Performance "Heartbreak Club" in Berlin 5 December 2024

Varvara Shmykova in the play-dialogue "Broken Hearts Club". Reflections on the essence of love with references to modern and classic works of fiction and poetry.

A frank and honest conversation about love between the actors and the audience, in which each guest will be able to see a part of himself. This evening the actors Varvara Shmykova and Nikita Elenev together with the audience, guests of the Broken Hearts Club, will go through the joys and pains of human relationships, inspired by the great texts about love, to get closer to the answer to the question of what is love?

The performance includes texts by Michel Houellebecq, James Joyce, Veronika Tushnova, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Ostrovsky, Vera Polozkova and other authors.

"What to put on a play about these days? The answer is simple. Only about what is so badly lacking in a world that is obsessed with battles. Love! Art has not yet found a method to speak of the global not through the personal, for it is created by man. To talk about love in the world, we should first of all talk about the love inside us" - Alexander Rubtsov.

Worked on the performance:

Playwright - Karina Besolti
Director - Varvara Shmykova
Author of the idea - Mikhail Dyagtyaryov, Varvara Shmykova, Mikhail Shamkov
Actors - Varvara Shmykova, Nikita Elenev
Lighting designer, sound engineer - Yuri Galkin
Concert director - Daniil Radlov
Administrator - Grigory Sazankov

Produced by ARETE