«Mon Repos»
Boris Yukhananov | 1986 | воспоминание

[Excerpt of beginning]

This may be our most cherished production connected to the myth that epitomized the esoterism of Theater Theater. The myth of Mon Repos Park.

I once went to Vyborg with our theatre's designer Yura Kharikov. The park revealed itself to me as a huge message from the nineteenth century, from a man named Baron Nikolai. He created an artificial park, and we moved along the paths of this park, realizing that you can know yourself only in this kind of movement. A huge area of ​​real land - pine, moss, heather - and everywhere in this, the sensation of a man who is long gone ... It's so similar to theatre, which is and which, at the same time, never is. Mon Repos gave me, as it were, an instantaneous journey through time. I realized that I had to make a production based on this feeling...