...Yana Ross © 2006 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Konstantin Kostenko’s Claustrophobia, directed by Nikolai Kolyada, Yekaterinburg, 2004. Courtesy of Nikolai Kolyada Yana Ross Russia’s New Drama From Togliatti to Moscow No longer constrained...

... “My Vast Country ” Russia’s Regional Theaters in Transition Multifaceted, controversial, yet often banal, theater culture is not born above the clouds. It encompasses every aspect of life, every plane of existence, and has earthly roots even as it draws from the heights of the spiritual...

...Dmitrii Chernyakov; Nina Chusova; Yelena Gremina; Mindaugas Karbauskis; Viktor Ryzhakov; Kirill Serebrennikov Genesis-2, directed by Viktor Ryzhakov, 2004. Photo: Viktor Sentsov Art Is Not for Fear Russia’s New Directors in Conversation Dmitrii Chernyakov, Nina Chusova, Yelena Gremina...

.../Yale Repertory Theatre 2018 censorship Russia Fascism canon classics aesthetics politics ...

...John Freedman John Freedman surveys the trends and important events in Russian theater from 2010 to 2015. Freedman pays particular attention to how changes in Russia's increasingly conservative political climate and cultural policy have resulted in increased censorship of, decreased funding...

... lighter and a punctual manager —Tom Sellar Wet Wedding, St. Petersburg, 2005. Courtesy of AKHE 117 karpova Mr. Carmen, 2004. Courtesy of AKHE 118 russia’s...

... was in love with the Russia of the Middle Ages, the Russia of Orthodoxy, superstition, A Memoir and folklore. His brief spell as a revolutionary was more...

...Tom Sellar “Caution: Religion!” exhibit at the Sakharov Center, defaced by protestors, Moscow, 2003. Courtesy of the Sakharov Center Up Front Caution: Russia! The fragility of Russia’s new-won freedoms, and the implications for artists, were on display at the Andrei...

... 3 already a painting. If I can paint it, then it’s philosophers. Russia is Plato and Ukraine is not a painting. Seventy-­nine percent of what I Plotinus. Russia is the imperial state — ­that’s 4 see, I can do, I can copy. Plato — ­and Ukraine is Plotinus, the soul, the 5...

... with “terrorists,” and after two days of covert training, Russian special forces gassed the theater building with a neurotoxin, resulting in the deaths of at least 120 hostages. But the decade-long war has not stopped, and neither have the acts of terror. In September 2004, Russia witnessed a new...

.... A critic once wrote, “If he were Ivanou, then he’d SMELIANSKY: First of all, this early play of Chekhov’s was be one among a million others; but if he’s Iuanov, then he’s not staged [at the MAT] during his lifetime. It received its unique.” He’s a Hamlet in Russia. So in Russia, he’s still first...

... In June of 1994, I interviewed four Russian theater artists who represent overlapping phases in the ideological formation of the contemporary Russian stage. The youngest is Evgeny Kamenkovich, whose career is an object-lesson in the entrepreneurial savvy an artist needs to survive in Russia today...

... houses at the small alternative venue Teatr.doc and was widely recognized as something new and startling. Oxygen combined Vyrypaev’s restless, driven acting and directing styles with a highly poetic, surrealistic response to current events, the state of the world, and the state of Russia...

.... Kaun, A. Maxim Gorky and His Russia. New York: J. Cape and H. Smith, 1931. Levin, D. Stormy Petrel. New York: Apple- ton-Century, 1965...

... theatre. In his theoretical views Micinski was in essential agreement with the new modern• ist notion of theatre held by his contemporaries in both Western Europe and Russia. In France in the 1880's, inspired by Wagner's example, Mallarme first advanced his conception of theatre as mystery...

... of Bernard calls the interview long. But in the same stars all my life - you know how Shaw. The narrative had reached 1932 year, 1931, the German journalist Emil children are bored in church - and I when it showed a clip of Shaw in Russia Ludwig was given a 3-hour interview always looked...

... of Post-Imperial Brecht and The Drama of South sasha dugdale initiated the Royal Court Africa. Theatre’s Playwright’s Project in Russia while working for the British Council in Moscow. douglas langworthy is a freelance She is now a consultant...

... or productions, a highly specious claim in the context of Russia’s official cultural system.) Now this world-class artist has finally succumbed to the unrelenting pressures, and the loss will be incalculable. A student and champion of Maria Knebel (Stanislavsky’s last assistant), Vasiliev is, to many...

... or productions, a highly specious claim in the context of Russia’s official cultural system.) Now this world-class artist has finally succumbed to the unrelenting pressures, and the loss will be incalculable. A student and champion of Maria Knebel (Stanislavsky’s last assistant), Vasiliev is, to many...

... home premises as the earlier play. The success with whom he eventually runs off. When it has enjoyed in Russia and internationally Yelena remarks that she likes Pyotr cannot be attributed to any marked advance and that he is a “dear, darling boy...