Re Lear è morto a Mosca

meetings around the show

About King Lear è died in Moscow

Culture in Dictatorial Regimes:
between Propaganda and Free Art

1948
13 January, Minsk. A van hits and kills Solomon Michoels: all that remains of him is a wristwatch stopped at 10 o'clock in the evening, two daughters and a wife.
Night of 23-24 December, Moscow. Venjamin Zuskin is abducted in his sleep, interrogated, tortured and four years later shot. Moscow's great Jewish theatre, the Goset, loses Lear and his Fool. The first and only King Lear in Yiddish will never go on stage again. The instigator of these murders was Iosif Stalin.

Solomon Michoels and Venjamin Zuskin:
Two Jewish actors, two friends, condemned for flying too high. Guilty of having imagined a theatre of art made of songs, dances, poems and colours in the Yiddish language in Stalin's Soviet Union.
A journey to Russia to tell a forgotten true story, through Chagall's paintings and the characters of King Lear.
A show of memories to be rediscovered, kept beyond the stage.

They are the only ones who have ever been able to live the story of the Jewish people.

“Blow out the lights and blow out the pain; the curtain”