Thinking with the body Elli Salo is an artist with many strings to her bow. Playwright, writer, author of radio plays, translator, teacher. In recent years, you would be just as likely to hear her plays in Finnish and international theatres as you would be to hear them in libraries, museums and on the radio […]
Interviews
Interview With Noah Birksted-Breen: Falling In Love With New Russian Plays
The Theatre Times Interview with Noah Birksted-Breen
New Russian Drama: an interview with Graham Schmidt, an American theatre director
AK: How would you define New Russian Drama in a single word?
GS: Fresh. I know that this term does not describe a specific theme or style, but as far as I can tell, there was no single theme or group of themes or unifying style that holds these plays together. New Russian Drama was, however, fresh relative to the plays that were being staged at the time.