Alexander Malinin

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.

New Year's musical based on the poems of Mikhail Gutseriev.

The famous Inspector Andreev from the Tomsk Federal Bureau is sent to investigate a terrible murder. Michael Revill, a 95 year old billionaire, was viciously shot. What seems at first to be a simple crime turns into an insane and unpredictable conspiracy. Even someone with as much experience as Andreev could never predict the roots of this terrible plot or the villains' true motives.

The famous Inspector Andreev from the Tomsk Federal Bureau is sent to investigate a terrible murder. Michael Revill, a 95 year old billionaire, was viciously shot. What seems at first to be a simple crime turns into an insane and unpredictable conspiracy. Even someone with as much experience as Andreev could never predict the roots of this terrible plot or the villains' true motives.