Varda Studio, a newly formed avant-garde theater company, will perform its “All Roads Lead to the Kurski Station,” a theatrical version of “Moscow Circles” by Venedikt Yerofeyev that is adapted and directed by Emil Varda, from October 9 to 21 as part of the Sublet Series at HERE, 145 Avenue of the Americas.
“All Roads Lead to the Kurski Station” is a Rabelasian, anti-theater adaptation of “Moscow Circles,” a poetic book by Russian/Soviet dissident and satirist Venedikt Yerofeyev that is now known as the first postmodern novel in Russian. It follows a poet-drunkard called Vienya as he traverses Soviet Moscow in an attempt to catch a train to visit his beloved in the distant suburb of Petuskhi. The play rejects naturalistic forms of narration and storytelling; it is typical of the movement which is now identified with works of Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor, The Living Theater and Bread and Puppet Theater.