Finist the brave falcon / author, Svetlana Petriichuk ; director Zhenya Berkovich ; producer, Alexander Andrievich ; Stage Russia HD, Daughters Soso.

Russia : Stage Russia, 2021.

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Zhenya Berkovich's staging of Svetlana Petriichuk's provocative, documentary style play tells the story of a Russian woman who befriends and is seduced by a member of an Islamic radical sect online, goes to Syria, marries him and upon her eventual return to Russia is tried as a terrorist. In recent years, there have been hundreds, if not thousands of such cases in Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. From what are these women running? What is driving them to abandon their friends, relatives, universities and workplaces for the promise of some shadowy paradise? All this takes place in the metaphysical space of the Russian fairy tale where the heroine - Maryushka - seeks and cannot find her betrothed, the mysterious hero, whose face she has never seen and will never see, but is ready to sacrifice everything in order to meet him.

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Russian

October 30, 2023

Scenography, costumes, Ksenia Sorokina ; composer, Olga Shaydullina ; light, Elena Perelman.

Natasha Gorbas, Anastasia Sapozhnikova, Julia Skirina, Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk, Margarita Tolstoganova, Natalia Sapozhnikova, Ira Sova, Svetlana Speranskaya, Leonika Konstantinova.