About Us

In March 1983 Natalia Rachkovskaya, a Theatre and Art Institute graduate, V. Moroz`s student, staged a performance by Mayakovsky`s play “Bug” with the pupils of the secondary school 126 in Minsk. This was the birth of a new Youth Creativity Theatre-Studio and a worthy claim of the collective itself. The YCT formation was accompanied by work on the stories by E. Shvarts ( “Dragon”, “Ordinary Miracle”, “Shadow”, “Little Red Riding Hood”) and the plays of different genres: vaudeville (E. Labish, V. Dunin-Martsinkevich), political theatre (M. Shatrov), psychological theatre (Jean Anouilh). We rehearsed and performed at different venues: in kindergarten, in apartments, in semibasements equipped by the YCT-students.

Alexey Shipenko`s drama has played a special role in the YCT life. In 1989 the YCT for staged his play “The Observer”, which had been played for 10 years. It grew into a personal acquaintance with the author in 2000 in Berlin. Today the Youth Creativity Theatre is the only team in Belarus, who works with Shipenko`s drama.

In 1991 the Youth Creativity Theatre received the title of “Exemplary”.

As time went on, the actors grew up, the repertoire became “old”, the number of people willing to engage in the theatre increased. The groups of different age were created and the “older” actors became teachers, the number of academic disciplines increased too: plastique, stage movement, singing. The creative experiments continued, for example: the staging of the concert “About love once again” made of the excerpts from “Pinsk gentry” by V. Dunin-Martsinkevich, “Balzaminov`s Marriage ” by A. Ostrovsky and “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare in the original language, which was the basis of the stage design; “The Marriage of Figaro” P. O. Bomarshe with the scenes in the French language and the performance of Mozart`s arias in Italian. There were some joint projects: the musical “The rain is a fairy tale” in Berlin (since the contact with Germany has begun) with the youth theatre group from Berlin managed by Hans Falkner and the NCCYAC exemplary orchestra under the guidance of V.I.Bykov (1994); Shostakovich`s opera “The Three silk” from the musical theatre “Fairy-tale” and the Symphony Orchestra under the guidance of G.G. Aleksandrov (1998); “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare with the rock and ethno-group “Plateau” (1998).

The YCT participated in international festivals, such as “Meotida`s Wings” (2000, 2003, Mariupol, Ukraine), “Galician Melpomene” (2006, 2009, Lviv, Ukraine), “Magic ramp” and “Theatre Meetings” (2005 2007, Shalchininkay, Lithuania); participated in the International Theatre Workshop in the Castle Trebnitz twice (2002, 2004, Germany), has repeatedly travelled to Berlin and performed in the framework of international youth projects “Fuksbau” center; became the winner in the International Film Festival “Tell me, Cloud …”, dedicated to the memory of the Chernobyl disaster (2007, Minsk, Bragin, Paris) together with Vyacheslav Inozemtsev and plastique theatre “InZhest”; at the Open Ukrainian festival “Galician Melpomene” (2006, Lviv, Ukraine), the play “Shadow” was awarded the Grand Prize.