The Salzburg Festival has a new head of acting.
From October 2023, responsibility for the theater program will be in the hands of Marina Davydova.
Born in Baku in 1966, the theater critic and producer studied theater in Moscow at the end of the 1980s and then taught the history of Western European theater at various universities.
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In 2017 her book "Culture Zero" was published, in which she analyzes the history of Russian theater.
In 1998 she was one of the initiators of the NET Festival in Moscow, in 2016 she was the curator of the drama program at the Vienna Festival Weeks and worked as a theater critic for many years.
Until March 2022 she was also editor-in-chief of the magazine "TEATR".
At the beginning of the Russian war of aggression, Marina Davydova wrote a critical petition.
On March 5, she left Russia.
Since then she has lived in Berlin.
depth and persuasion
In her first press release, she struck a nuanced note on the theatre's political mission.
Art should not be taken hostage to current political circumstances, the purpose of art remains “to fathom life in all its ontological, existential and social aspects.
As director of drama at the Salzburg Festival, my main focus of interest will be the search for the depth and persuasiveness of theater.” That sounds promising.