Workers' Youth Theatre

Workers' Youth Theatre, also known as TRAM (the Russian acronym for "Teatr RAbochey Molodyozhi") was a Soviet proletarian youth theatre of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

It was established by Mikhail Sokolovsky in a converted cinema on Liteiny Prospekt, Leningrad.

The theatre was run as a collective and produced agitprop pieces designed to educate and persuade.

[1] Adrian Piotrovsky was the theatre's principle ideologue, and Dmitri Shostakovich composed some incidental music for a number of its productions.

[2] By 1930 the theatre was under attack, accused of "formalism" by its critics from among journalists and rival proletarian organizations.