Russian Theatre and Russian Actors on the British Stage: A Conversation with Declan Donnellan
The Seventh Professor Dame Elizabeth Hill Memorial Lecture
Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College
Thursday, 20th October 2011, 5:30-7:00pm
Declan Donnellan is joint founder of Cheek by Jowl with Nick Ormerod, and joint Artistic Director of the Company. Cheek by Jowl was described by The Independent in 1990 as the company to have had the most significant influence on British Theatre in the 1980s. The company has been Artistic Associate at the Barbican Theatre London since 2006.
Donnellan’s unique relationship with Russia goes back over twenty five years. He has adapted Russian plays (The Mandate by Erdman and Masquerade by Lermontov) for the British stage. He has also directed The Winter’s Tale for the Malyi Theatre of St Petersburg and Romeo and Juliet for the Bolshoi Ballet. In 1999, the Russian Theatre Foundation invited him to form a Moscow counterpart to Cheek By Jowl. This company’s Russian-language productions of Twelfth Night, Boris Godunov, Three Sisters and The Tempest now represent Russia at major International festivals and have enjoyed significant critical acclaim. Donnellan’s book The Actor and The Target was first published in Russian and has since appeared in over a dozen languages.
Declan will be discussing his experiences of working in Russia, and with Russian actors; he will also talk about the place of Russian drama in the London/UK theatre repertoire, and its meanings for British audiences.
This event is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a wine reception.
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Dmitry Bykov in Cambridge – 12 and 13 October!
Cambridge University Russian Society together with the Department of Slavonic Studies of Cambridge University are delighted to invite you to two events with renowned Russian intellectual, writer, poet and journalist Dmitry Bykov:
The talk will be followed by a reception with wine and nibbles.
Language: English and Russian
Being one of the most prolific modern Russian writers, in recent years Dmitry Bykov has gained some recognition for his biography of Boris Pasternak, published in 2005. The biography broke with prior works in its account of Doctor Zhivago, and it earned Bykov the 2006 National Bestseller (NatsBest) and Great Book (Большая Книга) awards. He later wrote biographies of Maksim Gorky and Bulat Okudzhava. In 2011, National Bestseller Award was again given to Dmitry Bykov for his novel “Ostromov, or the Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” set in the 1920s Leningrad.
As a journalist and critic, Bykov has been writing for the magazine Ogoniok since 1993. He has also periodically run a show on the radio station Echo of Moscow, running at least until early 2008. Earlier, he was one of the hosts of an influential TV show Vremechko.
In 2011, online video project “Poet i grazhdanin” (“A poet and a citizen”), later renamed as “Grazhdanin poet”, created by Dmitry Bykov and actor Mikhail Efremov, has become increasingly popular among the Internet users, further expanding into radio and press.
See you on 12 and 13 October!
With best wishes,
CURS team
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