NYTimes.com: This week Mr. Baryshnikov is performing in the Paris premiere of “In Paris,” a stark, experimental theatrical adaptation of a 1940 short story by Ivan Bunin, the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The well-heeled audience, which usually comes to the Théâtre National de Chaillot for more traditional fare, responded on opening night last Thursday with barely polite applause.
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I absolutely love Baryshnikov, I always thought he was an abundantly talented man and love watching him dance. This play sounds interesting, a pretty classic story but part of me thinks that it would be cool to just watch Baryshnikov in it. However, there is an aspect that we dont really get a lot of in American theatre and thats the fact that the whole show is in Russian. I would love to learn Russian I think it is such an interesting sounding language. In Europe many people speak more than one language and it is probably more common to hear different languages all around. I just think that that would be a great theatre experience to go and hear different languages and even have the subtitles be different as well. I also think that its is so funny but great for Baryshnikov to have done this purely for fun, and have to invested $250,000 knowing he wouldnt get it back. That is what theatre should be about, doing things because its fun and you want to and contributing what you can when you can.
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