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Oksana Mysina
Oksana Anatolyevna Mysina (russian: Окса́на Анато́льевна Мы́сина) (born 15 March 1961, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, USSR) is an actor, director and musician. She has been described by ''The New York Times'' theatre critic Margo Jefferson as one of Russia's greatest actors. She is the founder, lead singer, violinist, and lyricist for the rock band Oxy Rocks. Personal life Oksana Mysina was born and lived in the Donbas region of Ukraine for the first eight years of her life. Her father Anatoly Vladimirovich Mysin, later to be a mining engineer, and her mother Lidia Grigoryevna Mysina (Bratus), subsequently a seismologist, grew up and were married in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro). Oksana credits both parents with giving her the necessary actor's sensibilities: "My irrepressible temperament is from my mother. My father... was a very emotional person." Oksana's sister Marina Yakut (Mysina), three years her elder, was a young talent on the vio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival D'Avignon
The ''Festival d'Avignon'', or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest existent festival in France. Alongside the official festival, the "In" one, a number of shows are presented in Avignon at the same time of the year and are known as the "Off". In 2008, some 950 shows were performed during three weeks. The Birth of a Festival 1947, The Week of Scenic Arts Art critic Christian Zervos and poet René Char organized a modern art exhibition held in the main chapel of the Pope's Palace in Avignon. In that setting, they asked Jean Vilar, actor, director, theater director, and future festival founder, to present ''Meurtre dans la cathédrale'' which he adapted in 1945. After refusing, Vilar proposed three plays: Shakespeare's Richard II, a play almost unknown in France at that time, La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Chmielewska
Joanna Chmielewska was the pen name of Irena Kühn née Becker (2 April 1932 – 7 October 2013), a Polish novelist and screenwriter. Her work is often described as "ironic detective stories". Her novels, which have been translated into at least nine languages, have sold more than 6 million copies in Poland and over 10 million copies in Russia. Biography Born in Warsaw in 1932, Chmielewska graduated as an architect in 1954 from Warsaw University of Technology, and worked as a designer before devoting herself to writing. Her first short story was published in the popular magazine '' Kultura i Życie'' (''Culture and Life'') in 1958 and her first novel, ''Klin'' (''The Wedge''), in 1964. She loved horse races and gambling: both hobbies are mentioned extensively in her books. She was also a connoisseur of amber, a passion which forms the basis for her 1998 novel '' Złota mucha'' (''The Golden Fly''). She wrote more than fifty novels. Most frequently, the protagonist is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel ''The Master and Margarita'', published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He is also known for his novel ''The White Guard''; his plays '' Ivan Vasilievich'', ''Flight'' (also called ''The Run''), and ''The Days of the Turbins''; and other works of the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.Bulgakov's biogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oedipus
Oedipus (, ; grc-gre, Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus accidentally fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city and family. The story of Oedipus is the subject of Sophocles' tragedy '' Oedipus Rex'', which is followed in the narrative sequence by ''Oedipus at Colonus'' and then ''Antigone''. Together, these plays make up Sophocles' three Theban plays. Oedipus represents two enduring themes of Greek myth and drama: the flawed nature of humanity and an individual's role in the course of destiny in a harsh universe. In the best-known version of the myth, Oedipus was born to King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. Laius wished to thwart the prophecy, so he sent a shepherd-servant to leave Oedipus to die on a mountainside. However, the shepherd took pity on the baby and passed him to another shepherd who gave Oedipus to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirill Serebrennikov
Kirill Semyonovich Serebrennikov (russian: Кирилл Семёнович Серебренников; born 7 September 1969) is a Russian stage and film director and theatre designer. Since 2012, he has been the artistic director of the Gogol Center in Moscow. He is one of Russia's leading theatre and cinema directors and winner of numerous international awards. In 2017 he was arrested for alleged embezzlement of the state funds given to the Seventh Studio, a cultural institution he headed. Serebrennikov spent almost 2 years under house arrest. A key witness confessed that she made accusations under pressure from the investigators, and the judge was changed. Media, international cultural community and human rights activists unanimously considered the case politically motivated and fabricated because Serebrennikov was known for his liberal and LGBT-friendly stances that opposes Russian official conservative positions. In June 2020, Serebrennikov was sentenced guilty and given thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Berkovich
