WELCOME TO THE FLASH ACTS PLAYS!
In March of 2020, ten Russian and ten American playwrights were commissioned to write short plays about isolation. Each of these twenty plays has been produced twice, by independent creative teams in the United States and Russia: once in the playwright’s original language, the other in translation. We’re thrilled to present all forty of these productions, as an experiment in how audiences experience works differently based on the unique perspectives of creative teams on opposite sides of the world.
Here you can watch Russian-language productions (with or without English subtitles) and English-language productions (with or without Russian subtitles). Make your selection on each play’s landing page, where you’ll also find full production credits and artist biographies. All forty productions will be available for endless streaming following the time and date of their initial release, so you can watch them once, twice, or in perpetuity—in whichever language you prefer. Enjoy!
ABOUT VIKA IVANOVA AND A WOMAN’S CALLING
by Maria Ogneva
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 12:00pm EDT / 19:00 MSK
ENGLISH 12:00pm EDT / 19:00 MSK
ACROSS
by Olzhas Zhanaydarov
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 1:30pm EDT / 20:30 MSK
ENGLISH 1:45pm EDT / 20:45 MSK
CASSANDRA AT BEDTIME
by Lauren Yee
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 1:30pm EDT / 20:30 MSK
ENGLISH 1:45pm EDT / 20:45 MSK
THE DELIVERY
by Nina Belenitskaya
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2:00pm EDT / 21:00 MSK
ENGLISH 2:15pm EDT / 21:15 MSK
EVENT HORIZON
by Heather Raffo
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2:00pm EDT / 21:00 MSK
ENGLISH 2:15pm EDT / 21:15 MSK
THE GORN GALAXY
by Deborah Brevoort
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2:30pm EDT / 21:30 MSK
ENGLISH 2:45pm EDT / 21:45 MSK
THE INTERVIEW
by Ekaterina Avgustenyak
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2:30pm EDT / 21:30 MSK
ENGLISH 2:45pm EDT / 21:45 MSK
JOY
by Christine Evans
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 1:30pm EDT / 20:30 MSK
ENGLISH 1:45pm EDT / 20:45 MSK
KANISHEVSKY
by Polina Borodina
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 1:30pm EDT / 20:30 MSK
ENGLISH 1:45pm EDT / 20:45 MSK
PENITENCE
by Kia Corthron
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2:30pm EDT / 21:30 MSK
ENGLISH 2:45pm EDT / 21:45 MSK
POST-PRE-CONTINUED CONTEMPORARY COLONIAL GERMOCIDE
by Mary Kathryn Nagle
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 12:00pm EDT / 19:00 MSK
ENGLISH 12:15pm EDT / 19:15 MSK
REMIX OF A NATION
by Idris Goodwin
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 3:30pm EDT / 22:30 MSK
ENGLISH 3:45pm EDT / 22:45 MSK
REPRESENTATIVE
by Craig Lucas
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2:00pm EDT / 21:00 MSK
ENGLISH 2:15pm EDT / 21:15 MSK
RICE WATER
by Svetlana Petriychuk
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2:00pm EDT / 21:00 MSK
ENGLISH 2:00pm EDT / 21:00 MSK
THE SWAN PRINCESS
by Nikolay Kolyada
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 12:00pm EDT / 19:00 MSK
ENGLISH 12:15pm EDT / 19:15 MSK
THESE DAYS
by Jacqueline E. Lawton
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 12:00pm EDT / 19:00 MSK
ENGLISH 12:15pm EDT / 19:15 MSK
UNTRANSLATABLE
by Mikhail Durnenkov
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 12:00pm EDT / 19:00 MSK
ENGLISH 12:15pm EDT / 19:15 MSK
WE SHALL LIVE
by Yaroslava Pulinovich
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2:30pm EDT / 21:30 MSK
ENGLISH 2:45pm EDT / 21:45 MSK
WHY DOES MAXIM GET KILLED FIRST?
by Aleksey Sinyaev
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 3:00pm EDT / 22:00 MSK
ENGLISH 3:15pm EDT / 22:15 MSK
WHY?
by Eduardo Machado
RUSSIAN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES 1:30pm EDT / 20:30 MSK
ENGLISH 1:45pm EDT / 20:45 MSK