Moscow Performances II: The 1996-1997 Season (Russian Theatre Archive)

this Is A Collection Of John Freedman's Reviews And Articles, Most Originally Written For The Moscow Times, In Which He Focuses His Expert Critical Eye On The Directors, Writers And Actors Who Held Centre Stage During The 1996-97 Theatre Season In Moscow. the Book Looks At The Debut Of Promising New Artists And Directors At The Moscow Art Theatre Celebrating Its 100th Anniversary This Year And Offers A Wealth Of Insight Into The Latest Developments In Russian Theatre. freedman Illuminates All Of The Season's Noteworthy Trends And Events In Clear, Informed And Unapologetically Opinionated Reports. More Than Just An Overview Of The Stars And Highlights, moscow Performances Ii Observes At Close Range The Playhouses And The People Who Make Up The Ever-changing Face Of Contemporary Russian Theatre Today. this Volume Is Generously Illustrated With Photographs Of Featured Productions And Will Be A Useful Reference For Students, Professors, Writers, Directors And Actors In The Fields Of Russian Studies, Theatre Studies, Theatre History And Contemporary Culture. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Introduction to the Series......Page 10 List of Plates......Page 11 Preface......Page 13 As a Lamb, Art-Club XXI......Page 21 The Threepenny Opera, Satirikon......Page 22 Sonechka and Casanova, Hermitage Theater......Page 27 The Threepenny Opera, Satire Theater......Page 29 The Game, Mossoviet Theater......Page 30 A Month in the Country, Fomenko Studio......Page 32 The Last Night of the Last Tsar, Bogis Agency......Page 33 Don Juan, Russian Army Theater......Page 37 A Warsaw Melody, Pushkin Drama Theater......Page 38 The Sakhalin Wife, Playwright and Director Center at the House of Actors1......Page 40 Playing the Dummy, Malaya Bronnaya Theater......Page 42 Brocade, Alexander Filippenko Theater......Page 43 The Dance of Death, Russian Drama Theater, Riga, Latvia......Page 44 The Seagull, Maly Theater......Page 46 Masculine Singular, Stanislavsky Drama Theater; and The Terrorists, Pushkin Drama Theater......Page 47 The Journey of Benjamin the Third to the Holy Land, Yevgeny Gerchakov Theater......Page 49 Prisoners, Yermolova Theater......Page 51 A Bourgeois Wedding, Yermolova Theater Center; and The Threepenny Opera, Laboratory Theater......Page 53 Life Is no Bed of Roses, Chelovek Theater-Studio......Page 54 Hunger and Thirst, Theater u Nikitskikh vorot......Page 56 Fleeing Pilgrims, Mossoviet Theater; and The Terrible Parents, Yermolova Theater......Page 59 Greetings, Don Quixote!, Contemporary Play School......Page 61 Britannicus, Novy Drama Theater......Page 62 Little Comedies, Malaya Bronnaya Theater......Page 63 The Wedding, Russian Academy of Theater Arts......Page 66 The Storm, Young Spectator Theater......Page 67 The Unattainable, Anton Chekhov Theater; and Farewell and Applause, Tabakov Theater......Page 69 Three Sisters, Chekhov Art Theater......Page 71 Anomaly, Sovremennik Theater......Page 73 Little Tragedies: Part One, Chekhov Art Theater......Page 75 The Tour of the Lilikan Grand Royal Theater in Russia, Moscow Shadow Theater......Page 77 The Woman in the Dunes, Omsk Drama Theater; A-Flat, Yekaterinburg Young Spectator Theater; Three Sisters, Rostov-on-Don Young Spectator Theater; and Tanya-Tanya, Vasilyevsky Island Satire Theater, St. Petersburg......Page 78 Joan of Arc, Debut Center at the House of Actors......Page 82 The Possible Meeting, Mikhail Kozakov Enterprise and Art-Club XXI......Page 84 The Cherry Orchard, Theater Near the Stanislavsky House......Page 86 Vieux Carré, Tabakov Theater......Page 87 Five Evenings, Malaya Bronnaya Theater; and The Marriage, Chekhov Art Theater......Page 90 Barbarian and Heretic, Lenkom Theater; and Krechinsky’s Wedding, Maly Theater......Page 92 The Whim, Novy Drama Theater......Page 96 “Art”, a production of the International Confederation of Theater Associations, the French Cultural Center in Moscow and the Russian Ministry of Culture......Page 97 The Tales of Belkin, Pushkin Drama Theater......Page 98 Sublimation of Love, Tabakov Theater......Page 101 Bel-Ami, Mossoviet Theater......Page 104 No More, No More...No More?, Dela u Broda......Page 106 Laughter in the Dark, Sfera Theater......Page 107 Doves, Stanislavsky Drama Theater......Page 109 Moscow’s Power Names......Page 112 Around The Threepenny Opera at the Satirikon Theater......Page 114 Theater and Money......Page 115 Golden Mask Festival: Spotlight on the Provinces......Page 119 Golden Mask Awards Ceremony......Page 121 Vladimir Mirzoev......Page 123 Lyubimovka Festival of Young Playwrights......Page 126 Index......Page 131 This book, generously illustrated with photographs looks at the debut of promising new artists and directors at the Moscow Art Theatre 1996-97 season, and offers a wealth of insight into the latest developments in Russian theatre. The so-called "commercial" shows which have appeared with restrained regularity since the state relaxed its grip on the arts five years ago, have not often lived up to the expectations surrounding them.