1. CHESS PLAYER

2. The ACTRESS – the beloved

3. The CAPTAIN – the present companion of the Actress

4. The BOY IN the JACKET – the son Kapitana

5. INVESTIGATOR

The performance according to Iosif BRODSKY'S poem "Is devoted to Yalta".

Irina EVDOKIMOVA works as almost don't work at theater now: any excess gesture, any incorrect note, any inaccuracy. So work in circus under a dome when the mistake is a death.

At it in hands sing hidden glasses, telephone disks, peredvigayutsyashakhmatny figures turn … And, phone (it struck me) old, that. That's wonderful. She creates the atmosphere, space in which it is possible to live. In total trekhmerno, there is a port, the road to the house, is smart, there is everything. I don't speak about people even. To tell Yamogu how they look. But also it, seems to me, not the main thing.

Yes, Brodsky is plastic, and, thanks to brilliant work of the actress, director and ballet master, the viewer can see, hear and feel a well-muscled body of the poem in a performance.

I applaud all three, they managed to create theatrical action congenial to Brodsky's poem.

Alexander Timofeevsky, poet