7Days: Shostakovich’s ballet ‘The Bright Stream’; alterna-comedy from Berserker Residents

Sunday Antic farm Shostakovich wrote three ballets from 1929 to 1935, each getting him deeper in trouble with the Soviet authorities, each banned shortly after it premiered, each eventually contributing to his falling out of favor with Stalin and the denunciation of his work in 1936. The finale of the trio, The Bright Stream, despite being set on a collective farm (and having a comic plot in which a troupe of sophisticated dancers are shown up by the bumpkin workers), was the subject of a pointed and threatening article in Pravda (even more to the point, one co-librettist, Adrian Piotrovsky, was sent to the gulag and disappeared). Revived by the Bolshoi Ballet in the 1990s, what had been seen as insulting to the proletariat — a dog on a bicycle, a man in a dress — was no longer so problematic. A live simulcast of the performance from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow screens at 11 a.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 West Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $20; $10 for students. Call 610-527-9898.