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

140 Pages·1998·2.75 MB·English

by  John Freedman

Moscow Performances II
Russian Theatre Archive
A series of books edited by John Freedman (Moscow), Leon Gitelman (St
Petersburg) and Anatoly Smeliansky (Moscow)
Volume 1
The Major Plays of Nikolai Erdman
translated and edited by John Freedman
Volume 2
A Meeting About LaughterSketches, Interludes and Theatrical Parodies by
Nikolai Erdman with Vladimir Mass and Others
translated and edited by John Freedman
Volume 3
Theatre in the Solovki Prison Camp
Natalia Kuziakina
Volume 4
Sergei Radlov: The Shakespearian Fate of a Soviet Director
David Zolotnitsky
Volume 5
Bulgakov: The Novelist-Playwright
edited by Lesley Milne
Volume 6
Aleksandr Vampilov: The Major Plays
translated and edited by Alma Law
Volume 7
The Death of Tarelkin and Other Plays:
The Trilogy of Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin
translated and edited by Harold B.Segel
Volume 8
A Chekhov Quartet
translated and adapted by Vera Gottlieb
Volume 9
Two Plays from the New Russia
Bald/Brunet by Daniil Gink and Nijinsky by Alexei Burykin
translated and edited by John Freedman
Volume 10
Russian Comedy of the Nikolaian Era
translated and with an introduction by Laurence Senelick
Volume 11
Meyerhold Speaks/Meyerhold Rehearses
iii
by Aleksandr Gladkov
translated, edited and with an introduction by Alma Law
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Archive series
Moscow Performances II
The 1996±1997 Season
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Freedman, John
Moscow performances II: the 1996–1997 season.—(Russian
theatre archive)
1. Theater—Russia (Federation)—History—20th century
I. Title
792.(cid:0)09470(cid:0) 9049
ISBN 0-203-98985-6 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 90-5755-084-9 (Print Edition)
Cover illustration: Natalia Vdovina and Konstantin Raikin in The Threepenny
Opera at the Satirikon Theater. Photo: Mikhail Guterman
Contents
Introduction to the Series ix
List of Plates x
Preface xii
Performances 1996±97
As a Lamb 1
The Threepenny Opera 2
Moscow-Petushki 7
Sonechka and Casanova 7
The Threepenny Opera 9
The Game 10
A Month in the Country 12
The Last Night of the Last Tsar 13
The Marriage 17
Don Juan 17
A Warsaw Melody 18
Crime and Punishment 20
The Sakhalin Wife 20
Playing the Dummy 22
Brocade 23
The Dance of Death 24
The Seagull 26
Masculine Singular and The Terrorists 27
The Journey of Benjamin the Third to the Holy Land 29
vii
Our Town and Midsummer Night’s Dream 31
Prisoners 31
A Bourgeois Wedding and The Threepenny Opera 33
Life Is no Bed of Roses 34
Hunger and Thirst 36
Fleeing Pilgrims and The Terrible Parents 39
Greetings, Don Quixote! 41
Britannicus 42
Little Comedies 43
The Wedding 46
The Storm 47
The Unattainable and Farewell and Applause 49
Three Sisters 51
Anomaly 53
Little Tragedies: Part One 55
The Tour of the Lilikan Grand Royal Theater in Russia 57
The Woman in the Dunes, A-Flat, Three Sisters and Tanya-Tanya 58
Joan of Arc: Childhood 62
The Possible Meeting 64
The Cherry Orchard 66
Vieux Carré 67
Five Evenings and The Marriage 70
Wandering Conflagrations 72
Barbarian and Heretic and Krechinsky’s Wedding 72
The Whim 76
“Art” 77
The Tales of Belkin 78
The Herd 81
Sublimation of Love 81
viii
Bel-Ami 84
No More, No More…No More? 86
Laughter in the Dark 87
Doves 89
People and Events
Moscow Power Names 92
Around The Threepenny Opera at the Satirikon Theater 94
Theater and Money 95
Golden Mask Festival: Spotlight on the Provinces 99
Golden Mask Award Ceremony 101
Vladimir Mirzoev 103
Lyubimovka Festival of Young Playwrights 106
Index 111
Introduction to the Series
The Russian Theatre Archive makes available in English the best avant-garde
plays from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It features
monographs on major playwrights and theatre directors, introductions to
previously unknown works, and studies of the main artistic groups and periods.
Plays are presented in performing edition translations, including (where
appropriate) musical scores, and instructions for music and dance. Whenever
possible the translated texts will be accompanied by videotapes of performances
of plays in the original language.