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Benjamin Brittens opera DEATH IN VENICE creates controversiy at Russian festival GUARDIAN:Ive just returned from three days at St Petersburgs inaugural International Winter theatre festival. International co-operation was the unofficial theme: some of Europes biggest theatre directors were invited to attend, with a programme – curated by Lev Dodin, veteran director of the citys Maly theatre – designed to show St Petersburg asserting its historic role as Russias gateway to the wider world. It was an eclectic, Euro-heavy bill: Mozart directed with dextrous lightness by Peter Brook, an anti-fascist piece by Belgian auteur Luk Perceval, the Russian debut of Milans Piccolo theatre under the stewardship of movie star Toni Servillo, all topped with a slice of the Austrian avant-garde, a version of Peter Handkes idiosyncratic Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez by the Swiss provocateur Luc Bondy. Dodin told me: Theres so much discourse happening inside Russia at the moment about whether Russia is part of Europe or not, whether the Russian way is a separate way, whether the country is closed or open. He firmly believes, he added, that it should be the latter.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:11:26 +0000

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