Two productions by Yury Butusov (director), the poster boy and many times the Tarrantino of the Russian theatre.

His approach to classical text may be rude, in good health and free of a rigid canon but his pedigree when it comes to mis-en-scene, gives away too often his fascination with Western TV culture and violence, in all its visually vacuous post-modern forms – only to be saved by a true master stroke in the end scene of Lear and Seagull.