Sasha Syzonenk

Lina lives a very ordinary life: husband Boris and daughter Nastya, work as a French teacher at a prestigious gymnasium. True, Boris is obsessed with the idea of organizing his own business. Lina's salary and part-time work are barely enough to pay off the loans taken by Boris. Soon the situation gets out of control: Boris leaves the family; Lina is fired from the gymnasium due to a conflict with the influential father of one of the students; Collectors appear on the threshold of her apartment - they cannot find Boris, so they shake off debts from his wife. Lina has to get a job as a housekeeper for the wealthy Karavaev family in order to stay afloat. However, challenges await her here too.

'All my life – all your life – I've struggled with this: was what I did "wrong"?' Germany, 1945. Thomas, one of thousands of children stolen by the Nazis from Eastern Europe during WWII, is under the care of Ruth, a UN relief worker. Should she try to find his parents or leave him with those he's grown up with? The choice she makes will shape his life. London, 1990. Years later, Thomas visits Ruth. As they untangle the past, the decisions Ruth made as a very young woman are called powerfully into question. Juliet Stevenson is Ruth in this remarkable and timely new play by David Lan, former Artistic Director of the Young Vic. Immersed in the shapeshifting nature of memory and morality, it's directed by Stephen Daldry (The Jungle, The Inheritance).

Lina lives a very ordinary life: husband Boris and daughter Nastya, work as a French teacher at a prestigious gymnasium. True, Boris is obsessed with the idea of organizing his own business. Lina's salary and part-time work are barely enough to pay off the loans taken by Boris. Soon the situation gets out of control: Boris leaves the family; Lina is fired from the gymnasium due to a conflict with the influential father of one of the students; Collectors appear on the threshold of her apartment - they cannot find Boris, so they shake off debts from his wife. Lina has to get a job as a housekeeper for the wealthy Karavaev family in order to stay afloat. However, challenges await her here too.