Urban Theater is a contemporary Eastern European theater

THE RED FOLDER

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It’s a story of international family of three: mom, dad and little girl, who had to leave their home because of the war. It’s a "road movie" of their few months travel through 10 countries of Europe.

This story isn’t about war, this story about people on the way, the people who helps each other, who making life better and actually running this world. Starting as an ordinary travel-story, it goes into the myth and talking about Human population in general.

"The Red Folder" — it’s a folder with documents, which each immigrant or refugee should collect on the way. So, it’s a true story based on documents of this family, but turned into the uplifting form of fairytale which parents telling their daughter.

RICHTER’S Fairytale

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RICHTER’S FAIRYTALE offers insight into the life of Sviatoslav Richter (1915−1997), one of the greatest Soviet pianists in music history. The life of this German-Russian piano virtuoso was marked by an escape from the reality of the Stalinist regime into the boundless and unrestricted world of music.

The play is a fantasy exploring the mutual relationship between the artist and power. It is based on documents from Richter’s archive as well as interviews with this artist, his colleagues, and close friends. The theatrical piece narrates the story of a musical genius forced to invent his own "free world" in order to remain as far removed as possible from dictatorial rule, totalitarianism, and stagnation. Through the integration of live music, elements of dramatic and documentary theater, puppetry, and clowning, an extraordinary and fantastical story is brought to the stage… a tale of this unique personality.

"Politics holds no interest for me," Richter used to say. However, his fate was intertwined with it: Richter’s father was executed due to false accusations, his mother fled with the retreating German troops to Germany, and Richter himself, narrowly avoiding arrest, played at Stalin’s funeral.