Kansky Drama Theater
2024

Author: Ivan Bunin
Director: Yana Selezneva
Stage and costume designer: Julia Vetrova

While working on the set for this play, I tried to create a special atmosphere, to bring to life moments that I remember from my childhood, simple and at the same time very profound. The tall grass near my grandmother's house, on which I ran as a child; the tree on which we built a small house; the soft soil under our feet, on which we ran barefoot; my grandmother's house, which, having grown old, became open to all the winds and it seemed that things and interior items fell out of it, like prepared memories. The atmosphere of our play is also filled with natural phenomena - snow, rain, wind, dust storms. All these memories warm my soul, which is especially important at this time.
Now is a very difficult time for all of us, we try to create our performances despite all the circumstances. And that is why this performance is especially dear to me, in it we try to feel and live through all the events, emotions, memories and feelings of a person who has lost his homeland, the warmth of his home, who has found himself in immigration, real or internal. We go through this path together with the main character, the path of a person who has only memories of the past left. These memories, like the most dear and precious things that we carry with us, like heavy but valuable baggage, throughout our entire lives, and losing these memories is a huge tragedy, it is like losing yourself and the ground under your feet, which is already shaky and eludes us at every moment of our current life.