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…

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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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

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…

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s