Milk

This story is about an ordinary 28-year-old Muscovite Zoya begins on the day when her life partner Sergey steals penguins from the zoo: “In the zoo, it was awful. Rotten water, concrete, captivity. I saved them.“ Enamoured Zoya has no choice but to leave her job as a chef and apply for a new position, closer to home, as icy water for penguins should be changed every four hours. This place is a school where the headmistress, fascinated by Zoya’s knowledge of works of John Maxwell Taylor, offers the girl a school psychologist position. Psychological help is required not only by troubled teenagers, one of those is Shurik Bolshakov - he risks his life every night jumping onto the moving trains roofs. Everyone around Zoya has something odd about them. And it is mediocre Zoe who is destined to help them – thanks to unexpectedly discovered paranormal abilities... This play, written by a young playwright Ekaterina Mavromatis, was first presented at the festival "Lyubimovka-2016", and it will be staged by Denis Azarov who previously had staged “Holiday at Ivanovs” at the Gogol center. He is a director with taste and interest in the poetics of absurd which he finds both in real life and modern dramaturgy. The performance, based on a cunning, sentimental and very funny text about restless people, suffering from lack of warmth, might make a difference in the world. It would be done Zoya’s way – through love and understanding. The premiere occurred on April 13, 2017.