The Moscow theater "Et Cetera" will open its 28th season with the play "BE!", Based on the military memories of Innokenty Smoktunovsky. The premiere of the play was supposed to take place on May 9, but due to the quarantine, due to which all theaters were closed for three months, it had to be postponed. "BE!" - a performance dedicated to the great date - the 75th anniversary of the Victory. 2020 is the Year of Memory and Glory, and it doesn't matter that the play was not performed on May 9, as we intended. Our performance, based on the military memories of the great artist, is our tribute to the memory of the heroes of the war.

Millions of viewers do not associate Innokenty Smoktunovsky with war in any way, he is the hero of great films and performances. He is Myshkin and Hamlet, Detochkin and Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich, Tchaikovsky and Porfiry Petrovich, Judushka Golovlev and Ivanov ... But for those who watch the play "BE!" , was captured. The play "BE!" will tell the poignant story of a man who survived this terrible war and became an idol for many generations. He was then only 17 years old, he was still quite a boy who got into the thick of the war and miraculously did not die. It seems that the Lord himself kept it for the mission of the great Artist.

But along with the tragic, there will be a lot of light, life-affirming in the performance. The play is called "BE!", Like the book itself by Innokenty Mikhailovich. "BE!" - means to survive and live.