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Olga Mukhina is one of the most talented, young playwrights in
Russia. Born in Moscow in 1970, she has already garnered enviable
praise from critics and audiences throughout Russia and Europe
since her first play, Tanya-Tanya, was performed in 1996.
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 reviews and features collected in John Freedman's Moscow
Performances bring to life the diversity, energy, and imagination
of Russian theater as few books have done before. While focusing on
the work of Moscow's leading directors - Pyotr Fomenko, Kama
Ginkas, Valery Fokin, Anatoly Vasilyev, Konstantin Raikin, Sergei
Zhenovach, Yury Lyubimov, and many others - also included in its
review are key productions by many of the renowned guests who bring
their art to the Russian capital. Essays on St. Petersburg's Lev
Dodin (of the Maly Drama Theatre), Lithuania's Eimuntas Nekrosius,
Georgia's Robert Sturua, and Germany's Peter Stein confirm that
Moscow's position as a "theatrical mecca" has not diminished since
Anatoly Lunacharsky coined the phrase in the 1920s.
First Published in 1995. A Meeting About Laughter is a collection of sketches, interludes and theatrical parodies by Nikolai Erdman, Vladimir Mass and others. Translated from the Russian Theatre Archive by John Freedman, Harvard University. Erdman is best known as the author of The Warrant and The Suicide, both written for Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s. Also including the transcript of a startling discussion of The Suicide at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1930 and the only surviving fragments of Erdman's third play The Hypnotist.
"Bald/Brunet" by Daniil Gink and "Nijinsky" by Alexei Burykin are unquestionably the two most celebrated new dramatic works to appear in Russia in the 1990s. Both were written by first-time playwrights in their early twenties, and both became the talk of Moscow overnight after they appeared. As Russian culture continues to struggle with the past, these plays are clear signs that Russian drama, at least, is on the verge of finding a voice for the future. Coincidentally or not, both works center on a single character whose personality breaks into two warring halves. "Bald/Brunet" is a wise and touching examination of an aging jazz musician, while "Nijinsky," based on the case of the great Polish-Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, is a soaring hymn to the enigma and autonomy of genius. These new Russian plays are musical and poetic, provocative and insightful, tender yet tragic. And they each have equally as much to say about universal human values as they do about the Russian experien
This volume contains the full text in English of both "The Suicide" and Nikolai Erdman's first major, albeit less known work, "The Warrant." Although both plays were written in the early 1920s, they were haunted by the political spectre of totalitarianism and it was only in the 1980s that they began to be staged regularly worldwide. The plays themselves, full of political satire and paradox, show the immense skill of this playwright, and the introduction by John Freedman provides valuable insights into the historical context of the plays, highlighting Erdman's unique use of language. These new translations are well illustrated with little-known archival production photographs and drawings of the period.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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