“ "Kovyakin's Records" is a solo performance by Sergei Zagrebnev based on the novel by Leonid Leonov, it is amazing, first of all, how the whole world lays a filigree for a short period of time (just over an hour). Ludicrous and beautiful in its confusion, the very "little man" - Kovyakin - is so close and dear to everyone. His phantasmagoric, and at the same time very cozy Gogulev, which inevitably reminds something, and however, the genius of Leonov's text is that in Gogulev there are features of absolutely any provincial Russian city. The uneasy questions that the protagonist asks himself and the people around him are not modern, but at the same time they are very understandable to the viewer. As Dmitry Bykov correctly said, "Leonov attracts and - more than that - attracts those who are not satisfied with the matrix, those who are trying to understand how everything is really arranged." And after the performance you understand, even a little. "Director and performer Sergei Zagrebnev Spoke after the premiere about the long, difficult search for the text, I think that the choice was a success, Zagrebnev so organically assumed this role, that I do not lose the feeling of "perfection" of what I saw. "The problem of the" non-loneliness "of the actor in Scene interestingly solved with Portraits created by the artist Yevgenia Malakhova.This is indeed a solo performance where you forget that there is one actor on the stage, and the scenography is both laconic and rich: a whole huge world made of talent, ink, and cardboard.It is an ideal version of a tragicomedy for me - when the spectator, absorbed in the play, laughs, cries, ponders, at last - calms down and dissolves in a very strong final, and never leaves the room the same.