I still vividly remember how a clip “I Love Boogie-Woogie” by the Russian beat band, Secret , was coming up on TV, and my mother was switching channels despite my protests. I was deeply sa...
The poems in this presentation have already appeared on this blog, but I assembled them in a different format, to move closer to my long-sought goal. The poems are in three languages, all translations...
It is absolutely true: my first ever sea was the Irish Sea. I saw it in 2002. When I told one of my friends about it, he pitied me. Indeed, how sad is that: to see your first sea in Blackpool? This wa...
As we know, sometimes the greatest thoughts visit us in the bathroom. Following in the footsteps of Archimedes, I realised, while taking my shower, that giving advice to people like Susan Boyle or any...
A brief story of my discovering Alexander Pushkin and his work, as well as critical notes on the then and now reading habits and the state of language...
I am sure all of us have been missing dearly the Polnareffienne’s additions… well, no more now! In fact, we should be grateful to a friend of mine who sent me an email about Sweet Transves...
A rather unpleasant update as per 13 Dec 2008: I have just found out that the English version of the video which was in this post has been taken down on YouTube for “the violation of Community G...
Joy People often ask me, why in the final of my Snowshow when people in the audience play with gigantic balloons of all colours, I sit among them, not even taking off my make-up. But I find it very c...
Method I seldom come across a question of how to do something. The most important thing is to understand what I want to say. As soon as I understand it, it takes a certain form. Some 10-15 years ago I...
Audience English audience was one of my biggest ‘finds’. It takes everything very seriously. Perhaps, if I were occupied with another kind of theatre, it would be an obstacle, because the English are ...