New Year's musical based on the poems of Mikhail Gutseriev.
Preserving the text of the play, the amazing dialogues, the brilliant characters, we have transposed the action into today’s Russian provinces and changed only one thing: the age of the heroes. In Anton Chekhov’s play the heroines are aged around 25; now they are 55. What does that do? The heroes’ retorts, stylistically inappropriate from today’s twenty-year-olds, are absolutely organic for the older generation, the ‘Soviet’ intelligentsia. The problems of Chekhov’s classical work concerning the search for a meaning in life, the loss of ideals, the fear before death without having achieved anything in the world, the desire to be useful to others – all these things are also a typical attribute of the Soviet intelligentsia.
Alexander Malinin is a YouTuber and actor from Russia. Malinin played a minor role at the age of 10 in Yuri Grymov’s show ‘The Lost World’ and later played another minor role as the grandson of Vershinin in Yuri Grymov’s film ‘The 3 Sisters’ based upon the classic Russian novel of the same name.
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