A ROUSING FINALE: THEATRE PRAKTIKA PERFORMS BABUSHKI
Theatre Praktika, Maslenitsa Week
19:00–20:40, Sunday 17 March 2013
Lillian Baylis Studio in Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, UK
- Praktika performed Babushki (Grannies)
- Cocktail Reception followed the performance in the lobby cafe
- Final Event of Maslenitsa Week (11-17 March)
Last night, 17 March, Moscow-based avant-garde theatre troupe Theatre Praktika performed the contemporary Russian play Babushki at the Lillian Baylis Studio in Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Translated as ‘Old Women’ or ‘Grannies’, the play is by Svetlana Zemlyakova and performed in a documentary style. Based on the book A Russian Village in the Stories of Residents – it is composed of stories from real villagers in Siberia.
Praktika is a contemporary drama company established (2005) by Eduard Boyakov in Moscow to showcase the new generation of playwrights and directors. Their productions tackle difficult themes such as the individual and the state, ethos and urbanism, wars and religion and ethics and amoralism. The play was performed in the style of verbatim theatre and followed the story of a journalist from the big city conducting interviews with country inhabitants. The performance was in Russian with English subtitles.
The event came as the closing chapter of the Maslenitsa week’s celebrations, preceded by several cultural events that included a literary evening by select members of the Praktika cast at Waterstones Piccadilly on Wednesday 13 March.
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