ABSTRACT
The appearance of Eimuntas Nekrosius’s The Nose in Moscow, performed by the Lithuanian State Youth Theater in collaboration with the Moscow Friendship of Nationalities Theater, was timely, indeed. Opening September 21, 1991, exactly a month after the unraveling of the coup and a few weeks after Lithuania regained independence, it created one of Moscow’s biggest theatrical sensations since the advent of perestroika. The opening night audience was a genuine who’s who of Moscow society while the crowds hoping to find a stray ticket outside the dowdy Pushkin Theater reminded one of the Taganka or Lenkom in the “old days.”
