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Dateline: 22nd July, 2005
Old Red Lion Hosts Russian Hit London's Old Red Lion Theatre in St John Street, just off the Pentoville Road, is to play host to Oleg Bogaev’s Russian National Mail, the winner of the Golden Mask Award for Best Production (the Russian equivalent of an Olivier), as well as being described by the Moscow Times as "brilliant". The play has been translated by Noah Birksted-Breen, who also directs. He is co-founder, with Leila Gray, of Sputnik Theatre and their aim is to raise the profile of modern Russian drama in the UK. "It’s an imaginative and very funny play," says Gray, "which nevertheless asks some tough questions about the aftermath of communism.” In the heart of post-Soviet Russia, Ivan Sidorovich, played by Kevin McMonagle, lives alone in the flat he once shared with his postal-worker wife. Amid piles of paper and envelopes he is both angered and scared by the world he now lives in; it has completely transformed from the one in which he grew up. While he sits alone, coming to terms with the loss of the country he knew, he writes to people, anyone, before posting the correspondence through any letterbox-shaped aperture he can find. The play was first performed in this country, in a different translation, at the Royal Court in 2001. The production runs from 23rd August to 10th September. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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