“St. Petersburg Theatre Seasons” Festival provides its audience not only with an enjoyable experience of watching online the best of Saint Petersburg’s performances. After watching the broadcast, the viewers have an opportunity to meet the creators of the performances and ask them about their work. Hence, the magic of the theatre still continues after the final curtain call is done, and the audience is not confined only to watching performances. Everyone can ask artists or the director a question and receive an honest answer.

Duration – 3 h. with one intermission. Age restriction 16+

Inhabitants of a small town live their own lives taking their time over tea with baranki whereas cosmic scale passions are raging under the surface of this quiet provincial pool. Enterprising landowner Murzavetskaya is aspired to pocket the inheritance of a rich young widow Evlampia Kupavina. Murzavetskaya almost reaches her aim having played matchmaker between her nephew and the widow. Unexpectedly, a new participant joins the race. It is a “great schemer” landowner Vasily Berkutov.

So, who will win the prize?

“There is a tradition of staging Ostrovsky’s plays simply and in strict accordance with the text. But we have set a goal of discovering additional meanings that are hidden between the lines. We cast aside a historical cover having left only the outline of the play and, to our surprise, it turned out to be decidedly contemporary. The author wrote his story in a way that every viewer could find themselves out among the characters and laugh or maybe get scared. That is why Ostrovsky is a genius dramatist,” Andrzej Buben, director.