Former hussar, retired forty-year retired colonel Yegor Rostanev, owner of the rich and well-appointed estate of Stepanchikov, where he lives together with his mother, the widow of General Krachotkin, an unmarried sister, Sasha’s daughter of fifteen and son of Ilya for eight years. Rostaneva’s wife died a few years ago. The house is filled with … Read more
The plague captures the Spanish city of Cadiz and establishes its own order in it. Only those who overcome fear of the Plague will free people. “Siege position” is a representation in three parts. In the foreword the author points to his alleged co-author Jean-Louis Barro, to whom the idea of the play-myth of the … Read more
Meursault, a small French official, resident of the Algerian suburb, receives news of the death of his mother. Three years ago, being unable to support her on his modest salary, he placed her in an almshouse. After receiving a two-week vacation, Merso on the same day goes to the funeral. After a brief conversation with … Read more
My grandmother sent me to the dump for strawberries, along with the neighboring children. She promised: if I dial full tuesok, she will sell my berries together with her own and buy me a “stick carrot”. Gingerbread in the form of a horse with a mane, tail and hoofs, covered with pink glaze, provided honor … Read more
The square in front of the castle in Elsinore. Guard Marcellus and Bernard, Danish officers. They are later joined by Horatio, a learned friend of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. He came to make sure of the story of the night apparition of a ghost similar to the Danish king, recently deceased. Horatio is inclined to … Read more
Twenty-four-year-old hero-narrator Frank Chambers wanders around America, nowhere else for a long time. And now, after settling down to work for the Greek, Nick Papadakis, the owner of a gas station and a snack bar not far from Los Angeles, he is sure that he will soon be on the road again. But meeting with … Read more
FREEPY ARROW1 Opera in three acts Libretto by F. Kind Characters: Ottokar, the Bohemian prince Kuno, Forester Agatha, his daughter Anhen, a friend of Agatha Baritone Bass Soprano Soprano Bass Tenor Tenor Bass Without singing Caspar Max } Hunters Kilian, rich peasant Hermit Samiel, the “black hunter” Peasants, hunters, girls, musicians. The action takes place … Read more
Gelsomino’s boyfriend (in Italian – “jasmine”) from birth is endowed with an unusually loud voice, capable of destroying the walls. Only from this gift – continuous trouble. Suspicious neighbors do not give Jelsomino a passage; some consider him a good magician, others – an evil sorcerer. One day, Gelsomino goes to wander around the world … Read more
M. Maeterlinck Bluebird Christmas Eve. The woodcutter’s children, Tiltil and Mytil, sleep in their beds. Suddenly they wake up. Attracted by the sound of music, the children run up to the window and look at the Christmas festival in a rich house opposite. There is a knock at the door. There is an old woman … Read more
The merchant’s daughter in marriage, Olympia Samsonovna (Lipochka) Bolshova, sits alone at the window with a book and, arguing, “what a pleasant occupation these dances”, begins to waltz: she has not danced for a year and a half and is afraid, if anything, to “embarrass”. Dancing badly. The mother, Agrafena Kondratyevna, enters: “No light dawn, … Read more