New York’s Lark Play Development Center & Moscow’s Lyubimovka Festival recently conspired to have several great American plays be translated and adapted for the Russian stage. I was tapped to translate and adapt Arthur Kopit’s “Wings.” After Arthur and the other playwrights participating in the workshop flew in, we took my first draft and workedContinue reading “Never a place to hide: on helping bring Arthur Kopit’s “Wings” to Russia (and a few other things besides)”
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
A statement on the state of things
I dreamed that a former lover took me by the hair Wrapped my hair around his wrist Like a chain. He beat the people he loved with me, Beat them bloody So that they could never hurt him again. And in the melee I wondered where he ended and I began. I called my hairdresserContinue reading “A statement on the state of things”
Why it sucks to be a journalist (and why people do it anyway)
In the West, the news is a commodity, a product. And the customer is always right. If you’re not giving the customer what they want – you’re usually screwed. In places like Russia, the news is more like a government-owned resource. And the government gets to set the agenda on how said resource will beContinue reading “Why it sucks to be a journalist (and why people do it anyway)”
Summer night Kiev blues
I was born in Kiev, Ukraine, I was young and running wild – “Be a darling,” said the raven, “Keep my beak inside your heart.” I was born in Kiev, Ukraine, Beak in heart and heart in throat, Acid bubbling in the tear ducts, Muscle in a Gordian knot. I was born in Kiev, UkraineContinue reading “Summer night Kiev blues”
I just read gay Strelkov porn so you wouldn’t have to
Note: After I wrote this post, I made the decision to insert a bunch of gifs with hot men in them. It’s not for you – it’s for me. To preserve my soul. When Heather McRobie alerted me to the fact that erotic gay fan fiction featuring Igor Strelkov (Girkin), former (?) separatist leader in easternContinue reading “I just read gay Strelkov porn so you wouldn’t have to”
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