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Big Man in a Small Town

Theatre:
Author:
Jelena Skulskaja, Sergei Dovlatov
Director:
Eduard Toman
Premiere:
Esietendus 14. novembril 2007 väikeses saalis.
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Author: Sergei Dovlatov
Director: Eduard Toman

Sergei Dovlatov's topics and variations
Adapted to stage by Jelena Skulskaja, poems by Jelena Skulskaja.
Cast: Eduard Toman, Oleg Štšigorets, Ksenja Agarkova

It is not clear yet which is the best way to stage the prose texts written by Sergei Dovlatov, a writer whose work has had remarkable influence on the contemporary literary language and also on spoken language. All attempts to separate the author from his characters have failed.
Perhaps it is not necessary to separate Dovlatov from his characters whom he never looked down on and whom he never tried to judge. One of his central motifs is the moon that illuminates the path of both the beast and its prey.
This production is an attempt to put to stage prose texts appreciated by both geniuses and the masses. It is simple like the essays of Alexander Pushkin, and at the same time beyond reach like Anton Chekhov's smile.
It is a story about a writer who thinks that God does not offer people the gift of writing, but instead offers the gift of bad life from which good literature is born.