Volkhov People's Theater "Candle" celebrated its 35th anniversary

In Volkhov, the folk theater "Candle" celebrated its 35th anniversary. On this occasion, the Palace of Culture showed a festive program “Trumpet Calls”, the press service of the Leningrad Region government reported.

The theater was established in 1991 on the basis of the club of the 6th HPP in Volkhov as a youth center. The first premiere was the play “At midnight on Bald Mountain”, shown on the eve of the New Year holidays.

In 1996, the team moved to the Volkhov city DK. A year later he received the title of “People’s Theatre”. In 2025, this honorary title was awarded anew by the order of the Committee on Culture of the Leningrad Region.

The permanent head of the theater is Natalia Shchelokova, a graduate of the theater department of the Leningrad Regional College of Culture and Art.

In the program dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the theater, the premiere performance “Kuzminki” was shown, a video excerpt from the musical play “Life or a draft”, a humorous miniature based on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky. Poems, songs and warm congratulations from grateful viewers were also heard.

Earlier, “MK in the Leningrad region” said that in Volkhov will be two performances for the blind and visually impaired, organized as part of the project “Theater ear”, organized by the theater “On Litein”.