Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre
Kinetic sculpture theatre where carved wooden figures and scrap machines perform to light and music.
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This guide to Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre in Glasgow follows Eduard Bersudsky, the Leningrad-born maker of its moving sculptures, from a stammering boyhood and an Arctic coal mine to the single room in a Soviet communal flat where his machines grew. It meets the theatre director who found him there in the late nineteen eighties, and asks why a carved wooden Stalin with an axe could not be shown in public. Stand near the machines as the show starts, and let the whirring do the rest.
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