Выпуск 2. Пьесы для небогатых театров

Alexander Obraztzov

«The Suburb»

«All cats are gray»

The genre of both plays is an anecdote.

These are the plays about love. The central issue is the classical triangle. Both of them can be performed by the same actors. But it's a very complicated task, because the characters are not only quite opposite in temper, but they belong to different social groups.

«The Suburb»: can it be that a husband doesn't understand the words of a stranger who seduces his wife.

And only this misunderstanding saves the family for him.

«All cats are gray»: can a looser and a poor man in forty minutes at a night railway station to take a beloved woman from a successful, clever and sophisticated rival?

Stanislav Shulyak

«Delusions»

And it is said: «Word is given to us to suffer». But a word can also oust a character, i.e. the bearer of this very word. The word causes the destruction of the personality of the main character in «Delusions» — Sharkovsky. This word destroyed Jerusalem in the play «Delusions» — the word and not the troops of Titus. This very word creates the theatrical time in the play. And thanks to this very word delusions turn into the only possibility for a man to get into contact with the outer world.

«Concluding Remarks»

«First was the Word»… Everything after that belonged more or less to the «concluding remarks». In the play «Concluding Remarks» time apparently has gone crazy as if it got off the chain. Beginnings and ends, reasons and consequences got mixed up. May be the traditional mythology has also acquired a slightly different sinister image.

Igor Shpritz

«Never trust, never ask, never be afraid»

Life brings together the main characters of this play — a man and a woman, a prisoner and a warden — in a prison cell. They turn the cell into home for their love and love into prison for their souls.

Ludmila Razumovskaya

«Vladimirskaya Square»

Time of profound «democracy». Two elderly people meet at the corner of Vladimirskaya Square and Dostoevsky street — a favorite place for homeless, beggars and small street-traders. He is begging and she is selling something.

And here the story starts for the two — the story as old as the world itself and eternally new. The story of touching and tender love and, alas, of almost inevitable parting.