The eponymous story was written by the forgotten Soviet writer Boris Vakhtin in the 1960s, and at the turn of the century - in 2000 - it was staged by Peter Fomenko at his theater. The 26 episodes of the work reveal the everyday life and philosophy of a simple peasant girl, whose husband was taken to war, where he perished. In the framework of the play, the story is realized in the form of etudes and stage sketches. The narrative moves without pauses between the comic and the tragic, without clear boundaries between reality and fantasy, without dividing the animate and inanimate: both the cow, the well, and the garden scarecrow have their own role and character. The villagers simply communicate with the dead, turning to them for advice, and they occasionally offer some guidance from above. According to the director, the main goal for him in this production was to find the fine line between convention and the authenticity of human experience when war intruded into everyday life. See more performances on our website in the theater section.