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Director and artist Dmitry Krymov’s production of Opus No.7, about the Holocaust and the celebrated Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich, is set to be performed at the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) from June 4 to 14, and then at the Northern Stages festival in Newcastle from June 19 to 21. In November, Krymov’s Laboratory is mounting another show in England: As You Like It, based on Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The 19th New York International Fringe Festival, held on August 14-30, will host the world premiere of “To Dance” – a musical stage adaptation of the autobiography of Russian-Jewish dancer Valery Panov, who left the USSR to forge a career in the West. To mark the event, RBTH tells his story and remembers other Soviet dancers who took the decision to leave their country forever in search of a better life.
RIR Dmitriy Romendik The building on Lubyanka used to be the KGB's reception office. Source: Vladimir Fedorenko / RIA Novosti The square in Moscow has been associated with executions, violence and torture in the 20th century. It however has a dark past that goes back all the way to the 18th century. For Russians, the word Lubyanka has as menacing a sound to it as the word Gulag.
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