Director Marina Brusnikina immerses the audience in the poetic text of Ivan Shmelev in a play about "memory as the homeland of the soul." The meanings of Marina Brusnikina's play are well explained by Berdyaev's formulation: it is about the necessity of understanding the past in order to shape the "contours of the future." Shmelev's novel, written a century ago, has never been staged on the Moscow stage. In Marina Brusnikina's play, as always in her productions, prose transforms into a narrative from the perspective of a large ensemble, where the ensemble takes center stage, and each actor engages in their own conversation with the audience. The life of a single family is revealed through the history and traditions of pre-revolutionary Russia, and the sensitive perception of the world by a small boy becomes the key to memories full of life. You can find more plays in Moscow on our website in the theater section.