Putin says the West doesn’t understand Russia; often, the West acts as if he is right. But how can theatre represent the most authoritarian, and merciless, Russian autocrat since Stalin?…
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…of the underground resistance in Russia. In the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an anti-war petition garnered 17,000 signatures from cultural workers. Institutions made public anti-war statements, and…
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…give an overview of theatre in Ukraine before Russia’s war on it? Has it changed at all? Orest Pastukh: I am not ready to say that Ukrainian theater has changed…
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…like today? AS: Until February [2022], it’d have been easier for me to answer. Russia’s attack on Ukraine showed us how the Soviet historical narratives, which were used in conversations…
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The recent news that Russia’s Supreme Court has banned the “international LGBT movement”, describing it as an “extremist organisation” and raiding nightclubs frequented by gay people, has brought this country…
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…director’s decisions, but invariably vivid impressions. One of the guests of the festival was The Overcoat by Griboyedov State Academic Russian Drama Theatre from Tbilisi. The performance, labeled by director…
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…classic phrase by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which set the starting point for the conversation about humanism and the “little man” in Russian literature. Today Russian culture may have been vilified and…
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…Russian Ukrainian-born theatre director – Roman Viktyuk, directed a new production of The Maids at the Satyricon Theatre in Moscow City. For the first time, the director fully follows Genet’s…
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The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution offers a brilliant window into an exploration of identity formation in leading Argentine dramatist-director Mariano Pensotti’s Arde brillante en los bosques de la…
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The Russian winter sprinkled with the aristocratic splendor of Imperial Moscow and Petersburg in Leo Tolstoy’s all-time classic novel tells its extraordinary, never finished and always challenging story. On the…
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…values through the imaginary ark of the theatre. Culture helps maintain the bridges of dialogue that politics destroys. The previous Theatre Olympics 2019 took place in Russia, in St Petersburg…
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…about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It is about Ukraine’s history. It is about our stories. Academy of Theater Arts in Krakow branch in Wroclaw ( AST Wroclaw, “History of Ukraine”…
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…to exemplify the house analogy of the Russian war on Ukraine are, in turn, all that is left of the image of the Child, now crying in their mothers’ arms…
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…This production was captured by the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in Moscow and presented in partnership with Stage Russia HD, and features the reminiscences of Russian actors Vladimir Korenev and Aleftina Konstantinova….
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…This production was captured by the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in Moscow and presented in partnership with Stage Russia HD, and features the reminiscences of Russian actors Vladimir Korenev and Aleftina Konstantinova….
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…Theatre Research Conference in Reykjavik, where she spoke with sensitivity about Ukrainian theatre’s commitment to helping refugees from war zones after Russia’s attack on the country. For me personally, Maya…
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…of Playwrights, Kyiv; Author of Bad Roads, translated by Sasha Dugsdale, and Three Rendezvous, translated by John Freedman with Natalia Bratus. Produced by Sara Stackhouse REGISTER HERE LEARN MORE http://thetheatretimes.com/theatre-as-shelter-on-artists-in-ukraine-response-to-the-russian-invasion/…
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…interjections of fictional characters, portraying how citizens from all walks of life imagine the future of Belarusian society. Russia, 2020. Free Flight Films. Directed by Oksana Mysina. https://youtu.be/_KyZoZuIYI4 LEARN…
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…A.R.T.’s theatrical resources to immigrants and refugees. We get people in our workshops from all over the world. They come from Syria, Iraq, Iran, China, Haiti, Brazil, Argentina, and Russia–many…
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