The Basement Theater at Perekupny Pereulok is just the thing for those looking for holiday entertainment a little less traditional than Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker or Mozart's Requiem.
From December 25-30, the theater is offering a "Small Festival" ranging from theater to music to dance.
Various traveling troupes will make a stop at the Theater on Perekupny, resulting in a wide variety of holiday treats.
On December 25, the Paramon Theater troupe will present "Under the Clouds, Over the Clouds, Galich."
December 26 fields an international offering as Stina Bollmann, a one-woman dancing show from Hamburg, Germany, leaps and kicks her way through "Margarita and I."
In the second act, the Paramon Theater once again takes the basement stage to perform the very romantic "Poems About Love" by Harry Martinson.
On December 27 and 28, the Sir Gluck Club, directed by Yevgeny Pusser, will give a musical performance. On December 29, the local theater troupe Do-Teatr will offer "a movement of soul and body."
The festival finishes on December 30 with a double offering of shows. Paramon Theater will perform the first act of "Lesopredstavleniye" by Ostrovsky, and for the second half of the evening, all members of the festival will participate in a jam session of music, dance and improvisation.
The Theater on Perekupny claims to be one of the few in the city that does not receive any funding from the culture committee. Although this frees it to stage less traditional, "indie" performances, it faces the very traditional problem of most theaters: a lack of funds. (SPP)