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Critic, translator and Supervisor of English at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, John Freedman, in conversation with Noah Birksted-Breen (University of Oxford) on how the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre became one of the most influential theatres in Europe. Recorded 6 May 2020 for The Theatre Times International Online Theatre Festival.

A performance of The Observer will be shown May 13 within the framework of the "Boris Yukhananov's Cinema: We Look at the Past as if it Were the Present" festival. Today our Photohistory rubric is dedicated to it.

This year’s festival features 25 productions from leading international companies including Reckless Sleepers, TR Warszawa, Stanislavsky Electrotheatre and the Schaubühne.

Films and theatre productions from the Boris Yukhananov archive. Jointly with Seance magazine

The Stanislavsky Electrotheatre continues it's program of streaming theatre performances. On 27 April — 2 May, you can watch three compositions of The Golden Ass project.

The Stanislavsky Electrotheatre continues it's program of streaming theatre performances, and lectures of the School of Contemporary Spectators and Listeners. The new contingent opens with Heiner Goebbels Week, which will offer archival footage of meetings and conversations with the director, as well as the presentation of his book The Aesthetics of Absence, the installation Fading Apocalypse, and his production, Max Black, or, 62 Ways of Supporting the Head with a Hand. In the last two weeks of April, we will offer streams of Boris Yukhananov’s multi-part performances — The Blue Bird and The Golden Ass. Streaming will take place on the Afisha website, the Culture.ru portal and VKontakte on the theatre’s page.

Boris Yukhananov: This frightening new Spectacle has certain properties – for one, it is an anti-world from within the carnival. But where the carnival simply flips the hierarchy, elevating the low to the high, and bringing down those on top, what we are experiencing now defines a completely different type of horizontal development.

Boris Yukhananov's production of Pinocchio has premiered on the stage of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre. The theatre considers that the work gestated for 48 years, while the set design was developed in sixty versions, the number of costumes exceeded 150, and rehearsals lasted almost three years.

The new issue of MIT (International Theatre Institute) journal offers several materials about the rehearsals of Pinocchio, and about discussions dedicated to the premiere. The first shows take place quite soon: November 21 to 24 during the NET (New European Theatre) festival. In the meantime, you can read an article by Olga Fuchs about Pinocchio.

Octavia. Trepanation has been written up in numerous features, reviews, interviews, &c, and recently a talk about this opera was delivered at the International Co-production conference. The organizers were the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre and the Territory International Festival of Contemporary Art with the participation of the Aksyonov Family Foundation, with the support of the Goethe Institute, and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Moscow. Theatre critic Olga Fedyanina moderated the talks and papers that were delivered, and the entire event was coordinated by Irina Tokareva.