Andrey Lobachevsky

Summer 2022. A group of our volunteers — drone reconnaissance operators — led by an officer with the call sign "Moscow" arrives for a rotation in a small village somewhere in the Zaporizhzhia region, practically on the front line. There, they establish contact with a local family who refused to abandon their home. Despite forecasts from command — which considers this direction secondary and expects the enemy's main assault elsewhere — the enemy launches a breakthrough here, at dawn. "Moscow's" group must carry out their combat mission, with almost no chance of making it out alive.

The plot of the play 'The Last Ones' at the Gogol Theatre centers around the Kolomiytsev family. Their home resembles the ruins left after a bombing, and the characters themselves appear as the last survivors of a worldwide catastrophe. The appearance of their house symbolizes the destruction of age-old foundations and family traditions. Despite the fact that some of the characters make timid attempts at reconciliation and family reunification, singing songs around the campfire in unison, it is clear to the audience that the rift is inevitable and unavoidable.