The performance is based on the poem of the contemporary writer, poet and translator Faina Grimberg: "Andrei Ivanovich returns home." The plot of the poem tells about two women waiting for Andrei Ivanovich to return from the war. The image of war, which permeates the entire poem by Grimberg, today, unfortunately, remains relevant in our society. War destroys destinies, life, ties between people, traditions.
The poem resembles a folk tale in its melodiousness. Therefore, the performance is permeated with folk music: ditties, lullabies, songs of mourners. The performance combines the dramatic theater with its active basis, characteristic dance and epic ditty chant. Live music is the main protagonist of this story, and among the various musical techniques that create the musical fabric of the performance, the balalaika comes to the fore - an ancient "witness" to wars and weddings, funerals, festivities and drunken holidays. However, when the balalaika cannot cope with the story of the realities of war, electronic music and samples come to its aid, thus creating the necessary artistic synthesis that makes the theater modern.
Although the plot of the performance (as well as the poem underlying it) is simple and archetypal, the way of presentation expands the boundaries of the plot to world history and allows us to call it "a fairy tale about the world order." This is a performance about war and peace, life and death, and, of course, about love.

Roman Gabria

staging group

Text author:

 Faina Grimberg
 

production designer :

 Sergey Novikov

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Guitar :

 Vladislav Krylov
 

Musical director:

 Viktor Volna
 

Sound Engineer  :

 Sasha Shvedov
 

Lighting designer :

 Igor Tupikin
 

Characters :

 Alla Danishevskaya

 Ksenia Morozova

 Sergey Agafonov

 Denis Penyugin