Throughline

We are pleased to announce Throughline, our first Studio Six blog, by member-at-large Adam Muskin. Throughline features reviews and observations direct from Moscow at the forefront of Russian theater. Adam is working on his Masters in Acting, with an emphasis on teaching and directing, at the Moscow Art Theater School.

Winter/Зима

directed by Vasanth Santosham
translated by Studio Six

Studio Six has received a Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grant for June-August 2010. We will use this time and space to develop Winter/Зима in an original Studio Six translation and directed by company member Vasanth Santosham.

In Yevgeny Grishkovets’ most engaging play, Winter, two loveable, Chaplinesque paratroopers find themselves assigned to a mysterious military operation: the detonation of high-powered explosives in the middle of an enchanted, snow-covered forest. Alone with their map and their doomsday bomb, the men come to realize they are freezing to death and may not make it through to morning. As they begin to confront the inevitability of their deaths-by-frost, the fairy-tale character Snow Maiden emerges from the deepest part of the forest, an impish beauty who charms and toys with the men, conjuring dreams, memories, and transcendent desires.
- Mark Poklemba, Dramaturg

"…through Grishkovets’ plays we see that life is unbearable, but that we can be rescued by finding those moments when we recognize, simply, that life is a miracle.”
- Anatoly Smeliansky, Russian Theater Critic and Dean of the Moscow Art Theater School

...the itsy bitsy spider...

adapted from Fyodr Dostoyevsky's Demons

directed by Alexandre Marine

Baltimore City Paper article

Studio Six will be bringing ...the itsy bitsy spider... to Montreal's Centaur Theater in January for the Wildside Festival - a festival that celebrates young companies and their bold new works.