Noel Coward, LondonSponsored by Roman Abramovich, Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre arrived in London for a brief nine-day residence. The largely Russian-speaking first-night audience also greeted this dramatisation of Yevgenia Ginzburg's memoir of life inside a Soviet prison with cheers and bouquets. But, although this 20-year-old production offers a striking acknowledgement of the horrors of Stalinist Russia, it is only…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PM on January 23, 2011