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plays were performed by the HSE’s student troupes in the past theatre season. 

The university has two drama studios – the Studio School Drama Club and the Le Defi Russo-French Theatre.

The Studio School Drama Club, established in 1997, is a student project, although all performers are required to take a special yearlong course in theatre arts. The studio school’s permanent repertoire features plays by Nikolai Gogol, Bernard Shaw, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Marc Camoletti and Robert Thomas.

The Le Defi project started in March 2011. Students from the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs initially considered limiting themselves to production of ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ in French, but later, Le Defi began performing plays in both Russian and French. This spring, their play La Folie Positive was recognized as the best at the French-language Rideau rouge festival in Naples.