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... the theatrical motif to examine three separate issues. The first concerns Stalin's chameleon-like behavior towards all who came into contact with him. He goes on to describe the masterful staging of the Moscow Purge Trials during which virtually all the key actors - the defendants, witnesses, prosecutor, judge...

... to Bertolt Brecht, Rau is not an idealogue, exposing inconsistencies rather than promoting any single ideology in his work. © 2021 by Helga Kraft 2021 Milo Rau influencers The Last Days of the Ceaușescus Zurich Trials Orestes in Mosul Moscow Trials Hate Radio The New Gospel Milo...

... appreciated the greatness of are separate, and I have not yet seen satisfy you on?” “Oh, the usual stuff - the Stalin? (I was naturally very surprised to anything directed by you, and since, Moscow Trials. . .” learn later that Brecht himself had privately further, my own...

... projects, look at the shortcomings of the present and ask, What would (and should) the future look like? The iipm s reactment projects con- struct symbolic institutions for the future, staging trials and political institutions: Land of Hope (2010), City of Change (2010), The Moscow Trials (Die Moskauer...

... reconstruction, The Moscow Trials (Die Moskauer Prozesse; 2013) and The Zurich Trials (Die Zürcher Prozesse; 2013), like The Congo Tribunal, create their own judicial forum and are proactive political interventions in the public sphere. Their legitimacy is not in the judicial verdict but in the potential...

... at the conclusion of an eleven-month trial. Most inde- pendent observers interpret the arrest, trial, and verdict as President Putin’s move to crush the potential political threat that Khodorkovsky represented. This utterly non- theatrical event appears to have had an impact on Moscow theater. As the trial...

... with N.A. Uglanov. formerly head ofthe Moscow par- extremely lugubrious text, full of sobbing winds, the goal of undermining its might and prepar- ty committee, was dismissed from his post as bitter tears, weepin fathers and young wives, ing an anti-Soviet intervention" (Volin...

... with N.A. Uglanov. formerly head ofthe Moscow par- extremely lugubrious text, full of sobbing winds, the goal of undermining its might and prepar- ty committee, was dismissed from his post as bitter tears, weepin fathers and young wives, ing an anti-Soviet intervention" (Volin...

... of Stalinism in Brecht’s lifetime. It uncannily anticipatesthe Moscow trials. This is exactly what Esslin had said in 1961. But unlike Esslin, Ash insinuates a negative moral judg- ment upon Brecht, using the rhetorical trick of drawing a damning conclusion from a non-occur- rence...

... Vladimir Putin Gogol Center Teatr.doc censorship Impromptu flower memorial at the site of Boris Nemtsov’s murder, Moscow, 2015. Photo: John Freedman John Freedman “Can One Enter a Theater Softly?” A Moscow Critic’s Journal, 2010 – 15 This is, and is not, a sequel to a piece I...

... migration. Regional repertory theaters don’t easily trust newcomers and often expect no more from them than a bag of fancy tricks: “Who knows?” their logic goes, “He’ll likely turn everything upside down, cause a major storm, and then take off for his ‘native’ Moscow, leaving us to piece our proven...

... Moscow DWZYDECEMBER 15, 1926 he German critic Walter Benjamin, visiting Moscow Comrade Jules Verne in the Theater of Gennadi Pdilich in the mid-twenties, condemned Mikhail Bulgakov’s with music, a volcanic eruption and English sailors.” first play. Unfortunately...

... . . . ” “About what? What couldn’t he satisfy you on?” “Oh, Man’s a Man and feel complete sympathy with what I conceive it to the usual stuff - the Moscow Trials . . . ” be saying. And so it is with many of BB’s works. But on socialism At the mention of the trials, Ruth blew up...

...Vladimir Orenov; Henrietta Yanovskaya; John Freedman; Georgy Vasiliev; Maria Sedih; Mark Litvak; Anatoly Smelyansky; Mark Rosovsky; Dmitri Chernyakov © 2005 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2005 Nord-Ost, Moscow, 2002. Courtesy Nord-Ost Under Siege Moscow Artists Respond...

...Olga Bokshanskaya © 2006 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Introduced by Anatoly Smeliansky Translated by Ryan McKittrick and Julia Smeliansky Autographed photo of the Moscow Art Theater company at the White House, 1923. Courtesy of the New York Public...

...Laurence Senelick Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 SOURCES Alperov , Dmitry . V arene starogo tsirka: zapiski klouna . (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya literatura, 1936 ). Botsyanovky , V. , and E. Gollerbakh, Russkaya satira pervoy russkoy revolyutsii 1905–1906 (Leningrad...

... beloved lead- Fifty years ago, on August 12, 1952, thirteen ing actor and for some twenty years the direc- Soviet Jewish activists and writers were exe- tor of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (or cuted by Stalin after a secret trial. Yiddishists GOSET, the Russian acronym by which it’s commemorating...

... of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (or cuted by Stalin after a secret trial. Yiddishists GOSET, the Russian acronym by which it’s commemorating the loss of such modernist typically known). masters as Dovid Bergelson, Itzik Fefer, Dovid During the war, Mikhoels was sent Hofshteyn, Leyb Kvitko, and Peretz...

...— was Solomon Mikhoels, a widely beloved lead- Fifty years ago, on August 12, 1952, thirteen ing actor and for some twenty years the direc- Soviet Jewish activists and writers were exe- tor of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (or cuted by Stalin after a secret trial. Yiddishists GOSET, the Russian acronym...

... years the direc- Soviet Jewish activists and writers were exe- tor of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (or cuted by Stalin after a secret trial. Yiddishists GOSET, the Russian acronym by which it’s commemorating the loss of such modernist typically known). masters as Dovid Bergelson, Itzik Fefer...