A Non-Fictional War | Theatre on Film Series 2024
The unique film adaption of Oleksandra Basko’s powerful ‘A Non-Fictional War’
PRODUCTIONS
Explore our productions and experience the Russian and Eastern European Cultural Education Moscow Nights has brought over the years to the Greater New Orleans area.
2024
2023
Voices of the New Belarus | A Global Staged Reading
“Voices of the New Belarus | A Global Staged Reading” is a follow-up production from “Insulted Belorus(sia) | A Global Staged Reading” that recounts the stories of 15 victims of Lukashenko’s terror campaign against Belarus citizens caught up in the terror after the August 2021 national elections.
2022
Oleksandra Basko’s A Non-Fictional War
“A Non-Fictional War” A Non-Fictional War is Oleksandra Basko’s gripping, present saga of her family’s personal journey through the strife and uncertainty of the Russo-Ukrainian War and Putin’s full-scale invasion of her country adapted in dramatic form by Artistic Director Natasha O. Ramer.
2021
Anna Akhmatova’s Sketches from a Poet’s Life(Part 1: 1889 – 1921)
Natasha O. Ramer’s “Sketches from a Poet’s Life (Part 1: 1889 – 1921)“. The life of poet Anna Akhmatova told through interactions with her life-long friend, Valya as the great poet recalls moment in her life from the age of 75 while traveling to Sicily to receive the prestigious Etna-Taormina Literary Prize from the European Community of Writers.
2020
Virtual Reading of “Insulted. Belarus(sia)”
Andrei Kureichik’s “Insulted. Belarus(sia)” Dictator Alexander Lukashenko accuses artists of crimes against the state. Based upon real people & events.
2019
24 Hours in the Life of Pontius Pilate
Dramatization faithful to Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita”, capturing the meeting between Pilate and Jesus.
Ellendea Proffer Teasley Presents “Bulgakov: Writing In A Time Of Terror”
Special lecture from world renowned Bulgakov scholar, Ellendea Proffer Teasley.
2018
24 Hours in the Life of Pontius Pilate
A staged reading based on Mikhail A. Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita”.
2016
Longing for Peace and Home
“Longing for Peace and Home”, a presentation of Russian and Jewish songs from World War II.
2015
Façade
A theatrical adaptation of William E. Wade, Jr.’s moving novel about the loss of his young son to cystic fibrosis
2014
XV Annual International Theatre Festival “Melikhovskaya Vesna”
(Spring in Melikhovo)
Moscow Nights brought Carol Rocamora’s “I Take Your Hand In Mine …” to festival and theatre stages in Melikhovo and Moscow, Russia
2013
Cinderella
Based on Evgeny Schvarts’ 1938 Russian fairy tale Zolushka (Ashes), translated by Dr. James E. Falen.
2011
A Special St. Valentine’s Day Presentation…
By special invitation, Moscow Nights performed Carol Rocamora’s “I Take Your Hand In Mine …” at the Russian and Eastern European Cultural Center of the Russian Federation Embassy in Washington, D. C.
2010
The Russian Winter Festival – 2010
Our fourth Festival: celebrating 10 years of Moscow Nights.
2009
An Afternoon with Anton Chekhov
Presenting staged adaptations of Chekhov’s The Bear, A Marriage Proposal, and Swan Song.
2008
The Russian Winter Festival – 2008
Our third Festival: “Adventures Around Moscow“
2005
The Lost Russian Winter Festival – 2005
There were great plans in place for the Fifth Russian Winter Festival focused on “Treasures of the Russian Gypsy”. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated New Orleans forcing the loss of this winter festival.
2004 - 2005
New Orleans Public Schools Collaboration
The work of Alexander Pushkin taught in McMain Secondary School to develop a multidisciplinary teaching unit.
2003
Twenty Years in America
Natasha O. Ramer’s original one-woman cabaret recounting her journey to becoming “American”. Christopher Wecklein directed
2002
Alexander Pushkin’s “The Water Nymph”
Our second Winter Festival – A Salute to Alexander Pushkin, featuring the premiere of Pushkin’s play The Water Nymph.
2001
The Russian Winter Festival – 2001
Given the huge success of the first Russian Winter Festival, we staged another program. Richer and expansive, it included storytelling, language games, dance, music, and poetry.
2000
The Russian Summer Festival – 2000
An international evening of music, song and dance.
1999
The Russian Winter Festival – 1999
The First Russian Winter Festival
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