Directors Maxim Didenko, Nikolay Dreyden

Premiere took place on 21 May 2011

CREATIVE TEAM

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Author of the script Konstantin Fyodorov

Artistic Director Viktoria Bogdanova

CAST

Daria Rumyantseva
Alexey Morozov
Oleg Ryazantsev

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NOMINATIONS

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St. Petersburg Highest Theatrical Award “Golden Soffit” 2010-2011.

The play is based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Kuprin.

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Young writer Ivan comes to Polesie in search of a new plot for a novel. Lost in the local dense forest, he finds a house belonging to an old woman called Manuylikha and her granddaughter Olesya, both expelled from the village for practicing witchcraft. Olesya can heal wounds, predict the future, read the cards. The young people fall in love, but their love is doomed – Olesya learned that from her cards …