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The Hope Frieze, Part 1 - An Open Studio Showing

Art. Love. Politics. Revolution.
Russia, 1916. A young actress joins the renowned Moscow Art Theatre at the dawn of a new era, fulfilling her childhood dream. Little does she imagine how the fires of political revolution will transform and consume everything she knows in the decades to come.

The Hope Frieze - Part 1 "Into the Fire" tells the story of Zinaida - just 17 when she enters training at the MAT - and her friends, relatives, and fellow Russian artists. Amongst them are Natasha, her dynamic mother; Kostya, a budding socialist poet; Anatoli, her secret Tsarist lover, and Vsevolod Meyerhold, the daring actor/director who later becomes her husband. Against a backdrop of unprecedented turmoil, triumph, and persecution, Zinaida learns how to survive, protect her family, and speak her artistic truth while her country wages an epic battle for its very soul.

Peppered with BrickaBrack's typical tapestry of humor, movement, style (puppets!) and audience interactivity, The Hope Frieze - Part 1 is inspired by true events and historical figures in Russia during the 1920s and 30s including Lenin, Stalin, Empress Alexandra, Rasputin, Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Olga Knipper, Bulgakov, Esenin, Pasternak, and other luminary artists of the period.

The Hope Frieze is a four part project spanning the entire 20th century - BrickaBrack's most ambitious undertaking to date! Join us for the first ever glimpse of this work in progress.

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