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The performance "The Wound" is a sincere story about death and memory, intimacy and sexuality, love and acceptance. Viewers will encounter the familiar realities of post-Soviet Russia, with the diaries and personal artefacts of the novel's author, one of Russia's most important feminist writers, Oksana Vasyakina.

According to the plot of the novel "The Wound", the main character takes her mother's ashes from the Volgograd region to Siberia to bury them close to the homeland. She recalls her own childhood and comprehends the inevitability of the departure of the dearest people, as well as the formation of herself as a a poet and a lesbian.

Despite a personal story about experiencing a deep existential trauma, in it, this particular story, as if in a mirror, the whole Russian life is reflected.

based on the novel by Oksana Vasyakina

directed by Elina Kulikova

performed by Alyona Starostina

stage design by Anna Komarova

sound by dima efremov

Produced by
Voznesensky Center
Moscow, Russia
TW : décrivant des scènes de violence, de guerre, de meurtre
langue : français 
durée : 1 heure
2022