Nikolai Gostiukhin's performance explores the topic of reality and illusions depicting moving episodes from the life of two married couples who have been friends for many years and only at a great age realize the ambiguity of their life experience.

Two men and two women take turns to tell a surprisingly penetrating story of the relationship between two elderly couples: Danny, Sandra, Albert, and Margaret. Taking the stage one after another the actors tell heart-piercing episodes of the private life of two married couples. Their stories are told with gratitude and warmth, and ultimately turn out to be a parable about the illusory nature of marriage and the absence of any consistency in the world around us. The main distinguishing feature of the performance is the way it is perceived — through one's own imagination and the voices of the actors-narrators, the measured rhythm of which makes it possible to revive the play so colorfully and vividly that one can easily imagine the scenes from the family life of elderly couples and look at their own life from outside.

This supertemporal story makes you think not only about how to find a place to stand in the endlessly changing world with its pandemics and personal tragedies but also about the fact that even the most powerful feeling can be just an illusion in the face of the infinite wisdom of deep space.

Interesting Facts:

• before undertaking the theatrical premiere the director of the performance, Nikolai Gostiukhin, made the same-name movie, which is soon going to be available on streaming platforms and in movie theaters;
• despite the fact that the movie and the performance have the same composer, the soundtrack for the performance was specially supplemented with new tracks that can only be listened to during the theater performance;
• the soundtrack is available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music.