Guest Editor: Ruth Wyneken (Berlin/St. Petersburg)

editorial: Theatre and Russian Culture

Ruth Wyneken (Berlin/St. Petersburg):
Russia's Opening to the West and Russian Holy Theatre

Nikolay Pessochinsky (St. Petersburg):
Light in the Lower Depths - an Artistic Dissection...
(on Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths" directed by Lev Erenburg)

Marina Dmitrevskaya (St. Petersburg):
Theatre in St. Petersburg since Perestroika

Nadezhda Tarshis (St. Petersburg):
Director Lev Dodin and his Maly Drama Theatre