Mogilev Regional Drama Theatre
Red-brick theatre of 1888 with corner turrets, the oldest playhouse in the Mogilev region.
A building committee for a municipal theatre first met in May 1886, and the house on Pervomayskaya Street was finished in the spring of 1888 and handed over to the city on 14 May that year. The architect Pyotr Kamburov worked with the engineer V. Milyanovsky on a rectangular red-brick block in the pseudo-Russian manner, with decorative brickwork, a pair of corner turrets and a steep roof. It is one of the few nineteenth-century theatre buildings in Belarus still used for its original purpose.
The theatre survived both world wars and was restored in the 1970s and again in the 2000s; the auditorium seats a few hundred and there is a smaller studio stage. The resident company plays a repertoire of Belarusian and Russian classics, European comedy and work for children, and the house also receives touring productions from Belarus and abroad. Mogilev's international theatre forum M@rt.contact has used the building since 2006.
Highlights
- Red-brick building of 1886-88 by Pyotr Kamburov
- Corner turrets and decorative pseudo-Russian brickwork
- The oldest working theatre building in the Mogilev region
- Repertoire of classics, comedy and children's plays, plus touring shows
