SHUKSHIN'S STORIES: ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BLURBS


Rasskazy Shukshina (Shukshin's Stories). Latvian theater director Alvis Hermanis, widely acknowledge as one of the most significant of his generation, arrived in the capital this November amid much fanfare. Needless to say, he did not disappoint; his staging of Shukshin's rural tales was as touching as it was imaginative.
Element, 2008


... Arguably the hippest new show of the theater season is a down-home kind of thing with a couple of big movie stars playing country bumpkins. I'm talking about Alvis Hermanis's production of "Shukshin's Stories" for the Theater of Nations. It's packing in the audiences, drawing rave, even sycophantic, reviews, and is being hailed as that amorphous animal – The Next Great Thing. All this on the back of a show whose heroes and heroines are uneducated, rural, moneyless and utterly lacking in status of any kind. Now could that just be the real sound of the times? ...
John Freedman
Element, 2009