Another dispatch from my sister in Moscow:
Bol’shoi (big) and Malyi (small) theaters, from outside and in, respectively. I saw Ostrovskii’s “Na vsiakogo mudretsa dovol’no prostoty” (Even a Wise Man Stumbles)on Sunday at the Malyi, and while the staging wasn’t my favorite (too much synthesizer, etc.), there were moments of real brilliance. Especially by the incredible comic actress Irina Murav’eva, a.k.a. Liudmila from one of my all-time favorite movies, ”Moskva slezam ne verit” (Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears, which is available online with subtitles). I saw that film in first-year Russian, in 1998, and I still credit/blame it for giving me a profound nostalgia for Brezhnev-era Russia and a deep longing to be a Soviet career woman.
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