Project chronicle

Lyubimovka 2025

Readings including “Dixie and Dixon”, “Russian as Foreign, Udmurt as Native”, “Ansar Shrugs”, “Diary of the End of the World”.

Lyubimovka 2024

Readings of new plays from the independent playwriting festival.

Keeping Hope

Staged by

Playback theatre “Paraphrase”

An improvised performance born from the audience's own stories, told right in the hall.

Lyubimovka 2023

Readings of new plays from the independent playwriting festival.

DeadLock

An anti-war exhibition of Russian and Armenian artists. The theatre's community began to form around it.

Finist, the Brave Falcon

A recording of the production by Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk. After the screening the audience wrote letters to the arrested authors and raised 35 000 ₽ for Berkovich's lawyer.

Don't Think I've Forgotten

A documentary about Cambodian musicians who faced the genocide. Introduced by Yulia Nakaryakova, one of the film's Russian translators.

Three films and three texts by Alexander Rastorguev

A screening and an author's reading in memory of the murdered documentary filmmaker.

“What Does Ukraine Have to Do with It?” Myths of Putin's Propaganda

Staged by

Anna Grebennikova, historian and social anthropologist

Mamleev as an Anti-War Writer

Staged by

Eduard Lukoyanov, author of a book on Yuri Mamleev

The Space of Theatre: Scenography and Architecture of Performative Art

Staged by

Tigran Gevorkyan, architect and researcher of space

Three

Open rehearsals of a philosophical tragicomedy built on dialogues about art by Plato, Hegel, Meister Eckhart and Malevich.

No Peace Without You

An exhibition-auction in support of Evgeny Pavlovsky, a missing Russian LGBT activist and trade unionist.

Tales from Under the Bed

A children's performance by the theatre's friends from Batumi.

The Pillowman (lab)

A production growing inside the course, at the crossing of the acting and verbatim tracks.

Verbatim (lab)

Documentary theatre assembled from interviews in the verbatim track.