The Pillowman (lab)
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A production growing inside the course, at the crossing of the acting and verbatim tracks.
Education
Theatre education in the post-Soviet space is almost always tied to the state — or to the market. arten builds a third way: training inside an independent laboratory, where people learn by rehearsing and releasing real work.
Uzhe Course
The first theatre course of arten: five days a week — acting and speech training, physical theatre, verbatim playwriting, rhythmics, seminars on Hegel and Lacan, history of theatre. The course runs on the theatre's own teaching methods; its goal is a professional company grown inside the theatre.
Schedule
| Monday | 15:00–18:00 | Seminar: Hegel | Dima N/A |
| 18:00–19:30 | Rhythmics | Anya N/A | |
| 20:00–22:00 | Playwriting: Verbatim | Dmitry Retikh | |
| Tuesday | 19:00–23:00 | Speech Training | Igor Sapozhnikov |
| Wednesday | 19:00–23:00 | Physical Theatre | Andrey Lyubomir |
| Thursday | 15:00–18:00 | Seminar: Lacan | Dima N/A |
| 19:30–22:00 | History of Theatre | Vlada N/A | |
| Friday | 19:00–23:00 | Acting Training | Alexander Teterev-Kosach |
Born in the course
Class diary
Journal→Beyond the course
At different times the theatre has hosted Tina's physical theatre laboratory, Sofia Slonim's photography laboratory, the directing laboratory “Odyssey”, a Freud seminar, and master classes by Katsura Kan (Noh theatre) and Margarita Sargsyan (body practices). New formats appear in the programme.
Project chronicle
Whole chronicle→Screenings, lectures, exhibitions and guests of past seasons.
Lyubimovka 2025
Readings including “Dixie and Dixon”, “Russian as Foreign, Udmurt as Native”, “Ansar Shrugs”, “Diary of the End of the World”.
Keeping Hope
- Staged by
- Playback theatre “Paraphrase”
An improvised performance born from the audience's own stories, told right in the hall.
DeadLock
An anti-war exhibition of Russian and Armenian artists. The theatre's community began to form around it.
Finist, the Brave Falcon
A recording of the production by Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk. After the screening the audience wrote letters to the arrested authors and raised 35 000 ₽ for Berkovich's lawyer.
Don't Think I've Forgotten
A documentary about Cambodian musicians who faced the genocide. Introduced by Yulia Nakaryakova, one of the film's Russian translators.
Three films and three texts by Alexander Rastorguev
A screening and an author's reading in memory of the murdered documentary filmmaker.
“What Does Ukraine Have to Do with It?” Myths of Putin's Propaganda
- Staged by
- Anna Grebennikova, historian and social anthropologist
The Space of Theatre: Scenography and Architecture of Performative Art
- Staged by
- Tigran Gevorkyan, architect and researcher of space
Three
Open rehearsals of a philosophical tragicomedy built on dialogues about art by Plato, Hegel, Meister Eckhart and Malevich.
No Peace Without You
An exhibition-auction in support of Evgeny Pavlovsky, a missing Russian LGBT activist and trade unionist.
