Based on the story of John Steinbeck "On mice and humans" and the poems of Robert Frost. "About mice and people" - the story of John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize in Literature, published in 1937, tells a tragic story of two strangely connected fates of wage laborers wandering around California during the Great Depression in search of work to realize their dreams. And what's strange? The fact that one of them is a mentally retarded man who is dangerous in his behavior, and the other still does not throw it. But why? Can it? "After all, times are such that they are not always relatives ... they will not give each other away."   8 boys will play this tragic but life-affirming story, according to a specially written play "The Children of the Great Depression", dedicating it to their ancestors and everyone who cares - in the misfortune to preserve dignity and compassion. The author of the play and the director is Fedor Sukhov.