In this project, I will demonstrate how working across interdisciplinary fields-film studies, cultural studies, and literary studies-provide the methodology to look at national borders and ethnic groups from transnational perspectives that help to forge connections that can be useful to audiences living in a globalized world increasingly concerned with “alien” toxins and refuges on the move due to corporate capitalism, environmental degradation, and elitist resource hoarding. Spectators discover all the problems of their every day life: the re-construction of a new life abroad, the use of a different language, the nostalgia for the native land, the conquest of freedom, the importance of Devon Avenue for the Slavic community in Chicago, etc. On the stage, sometimes there is also his second wife Yulia – a young migrant doctor. Kharkov-Rome-Chicago: this map is important to understand the human, but also the literary value of Berman-Tsikinovsky’s exile, which combines a deep love for the native land, the beauty of the ruins of the ancient Rome, and the conquest of freedom in the United States. The Author reflects himself in the main character of these four migration plays, the doctor Musya Belochkin, who left by train Kharkov and, after a period in Rome, flew in Chicago with his family.
His decision to leave Khar’kov, starting a new life abroad, was hard but necessary as hematologist and man.
And, like Chekhov, Berman-Tsikinovsky is a great observer of human life and has a deep sense of humor. Berman-Tsikinovsky is the “heir” of the Russian dynasty of doctor-writers which has its father in Anton Chekhov. Petersburg, Moscow: Chekhov on Devon (Chekhov na Divane, 1997), Mediterranean Paradoxes (Paradoksy Sredizemnomorskogo, 1998), The Return (Vozvraschenie, 1999), The Time Machine (Mashina Vremeni, 1999). His experience of exile from USSR in 1978 is the starting point of four dramatic works written in the 1990s and staged in Paris, Chicago, St.
This Author (born in Khar’kov, 12th November 1937) is a Jewish doctor-writer, Russian speaking and writing, and lives in the United States for more than 30 years. My research interest focalises the importance of the migration plays written by Mikhail Berman-Tsikinovsky for the contemporary theatre.
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