Into the Whirlwind
From: Friday, 21st January 2011
To: Saturday, 22 January 2011
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Synopsis
The stage production of Eugenia Ginzburg’s haunting memoirs has become one of the biggest hits in Russian theatre. This surrealistic nightmare of Stalin’s prison system tells the story of one woman’s survival through interrogation and torture, transporting its audience to a strange, Goyaesque world, reminiscent of Dante’s circles of Hell.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 24 January 2011
The Russians are coming, for a few performances at least, to the West End. Eugenia Ginzburg’s Into the Whirlwind marks the visit of the Sovremennik Theatre of Moscow that is bank-rolled by the Chelsea football club-owning oligarch Roman Abramovich and also sees Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard briefly visit the Noël Coward.
While the account of persecution and yearning in the gulag during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s is bleak and unremitting, there’s no doubt that we are watching a great acting company.
In recent years we have seen the Rustaveli of Georgia and the Maly of Leningrad. With two celebrated Chekhov productions to follow this opener, London will surely be celebrating a third great ensemble that reveals the Russian genius for acting of an unrivalled power, lyric beauty and psychological intensity.
The company was founded in 1956, three years after Stalin&...
Creative
Eugenia Ginzburg (Author)
Sovremennik Theatre (Company)
Oksana Nemchuk (Producer)
Artsbridge Ltd I:Galina Volchek (Producer)
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