Productions

Art Director Ekaterina Sedova
Choreographer Olga Privis
Lighting Designer Anton Andreyuk
Music Designer Valery Kazakov
Assistant Director Ekaterina Egorova
Performers Natalia Dymchenko, Tatyana Kosmynina or Sandra Minasyan, Eduard Tee, Anastasia Tsubina

Wordless visual theatre performance for ages 16+

The physical theatre performance "Vasenka" is based on the novel "The Life of Vasily Fiveysky" by Leonid Andreyev and is the directorial debut of Daniil Zandberg, an actor of the Russian Theater.

The boy Vasya, son of a priest, has drowned. Out of despair, the priest’s wife starts drinking, while the father of the family seeks God, but does not feel relief. Their daughter Nastya is left on her own. The drunken priest’s wife urges the priest to get her son back. Sometime later, a “new” Vasya is born. But he is not like the preceding Vasya, he is not the kind of son the priest’s wife had been praying for. Soon they realize that the new baby is special. He is not the child the parents had wanted, but he is a human…

The play is about love and lack of love. About family members who can unwittingly destroy each other. About the desire to replace one child with another. About disappointed expectations. About love and compassion that can emerge even if it seems impossible. About faith. About despair. About indifference and lack of concern. About losing happiness while striving to be happy. About the past, present and future. About how we create our own destiny. About how the past makes it difficult to move forward. About silence.