"The Case of Elagin's Cornet" is a work of the great Russian Nobelite Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, who himself ironically defined the genre of this work: "it looks like a tabloid novel." The story of the insane love of an actress and a hussar, ending with a suicide, becomes a reason for thinking about the futility and devastation of life, interrupted by the nonsense of death. Stunning Bunin's prose with its lyricism and psychologism will appear in the brilliant scenicization of Mark Rozovsky - a master to make from a seemingly unparalleled literature a real super theater.

Mark Rozovsky about the play:

"Passionate, leading to the insanity of the love of a hussar and an actress, ending with suicide with the help of alcohol and drugs, is an occasion to reflect on the voidness of human existence, the value of life and the meaninglessness of death, the worthlessness of pseudo-art, the passion for which comes from godlessness, from the loss of moral guidelines.

Two lost souls without support, without deep interpenetration, fly on the surface of feelings and, together with the search for love, they search for death, indulging each other in this sinister game and, playing in orgies, part with the life-likeness of their invented happiness. Bunin seems to lead the roll of his heroine Sosnowska with Tolstoyan Anna Karenina, whose end on the rails is no less terrible and symbolic. Life is believed in love, and love does not forgive a painful craving for suicide, for it is called to build happiness, and not destroy it. Our theatrical production is an attempt to present and analyze the origins of vice, to make visible the fates and characters of Bunin's prose - free and majestic, calling for pity and sympathy, even for those who have never found themselves in the confusion of life.

In our today's day, the same diseases bloom in a magnificent color - all kinds of temptations are tempted and dragged by weak youths into black holes of hopelessness, where glamor does not save, and timelessness (new "cursed days") asserts itself only in questionable forms of total enjoyment - the main substitute Meaning of life. Are not we like our unhappy ancestors? .. They are very much alike! ..

Reading and reading to Bunin today, we see his historical correctness and foresight: spiritual hell is deadly and truly dangerous to modern man. The philosophy of doom arises precisely in an EMPTY place - where the content goes from life, where the household diaboloid begins and the familiar bustle of everyday life and holidays - celebrations glitter and flashes in return for serving the Higher and everyday work for everyone's benefit. But Bunin does not moralize, he simply records the collapse of morality in Russia. No wonder, like Chekhov's "In the Village of Grandfather," Bunin's novel reads: "To Russia, cornet to Elagin"

Death is not an option, even if life is empty. Death is withdrawal. And nothing else.

That's how the tragedy grows. His first "Case of the Cornet Elagin" is the first Russian writer-laureate of the Nobel Prize - Ivan Alekseevich Bunin warns us about it. So thanks to him! "