Thanks to two very good people I got to the run of the play "Three Girls in Blue", in the Palace of Culture Zueva. It should be noted that this was my first acquaintance with the Other Theatre.
The story itself is practically nothing. Three young women with children live in a dilapidated dacha. The hostess of the dacha, the son of the main character, the mother-in-law of one girl, and the drunken husband of another are also present there. At some point, a neighbor in the dacha enters the game, starts courting the heroine (quite funny courting, yes ... but it's sad to look at). Well, further, further ... What is happening moves on as usual, events develop slowly and predictably to the point of insanity in general, although they are full of such absurdities, illogicalities and idiocy (I'm talking about the actions of heroes) that it's time to say "I don't believe" (c). .. Although this is both trouble and longing - what I believe ... There are a lot of stories that are not even stories, but just ordinary events for someone. All the characters in the performance are not accidental, each with its own history, character, recognizable and understandable. For some two hours, we saw, at a glance, so many life stories ... It is even, in a sense, hard - because there is not much light there at all.
In general, for me this performance evokes associations with the project "behind the glass" - everything that happens is painfully naturalistic. As if not a play or a stage, but in fact, by some miracle, the door to someone else's life was opened for us with its sorrows, joys, adventures, disappointments. Another association with a viscous half-drunk dream-nightmare, from which it is difficult to emerge - probably they drink too much during the play :) And the thought of time has not left yet ... side of the stage. Pavlik is our future, almost the whole performance is just as quiet - on the other hand ... And all the time between them beats, suffers, rejoices and seeks a better life for the present.

And I can't say enough about the actors and characters. Yesterday we saw:

Ira, young woman- Alisa Grebenshchikova
Svetlana, young woman- Olga Prikhudaylova
Tatiana, young woman- Anna Nakhapetova
Leocadia, mother-in-law of Svetlana- Alena Reznik
Maria Filippovna, mother of Ira- Olga Khokhlova
Fedorovna, mistress of the dacha- Albina Tikhanova
Pavlik, son of Ira- Kuzma Yaremenko
Nikolai Ivanovich, Ira's friend- Andrei Barilo
Valera, Tatyana's husband- Stanislav Sytnik
Young man- Leonid Lavrovsky-Garcia

Everyone liked it, oddly enough. That's all :)
Irina (A. Grebenshchikova) - in my opinion, one hundred percent hit in the image. Well, as far as I can tell, at least :) The other two young women are also good in their own way. I can't help but admire once again Anna Nakhapetova's ability to reincarnate.
Beautiful Nikolai Ivanovich (A. Barilo). Or rather, Andrei Barilo is beautiful :))) You can look at him even regardless of what is happening on stage, lovely :)
Without Pavlik and Leocadia, it would be impossible to watch at all, it seems to me. Especially without these specific Pavlik and Leocadia. I absolutely admire Alena Reznik, in fact. And I cannot but mention the performer of the role of Pavlik - Kuzma Yaremenko. A five-year-old kid plays a five-year-old (according to the play) boy ... he doesn’t play - he lives. He was actually a little light in the play like a sip fresh air. Talented child. Bold, strong, responsible and passionate. To play in an evening adult performance, a lot of time on stage, replicas ... Clever girl :) I did it perfectly, more than. And most importantly, so easy, as if he always played.

Three girls in blue
Summary comedy
Three women "over thirty" live in the summer with their little sons in the country. Svetlana, Tatyana and Ira are second cousins, they raise their children alone (although Tatyana, the only one of them, has a husband). Women quarrel, finding out who owns half of the dacha, whose son is the offender, and whose son is offended ... Svetlana and Tatiana live in the dacha for free, but the ceiling is leaking in their half. Ira rents a room from Feodorovna, the mistress of the second half of the dacha. But she is forbidden to use what belongs to her.

