Russian director Dmitry Krymov signed an anti-war petition at the onset of the invasion of Ukraine. Now he wonders about what a return to Moscow portends.
in Philadelphia — previews begin April 12 with the premiere April 14 — in a time of momentous change wrought by leaders of his home country.
Krymov has been developing this Philadelphia production for about four years, he said, but when he left Moscow in February he fully expected to return after the end of the production’s Wilma run, May 1.On Feb. 28, four days after arriving in Philadelphia and four days since the invasion began, Krymov signed a petition with other prominent Russian cultural leaders denouncing the war.
Not only has the war become more and more brutal, but the government has become increasingly intolerant, a powerful echo of the Soviet days of samizdat where writers achieved freedom byCherry Orchard “I’m not doing political theater,” Krymov said. “The theater that I’m doing, it has to be clear and it has to be transparent and people need to understand where I’m coming from and we need to talk about things from the stage.”
“They probably think, ‘Well if the dude wants to play with my text, let him play. Somebody else will be more serious and do the whole thing the way I wrote it.’”
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