Staged by Mark Ovchinnikov
Director Maxim Fomin
Sound design Danila Sergienko
Artist Nicole Clampert
Plastic director Rimma Sargsyan
Video Maxim Fomin
Light Andrey Lebed, Maxim Fomin
The play is hosted by Polina Soboleva

The performance contains fragments of compositions by Vsevolod Zaderatsky.
The work of Varlam Shalamov is inseparably closed and crowned with the figure of the author himself. Shalamov writes about the primacy of the physical nature of man over the spiritual, the endless fall, weakness, fragility, dehumanization. Simply, casually, dispassionately and accurately captures this unsightly truth about a person. And mercilessly argues her own experience associated with sixteen years spent in the camp.
It's very difficult to agree with him.
But several important questions arise. And how was the author himself able to survive and remain human? What helped him in this? How did he write it down? Where does this strength, inflexibility, endurance and stamina come from Shalamov, it would seem, is an ordinary person? The same as any of the millions of exiles, the same as we are with you today.
Mark Ovchinnikov :. “We have been working on the play for over two years. I was overwhelmed by the artistic level of the text. I was also surprised that my generation practically does not know Shalamov. In any case, I did not know until I read about him from Andrei Tarkovsky in the Martyrology. There was a keen desire to share the discovery. Together with the team, we were looking for the shape of the future performance, its tone, the main theme. Composer Danya Sergienko was looking for sound. As a result, the musical basis was the works of Vsevolod Zaderatsky, a composer who also passed the camp. He wrote music in the camp in pencil on telegraphic forms. What makes a person write music, poetry in the camp? What allows him to remain human? "