Who needs Moscow? A guru of Russian playwriting holds court in distant Ekaterinburg.(POSTMARK)(Nikolai Kolyada)
American Theatre, March, 2006 by Henderson, Murph
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EKATERINBURG, RUSSIA: Nikolai Kolyada has dirty hands, a black fez and the warm eyes of a holy man. He shares his name with a pagan god of happiness, but his playwriting students call him "our mafia boss." People on the street want to touch him. Before shows at his theatre, patrons eat his homemade borscht. Afterward they wait in line for his autograph, some of the women in tears. "Their husbands are drunks," says Kolyada. "They all want tenderness. Forty-five years old, and they've never had it."
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