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Maly Drama Theater Review

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Maly Drama Theater

Address: 18 ul. Rubinshteina, Vladimirskaya, St. Petersburg
Phone: 812/712-2078
www.mdt-dodin.ru

Maly Dramatichesky Teatr

Category: Theater
Location: Vladimirskaya

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Fodor's Review:

Even if you can't understand the dialogue, any performance at the MDT—home to one of the best theater companies in the world—is a must-see. The repertoire includes productions of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, and Oscar Wilde. Maly is also nearly the only company in town that continues to stage the finest plays from the Soviet era. Seeing their whole repertoire has been compared to living through the entire 20th-century history of Russia. If you have a whole day to spare and lots of stamina, the nine-hour performance of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed makes for an incredible theatrical experience, although it can be a bit hard on the posterior. It takes two consecutive evenings to sit through the company's veteran show, Fyodor Abramov's "Brothers And Sisters," but nobody is known to have regretted doing that. Order tickets well in advance because it's rare that the Maly plays to a less than packed house.