Remembering Anna Yablonskaya

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Twenty-nine year old playwright Anna Yablonskaya was among the victims of yesterday’s bombing in Moscow. Marco Werman talks to John Freedman, theatre critic for the Moscow Times, about her life and work. Download MP3

Playwright Anna Yablonskaya: a tribute

Boom, Bust and Bertolt Brecht

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In the late 1920s, American capitalism inspired a German opera about a city built on greed … “Everything is defined by money. Everything can be bought, including human relations” … The opera’s creator decried capitalism. In the wake of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, Brecht wrote about New York. It’s as if he was writing last year. The World’s Alex Gallafent has the story. Download MP3

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• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
• Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956