GITIS students are presenting the new show after the play about the most dramatic moments in the 140-year history of the institute written especially for us by playwrights Elena Isaeva and Olga Mikhailova. It was the time of the campaign called “the fight with cosmopolitans”. In 1949 an article “On an Anti-Patriotic Group of Theater Critics”, targeting GITIS professors was published at “Pravda” newspaper.
The play is called “Never — to anyone — about anything” but the show will go under the name “Cosmopolitan”. Students impersonate both — prominent GITIS professors and their persecutors. So this is the generation of the XXI century that unwinds the history.
Students of Leonid Kheifets class (Directing faculty) with professor Mikhail Chumachenko were working on a show while being on self isolation. You can now watch it at our
YouTube channel.
