Staging International Theatre Festivals in Mid-Pandemic Russia: An Interview with Roman Dolzhanskiy

Abstract

Roman Dolzhanskiy speaks to James Rowson about the challenges of organising international theatre festivals in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses how the New European Theatre (NET) Festival and Territory Festival have navigated the complex and frequently changing public safety restrictions in Russia.

Keywords::

• Russian theatre
• COVID-19
• pandemic
• theatre festivals

Notes

1. See, for example, Georgia Snow, ‘Covid Passes for Welsh Theatres Labelled “Huge Blow to Sector's Recovery”’, The Stage, November 10, 2021, https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/covid-passes-for-welsh-theatres-labelled-huge-blow-to-sectors-recovery (accessed January 3, 2022); Alistair Smith, ‘Covid passports are on their way, but will there be any theatre left to watch?’, The Stage, July 14, 2021, https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/covid-passports-are-on-their-way-but-will-there-be-any-theatre-left-to-watch (accessed January 3, 2022).