Vladimir Khramov

After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.

Based on the comedy of the same name by Tirso de Molina, staged by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR. The plot is built on a number of purely theatrical conventions typical of Spanish "cloak-and-dagger" comedies.

A stage production by the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.

September evening, an unusual ark house, resembling a ship in shape, for its owner, the gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life through the seas. A strange house where people behave differently. Young beauty sisters reign in this house, beckoning true gentlemen, as the light of a lamp beckons moths. This house fences its inhabitants from the outside world. Talk about the meaning of life, home entertainment, hopeless novels. And a premonition of trouble: at the same time, clouds of the First World were gathering over the good old England ...

A literature teacher struggles with a faulty stove, with a village major being called to assist.

Bill Starbuck revives lost hopes in people. He comes to them in times of drought and sells the rain, that is, the promise to bring rain. He sets one condition - you have to believe in a miracle. Bill makes Lizzie, the farmer's daughter, believe that she is worthy of love. It really started to rain, and Lizzie's beloved man reciprocated her feelings.

A.S. Pushkin's fairy tales "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" and "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Heroes" staged by the actors of the Central Children's Theater.

At the center of the comedy are two neighboring families: the merchant widow Kruglova with her dowryless daughter, and the wealthy Akhov, a sixty-year-old millionaire.