Play "Uezhaete? Uezhajte!" (ru) in Berlin from 4 to 5 April 2024

A play-concert about the last evening in the homeland of Soviet poet Alexander Galich and about Russia's place in the world in the words of Russian writers and thinkers of the 19th-20th centuries.

"...Galich could be kicked out of the country, but they could not kick him out of history..."

In 2019, a play by the Brusnikin Workshop Theater and independent producers Maria Sinitsina and Elena Kamenskaya based on the transcript of Galich's expulsion from the Writers' Union was released at the STD Library in Moscow. Directed by Igor Titov, who also played Galich, and Sergei Karaban. The author is Andrei Stadnikov. The play was staged with full houses until 2022 and was in the long-list of the Golden Mask. In 2022 part of the company and the authors of the performance left the country.

In 2023, Igor Titov and Andrei Stadnikov enter this territory again and go further. The new statement is about Galich's farewell to the Soviet Union.

Alexander Galich's life and his difficult writing fate give many reasons for reflection and theatrical realization of his biography. Being at one time a systematic playwright and scriptwriter, he over time reinterpreted the Soviet reality in his poems and songs, became a dissident. And as a consequence - he was forced to leave the country.

The play is divided into 2 acts. The first is a very free reconstruction of Galich and his wife's send-off abroad and their last day in Russia.

In the second act we bring together in one space iconic persons of different times - thinkers, poets, writers. Shalamov, Astafyev, Letov, Chaadayev and Galich discuss and argue about the place of their country in the world, as if continuing the dialog going on in eternity, which never stops as long as there is such a place as Russia on the planet.

The play is in Russian with German subtitles.

Directing and staging team:

• Igor Titov, director
  
• Andrei Stadnikov, playwright, director
  
• Vanya Bowden, artist
  
• Yuri Galkin, lighting designer, sound design
  
• Svetlana Dolya, producer
  
• Ilya Kuznetsov, assistant director, executive producer
  
• Ivan Shemyakin, designer
  
• Margarita Baghdasaryan, photographer, video
  
• Vladimir Kobzev, legal support
  

GROUP

• Igor Titov (Sasha/Alexander Galich)
  
• Vadim Korolev / OQJAV (Valya / Varlam Shalamov)
  
• Nikita Elenev (Senya/Viktor Astafiev)
  
• Nina Guseva (Nyusha/Peter Chaadayev)
  
• Anna Nazarova (Lilya/Egor Letov)