December 2011: people gather atMoscow's Bolotnaya Square to protest election falsifications. CC BY-NC-ND misha maslennikov / Flickr. Some rights reserved.Moscow’s Teatr.doc, a theatre company that creates and stages documentary theatre, has just premiered “Young and Angry”, a Russian version of John Osborne’s iconic 1956 work “Look back in Anger” set in present day Russia.
This production focuses on issues that are still relevant today: what happened to the young people who stormed the squares of Moscow four years ago? Where did their energy go? Is it still alive? Is it just waiting for the right moment? Has it found another, better direction? Or has it been frittered away to no purpose? In other words, do these young and angry people still exist?
Text translated with permission from Colta.ru, a leading source of cultural debate in Russia. Interview by Roman Dorofeev.
