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SUMMARY:Russian Theatre and Russian Actors on the British Stage: A Convers
 ation with Declan Donnellan (Artistic Director Cheek by Jowl\, and Chekhov
  International Theatre Festival - Declan Donnelllan
DTSTART:20111020T163000Z
DTEND:20111020T180000Z
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CONTACT:Sean Durman
DESCRIPTION:The Seventh Professor Dame Elizabeth Hill Memorial Lecture\n\n
 Declan Donnellan is joint founder of Cheek by Jowl with Nick Ormerod\, and
  joint Artistic Director of the Company. Cheek by Jowl was described by Th
 e Independent in 1990 as the company to have had the most significant infl
 uence on British Theatre in the 1980s. The company has been Artistic Assoc
 iate at the Barbican Theatre London since 2006.\n\nDonnellan's unique rela
 tionship with Russia goes back over twenty five years. He has adapted Russ
 ian plays (The Mandate by Erdman and Masquerade by Lermontov) for the Brit
 ish stage. He has also directed The Winter's Tale for the Malyi Theatre of
  St Petersburg and Romeo and Juliet for the Bolshoi Ballet. In 1999\, the 
 Russian Theatre Foundation invited him to form a Moscow counterpart to Che
 ek By Jowl. This company’s Russian-language productions of Twelfth Night
 \, Boris Godunov\, Three Sisters and The Tempest now represent Russia at m
 ajor International festivals and have enjoyed significant critical acclaim
 . Donnellan’s book The Actor and The Target was first published in Russi
 an and  has since appeared in over a dozen languages.\n\nDeclan will be di
 scussing his experiences of working in Russia\, and with Russian actors\; 
 he will also talk about the place of Russian drama in the London/UK theatr
 e repertoire\, and its meanings for British audiences.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Hall\, Trinity College
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