Director Vladimir Gurfinkel's play "A Prayer of Remembrance" is based on a play by the famous comedian, playwright and screenwriter Grigori Gorin. "A Prayer of Remembrance" is one of the most significant plays for modern theater, inspired by the work of Sholom Aleichem, the great creator of literature in the Yiddish language, shaper of the modern identity of the Jewish people.In the creative biography of the director Vladimir Gurfinkelis, this is already the fifth stage production of the "Prayer of Remembrance". The director says: "For me, the constant return to the "Remembrance Prayer" is absolutely a creative theme of life. It is extremely difficult, because you need to understand how to build the "Remembrance Prayer" today, so that it is in demand and relevant. G. Gorin is a master of concentration - after all, the words of satirists and comedians working on stage are as complete as a hen's egg. I'm a big fan of Mr. Gorin because he doesn't have empty, unformulated words to replace. His every word, every phrase is a finished work. He is a wonderful playwright who has tackled many personal themes and written works that have both feet on timeless themes, and that is his charm. The Remembrance Prayer is about loving our children so much that we want them to be like us. We wish them our happiness, we want to hand over our future to them. However, our children look at the world differently, and in those moments when family and society fall apart, our own values and those of our children often do not match. The whole world and Sholom Aleichem's creative world is based on this contradiction. For me, Sholom Aleichem's work is an eternal reason to start a dialogue with my grandfathers, grandmothers, great-grandfathers, great-grandmothers ... and with my children."Playwright G. Gorin's name is well known to cinema and theater fans: he created scripts for such classic films by Mark Zakharov as "The Same Munchausen", "Love Formula" and others. Plays based on G. Gorin's plays "Forget Herostratus!" (1975), "Phenomenai" (1980), "Kinas IV" (1998), "Juokdarys Balakirev" (2009) were successfully staged in the Lithuanian Russian Drama Theater.The action of G. Gorin's "Prayer of Remembrance" takes us to the very beginning of the 20th century - turbulent times have come in the Russian Empire: the war with Japan, the first Russian revolution of 1905-1907, during which Jewish pogroms took place, the adoption of a new Constitution - the people of that time were shaken by the spirit of change. The changes do not bypass the town of Anatovka, lost in the far reaches of Ukraine. Here, despite cultural and religious differences, Russians, Ukrainians and Jews live together. Here also lives a Jew, a poor milkman, Tevje - a simple, wise man, who often turns to God with his family of five daughters, three of whom are already to be married off... "Prayer of Remembrance" is imbued with archaic Jewish wisdom and a unique, at the same time sad and a wry sense of humor to overcome often inhumane difficulties.The show is shown in Russian with Lithuanian subtitlesPhotos by Dmitry Matveev