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Premiere of the famous performance ''KOBA''!

Premiere of the famous performance ''KOBA''!

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Next session: Sun, 14 Apr 2024, 18:00

Organizer:Onesa

Price:34.30–38.00 €

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KOBA is a (monologue of an old man), based on the famous play by Edvard Radzinski!

Georgian folk music is played in the performance.

About the play "KOBA".

The popular Russian writer Edvard Radzinsky (b. 1936), a great connoisseur of history, has repeatedly turned to the phenomenon of Stalin's personality in his work. In the short story "Koba" (an old man's monologue), the full despotic essence of the dictator and the universal fear that has tormented the minds and hearts of millions of people for many years is deeply and mercilessly revealed...


The story is told through the eyes of one of the leader's friends, Fuji. But anyone who knew Stalin, saw him or simply breathed the same air as him would agree. For many years, Fuji and Koba shared "one loaf of bread, one exile". Finally, they shared a common joy - the victory of the Revolution. They valued and respected each other. But for Stalin, the love and adoration of his comrades was not enough. He wanted to reign and dominate everyone's minds and hearts. So the revolutionary fighter Koba turned into the dictator Stalin. "If only someone had hinted to us what our illiterate friend, who speaks Russian rather badly, would become! If only someone had told us and all the blabbermouths who mocked Koba back then..."

What happened next is known to all. Koba's "enemies" began to disappear, followed by almost all his friends. Obedience and silence became indispensable for survival. Stalin destroyed millions of his fellow citizens and received in return the slavish adulation of the whole country. "We sat in our cramped room. My wife was sitting nearby, looking at Koba in admiration. To her, he was God who had descended straight from heaven into our miserable room. Koba put my daughter on his lap and she, not daring to move, sat on the lap of the "Best Friend of the Children of the World". A well-known aphorism says: "Revolution, like Saturn, devours its children! This is what happened during the Great French Revolution, when statues were toppled in Paris, first of kings, then of revolutionaries. The same thing happened in Russia some time later. History repeats itself, but we have not learnt from it.


But history is not far away: the pain, the tears and the blood are very close. And the 'father of all times and nations', Joseph Stalin, the man who 'killed more than any plague', seems to be walking leisurely nearby, smoking his eternal pipe and softly humming his beloved 'Suliko'. And this proximity makes one shudder...



The popular Russian writer Edvard Radzinsky (b. 1936), a great connoisseur of history, has repeatedly turned to the phenomenon of Stalin's personality in his work. In the short story "Koba" (an old man's monologue), the full despotic essence of the dictator and the universal fear that has tormented the minds and hearts of millions of people for many years is deeply and mercilessly revealed...


The story is told through the eyes of one of the leader's friends, Fuji. But anyone who knew Stalin, saw him or simply breathed the same air as him would agree. For many years, Fuji and Koba shared "one loaf of bread, one exile". Finally, they shared a common joy - the victory of the Revolution. They valued and respected each other. But for Stalin, the love and adoration of his comrades was not enough. He wanted to reign and dominate everyone's minds and hearts. So the revolutionary fighter Koba turned into the dictator Stalin. "If only someone had hinted to us what our illiterate friend, who speaks Russian rather badly, would become! If only someone had told us and all the blabbermouths who mocked Koba back then..."

What happened next is known to all. Koba's "enemies" began to disappear, followed by almost all his friends. Obedience and silence became indispensable for survival. Stalin destroyed millions of his fellow citizens and received in return the slavish adulation of the whole country. "We sat in our cramped room. My wife was sitting nearby, looking at Koba in admiration. To her, he was God who had descended straight from heaven into our miserable room. Koba put my daughter on his lap and she, not daring to move, sat on the lap of the "Best Friend of the Children of the World". A well-known aphorism says: "Revolution, like Saturn, devours its children! This is what happened during the Great French Revolution, when statues were toppled in Paris, first of kings, then of revolutionaries. The same thing happened in Russia some time later. History repeats itself, but we have not learnt from it.


But history is not far away: the pain, the tears and the blood are very close. And the 'father of all times and nations', Joseph Stalin, the man who 'killed more than any plague', seems to be walking leisurely nearby, smoking his eternal pipe and softly humming his beloved 'Suliko'. And this proximity makes one shudder...