"Gorka" by playwright Alexei Zhitkovsky, recognized as the best play of the Russian theater season of 2018, touches on the very delicate topic of the "little" man and his everyday heroism. The main character of the play, Nastya, is a young kindergarten teacher who every day faces the absurdity of everyday life. The young woman has learned to be a fighter who can survive in a cold and demanding world. Everything changes when her angry heart collides with a real anomaly: Ozod, a boy from a family of foreigners who cannot speak Russian well. Nastya's efficiency and aggressiveness are transformed into maternal tenderness, the "instinct of a humane attitude towards a person" wakes up. But can a humanist survive in this world?
In the dialogues of A. Zhitkovsky, distinguished by their wit and irony, the routine aggression of everyday life and hopelessness collide with an existential longing for heroism and sincere love. Russian theater critic Pavel Rudnev noted that “the play by the Nizhnevartovsk author is written in the genre of passion-bearing, life: a small, heroic person melts in the fire of passions in a fight with unbearable reality, forging a new character and new connections for himself.”
The performance is in Russian with Lithuanian subtitles
Photographer - Dmitry Matveev
