Description
Dogstar Theatre Company presents: Nightlands is a play about how authoritarianism weaponises nostalgia, about Russia today, a psychological thriller located in the ex-Soviet ghost town of Pyramiden, Svalbard.Set in 1999, at the dawn of the Putin autocracy, Pyramiden’s caretakers play out a generational and ideological conflict. Sasha (Matthew Zajac) is nostalgic for the collapsed communist past, Slava (Rebecca Wilkie) wants a better future. Their epic struggle rages like the storms of the Polar Night....
Period | 3 Aug 2022 → 4 Aug 2022 |
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Degree of Recognition | International |
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Student theses
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Nightlands: Playwriting in the Ruins of the Soviet-Arctic
Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)
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Press/Media
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Nightlands: Theatre Play Review
Press/Media: Other
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Edinburgh Review: Nightlands at Summerhall
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