In the fall of 1918, the Pittoresk cafe, due to the change of owner and the threat of reorganization in the variety show,Yakulov reported about this threat in his letter to the People's Commissar Lunacharsky - see: Mass propaganda art of the first years of October ". - M., 1971. -P. 128. was transferred to the Theater Department of the Commissariat and renamed to the "Red Rooster" club-workshop. On the 1st anniversary of the October Revolution, the premiere of the play "Green Parrot" staged by A. Tairov took place here (based on the play by A. Schnitzler) set by G. Yakulov. Before that, in the spring of 1918, the first theatrical work of the artist, at the initiative of Meyerhold, was the design of the performance "Exchange" (joint production by Meyerhold and Tairov based on the play by P. Claudel) - at the Chamber Theater.
