
1. Theater of Nations
The play “The Privileges of Ladies” includes stories: “Peasant Wives”, “The Beauties”, “Ladies”, and “Women’s Luck”.
“...A woman ... does not go to war, does not copy papers, does not build railways, but by locking a decanter of vodka from her husband, helps to reduce excise duties. In short, she is crafty, talkative, vain, deceitful, hypocritical, mercenary, incompetent, frivolous, evil... Only one thing is cute about her, namely, that she gives birth to such cute, graceful, and terribly intelligent souls like men... For this virtue, we will forgive her all her sins.”
Anton Chekhov, the story “About Women”
2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The premiere took place on April 12, 2018.
The young director Mikhail Stankevich puts the play of one of Shakespeare’s first romantic comedies on the small stage of the Russian Academic Youth Theater.