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Anyone who goes to Moscow, Russia, to see theatre solely as theatre is a fool. To a certain extent this applies to theatre, going everywhere, but it holds particularly in Russia. A convenient and agreeable entry into the Soviet world is through the theatre lobby. The Soviet theatre is truly popular; it attracts the widest possible audience, as Broadway, New York City, New York, and the Paris, France, boulevards signally fail to do. Everyone attends plays in every part of the Soviet Union. The young people who clamor for tickets at the recently established Sovremenik (Contemporary) are much less enthusiastic about the Moscow Art or the Maly, the more traditional or classic Soviet stages, but a blood tie, a family resemblance, links all these establishments.

Presents an excerpt from A Record by L.A. Sulvertisky, translated by Fania Mindell.