Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater: What a Pity

After the play Diatribe of Love Against a Seated Man, running time: 1 h 20 m, prime November 20, 2006
Last performed March 6, 2020

Author — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Director — Pyotr Fomenko
Assistant Director — Alexei Zlobin
Lighting Design — Vladislav Frolov
Property Work — Irina Bachurina
Preparation of Stage Space — Konstantin Lebedev, Stepan Pyankov, Alexander Khovansky
Photoworks — Larisa Gerasimchuk
Stage Manager — Yulia Kamysheva, Tatyana Seredina
Fixing Scenic Text — Anastasia Sergeeva
Light — Maxim Moroshkin
Sound Direction — Valeriya Zebald
Wardope masters — Valeria Kurochkina, Olga Lopach, Maria Tabakova
Props — Yana Bereznitskaya, Sofia Telegina
Make-up — Anna Meleshko, Larisa Gerasimchuk

On the eve of their silver wedding, a man and a woman are sorting things out, trying to understand how it happened that their life together, which began with so much fun, had become, 25 years later, so unbearable that it’s suitable to say that “… the life was for nothing…” To be exact, this is what the wife tries to understand. The husband, meanwhile, is silently reading his newspaper. Lyudmila Maskakova tells the story of twenty-five long years in less than 90 minutes.

Basically, this miniature production is like a nostalgic sigh: too bad that the life has flown by, and nothing can be restored.: Gleb Sitkovsky, TimeOut Moscow