I first encountered Dmytro Ternoviy through my Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings project. His play, On the Eve, set in the last hours before Russia launched its full-scale invasion on 24 Feb…
This is Part 2 of the interview with Dmytro Ternoviy. For Part 1, go here. Dmytro Ternoviy's answers are translated from Ukrainian into English. John Freedman: Kharkiv is one of the oldest a…
An interview with Ukrainian playwright and theater-maker Dmytro Ternoviy. Dmytro Ternoviy's answers are translated from Ukrainian into English. I first encountered Dmytro Ternoviy through my…
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. An interview with Ukrainian playwright and theater-maker Dmytro Ternoviy. Let's say you're coming back from the store. Sirens begin to …
"Stop now! See that? You see that cloud? That beautiful shape?" That is what Ken Reynolds would say to his daughter Adele when they went for walks in the countryside in her youth. "He was al…
Alexei Nesterov, an actor in my wife Oksana Mysina's film, Insulted. Belarus(sia), sent her a thank-you email after the film's premiere. "I am so grateful you reached out to me," he wrote. "…
Of all the unexpected things I think I might be able to imagine, one I could never have imagined for a minute was Alexander Zeldovich's production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis at the Stani…
Any story about Russian theatre today is a tale of two cities. Which tale you encounter depends on where you look. On
If you don't like spoilers, fold this newspaper up and don't look at this page again until you have seen Vladimir Pankov's production of Yury Klavdiyev's “I Am the Machine Gunner”…
The real season is about to begin in Moscow. Let the film, music and art pundits take potshots at me -- I don't care. Because when Moscow's drama theaters start gearing up for a new season, …
Few discussions stir as much fire, smoke and hot air as one that the Russian theater community has been having for the last decade about the so-called "new drama."
It has now become a tradition that Moscow's theater season begins with a daunting dose of new drama. This year, according to Yelena Kovalskaya, the art director of the Lyubimovka playwriting…
If just one person were chosen to serve as American theater's prime link to every other theater tradition in the world, it surely would be Martha Coigney. Martha was an employee of the Inter…
(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon, curated by Caridad Svich. Pictured: Maksym Kurochkin speaking at an anti-…
I am the last person you would expect to see on a stage. Unless I'm holding a baseball bat I haven't the vaguest notion what to do with my hands. (And at this point in my life, I hardly reme…
In the New York theater world, Lear deBessonet hangs out in that territory where the future is headed. What that means is that she doesn't do things the way everyone else does, and, in my bo…