24 stories by "Emiliia Dementsova"
There are productions that do not so much tell a biography as listen to it and Sardar Tagirovsky’s Broken Melody, produced by the Almetyevsk Tatar State Drama Theater, belongs to that rare…
Nina Plavanjac’s The Aquarium, produced by the Subotica National Theatre in Serbia and presented within the Hungary-Serbian Cultural Season at MİTEM, is a chamber work about inheritance …
Davide Iodice’s Pinocchio. What Is a Person?, created with Scuola Elementare del Teatro / Conservatorio Popolare per le Arti della Scena and presented by Teatro di Napoli and Interno 5, is…
MITEM (Madách International Theatre Meeting), held annually at the National Theatre in Budapest, is one of Central Europe's major international theatre festivals. Since its founding in 20…
A provincial theatre celebrates an anniversary. In the dressing room " two men: a comic and a tragedian, not on the guest list. On the table " cheap vodka, a jar of pickles. The tragedian, t…
These two people are separated by history, geography, language, maths, and other school subjects and common truths. But they are united by love. Does this mean something in a society saturat…
The 10th edition of the Madách International Theatre Meeting in Budapest coincided with the Jewish holiday Sukkot (Festival of Booths). It is celebrated for seven days, one of which was s…
"The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show invent…",- Anglo-Irish writer-satirist, essayist, philosopher, poet, owner of one of the sharpest feathers…
Budapest is becoming a vibrant place and proving highly attractive to theatre lovers. All the flags of the world gather here, inspired by the energy and life-giving power of theatre. Surpris…
Ulviyya Heydarova: "I switch on my computer, open Word and put my heart and thoughts into action" If you have not heard anything about contemporary Azerbaijani dramaturgy, you should definit…
Young Barbarians " director: Attila Vidnyánszky Jr. They say the best way to get to know each other is to go on a trip. The best way to get to know contemporary theatre is to go to th…
No matter how trends, themes, agendas and moods of society change, the focus of the study of art will always be human. After all, it is created by people for people. The message to the man i…
Get inside a woman's head and, by understanding her, unravel the mystery of how the world works. Theodoros Terzopoulos, whose play Nora (Attis Theatre) opened the MITEM festival as part of t…
When the world is engulfed in flames of enmity, would another flame be superfluous? Not if it is the flame of the Olympic fire, the fire of art. It can be salutary, transformative and gracef…
When the non-peaceful world is illuminated by the bursts of shells, it seems that other illuminations fade in these bursts. But this impression is false, and even to the roar of the cannons …
Musical drama of unlearned lessons is perhaps the most appropriate definition for Evgeny Pisarev's loud, in all senses, performance Cabaret. If this premiere had taken place at the Theatre o…
In a country at war, theatres continue to work… "(They) are so simple to offer war where they should kneel for peace," phrases torn out of the context of works acquire a new tone in the co…
Cruel Games at the Mossovet Theater is not just the name of a forgotten play by Alexei Arbuzov, but a new genre by the theatre's recently appointed artistic director, Yevgeny Marchelli. The …
It's trite to write about how hard it is to live from lockdown to lockdown; from one mask change to another; from vaccination to revaccination. Yet life consists of platitudes. It is trite t…
The Russian Case:Â History, politics and eternal values Spring, with all of its uncertain promise, is a time of awakening. In Moscow, theatres are gradually waking from their enforced hibe…
If theater around the world previously sought to destroy the fourth wall, it has recently had to deal with this wall doubling. It is increasingly difficult for the audience and the performan…
If the United States again accuses Russia of interfering in the election, it will almost certainly be the Vakhtangov Theatre that is to blame because it is the culprit of its own, all-theatr…
Theatre has survived thanks to its mobility and potential to exchange creative ideas. Since its inception, it has been open to the circulation of different practices, approaches, and conscio…
This year is a special one for the Theatre Olympics. For in it's touring, it is comprised of two mutually enriching parts: for the first time, it is held in two countries " in Russia and in …
