6 June 2019
Photo by Andrei Bezukladnikov
Dmitri Kourliandski's opera Octavia. Trepanation, staged by Boris Yukhananov, premiered in 2017 in Amsterdam at the Holland Festival. The libretto is based on Lev Trotsky's essay about Vladimir Lenin (1924), and on fragments of a play attributed to Seneca about the Roman emperor Nero. The stage is dominated by an enormous head of Lenin, and centaur skeletons. It is a complex, multivalent work, in which the theme of tyranny is projected onto the contemporary world. The Russian premiere, for which the Electrotheatre has announced an audition for volunteers to participate as soldiers in a Terracotta army, will take place on the stage of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre on October 17 to 19 as part of the Territory festival. Dmitri Kourliandski speaks about his dissection of the revolutionary song “Varshavyanka,” and about the trepanation of tyranny.
RECENT ENTRIES
Critic Vadim Rutkovsky on the Theatre of Boris YukhananovJohn Freedman and Noah Birksted-Breen on Stanislavsky ElectrotheatrePhotohistory : The ObserverThe International Online Theatre Festival. Octavia. Trepanation and The Constant PrincipleThe Cinema of Boris Yukhananov: We Gaze into the Past as if it Were the PresentThe Golden Ass WeekStanislavsky Electrotheatre Hosts Online Streaming of its Productions (with English subtitles)Boris Yukhananov on pandemic and isolationPremiere of Pinocchio, a diptychInternational Theatre Institute Journal on Pinocchio