Tag Archives: soviet

Describe the Night, Hampstead Theatre

Posted on May 10, 2018 by mkmswain

American playwright Rajiv Joseph’s latest certainly doesn’t lack for ambition, spanning 90 years, three countries, and mixing history and fiction in its form to make a point about, well, mixing history and fiction. Storytelling through to the pertinent “fake news” … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged ben caplan, berlin wall, broadwayworld, david birrell, describe the night, drama, east germany, fake news, hampstead theatre, isaac babel, kgb, lisa spirling, london, moscow, nikolai yezhov, plane crash, play, poland, propaganda, putin, rajiv joseph, rebecca o'mara, review, russia, secret police, smolensk, soviet, spy, stalin, story, theatre | Leave a comment

Russian phantoms, American identity and S-Town

Posted on April 12, 2017 by mkmswain

On my April MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: Russian phantoms The Design Museum resurrects utopian Soviet architecture Don’t miss: American abyss From Edward Hopper to Grant Wood: 1930s Americana at the Royal Academy Commuter corner Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream and new podcast … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Fiction, Journalism | Tagged 1930s, america, america after the fall, april, architecture, art, book, building, commute, commuter, depression, design museum, edward hopper, exhibition, fever dream, gallery, grant wood, imagine moscow, london, moveto, moveto town and country magazine, novel, painting, pick of the month, podcast, read, royal academy, russian, russian revolution, s-town, soviet | Leave a comment

Thriller asks big questions

Posted on November 21, 2014 by mkmswain

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, David Edgar’s 1990s Iron Curtain Trilogy is staged together for the first time, offering wry, nuanced dramatisation of political and social upheaval. Middle play Pentecost addresses post-Soviet reconstruction and the complexity … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged america, art, art history, asylum, berlin wall, catholic, church, cockpit, cold war, david edgar, drama, eastern europe, fresco, giotto, ham and high, history, hostage, immigrant, immigration, iron curtain, london, north london, orthodox, pentecost, play, refugee, religion, renaissance, review, soviet, theatre, trilogy, western | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: soviet

Describe the Night, Hampstead Theatre

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