Sisters toilet.
Ira meets her neighbor Nikolai Ivanovich. He cares for her, admires her, calling her a beauty queen. As a sign of the seriousness of his feelings, he organizes the construction of a toilet for Ira.
Ira lives in Moscow with her mother, who constantly listens to her own illnesses and reproaches her daughter for leading the wrong way of life. When Ira was fifteen years old, she ran away to spend the night at the stations, and even now, having arrived home with a sick five-year-old Pavlik, she leaves the child with her mother and quietly goes to Nikolai Ivanovich. Nikolai Ivanovich is touched by Ira's story about her youth: he also has a fifteen-year-old daughter, whom he adores.
Believing in the love of Nikolai Ivanovich, about which he speaks so beautifully, Ira follows him to Koktebel, where her lover is resting with his family. In Koktebel, Nikolai Ivanovich's attitude towards Ira changes: she annoys him with her devotion, from time to time he demands the keys to her room in order to retire with his wife. Soon the daughter of Nikolai Ivanovich learns about Ira. Unable to withstand his daughter's tantrum, Nikolai Ivanovich drives away his annoying mistress. He offers her money, but Ira refuses.
On the phone, Ira tells her mother that she lives in a dacha, but cannot come for Pavlik, because the road has been washed out. During one of the calls, the mother reports that she urgently goes to the hospital and leaves Pavlik at home alone. Calling back in a few minutes, Ira realizes that her mother did not deceive her: the child is alone at home, he has no food. At the Simferopol airport, Ira sells her raincoat and on her knees begs the airport attendant to help her fly to Moscow.
Svetlana and Tatyana, in the absence of Ira, occupy her country room. They are determined, because during the rain half of them was completely flooded and it became impossible to live there. The sisters fight again over the upbringing of their sons. Svetlana doesn't want her Maxim to grow up squishy and die as early as his father. Ira suddenly appears with Pavlik. She says that her mother was admitted to the hospital with a strangulated hernia, that Pavlik was left alone at home, and she miraculously managed to fly out of Simferopol. Svetlana and Tatyana announce to Ira that they will now live in her room. To their surprise, Ira doesn't mind. She hopes for the help of her sisters: she has no one else to count on. Tatyana declares that now they will take turns buying food and cooking, and Maxim will have to stop fighting. “There are two of us now!” she says to Svetlana.

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Three women "over thirty" live in the summer with their little sons in the country. Svetlana, Tatyana and Ira are second cousins, they raise their children alone (although Tatyana, the only one of them, has a husband). Women quarrel, figuring out who owns half of the dacha, whose son is the offender, and whose son is offended ... Svetlana and Tatyana live in the dacha for free, but the ceiling flows in their half. Ira rents a room from Feodorovna, the mistress of the second half of the dacha. But she is forbidden to use the toilet belonging to the sisters.

Ira meets her neighbor Nikolai Ivanovich. He cares for her, admires her, calling her a beauty queen. As a sign of the seriousness of his feelings, he organizes the construction of a toilet for Ira.

Ira lives in Moscow with her mother, who constantly listens to her own illnesses and reproaches her daughter for leading the wrong way of life. When Ira was fifteen years old, she ran away to spend the night at the stations, and even now, having arrived home with a sick five-year-old Pavlik, she leaves the child with her mother and quietly goes to Nikolai Ivanovich. Nikolai Ivanovich is touched by Ira's story about her youth: he also has a fifteen-year-old daughter, whom he adores.

Believing in the love of Nikolai Ivanovich, about which he speaks so beautifully, Ira follows him to Koktebel, where her lover is resting with his family. In Koktebel, Nikolai Ivanovich's attitude towards Ira changes: she annoys him with her devotion, from time to time he demands the keys to her room in order to retire with his wife. Soon the daughter of Nikolai Ivanovich learns about Ira. Unable to withstand his daughter's tantrum, Nikolai Ivanovich drives away his annoying mistress. He offers her money, but Ira refuses.

On the phone, Ira tells her mother that she lives in a country house, but cannot come for Pavlik, because the road has been washed out. During one of the calls, the mother reports that she urgently goes to the hospital and leaves Pavlik at home alone. Calling back a few minutes later, Ira realizes that her mother did not deceive her: the child is alone at home, he has no food. At the Simferopol airport, Ira sells her raincoat and on her knees begs the airport duty officer to help her fly to Moscow.

Svetlana and Tatyana, in the absence of Ira, occupy her country room. They are determined, because during the rain half of them was completely flooded and it became impossible to live there. The sisters fight again over the upbringing of their sons. Svetlana does not want her Maxim to grow up squishy and die as early as his father. Ira suddenly appears with Pavlik. She says that her mother was admitted to the hospital with a strangulated hernia, that Pavlik was left alone at home, and she miraculously managed to fly out of Simferopol. Svetlana and Tatyana announce to Ira that they will now live in her room. To their surprise, Ira doesn't mind. She hopes for the help of her sisters: she has no one else to count on. Tatyana declares that now they will take turns buying food and cooking, and Maxim will have to stop fighting. "There are two of us now!" she says to Svetlana.