Public talk with playwright Yevgeny Kazachkov and director Lera Surkova - authors of the play "Persona" staged at the Gogol Center based on the movie of the same name by Ingmar Bergman Automatic translate

December 4 at 19:00.

The famous actress suddenly falls silent in the middle of the play and from that moment refuses to communicate using words. Formally, she has a happy personal life and a successful career, and doctors claim that she is mentally healthy, so the reason for her condition for others remains a mystery. The nurse takes the patient out of her stupor, but not by medical means, but by confessing about her life.

Evgeny Kazachkov - playwright, screenwriter, translator. The author of the plays is Oleg Kulik. Drumming ”,“ Bronislav Vinogrodsky. Healing translation ”and“ Alex Dubas. Prometheus ”from the cycle“ Man. doc ”in the theater“ Practice ”. At the Center named after Sun. Meyerhold based on the plays of Yevgeny Kazachkov staged performances of "Fuel" and "Joint experiences." At the Gogol Center, he acts as the author of the adaptation of the interactive performance “Questioning / Who are you?” And the playwright of the performances “Persona” and “Two Rooms”.

Lera Surkova - actress and director. She staged performances in the Theater. doc, Sun Center Meyerhold, Taganka Theater, Gogol Center, participated in drama laboratories and contemporary art festivals Territory, Lyubimovka, and Andrei Moguchy’s Theater Space. In her filmography, several short films and the feature film “Pagans” (2017) based on the play of the same name by Anna Yablonskaya.