The play ‘The Idiot: Three Aspects of Love’ (in Russian)

📖 A Masterpiece That Still Feels Modern
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the most provocative and widely discussed novels of world literature, and it remains strikingly relevant today. This is the story of a person who decides to step into society with a completely open heart – and inevitably comes up against its cruel and cynical rules.

🌍 About the Production and the International Cast
Our theatre presents a new vision of this great story. We have brought together a strong international ensemble of actors from Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, and Spain to create a living, pulsating world on stage.

💔 The Story: A Love Triangle at the Edge of Possibility
Prince Lev Myshkin returns from Switzerland to Russia, where he is immediately drawn into a whirlwind of intrigue and shattered destinies. The director’s interpretation focuses on Prince Myshkin’s love story and his painful love triangle: he is torn between salvation and passion, between hope and destruction, trying to “fix” another person’s fate where it seems impossible.

✨ A Fresh Perspective: Without the Heaviness
We invite audiences to experience Dostoevsky in close-up, where every glance and every touch becomes an event. In our theatrical interpretation, the play feels lighter and more engaging: we have removed unnecessary heaviness, added a vivid rhythm and subtle irony. Here, tension is combined with kindness, and the ending leaves not despair, but faith in humanity and hope for light.

📌 Cast:

• Prince Myshkin – Boris Bogdanov (Estonia)
• Nastasya Filippovna – Yulia Yefimenko (Ukraine/Cyprus)
• Aglaya – Anna Lazareva (Ukraine/Moldova)
• Rogozhin – Konstantin Tsykin (Spain)
• Ganya – Ivan Chesnokov (Moldova)
• Lebedev – Mikhail Molchan (Ukraine)
• General Yepanchin – Valentin Melnik (Ukraine)
• General Yepanchin's Wife – Svetlana Doronchenko (Ukraine/Poland)
• Stage Director – Boris Bogdanov (Estonia)
• Stage Adaptation – Viktoriia Levin (Latvia)
• Costume Designer – Albina Sviridova (Latvia)

Running time: 2 hours 50 minutes (Act 1: 1 hour 30 mins; Act 2: 1 hour; Intermission: 20 mins)

Performance language: Russian
Age restriction: 12+