My Soul Pavel
Russian Academic Youth Theatre
Directed by Alexei Borodin
Playwright- Polina Babushkina
Premiered on April 14th, 2022
Duration - 3 hours with an intermission
Laureate of the Theatre Award "MK" in the nomination "Best Large Form Performance” (2022)
Winner of the "Hit of the Season" Award (2023) by the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation
Early 1980s. A seventeen-year-old Pavel Nepomiluev comes to Moscow from a "closed" city not marked on the map, miserably fails in the entrance exams, but by a happy coincidence, he still becomes a student of the famous philological faculty of the Moscow State University. The way to the auditorium lies through the collective farm field, where during the traditional trip "to cultivate the potato field" Pavel will have to take the first "ritual of initiation": to defend his convictions or say goodbye to his dreams forever.
"... a performance that makes you think and worry. Thus, do what the viewer goes to the theatre for." Andrey Maksimov, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
"This is a wise performance by Alexei Borodin and Alexey Varlamov. This is a bold performance by the Russian Academic Youth Theatre. This performance is honest and necessary." Lev Yakovlev, "Vtornik" magazine