Arts & CultureSunday, November 8
Hybrid Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group
Sunday, November 8 · 1-3 p.m. · The Icon Museum and Study Center
- When
- Sunday, November 8 · 1-3 p.m.
- Where
- The Icon Museum and Study Center203 Union St · Clinton, MA · 01510
- Good to know
About this event
Free. New members are always welcome. You can join in person or via Zoom.
This month’s book is The Rehearsals by Vladimir Sharov .
New Jerusalem Monastery, seventeenth-century Moscow. Patriarch Nikon has instructed an itinerant French dramatist to stage the New Testament and hasten the Second Coming. But this will be a strange form of theatre. The actors are untrained, illiterate Russian peasants, and nobody is allowed to play Christ. They are persecuted, arrested, displaced, and ultimately replaced by their own children. Yet the rehearsals continue… A stunning reflection on art, history, religion and national identity, Rehearsals is the seminal work in the unique oeuvre of Vladimir Sharov, Russian Booker Prize winner (2014) and author of Before & During (Read Russia award for best translation, 2015).
Please contact a.farwell@iconmuseum.org if you would like to join.
Listed by The Icon Museum and Study Center (The Events Calendar), gathered by the Lowell events calendar.