Oksana Mysina begins a two-week international workshop with Britain-based director Tim Supple on June 1. It is the beginning of a workshop and production process hosted by Dash Arts that will span two years and all five continents, investigating the world’s great theater traditions and resulting in a multi-lingual, cross-national'King Lear' for a global audience. The workshops, held at Warwick Arts Center in Coventry, U. K. , will be attended by actors from nine countries, including Italy, India, Tanzania, South Korea and Iran. Aside from Oksana, the participants are Fabio Mangolini, Vinay Kumar, Mrisho Mpoto, Assaad Bouab, Bruce Meyers, Hye-Yeon Hong, Elaheh Bakhshi and Jared McNeil.

Konstantin Olonovsky hosted the premiere of his documentary film, “Whisper: Silver Age,” at the Open Club on Spiridonovka May 19. Several years in the making, the film explores the art of the great Russian sculptor Alexandra Golubkina, who studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris before returning to Russia to live and work. In the film Oksana Mysina, Vera Romanova and Pavel Shumsky recite poetry by Andrei Bely, Alexander Blok, Vyacheslav Ivanov and Maximilian Voloshin. Actor Konstantin Mishin performs as a dancer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3sepH8sBKs&feature=youtu.be

In honor of May 9, Victory Day, Oksana Mysina reads a story, “How the War Ended,” by her mother Lidia Mysina-Bratus. This video was conceived and created by Mikhail Khodorkovsky's team at Open Russia for the 9 Stories of May project.
http://9may.openrussia.org/5/

British-born, US-based director, actor and educator Robert Taylor conducts an open day of training, rehearsal and performance on May 11 at what is left of the embattled Open Stage project at 20 Povarskaya Ulitsa. The day begins at 1 p.m. with training and rehearsal, resumes around 3 p.m. with an open rehearsal and concludes around 7 p.m. with performances of scenes from “King Lear” and other Shakespeare plays. Actors participating are: Vera Strokova, Oksana Mysina, Tatyana Bondareva, Mikhail Ibragimov, Igor Pekhovich, Edgar Gizatullin, Alexander Orav and Alexei Shendrik.