
Twelfth Night in Russian, directed by Pavel Safonov at the Moscow Academic Theatre of Satire [Moskovskii Akademicheskii Teatr Satiry], March 12, 2017 Read More
Twelfth Night in Russian, directed by Pavel Safonov at the Moscow Academic Theatre of Satire [Moskovskii Akademicheskii Teatr Satiry], March 12, 2017 Read More
This production of Measure for Measure by Cheek by Jowl was first staged at the Pushkin Theatre in Moscow, the fifh of Cheek by Jowl’s internationally touring Russian productions (following Boris Gudonov, Twelfth Night, Three Sisters and The Tempest). Cheek by Jowl produce work in English, Russian and French, and are widely regarded as one of the most important European theatre companies of the past thirty years. This is the company’s second production of Measure for Measure, the first in Russian, and many reviewers understood the modern-dress production to be a comment on surveillance and oppression in contemporary Russia. Read More
This production of The Tempest by Cheek by Jowl, a co-production with the Chekhov International Festival was first staged at Les Gemeaux, Sceaux, Paris, in January 2011, and played across North and South America, Europe and Asia. This was the second Shakespeare production in Russian that the company toured internationally (following Twelfth Night). Read More