”, “Marriage”
6. I.S. Turgenev “A Month in the Village”
7. A.N.. Ostrovsky “Thunderstorm”, “Forest”
8. A.P. Chekhov "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya"
9. A.P. Chekhov "Three Sisters", "The Cherry Orchard"
10. M. Gorky “At the Bottom”
11. M. Gorky “Barbarians”, “Egor Bulychev”
12. W. Shakespeare “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet”
13. W. Shakespeare “King Lear”, “12th Night”
14. J.-B. Moliere Tartuffe, Don Juan
15. J.-B. Moliere "The Tricks of Scapin"
16. F. Schiller “Cunning and Love”
17. G. Ibsen “A Doll’s House (“Nora”)”
18. B. Show “Pygmalion”
19. A.N. Ostrovsky "Dowry"
20. What do you know about the Maly Theater of the 19th century?
21. What do you know about M.S. Shchepkin?
22. What do you know about the Alexandrinsky Theater of the 19th century? What actors do you know?
23. What do you know about K.S. Stanislavsky?
24. What do you know about the Moscow Art Theater? Which Moscow Art Theater actors do you know?
25. What do you know about Vs.E. Meyerhold?
26. What do you know about M.A. Chekhov?
27. What do you know about E.B. Vakhtangov?
28. What do you know about the Vakhtangov Theater? Which Vakhtangov actors do you know?
29. Modern theater directors. Name one of them.
30. Tell us about a performance you liked.
31. Your favorite actor-actress.
32. What do you know about G. Tovstonogov, A. Efros, O. Efremov, Yu. Lyubimov?
33. Modern theater and film actors. Tell us about one of them.
34. How did you get the desire to enter a theater university?
35. Tell us about the theater in your city (about one of the theaters).
36. What do you think is most important for an actor, or what qualities should an actor have?
37. Opera House. Name operas you know.
38. Ballet theater. Name the ballets you know.
