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# Five actresses of a certain age, with very different professional histories and ranges, from Pippi Longstocking and an elderly sow to Nina Zarechnaya, meet at an audition, not yet knowing what to expect from texts quite unsuited to them, unfamiliar…
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/piat-vozrastnykh-aktris-s-raznymi-professionalnymi-biografiiami-i-amplua-ot-peppi-dlinnyi-chulok-i-pozhiloi-svini-do-niny-zarechnoi-vstrechaiutsia-na-kastinge-no-eshche-ne-znaiut-chego/
- Published: 2023-10-07T17:43:20.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:35:38.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Coming Up, Moscow

Matters take an unexpected turn, and the audition goes nothing like what was expected. The ladies share the details of their artistic fates, speak of what was and what never came to pass, of life, love and dreams.

"Casting 81/18" at the Taganka Theatre. A kind, light play with interesting, charismatic actresses: Viktoria Radunskaya, Yelena Gabets, Lidia Savchenko, Yelena Kondratyeva and Tatyana Sidorenko.

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