Jan 5. State power day. Woo! Filled with a late breakfast (usually the broiled potatoes Ryan had made, long-overdue Honey Nut Cheerios with milk and OJ–simple delights I hadn’t had in months), I arrived at Kremlin walls just after 12 noon, where the line to see Lenin’s Mausoleum (free) was being told that they probably [...]
Posts Tagged ‘theatre’
Moscow: Dictators, authors & theatre critics (Jan 5-7)
Posted: January 17, 2010 in Russia, Winter TravelTags: big bell, big cannon, Bulgakov, departure, fooling the Kremlin, Gogol, holiday, house museum, Inspector General, Kremlin, Lenin, Moscow, museum, Novodevichy Cemetery, Russian Christmas, theatre, Tolstoy, waxy figures, WiFi
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Theatre: Romeo & Dzhulietta à la Russe/J.C. Superstar
Posted: December 5, 2009 in ИркутскTags: "amusing/characteristically Russian", adaptation, corruption, Romeo & Dzhulietta, Sovietism, teachers, theatre, translation
On Tuesday night, I ran into another extra-curricular “committment” to keep myself well distracted from the significant, but shrinking, pile of work I have ahead of me this weekend. Hooray! Irina Melentievna (grammar teacher), that wonderful woman, her, got her hands on tickets for the Irkutsk Dramaturgical Academy Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet for us. I [...]
Week 7: Midterm rush
Posted: October 22, 2009 in Иркутск, Student LifeTags: arts, занятии, economic efficiency, exams, friends, igu, Irkutsk, midterms, The Older Son, theatre
There’s not really a midterm season here. Or, there is, simply by the fact that it’s “midway through the term,” but that’s about its only defining characteristic. But for the sake of preserving traditions from the homeland, here’s my exam schedule and otherwise busy schedule. . . . Exam schedule (“exam” in the singular). I [...]
