Opening of the Small Scene of the Electric Theater Stanislavsky
Director: Evgeny Bednyakov
Within the framework of the "Golden Donkey" project
Alla Sokolova's play became widely known after the film of Ilya Averbakh of the same name of 1979 with Andrei Mironov and Marina Neelova starring. The story of a dentist obsessed with the idea of forcibly universal unity, not taking into account simple human feelings, director Yevgeny Bednyakov saw as a history of spiritual and spiritual terrorism. Getting into the realm of three single women - the mother and her two daughters, a visionary and a fanatic Farjayev wants to make them happy, but brings only misery. The play about the freedom to live simply and out of totalitarianism is put by the young director Evgeny Bednyakov, a graduate of the Personal Direction Workshop of Boris Yukhananov.
"This is a play about love, about meetings and parting of souls, about dreams and reality, about opposing the mind and heart. Together with the company of artists we enter the territory of uneasy relations within the family, relations of the sexes and the current situation in the world. " (Director Evgeny Bednyakov).
