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His performances are all about amazing sound, going through postmodern sampledelics, broadcasting spiritual turmoil and incomprehensibility of the Real world. The songs are very relevant in the context of the war, the lyrical hero of these songs is in the atmosphere of permanent confusion, fear and pain.
Pushkin House is delighted to present a special theatre evening featuring the performance of Vanya is Alive, an anti-war play by a Russian playwright Natalia Lizorkina, followed by a talk with the creative team.
Pushkin House is hosting The Ukrainian Genius, an evening of readings and music to raise funds for Ukrainian humanitarian relief. The event has been initiated by a group of London-based friends, led by critic and translator Will Hobson and author Charlotte Hobson. They invite you to a celebration of Ukrainian culture to keep the bravery of its national struggle at the forefront of everyone’s minds and fly the flag for international solidarity.
Long Live, Queer Belarus! brings together the history and contemporaneity of queer communities in independent Belarus.
The opening lecture by Bahdan Khmialnitski is based on a case study of the capital of Belarus Minsk, introducing the stories, language, places and culture associated with its LGBTQ+ inhabitants. It focuses on the unique practices and vocabulary that the local queer people have developed despite and contrary to the current authoritarian regime.
Dr Margarita Kuleva and Pushkin House invite you to The Ball, an immersive party inspired by Plato’s Feast and aristocratic balls, Russian literature’s recurring mise-en-scène. Among the panellists will be artists and academics who explore Russian art or boundaries as social phenomena, and it will also focus on the interaction between The Guest (Margarita Kuleva) and The Host (Pohititel Aromatov, a queer UK-based artist and popular Russian video blogger).
Food and drink are included in the ticket price.
UK-based, French pianist Patrick Hemmerle presents an exciting programme of virtuoso piano works, culminating in Nikolay Medtner’s rarely heard epic ‘Night Wind’ sonata. Hemmerle is laureate of the international competitions in Valencia, Toledo, Epinal, Grossetto.
For World Theatre Day 2021 we speak to Fraser Grace, author of BLISS, forthcoming in publication from Methuen
Fraser Grace’s new play is based on The River Potudan, a short story by Andrey Platonov (1899-1951), and was rapturously received at the Platonov International Festival in Voronezh in 2019. The play’s publication this month marks the seventieth anniversary of Platonov’s death from tuberculosis, and almost 100 years since the events depicted in Platonov’s story.
A night of cutting-edge Russian contemporary literature, with the authors, translators and editors of a new issue of Words Without Borders.
Join the editors, translators and authors for an online roundtable on subjects such as the Russian literary scene in Western European cities, anti-war poetry by women and translating web-based literature, followed by a bilingual reading.
“Genius does not create. It reflects.”
Join Pushkin House for a preview staging of Anita Brokmeier and Anna Clart’s new play, about the forgotten female voices and lived experiences Leo Tolstoy co-opted to write Anna Karenina. Then, watch a Q&A with the creators and actors. Live in-person tickets and streaming available.
On 9 June, the Pushkin Club gave us a glimpse of some of the masterpieces Pushkin wrote at the end of 1830 in three months of quarantine during a pandemic of Asiatic cholera, among them excerpts from the Little Tragedy A Feast during the Plague. Now, this event offers a rare chance to hear a rehearsed reading of this extraordinary piece by five actors, complete in a translation by Antony Wood.
