Russia
Moscow theater "Workshop of P. N. Fomenko" was founded in July 1993 by the decree of the mayor of Moscow. However, the "Fomenki" themselves (as journalists call the actors of the theater not only in Moscow, but also around the world) are counting down their biography from July 1988. Then Peter Naumovich Fomenko recruited a group of students in his training workshop at the directing department of GITIS (now - the Russian University of Theater Art).
Five years of study showed that the people whom fate brought together in the summer of 1988, can and must create real theatrical miracles. The plays created in the student years have repeatedly become prizewinners of various theater festivals. Thus, the play "Vladimir III Degree" based on N. V. Gogol (directed by Sergei Zhenovach) was awarded the first prize of the Youth Jury at the international festival of theater schools "Podium-91". The play "Adventure" based on M. Tsvetaeva (directed by Ivan Popovski) won the "Nail of the Season" award in 1992. And the play "Wolves and Sheep" based on A. N. Ostrovsky (directed by Pyotr Fomenko) - Grand Prix at the international theater festival "Contact" (Poland) in 1993.
Graduates of Fomenko's workshop in 1993 formed the backbone of the young theater, which was replenished twice more by the master's students.
The theater emerged, combining the desire for search and experimentation with the traditions of Russian repertory theater. With the "Workshop" troupe different directors realize their ideas, master complex spaces, work in a variety of styles. Among the productions created during the years of the Workshop's "official" existence are productions by Pyotr Naumovich Fomenko himself and his colleagues and students, primarily Yevgeny Kamenkovich, Sergei Zhenovach, Ivan Popovski and others.
The article uses materials published on the official website of the P.N. Fomenko Workshop Theater.
At the IV International Theater Festival "Alexandrinsky" presented the play "Without a dowry" by P. Fomenko (October 2, 2009).