Evgenia (Zhenya) Berkovich is a Russian theatre director, playwright, and poet. She is a member of Kirill Serebrennikov's ‘Seventh Studio’. On 5 May 2023, she was arrested alongside Svetlana Petriychuk on allegations of justifying terrorism. On 8 July 2024, the two were sentenced to six years in prison. Biography Family Berkovich is Jewish. Her paternal great-grandfather, Lev Maizelis, was accused of conspiracy and executed in 1938. Her maternal grandmother was Nina Katerli (1934-2023), a writer, publicist and human rights activist. Her grandfather wanted to be a director, but due to antisemitism in the USSR, was not accepted into any drama school. From him, Berkovich gained her love of theater. Berkovich's parents are Elena Mikhailovna Efros, a human rights activist, and Boris Berkovich, a poet. Her parents divorced when she was a child, and her father immigrated to Israel and remarried. She has one twin sister, Maria. Berkovich is married to Nikolay Matveyev, als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Krymov
Dmitry Anatolyevich Krymov (russian: Дми́трий Анато́льевич Кры́мов) is a Russian artist, scenographer, teacher and theater director, 5 times laureate of the Golden Mask award. Biography Family and Early Years Dmitry was born in Moscow to Anatoly Efros and . Efros was a prominent Russian director, Krymova was a well-known critic and historian. Dmitry was given his mother's surname because in his time his father suffered a lot for having a Jewish surname. In 1976 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School's scenography department. Career In 1976 Krymov started working as a set designer at the . In collaboration with his father, Dmitry staged Shakespeare's ''Otello'', ''A Month in the Countryside'' based on Ivan Turgenev's play, Aleksei Arbuzov's ''Recollection'', and many more. In 1985 he switched to the Taganka Theatre, where he created set design for Svetlana Alexievich's ''The Unwomanly Face of War'', Boris Mozhayev's ''A Square Meter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Menshikov
Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR (russian: Оле́г Евге́ньевич Ме́ньшиков, link=no; born 8 November 1960) is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer. He is the current artistic director of the Yermolova Theatre in Moscow. Internationally, Menshikov is the best known for his roles in the films by Nikita Mikhalkov ''Burnt by the Sun'' (1994), ''The Barber of Siberia'' (1998), '' Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus'' (2010) and '' Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel'' (2011), as well as for his performance in Régis Wargnier's ''East/West'' (1999). Menshikov is the winner of a Laurence Olivier Award, a Nika Award and three State Prizes of the Russian Federation, and the recipient of the Order of Honour of the Russian Federation. Early life Menshikov was born in Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, to father Evgeny (born 1934), a military engineer, and mother Yelena (born 1933), a doctor. In addition to regular school, Menshikov also attended music school, where he p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pushkin Drama Theatre
The State Russian Drama Theatre named after Pushkin or Pushkin Theatre ( tk, A. S. Puşkin adyndaky döwlet rus drama teatry) is a theatre in Ashgabat, the capital city of Turkmenistan. History The theatre was founded in 1926. In 1957, the theatre was named after Russian poet Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, .... In February 2004, building on the Görogly street was demolished, because of its state of emergency. The theatre was moved to Magyumguly avenue, to the building of the former Palace of Culture of the Ashgabat Silk Factory. References Links * Theatres in Ashgabat Theatres completed in 1926 {{theatre-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; russian: Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ)) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in 1898 by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time. The theatre, the first to regularly put on shows implementing Stanislavski's system, proved hugely influential in the acting world and in the development of modern American theatre and drama. It was officially renamed the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre in 1932. In 1987, the theatre split into two troupes, the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre and the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. Beginnings At the end of the 19th-century, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Kozak (theatre Director)
Roman Yefimovich Kozak (russian: Рома́н Ефи́мович Ко́зак; June 29, 1957 in Vinnytsia – May 28, 2010 in Moscow) was a Russian theatre actor and director. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2000). He was artistic director of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. Roman Kozak was married to choreographer Alla Sigalova. References External links Страница Романа Козака на сайте Театра имени Пушкина— ''RIA Novosti RIA Novosti (russian: РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN () or RIA (russian: РИА, label=none) is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013 by a decree of Vladimir Putin it was liquidated and its asse ..., May 28, 2010'' Блог Романа Козака 1957 births 2010 deaths Russian male actors Russian theatre directors Deaths from cancer in Russia Deaths from laryngeal cancer People from Vinnytsia Honored Artists of the Russian Federatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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