When Alvis Hermanis, the most prominent young theater director in Latvia today, called Mikhail Baryshnikov in 2014 with an idea, he listened. Hermanis’s proposal was for a play where a man, in a kind of dreamscape—a small glass house, nestled in dense foliage, like something from a fairy tale—read poems by the great Russo-American Joseph Brodsky, interrupted occasionally by the voice of Brodsky himself, like a ghost, on a tape recorder. Baryshnikov agreed to take the part.
Source : The Red Shoes
