A stage without a country
The Meyerhold Project is a 18-minute documentary that follows six Russian theatre actors who left Russia between 2022 and 2024. They have reconvened in Amsterdam to create a new production — in Russian, for an audience that mostly doesn't speak it.
Why Meyerhold?
Vsevolod Meyerhold was a revolutionary theatre director who was arrested, tortured, and executed by Stalin's secret police in 1940. His name has become a symbol of artistic freedom destroyed by state power. The company chose it deliberately.
We rehearse in a language our audience doesn't understand. But theatre was never only about words.
The production
The piece they are rehearsing is an adaptation of Daniil Kharms's absurdist short stories — texts that were themselves suppressed during the Soviet period. The irony is not lost on anyone.
Screening
First screened at the ONRS Amsterdam event in January 2026.
The video embed will be available when the Astro renderer supports the video block type.