Theater: Texas Detente

ECHELON by Mikhail Roschin

The opening night began with an unusual ceremony. As the audience rose quietly to its feet, a sole trumpeter onstage played first the Soviet national anthem and then that of the U.S. This salute to theatrical detente came about through the zealous effort of Nina Vance, founder and longtime head of Houston's Alley Theater. On a cultural exchange mission to the U.S.S.R. in May 1977, Vance was particularly impressed by Mikhail Roschin's Echelon and the way in which it was directed by Galina Volchek, head of Moscow's Sovremennik Theater and...

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