Volga lights № 26 We break comedy (theatrical okroshka) (1990)

People with burning torches during a night torchlight performance in the 1960s.

Tug-of-war competition.

Dolls in the costume room of the theater.

Preparing the scenery for a children's play.

Fragment of a puppet show based on the play by I. Shtok "divine Comedy".

The audience is applauding.

Artists voicing Adam and eve on stage.

Fragment of the play.

Actor Yuri Sagans preparing lunch in the kitchen, his wife, the actress Valentina Ermakova bids him farewell and leaves for work.

Fragment of a performance from the 1960s on a production theme.

The performance of the cancan in the Saratov theatre of operetta.

Fragments of performances of the Saratov young spectator theater.

Performance of a vocal Duo of operetta artists.

Fragment of a rehearsal for a play based on Gorky's play "at the bottom", staged by students of the Saratov theater school.

The teacher V. Ermakova points out to students their mistakes, helps to place accents during the game.

Fragments of performances of Saratov theaters of the 1960s-1970s on military and agricultural themes.

Students of the theater school listen to a tape recording of Satine's monologue, the faces of students and Ermakova.

Fragment of the play "Optimistic tragedy".

The audience applauds.

Panorama of an empty auditorium.