Plays

By Anna Geizhan “People are waiting for the tanks to go” based on the play by A. Geizhan was a part of the theater laboratory on political change. It is on Mikhail Gorbachev and events of “Putch” in August 1991.The main idea of the play is that freedom was lost today just like it was […]

By Vladimir Nabokov Nizhny Novgorod Gorky Drama Theater.  “Memory speak” is a mix of Nabokov’s lectures on Russian literature, his poems and an autobiographical novel The Other Shores. Nabokov as a character of a play gives a lecture in an American university. He tries to explain what Russia used to be in his childhood and

By Elfride Jelineck GITIS. Moscow Women as Lovers” by Elfride Jelineck was my first show directed within Theater Institute of Theater Arts GITIS. It is based on a modernist feminist Austrian novel.  Telling the story of a girl who decided to be no more than a woman. For me it was a theatre piece about

by Alexey Schipenko Moscow Drama Theater named after M. N. Ermolova. Alexey Schipenko went into a Turkish car shop in Berlin, got fascinated by its atmosphere and wrote a play “Suzuki” where “a German kills a German”. The play was staged in Baracke by Thomas Ostermeier.  I got fascinated by Schipenko’s play and decided to

By Alexey Zhitkovsky Theater 705. Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan.  The play is on censorship and how each new turn of history brings artists in a situation of humiliation and impossibility to confront the language of authorities. Documentary text by Alexey Zhitkovsky describes the exhibition in the Manege in 1962, showing the clash between young artists and culture

Alexander Pushkin comes to the city of Shymkent in Kazakhstan to talk about his beloved city of Saint-Petersburg. The poet who spent 6 years of his short life in exile still wanders the universe with a group of characters created by him. They drive a soviet minibus “bukhanka” (the bread) and occasionally give performances full