|Malva|

This production was created as part of the Gorky. Prose Directing Lab and is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Maxim Gorky.

Piece of land surrounded by water. Three men and one woman. Everything is possible, since God is gone. This is the story of disharmonious nature of man against the background of a harmonious nature. “Wind was affectionately stroking satin chest of the sea, the sun was warming her up with the hot rays, and the sea was sighing as if half-asleep, under the gentle force of these caresses, saturating the hot air with salty vapors. Greenish waves crushing against yellow sand were dumping the white foam on it, and the foam was thawing with a quiet sound on a hot sand, moisturizing it.“ Paradoxically, those paradise places become the backdrop to the scenes of human destinies demolishing. All human relationships are being destroyed: between a man and a woman, between father and son, and between friends. Malva, the leading character of the story, is a fatal beauty who has lost interest in everything. „I always want something. And I don't know what it is. There are times when I feel like jumping on a bark and sailing onwards! Far away! Just to never see the humans again. And at other times I feel like taking each and every man around me for a spin. I would keep looking at him and laughing.” While imitating life, she is trying to protect herself from it. Everything is disappearing in a due time. At the time the vitality is leaving this world, the nature is especially beautiful.