Pushkin House and the producers of Chekhov Bows & Leaves invite you to the first public table reading of the script of a new film by director Sandy Strallen: a meditative reflection on death, dread and destiny.
Internationally acclaimed theatre company HUNCHtheatre, together with Pushkin House, proudly present the debut of English-language play 'One Day It Will Happen' by Russian playwright and journalist Tatyana Movshevich. This event will launch HUNCHtheatre’s new season championing new independent theatre voices. After the staged reading there will be a post-show discussion with award-winning BBC presenter Lucy Ash in conversation with Tatyana Movshevich and HUNCHtheatre's co-founding director Vladimir Shcherban.
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.
