The Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg will return to London this spring the first time in more than a decade with the UK première of Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate, as well as reprising its production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Both productions will be performed in Russian with English subtitles.
Adapted for the stage for the first time and banned because of the parallels it drew between Nazism and Social Communism, Life and Fate is described as "a sweeping panorama of Soviet Society, an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single Jewish family, the Shtrums."
From Nazi concentration camps to the Gulags of Siberia and the Soviet nuclear programme, as the battle of Stalingrad looms large, the characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and war.