At the very beginning of the play we see a happy big family, they are ordinary people, the same as we are, we understand their problems. Two brothers with their families come to an ordinary celebration of their mother’s birthday. Gradually the action on the stage becomes unexpectedly multisided, the characters of the play exist in two dimensions – on the one hand they are in an ordinary modern life, but at the same time they find [...]

It’s a classical detective written by a modern American playwright, who created already more than 400 plays. Don Nigro has been writing drama since the 70s, and for more than forty years his plays are performed on the best theatrical stages of the world. Now translations of his plays have appeared in Russia too. The first night of the play “Purely Woman’s Reason” based on the play “Ravenscroft” by Don Nigro [...]

The figures of the passing era – Ranevskaya, Gaev, Firs – they are all like big children, pathetic and funny, but touching in their helplessness... The audience will probably give them some compassion, a sympathetic sigh of sadness – for such awkward, incomprehensible, lonely characters. Returning from a distant journey Ranevskaya, still young and beautiful woman, she knows from the beginning that the estate is doomed, she came [...]