ABSTRACT
The Subbota (Saturday) theatre-club, popular with young Leningraders, was already thinking about how to celebrate its tenth anniversary, but the Young Communist magazine was still openly sceptical. "... The founder members of Leningrad's Subbota theatre-club like to think that their first meeting was pure chance. Someone was giving a lecture on the history of the theatre in one of the district palaces of culture. A group of young people wandered in to listen - they had been singing to a guitar in a nearby backyard, until the piercing Baltic wind had driven them to seek shelter. Something in the lecture interested them. / ... / You can surely only link the setting up of an enterprising youth club with a sudden shower of rain for the sake of a nice club legend" (Young Communist, 1976, No. 6).
