Black Monk

I also wish I could have included the proto-punk group the Monks, who often dressed like their namesakes, but the band’s great 1966 album “Black Monk Time” isn’t available on any streaming platforms.

It’s where the Emerson served as artistic advisers for Chamber Music at the Barns in the 2016-2017 season, and where, in 2018, it presented its collaborative theatrical work, “Shostakovich and the Black Monk: A Russian Fantasy.”

This summer, however, Py corrected course with a high-profile and thought-provoking show, Kirill Serebrennikov’s “The Black Monk.”

“The Black Monk” was first staged at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany, in January, yet much has happened since.

Not that war features in “The Black Monk,” which is based on an 1894 short story by Anton Chekhov.