Back In The USSR
Directed by: Galina Pyanova
Ensemble Art & Shock
Country Kazakhstan (Almaty)
Revised version
Country Kazakhstan (Almaty)
Revised version
Galina Pyanova founded the first open group of Kazakhstan in 2002. With “Back in the USSR” they were “the heroes of Yerevan”; the Armenian festival rejoiced and celebrated them in the triumphal procession. This cheeky parody about growing up in the Soviet Union is based on improvisations. With a boisterous joke three girlfriends move through the socialism and its end. They dread, love and argue, share moments of luck, they practice kissing with Lenin busts, West goods of the functionary’s daughter, but also endless guard of honour-standing, messed up pioneer oaths and oaths of allegiance or criminal courts of socialist misconduct. These everyday stories from school and nursery times are combed through by a German journalist who rummages in the Soviet archives. The critics declared this production as a perennial hit full of identification, created for the countries in which the socialism did not win. The fans presented red pinks. A new version is played in Russian, English and German.
Supported by Goethe-Institut
