St. Petersburg’s independent Takoy Theatre delivers a sharp, intellectually thrilling staging of Ivan Vyrypaev’s masterful script, captured live with intense dramatic focus. Co-directed by Igor Sergeev and Vladimir Kuznetsov, the performance is set during an academic symposium on the "Middle East...

5 AM. Barbara and Werner, 7 years into their marriage, have been arguing since 10 PM. They are on the verge of paying off their mortgage, but look into the abyss of “what’s next?”, opening up the floodgates of pent up anger and resentments. Nominated for 5 Golden Mask Awards, including best actre...

Inspired by a 1975 American touring production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” he visited as a child, Dmitry Krymov’s “Everyone is Here” is a memory piece, a starting point for a flight of imagination and immersion into his own past. Wilder’s “Our Town” is superimposed on the personal memories of...

A metaphor about the fate of Russia, its rulers and eternal values, Dmitry Krymov’s “Boris” subverts its ideas behind the cover of Pushkin’s text to show a direct line of the current governance of Russia with its imperial past, as well as all the myths on which Russian identity now rests. A flyin...

Zhenya Berkovich’s staging of Svetlana Petriichuk’s provocative, documentary style play, tells the story of a Russian woman who befriends and is seduced by a member of an Islamic radical sect online, goes to Syria, marries him and upon her eventual return to Russia is tried as a terrorist. All th...