Ken Reynolds: 1938–2021. A Personal and Professional Remembrance of East European Theatre’s Finest Photographer
“Stop now! See that? You see that cloud? That beautiful shape?” That is what Ken Reynolds would...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 25th Sep 2021 | News, Russia, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
“Stop now! See that? You see that cloud? That beautiful shape?” That is what Ken Reynolds would...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Hinds-Bond | 14th May 2018 | News, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad
Stage Russia, now in its second season of bringing filmed performances of contemporary Russian...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Karstadt | 29th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, Kama Ginkas Black Monk, Review, Russia
Of all the great Russian writers of the second half of the nineteenth century, none perfected the...
Read MorePosted by Yan Chen | 30th Nov 2017 | Interview, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Transcultural Collaborations
John Freedman was Theatre Critic at The Moscow Times from 1992 to 2015 and is currently Assistant...
Read MorePosted by Kama Ginkas and John Freedman | 1st Nov 2017 | Books, Directing, Essay, Kama Ginkas Black Monk, Russia
Excerpted and adapted from the book Provoking Theater: Kama Ginkas Directs by Kama Ginkas and John...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Clovis Bishop | 22nd Mar 2017 | Kama Ginkas Black Monk, Review, Russia
While at his family estate in Melikhovo in the early 1890s, Anton Chekhov dreamt of a monk...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 24th Nov 2015 | Directing, Review, Russia
After a 24 year hiatus, Russian director Kama Ginkas has again stepped into one of the most famous...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 30th Oct 2013 | Directing, Kama Ginkas Black Monk, Review, Russia
Of all the theatrical languages that coexist in Moscow, director Kama Ginkas is an intonation unto himself. You can hear it in his actors’ speech. “They often speak not as they do in life or even on stage for another...
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