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