Performance "Heartbreak Club" from 12 to 13 October 2023

Tears, joy, suffering, laughter, broken heart... In this eternal cycle of contradictions, it is difficult to find any certainty. Do we love or do we still torment? Do we reject or look for ways to forgive? Are we talking or are we only hearing ourselves?

Two actors - two strong characters opposing each other. Varvara Shmykova and Mikhail Shamkov - Varya and Misha. And - the audience. And - an honest, open, paradoxical conversation between the stage and the audience. And there are many great texts written about love. Perhaps this evening we will still be able to get closer to the answer to this most important question: What is love?

The performance features texts by Michel Houellebecq, James Joyce, Veronica Tushnova, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Ostrovsky, Vera Polozkova.

Worked on the performance:

Playwright - Karina Besolti

Director - Igor Sharoiko

The author of the idea is Mikhail Dyagtyarev

Actors: Varvara Shmykova, Mikhail Shamkov

Lighting designer and sound designer - Yuri Galkin

Producers: Philip Nesterenko, Elizaveta Paliy

16+

produced by ARETE

Gathering of guests: 19:00

Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes with one musical intermission