Irishman Brian Friel reworked the immortal novel of Ivan Turgenev, turning it into a play by which the theater staged a play at the Foundry Theater.

The slightly modernized life of the heroes raises the same questions. What is the younger generation up to? What do those who soon grow old? Who of the rights?

Eugene Bazarov conceived all to explain with the help of formulas, he describes feelings, resorting to knowledge from chemistry and biology, but he crashes: he himself becomes a victim of love and dies. It turns out that Bazarov's cynicism, however fiercely the hero defended his position, is hopelessly doomed?