The play "The Only Tallest Trees on Earth" in Germany from 7 to 14 April 2026

The world premiere of Ivan Vyrypayev's play "The Only Tallest Trees on Earth".

A new play by Ivan Vyrypayev, one of Europe's most famous contemporary playwrights, will have its world premiere in Germany.This is the first joint creative project of artists with Ivan Vyrypayev - the author, whose plays have been translated into more than 30 languages and are performed on the stages of dozens of theaters around the world.

In a deliberately simple form, the three actors engage in a dialog in which the funny and the disturbing, the everyday and the philosophical are juxtaposed. The simple form of conversation becomes a way to ask difficult questions - those that everyone faces in life, but does not always dare to say out loud.

As in his best works, Vyrypayev combines a play with the rhythm of the word, a virtuoso mastery of the text with paradoxical metaphors and a constant change of the author's optics, forcing the viewer to look at familiar themes from a new angleagain and again.

Using the very structure of language as a theatrical tool, the playwright turns the utterance of the text into an independent element of the stage action. The spectator is immersed in the author's special universe, where layer by layer the inner feelings of the characters are revealed , gradually leading to the main questions - about faith, about love and about the search for the meaning of life.

Director: M. Mishin
Actors: Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Mashkova, Vasily Zorky
Producers: A. Markvo, M. Volkov
Ajoint project of the Teal House Foundation and Bird&Carrot Productions.