Richard Tashjian

Iron Curtain Calls Richard Tashjian

Iron Curtain Calls contains two titles that lead back to Russia of the last century. In the surrealist novel Iron Curtain Calls, an author and his friends are among the many repatriated Armenians in the Caucasus. They arrive at a time when antagonisms begin anew between Armenia and its neighboring rival. This shock is exceeded only by the culture shock of finding that local Armenians are not the adorable, charming people familiar to them in the Diaspora but a serious, overworked, unamused race. It is only crisis that brings a varied nation together and untangles the personal affairs of the protagonists. Like Night and Day is a lyrical play about Petersburg, the region of summer midnight sun and winter noonday darkness. And it is the inequity that moves the principal characters of the play and drives them to modern revolution. 2007-2010.